We had some spinny chic, who insisted on pulling in her 1988 prelude. When she did, she dragged the WHOLE side of her hotrod down the bay door, as we all watched. She just hopped out like nothing had happened, straightfaced. We almost couldn't keep it together, becuase she had ripped all the dent stripping off her car, from the fender back.

 

One time at band camp....

actually one of my favortie examples of that is a girl who came in to have a deck and two done and as she got out of her car she scraped the door on the curb -- a week later she comes in and asks me to look at her car...and says...wait for it................................................ .................................................. .................................................. ........."see what your installer did to my car? I went to a body shop and they want $600 to fix it".

I said cool... does this mean you don't remember us staring at you when you did it yourself last week? Long pause....."ohh, so you saw that?" -- gotta love the lack of virtue in some people.

 

Example #2

We had a guy come in for a new deck to be installed into his BMW. He parked the car in the back and we were very busy in the bay so one of the boys installed the deck into the car where it was parked.

The install is problem free, the guy comes to pick up his car. We show him the stereo, he is happy, he pays and all is well.... or so I thought.

@ 4mins later he comes back in and asks for the manager -- I respond "sure, what may I do for you?" The client tells me there is a problem and he needs to show me something.

We check out the car and there are scrapes and white paint on his bumper. He says "this was not here when I arrived, what are you going to do about it?". I tell him that I am unsure of how it could happen as he parked the car, we did not move the car AND there were longer vehicles to either side of him that did not move either.

So, just to be sure -- I ask my installer if he moved the car... the installer responds (trying to contain his own laughter) "No, didn't you hear it? He hit the wall behind him!"

So..... I ask the customer if it is true if he hit the wall behind him while pulling out his car. The customer reluctantly admits it and then says that it is my fault for not posting a sign warning him about the low wall behind his car (20 feet behind his car) and then proceeds to hand me a card and say "you best pay me, I am a lawyer and I will sue you for everything you own".

I must admit I was quite charmed by his powers of reason, yet I felt the need to ask him under what was suing me for. He said for "negligence and public endangerment". I asked him what type of law he was using and he said "civil law" I informed him it was called Tort law and asked him if he knew what Tort meant -- he said "negigence" and I informed him it was latin for "wrong" and that any civil or criminal action would have to fall under the consideration of the concept of "reasonable man", which meant someone not stupid enough to drive into a fricking wall and then blame someone else... he ran off soon after that.

[ August 12, 2004, 02:29 PM: Message edited by: mike bisson ]

 

i wish that they had digital cameras redily available about 8 years ago!

hey i know that there are a lot of cruddy looking pieces of garbage. ie ya gota move the crap around while you install stuff in the car or for that matter completly remove it all for the scummy jerk. but there was this one time in particular.

don't u just absolutly love it when every tom dick and harry comes in ans wants u to listen to the latest hit on there profesionaly installed systeme?!

here is the deal, a guy and his buddy pull up to our shop in a pinto! as he gets out of the vehicle the rapers and what have u just comne pouring out of the vehicle (ungh)as usual this guy whats our aproval on his install and nags us over to it.

as i aproched the vehicle i though this guy was obsesed with those dingle ***** that some people have in there rear view mirrior. No not this guy. this car had speakers hanging fom the roof by there wires in bolth the front and back of the vehicle. [img]graemlins/freak.gif[/img] the stock speakers were also present so this means that he had them all tied in parallel or something of the sort to his 8TRACK! yew haw. lol any how he also maaged a cardboard box for his ten inch home audio woffer.
this was definatly the high light of my week.

then of course he makes us listen to the abortion! as i was being entertained by the suround sound systeme that he created i was scuffing the garbage away from my feet on the floor and noticed there was non in certain areas. lol. this is not too cool but very amusing. thing actually kind of worked.

any way that is my story. and i hope you don't have to see something like it. lol. [img]graemlins/beer.gif[/img]