Yesterday marked three weeks since I took my lawn mower in to the shop. As I said before, the problem was that it wouldn’t keep running. My best guess was the carburetor. At the two week mark, I called the shop and said I was just calling to check up on it. They said “If we didn’t call you, it’s not ready.” But they also said they’d “put someone right on it”. Then they asked what color it was. Caught a little off guard, I hesitated and told them it was red. It’s dark green.
I decided yesterday when I came home from school I would go to the store and get my lawn mower, whether it was finished or not. I headed upstairs to look at the picture of it again, just to be sure I could pick it out of a line of mowers. Then my phone rang. It was them. My mower was ready.
When I went to get it, I asked what was wrong. The explanation I got was obviously a standard speech that everybody gets when they ask that question. Was it the carburetor? I have no idea, because the guy wouldn’t tell me.
So I take this opportunity to use this website for it’s original intent:
my memory archive.
Brad, do NOT EVER use AA Lawn Mowers-Riha’s Hardware again. They take WAY too long, they make you feel intimidated, and they didn’t tell you what was wrong with your mower. You didn’t know if $78 dollars was expensive or cheap, but you don’t care. Never go there again.
Here is the place I’m talking about:
Ha!! Now THAT’S funny! Perhaps you should make a new category called, “Stuff I need to remember”.
Laugh out loud funny – the part about you forgetting the color of your own lawn mower. You ARE losing it! I also laughed out loud at your needing to pick your lawnmower out of a line-up – too funny.
The phone ringing at the same time you were looking for the picture – now that kind of stuff freaks me out!
Have you seen “Momento”?
I, myself, have not seen “Momento”, but this is the second time in as many weeks that I have seen a reference to it. The first time was here.
I kinda get the cartoon. Have you seen “Fight Club”? I think the same people did both movies. Both freaked me out!
The main character in “Momento” tatooed his truths on his body. Are you headed to a tatoo parlor, Brad?
At least you were close with the color … red … green … ?!?! are you color blind? (at least I said black & it’s not even my mower)
So did you get a chance to try the repaired mower? Does it run like a dream now?
Only $78? My bill there a summer or two ago was $85, to rebuild the engine that started just fine when I brought it in (just needed a new spark plug). I DO feel a BIT better, though, knowing they don’t JUST take advantage of us FEMALES who bring in lawnmowers…they seem to be equal-opportunity customer abusers. Makes me wonder if they have new customers every year – I mean, who would go back?
Sorry you got burned, too, Neighbor – may your mower run forever now…or, at least, whenever you WANT it to run. Next time, come see my neighbor’s brother, Arnel – he cleaned the plug on ours in ten minutes and at no cost. Sort of evens out that $85 expense somehow…