Yesterday was shit. I had to wake up early to get on the road from Rosarito back to Reno. I get to the border lineup and everything's all good, just listening to some music and trying not to make eye contact with the vendors when all of a sudden my car just dies. I'm about... 100 feet away from the US side and my car is just dead. I'm freaking about because I can't get it started and I had just replaced the battery, plus I've got people honking at me and just being *******s. With no options left, I get out and start pushing my car, and luckily a merchant selling these giant crucifixes gives me a hand to get my Jeep over a dip in the road. So I finally push it up to the border guard and I guess he took some kind of pity on me because he didn't give me a harsh time and told me where to push my car for a tow truck. There's like 6 Border Guards standing around with tweezers in their hands so they can masturbate their tiny cocks, so nobody's helping me move my Jeep. I call AAA and get a tow truck to take me to a Pep Boys in a nearby town because they're open on Sundays and can help me get back on the road that day.
This is where my day gets shitty...
The Pep Boys I was taken to was by far the worst managed one I had ever seen in my entire life. I got there at about 10:45 AM and had my car diagnosed by 11:00 AM, apparently my distributor rotor had so much crap crusted over it that it couldn't distribute a charge and my ignition coil was badly in need of repair. Fine I thought, whatever can get me back on the road. Well their store was out of the parts, but luckily a guy was going to go over to another store and pick them up... in about 2 hours. So he finally gets the parts and then the mechanics go on a 2 hour break and I'm left waiting in this tiny room with about 6 other people, phones are ringing, vuvuzelas are going and just chaotic noise all around me, enough to make me want to vomit. Then I find out that the sales guy is trying to throw in a new set of premium spark plugs even though I really only need the ignition coil and distributor rotor to get me home. So after some haggling I get the price knocked down from $1000 to $600 and get told my car will be ready in 30 minutes... One hour later I'm told that they are waiting on the ignition coil which didn't come with the first delivery. Finally the part comes and THEN I get told that they have to go back to the other Pep Boys store to get a wrench or tool or something to put the pieces back together.
To make a long and painful story short, my car is fixed and I'm back in Reno now. Also fuck Pep Boys and US Border Patrol.
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