I have a puny percentage of oil life left in my car. Last time I was blindsided when it went down to ... 5%? 0%? Anyway, I kind of flipped out in my car when I was driving ... uh, maybe it happened last week where it went from 15% (which is the point where the warning automatically shows up on the instrument panel) to 10% after, like, a week.
I vacillated as to when I would finally bring it in. Grandmother's death pushed up my initial hope that I would do it when it got down to 5% because I'm a rebel. Now I had to do it before I leave for Hong Kong in case my folks want to use the car while I'm gone; I don't want them to flip out at seeing 10% or 5% on the dash. I made a reservation for the day before I had to leave, but I remembered that I had a coupon for the oil change part of the service (they also have to rotate the tires) which expires today, June 30. So I changed it to noon today.
When I was eating dinner last (Thursday) night with my folks Mother reminded me of the appointment. WHA-WHA-WHAAAATT?!?!?! The goddamn dealership, for some goddamn reason, called the landline to remind me of the appointment. Why they did that, I have no fucking clue. Well, I did give them the home phone -- but only as a back-up, in case something serious happened as they looked at my car, for example, and they couldn't reach my cell, which I know I designated as my primary number. But I never got a call yesterday/Thursday about the appointment. Someone who wasn't paying any attention just called home instead.
And so that just totally fucking blew my cover. They now know that I have something planned in the middle of what is supposed to be my workday. I know for a fact that they now wonder if I am actually going to work tomorrow -- and if I actually go to work at all. Of course, I'm not, but I didn't think the fucking dealership would rat me out. My God, this could result in a whole host of bullshit questions I didn't want to deal with, based on getting made in the most unlikely way possible.
I want to scream at the first person at the dealership I see. I'll just demand that they delete the phone number off their record as soon as I get in instead. And hope that my parents don't fucking ask any more questions about it.
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