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I was supposed to get the car on Monday, I didnt really trust this guy so I went on tuesday. What do I find? Its still “work in progress”. Somehow looks like, I have out grown anger. It seems to me that the oddities and peculiarities of people is what makes them what they are. I politely pointed out that I was really really pissed off

How I wish I could get angry and roar again !
As I sat there and observed what was happening, I realized some fundamentals. This guy was getting interrupted every 5 mins with phone calls. He has no time to follow up what his employees are doing, so there is always a rework. His spares manager gives parts at his own time, so work gets delayed till parts are available. And to top it all he has about a 100 cars in his workshop to be worked on. Every customer that comes in, scolds left right and center. He has got so used to it that it does not have any effect on him.

We took a test drive at 1230am, and he realized something was wrong with the car. I had to stay back. Then the next day things were really beginning to get into my head. But I started to cool off when I realized what was wrong.

I had hit a pavement during one of my long drives at top speed and didn’t really see any damage to the car. But the back axle slightly bent. The net effect was that the car doesnt stop when braking at top speed, it starts moving like a snake, quickly to any direction.

He explained to me, that it was not really a tire burst but “this” snake movement that took me out of the road on that fateful day 5 months earlier. The axle was changed and we drove again, braking at top speed the car stood like a crying baby does on mum’s first sign of anger.

So finally at 1230am on thursday I got my car keys. Happy to be back on the wheels again, I immediately started back. The only thing on my mind was “I dont drive fast, I fly slowly”. Averaging @ 120km/hr, except for a small deviation which made me loose an hour of journey time in search of a fuel station inside the jungles, reached home and had a tight sleep.

Well there was more to the night…

So if you remember how the story had gone till now, my car has not still reached me. Someone said that its because its RED colored and RED is supposed to attract problems (more…)

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