Well…
I went to the doctor yesterday. Once again when I got there the waiting room was empty and once again I waited 20 minutes to go back for some reason. Then once I got in the exam room it was another 15 minutes. I had the nurse practitioner that I’ve had several times, I like her she seems to listen. I explained to her how this has been going on two weeks and how my mother-in-law, whom I think I may have caught it from was diagnosed with mono. She looked in my throat, ears, felt my head and glands in my neck. She said she wanted to do a throat culture and blood test which will detect mono among other things.
The nice thing about this place is they can do a lot of it right on premise. Another woman came in to draw the blood and do the throat thing. I hate having blood drawn and told her that ahead of time. I could feel my face going flush and the cold sweats breaking out even before the needle went in because of the anticipation. I looked away as she stuck it in. I was ok although there was one moment where I could hear my blood falling into the vial like a faucet running water. That went through me. Luckily the whole thing was done in maybe a minute.
The throat culture wasn’t bad except it sort of makes you want to gag. She said they would have the results in like 10 minutes, awesome. The NP came back in and went over the results. She said I was negative for mono and the other numbers looked ok. However she said I may have a mild grade thing and she gave me a prescription for a 7 day antibiotic and some industrial cough medicine. She said it was important to drink a lot and rest. Going to the gym last week was probably not a smart thing.
So I am back at work, still feeling tired and like my tank is a quarter full but I am functional. I’m skipping the gym all week in hopes that I can beat this thing down. I certainly hope so, feeling like shit for the better part of two weeks doesn’t do much to enhance holiday cheer.
I still have not heard back from the van people. If/when I do, I am not sure if I should fly off the handle at them or just try to calmly exit the transaction by getting their money back to them. I mean they really have caused me a lot of inconvenience and have been incredibly rude in their refusal to get back to me promptly when I leave messages. I guess it depends on my mood when the call finally comes.
I have yet another situation. When we bought the Camry, they handled the transfer of plate and also were supposed to renew the registration. The registration ran out on my birthday on Saturday. I called them last Thursday, being proactive, asking them why I have not received the registration yet. They said they were waiting for some paperwork to show up (I don’t believe them) but they said they would expedite it, have the registration in their hands Friday and would mail it to me so I have it Saturday. Well it hasn’t shown up yet.
So, I call back today, annoyed that they didn’t follow through but I was nice. I talked to the woman whom I spoke to last week. She didn’t quite remember the details of our conversation so I reminded her. She puts me on hold for awhile and then comes back on and says it just came in yesterday and it should go out today. Oh and there is an additional charge of like 76 bucks. Woah, hold your horses! I’m not paying a dime more. Sensing what was about to come, she transferred me to another chick.
“Hi this is so and so, how can I help you?” I hate when people do this, they answer the phone in a generic manner that does not indicate if they know what you are being transferred to them for. So I say to her “Do you know my situation?” She says, “Yes you owe us 76 dollars” Well the way she said it on top of the indignation I was feeling about the dealership asking me for more money flipped on my “ugly” switch. I told her there was no way I was forking out more cash with the money they have already made on me. She said that I signed a paper at closing saying the tag fees were “estimated” and could be more. “I don’t care” I shot back, it’s not my problem that they did a poor job of estimating the fees. I knew that this woman had no power and I asked to talk to my salesman.
I get transferred out to the sales floor but my sales guy is not there today, it is his day off. So I ask to talk to a sales manager, his name is Miguel. I explain the background of the situation. He listens and basically repeats what the woman told me. I told him that the dealership made plenty of money on me and I just was not going to pay them more money to get my registration that I had to call to get them to take action on. He said he would call me back.
He calls me back after no more than 5 minutes. He says everything looked correct and how the fee came back higher than the estimation because it was a hybrid and because they had to renew the registration. He said he could maybe give me a free car wash, but looking at the deal, they hardly made any money on the deal. I told him I didn’t want a car wash. I told him this was ridiculous, I looked at the numbers, I’m not an idiot, you made plenty of money on the deal. He said I got a great deal, they only made 4% on the sale, around 1000 bucks. Without outright saying it, I called him a liar. I know the numbers, they made a lot more than that. Back and forth we went. I told him if they were willing to cast a negative light on the entire deal over 76 bucks, that is their decision. I asked him why they would be so off on the fees? He said well because it was a hybrid. I said, “You have been selling hybrids for years” He said “Well the Camry Hybrid is a different weight class” I told him the Camry hybrid has been out since July and told him he was acting like they never sold one before. Well eventually he came back and said he would split the 76 dollars. “NO” I said, it’s 76 stinkin dollars. I was not budging. If they can pay half of it, this big multi-million dealership can eat the other 38 bucks to keep me happy. Well he wouldn’t agree to it and again said he would call me back. I am awaiting the call. Why do people have to constantly be trying to screw you?