I love auto service appointments.
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| Doughnut selection Brunswick Auto Mart, 2013 |
The bathroom at the Mini Cooper dealership was nicer than my whole house.
I mean COME ON, what about those doughnuts? Who'll take which one? And who doesn't love watching a sales guy try and sneak a pink frosted wonder with sprinkles when no one's looking (but you can bet I am, Mr. Sales Guy).
One time at the Brunswick Auto Mart there was a play area for kids that had a really cool looking toy. I didn't play with it, but I wanted too.
Here's a movie I made during a 2009 service visit at the Mini Cooper dealership.
Like I noted in the vid, the Mini dealership always had fancy snacks: tiny frosted cupcakes and your higher-end cookies and bars. I didn't care about any of that, but the bagels? Who the hell isn't going to eat a big chewy pizza bagel courtesy of Mini Cooper?
This one time, I was eying the last pizza bagel and what the hell happens? Some skinny Mini Cooper chick in really high heels starts orbiting the snack table like she might snap up that last pizza bagel.
So I go online (using the free internet [ha!]) and ask the twitterverse what I should do.
"If she takes it, knock her down!"
"Run over there right now and push her out of the way."
When she just got tea and moved back to her reception area domain, I went and got the bagel.
"Stand down," I tweeted. "The O'Brien's got the pizza bagel."
That's the sort of edge-of-the-seat drama that plays out when you're at your auto service appointment.
My highest hope is to witness a manager giving a sales guy the evil eye for taking a doughnut. I imagine he'll clear his throat loudly, then say something like, "Stevens, meet me in my office when you have a chance," while pulling up the doughnuts-are-for-customers speech in his head.
Then Stevens will dither for a moment or two thinking, Do I put this cream-filled chocolate frosted beauty back in the box or not? After all, I already touched it.
I say he keeps it.
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| Vintage Microbus art, Brunswick VW dealership |
As you may have surmised, this post was inspired by the VeeDubs' one-year scheduled service appointment. No, nothing cool happened like the skinny-chick-pizza-bagel thing or sales-guy-gets-popped-for-doughnut, but I didn't care.
I enjoy auto service visits so much, dear reader, it is not beyond me to saunter into a random dealership and act like a regular person waiting in the service lounge: use the free internet and see how fancy the bathroom is.
And if I opt to crash a Lexus or Mercedes dealership, image the snacks they'll have there. They might even have one of those snotty brews-a-cup-at-a-time coffee machines.
Heh heh heh.
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