I saw this cartoon the other day, “Geech,” by Jerry Bittle.
This could have happened to me with my car many years ago, and to this day I am still using the same mechanics.
What happened was, I heard this squeaking sound which I thought were the brakes. So I brought it to a mechanic in the neighborhood. I had never been there before, except to buy gas, and I noticed a sign that said they worked on foreign cars, so I brought my car over.
I told them there was something wrong with the brakes, and I took an Uber home.
They mechanics called me a short time later to tell me there was nothing wrong. But I insisted. I said, “Go look again, I can tell there is something wrong with the brakes.”
They called back a little while later and told me to come and the car, they had checked again and found nothing wrong.
There and then they had my business for life.
They could have said, “We fixed the problem, that will be $750.0o,” and I would have paid it and been on my way. But they did the right thing. Ever since then I’ve been sending everyone their way.
And they got a lot of business from me over the years. I had an older car that needed a lot of work and they did it all.
I would leave the car for everything, they were cheaper than the dealership, of course. I would leave the car and the keys early in the morning with the person working the gas station part of the place. I would block the garage section, so they had to get into my car to move it.
They would always have the car done early in the day and I would go and pick it up and be on with my day.
I finally got a new car and haven’t been by except for small things not under warranty – tires and things like that. And to guy gas.
It pays to be honest.
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