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« Reply #30 on: December 23, 2006, 04:36:51 PM »
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I don't believe that xmarine can buy a pack of smokes without some sort of life or death struggle involving guns and police and him saving the day by being such a tough guy and reminding everyone that he was once a cop.

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« Reply #31 on: December 23, 2006, 05:27:22 PM »
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So, M36, what was it in this post that made you assume there was a rip-off going on?


Satisfied culero?  I know you didnt catch it all during the first post. I guess I was able to.
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« Reply #32 on: December 23, 2006, 05:40:38 PM »
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Satisfied culero?  I know you didnt catch it all during the first post. I guess I was able to.


There was nothing in the first post that said there was a rip-off going on. Its perfectly legitimate for a repair shop to require payment before releasing a vehicle.

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« Reply #33 on: December 23, 2006, 08:50:31 PM »
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There was nothing in the first post that said there was a rip-off going on. Its perfectly legitimate for a repair shop to require payment before releasing a vehicle.


If the work wasn't authorized and the work was done anyway, how is this legitimate?
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« Reply #34 on: December 23, 2006, 08:54:00 PM »
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If the work wasn't authorized and the work was done anyway, how is this legitimate?


The first post contained no reference to work that was not authorized.

Lazs nailed this guy. :lol

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« Reply #35 on: December 23, 2006, 09:02:59 PM »
indeed the story changed from the first post to the second one with the explanation.

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« Reply #36 on: December 23, 2006, 11:13:26 PM »
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Well... too bad for these yahoos they didn't have a signed work order, they towed & repaired it... but never asked her to sign anything.


This is from the first post. This tells me the work wasnt authorized and doing work that is not authorized was the garages fault.
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« Reply #37 on: December 23, 2006, 11:25:23 PM »
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This is from the first post. This tells me the work wasnt authorized and doing work that is not authorized was the garages fault.


Maybe if you're Karnak. All that says is that there's no signature on a repair order.

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« Reply #38 on: December 23, 2006, 11:40:33 PM »
that quote comes across as one taking advantage of another over a technicality.  the whole story smacks of sharp practice, if not a bit melodramatic, our hero gets the shop closed down and two dangerous wrench wielding menaces to society get sent to jail on outstanding warrants.    back to the opening lines.  without initially knowing more it's easy to see the conflict from varying points of view and to draw very different conclusions.  I would have negotiated (maybe the protagonist did negotiate but called it arguing) with the owner if he did indeed perform work.  calling the guy scum only because he's a foreigner is pretty stupid also.  as for me I doubt I would call the police, flip the guy off and drive away laughing.

I had some work done on a truck and was quoted a sum.  when I went to pick the truck up they wanted to charge me x2.  I asked the girl why qoute one figure then bill twice as much.  her boss (a young guy) comes out immediately, sweating big drops because I also had not signed a work order.  he explained that the girl had misqouted me over the phone, produced all the replaced parts, lifted the truck, showed me all the new shiny parts that were installed and so forth.  I was satisfied with the answer and paid up.  as I was paying up the owner who was listening in the back gave me a 25% discount.  that was ten+ years ago, today I have a great friend who is also my vehicle's maintenance provider.  that's the only place we take our trucks and personal vehicles.  all over a potentially ugly dispute which was handled very well by the shop.  it helped that they were dealing with a reasonable customer though.
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« Reply #39 on: December 24, 2006, 12:00:06 AM »
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Maybe if you're Karnak.


:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl

Good one!!!!!

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« Reply #40 on: December 24, 2006, 09:02:28 AM »
You should have got the car (remember... I said "cat") back Ninja style.

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« Reply #41 on: December 24, 2006, 10:51:15 AM »
Bull**** story or not I liked it. Ive run in to more dishonest mechanics than some one who will honestly fix your vehicle.

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« Reply #42 on: December 24, 2006, 01:06:08 PM »
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I smell BS. Why didn't you just buy her a new car? You're rich, right?


I would have, but fueling my jet is just too expensive these days, and the pigmy slaves at my plantation all died of starvation, so I had to hire new pigmy hunters.

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« Reply #43 on: December 24, 2006, 01:30:02 PM »
I like this story, its like an early episode of walker texas ranger, but more uplifting as Xmarine got his deeds accomplished through using his brain, and Walker always had to resort to violence like kicking people in the head, though the underlying menace of xmarines Native american Ninja powers helped him stare these baddies down til Uniformed backup arrived. This story also is blessed with proper villians, who doesnt hate gypsies and want to see them get their comeuppance. The conclusion as he drives into the sunset in a perfectly repaired car for his girl, while the villians gnash their teeth in the back of a squad car is classic and uplifting in this holiday time, kinda like Home Alone's ending. Xmarine like a modern Billy Jack is always there when needed.
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« Reply #44 on: December 24, 2006, 01:35:46 PM »
if i called the police for something like that, they'd tell me to go to small claims court, i don't have the "connections" to warrant six deputy's.

"Xmarine like a modern Billy Jack is always there when needed"

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