Comments | le_trombone: It's Difficult To Get To A Car Dealership With No Car

le_trombone

It's Difficult To Get To A Car Dealership With No Car

Feb 20, 2008 12:47

In other news, the dishwasher broke too.

The RTA Trip Planner was no help at all, I guess because the final address was greater than a mile away from the station ( Read more... )

gripe, life

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mplsfish February 20 2008, 20:07:05 UTC

Your dishwasher had issues anyway. Good riddance.

You getting a new car? Fixing the old one? What happened? This post has been frustrating for me.

le_trombone February 21 2008, 20:05:05 UTC

Fixing the current one. The tow cost more than the diagnosis.

There used to be two Saturn dealerships in town. I found out through disconnected telephone numbers that Saturn of Chicago was no more (according to the tow guy, the owner had been requested to sell his dealership, which is usually code for "we'd rather not sue you for the questionable things you've been doing, right?"), so the car had to go the the suburb of Glenview.

Pity. As a customer I had no problems with the Chicago dealership at all.

Don't mock the dishwasher. It led a long productive life. Besides, I'm not in a position to replace it now, so it's hand-washing for the foreseeable future.

ferlonda February 20 2008, 22:17:45 UTC

Me, too! And it kinda kicked my "there must be a conspiracy here somewhere" brain cell (it doesn't take much to think that stuff, you know...) into gear. Not high gear, just gear. Hard to do better than that with only one cell. At least in my head. Other folks' mileage may differ. :)

le_trombone February 21 2008, 20:06:41 UTC

My own theory is that the dishwasher attempted to put a hit on the car, but the car managed to fight it off.

I'm sure there are no flaws in this theory.

ferlonda February 22 2008, 00:41:37 UTC

Flaws? What flaws? Makes perfect sense to me.

CT the Hard Way nellherself March 7 2008, 21:48:23 UTC

At least it flat where you are.
When you visit out here you'll start to understand what we're up against. It is IMPOSSIBLE to take four right turns and end up where you started. If its not I84 or I95 it is mountain track approximatly a lane and half wide. There are no secondary or tertiary roads (not in a good way).

I recently got lost in Waterbury and when I stopped at a gas station I simply bought every damn map they had. I believe I now have a road map to Greater Downtown Cairo (Egypt). I don't care it is impossible to be under-equipped with maps here.

Because of the eccentricities of the CT road system (i.e. frequent but not predictable road flooding and a bad habit of running a road STRAIGHT up a mountain) you can easily find yourself marooned. Cell phones drop out, satellite shadows are everywhere, roads change names, directions, and sometimes evaporate altogether.