Thursday, December 1, 2011

It's Usually Slippery...Which Is Kinda Gross


Does anybody keep the little garbage bags they hang on your turn signal at the oil change place?


I wouldn't know.  I change my own oil.


Can you change the oil in my car?  Cheap?


 Sure can't.   


Then what good are you?


I'm a pro at making snarky comments on a Blag.  Perhaps the best alternate persona in the business.


I guess you have a point there.  

So anyway, not long ago, my car was due for an oil change, so I took it to one of those places that does that sort of thing.  They do a good job at changing the oil and topping off all the fluids and a remarkably good job of trying to talk me into unnecessary maintenance work, such as filling the tires with nitrogen instead of crummy air.  I've written about that here before, but I can't be bothered to look it up.  While they do a great job of talking to me about these extraneous services, they do a lousy job of actually getting me to pay them to do any extra work.  I want the oil changed, and that's about it.

One other service they perform is piling a bunch of crap into my car while they change the oil.  They put a sticker on the window, 2 copies of my receipt, a comment card so I can tell them how they did in exchange for a 1 in 50,000 chance at a free oil change, a couple valuable coupons for the attached convenience store, and a little plastic garbage bag that they hang on my turn signal.  After I get back into my car, the first thing I do is gather all of this junk up and dump it into the little garbage bag, which immediately gets taken off the turn signal and thrown out.  

My question to you is...does anybody actually keep a little plastic garbage bag on the turn signal in their car? 

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