by Catriona Mills

Me and The Mechanic

Posted 2 August 2010 in by Catriona

So I took my car in for a service and I said to the mechanic, “If you find anything extravagantly wrong with it, give me a ring before you fix it, okay?”

He said he would.

One courtesy bus, one ordinary bus, and an hour later, I get home, make myself a cup of coffee, and settle down to check my e-mails when the phone rings.

It’s the mechanic.

He says to me, “We were checking over the car and we found mumble, mumble, mumble. Would you like us to fix that?”

And I think, “Oh, no. I wasn’t actually listening to him; I was checking my e-mails.”

But I don’t want to admit that I wasn’t listening, so I come up with a cunning plan. This way, I’ll find out what he was saying before I commit to expensive car repairs, but I won’t have to admit that I wasn’t listening to him.

So I say, “Can you just remind me what that part does?”

And he says, “Those are the things that clean your windshield off when it rains.”

Share your thoughts [2]

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Leigh wrote at Aug 2, 11:36 am

I’ve actually shared this story with a few friends. It seems to be a winner in the giggle stakes !!

2

Melissa Graf wrote at Aug 5, 01:24 am

Bwahaha! I also find it amusing that he thought windshield wipers were extravagant? :)

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