A fifteen minute errand turns into a mangled Mini...

[electra225]

No good deed goes unpunished. I splurged here awhile back and bought a plan at the new car wash just down the road so I could get my car washed whenever I wanted for one "small fee" a month. Today, the wife wanted some ear corn, so I volunteered to go to the store and get her some corn, then go across the road and have the Mini washed. About halfway thru, I heard something hit the car. When I got out of the car wash, I noticed a dent in the roof of the car. The manager of the car wash looked at the surveillance video and found I had a non-dented car when I started thru the car wash. The manager tried to get me to go to "my guy" and have it looked at. I declined his offer, then stated I'd turn it in to State Farm. I'll go to the Penske shop we used last time. They specialize in German cars. They do great work, or did the last time. The dent is like someone took a tack hammer and put a ding in the roof. I figure $5000 worth of damage. The headliner will need to come down, then the entire roof will have to be painted. With car rental, damage to the car and expenses, I don't believe I'll be far off. All to do a good deed, that should have taken maybe 30 minutes, tops. I really liked that car wash. I'll go back to washing the car myself, or driving it dirty.

To add insult to injury, I missed Western Red in it's entirety. That is my favorite Saturday radio program and arguably the best country music on the radio, certainly west of the Rockies.

[Hi-Fi-Mogul]

Greg,
It seems to me now that there is a constantly larger
release of Entropy.

I think most is human-made, but most is also unnecessary.

[electra225]

I had to look up the definition of "entropy". "A state of disorder". Well, my take is that a carwash that lets a Mini go thru the automatic wash is asking for trouble. The car wash my wife takes her Tahoe to only washes Mini Cooper cars and those little Fiats and maybe others that small by hand. They don't charge more, but they take all day. You have to leave them, then go back and get it when they are done. The one that dinged my car is a new one that a friend speaks highly of. I like the car wash, but I can't have it damaging my car. They didn't apologize or anything, but they offered their body shop, so they are admitting guilt by association. State Farm can take care of it, that's why I pay for full coverage insurance. They wouldn't invite me inside where it was cooler and I was getting hot under the collar in more ways than one. I didn't take my phone, so the wife had no idea why I was taking so long. They wouldn't let me use their phone to call her. Nobody knew anything and they didn't want to give me any information. "Corporate" had to do that. State Farm can deal with "Corporate". I just want my mangled Mini made whole again.