But also, if you take your lovely new car to the garage to have, say, some work done to the Engine Management Unit because when you brought the car, you realised that after being capped at <4000 rpm during the 'run in' you never encountered an issue were the engine judders at 6000...
Anyway, you take your car to the garage, and someone slides out of a side door after keeping you waiting for half an hour over your booking time, keeping you in the waiting room with a broken coffee machine that should have been working...
He then says, ok what car is it? looking through paper work and not finding your booking..
Then he says ok he'll fit you in, and takes your car to the fitting shop. Usually the waiting room has glass all around it so you can see the folks working on vehicles, but in this instance one of the windows was broken so boarded up, and the other window has a large poster on it.. so the only way to get a glimpse of what's going on is to look through a defect in the poster, which happens to be the crutch of a bikini clad girl, holding a can of 7up... so as your face is pushed up against said crutch of this large poster (looking hilarious to onlookers) so you can desperately see if they're working on your car. you quickly see that the mechanic, is actually sitting there trying to fix a kettle. WTH you're thinking.. 10 mins later, he's still trying to reassemble this kettle, and not touching your car.. 30 mins later, you push your head against our posters crutch trying to see through the print to see if they're working on your car yet... Nope the mechanic is now talking to one of the girls from the chemist next door. Clearly the kettle was for her, and ofc she's quite attractive, so he gets brownie points for doing her favors (oi oi!!)... Anyway much to your surprise, and within 10 seconds of complaining about lack of productivity on the car, the mechanic picks up a wrench, and looks to be undoing a wheel nut. That's it, final straw. You go around the side and ask him what he's doing.. it's the Engine computer that needs looking at according to the experts that originally diagnosed the issue.. He says.. nah mate, we need to balance the wheel first. You explain the problem is not the wheel, and never has been the wheel, and it really doesn't need re-balancing. The mechanic is adamant. He wants to tune the balancing. You're told to go back to the waiting room, because it's his garage, and he knows what's best for the car.
With your head again, against the bikini girl's crutch, peering through the hole, you can see the mechanic again working on other things. ALL HE HAS TO DO is fix the fuel mixture through the car computer, but no.. he's now stopped balancing the wheel, and is now talking to another girl from the same chemist, but this time, an equally attractive girl with darker hair. You can see she gives him her mobile phone, and shakes it about.. clearly it's not working too good, and he takes the back off, and the battery pack, and is trying to remove the sim card.. he turns around and you can no longer see what he's doing.. he's just there with the girl next to him, and he's fiddling about trying to shake something out of it.. 10 mins later, he's still there. 20, still there...
Another couple enter the waiting room, and the guy says to you... haha mate, you're not getting enough at home? the girl with him giggles... and you look around to see what he's going on about.. then realise you have been watching the mechanic, through the 7up girls bikini bottoms.. with a little embarrassment, you try to explain, but just get laughs.. it's clear it's too stupid a thing to try to watch whilst others are in the room so you patiently wait.. and wait and wait...
and wait... and wait..
Then the mechanic comes in.. and hands you the keys. Says.. I'm sorry mate the job is too big for the time the garage is open for. Points at the clock, and closing time is in 5 mins. He offers for you to come back again, and the first available appointment is in the Autumn. That's like a completely different season.. too long a wait. So you head to another mechanic that is open until 7 and they can luckily fit you in. So the new mechanic, still in the car park, grabs a portable computer, plugs it in under the hood.. hmms a bit, and says aha, and nods, mutters something... gets a screw driver... and twiddles for 30 seconds... stands back frowns, goes back twiddles some more, and says .... There. that should do it. You say.. what? really? he says haha yeah, the mixture was all wrong, i just corrected it for you. Dont' worry no charge. it was a simple thing.
