Re: ok, how stupid is this?

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don't know what MOT is but guess what. I've done that. Yep, you are not
alone, I dropped my car off at the wrong repair place

umm... they didn't really make a big deal when I picked it up at the place
where I'd left it

"evian" <evian@asarian-host.net> wrote in message
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> I feel like carp at the moment.
>
> I had to book my car in for its MOT at short notice. I phoned somewhere up
> that had been recommended to me, they couldn't fit it in as quickly as I
> wanted so I said I would try phoning elsewhere. I decided I wanted to go
> where I'd been recommended rather than try somewhere unknown and
potentially
> be ripped off, so I phoned them back up and booked my car in for the day
> given. The guy, being nice, phoned me up later saying he could book it in
> for earlier than first thought so we changed the days.
>
> Today is the day it was to have its MOT. I took it down there, dropped it
> off and spent the morning revising before returning home and waiting for
> their call to say it was ready.
>
> The guy phoned me up, confirming who I was and that I booked my car for
> today, and then asked where was it. "I've dropped it off already"...
>
> Can you guess what happened?
>
> ...........................
>
> I only went and dropped my car off at the wrong mechanics!
>
> When reading the mechanics number online to initially book them I must
have
> accidentally read the number _below_ what I was after, since the mechanics
I
> initially booked at (not the one I wanted) comes alphabetically after the
> one recommended to me. So where I'd booked it wasn't where I thought I'd
> booked it.
>
> omg...............
> I mean, really. How often does this happen to people?
>
> So the first guy who had originally booked it phones up to find out where
it
> was (possibly after wasting a morning - though it being over 2 1/2 hours
now
> over the time of when I was meant to have dropped it off this hopefully
> means, well should mean, I can't imagine some one sitting around twiddling
> their thumbs for 2 1/2 hours, he spent the time fixing other cars before
> getting on to finding out where mine was).
>
> It also means I dropped my car off at a mechanics where they knew nothing
> about me (I was wondering why I didn't have a card like other people -
> though was figuring the booking it in at short notice meant they'd been
> quick and forgotten to write one up). I'm wondering whether they're going
to
> question me on this when I go to pick it up? It will certainly be
> embarrassing. Do I tell them the truth and let them have a laugh? Well I
> guess if they bring it up I've got to, complete with self-admonitions of
> stupidity and not knowing how the heck I could've made such a mistake.
> Hopefully it hasn't meant they've had to work overly hard to get all jobs
> done.
> Since my housemates think I'm a brain-d*ad idiot already I think this is a
> story better left untold to them. Maybe years from now...
>
> I feel bad for the first guy. I'd said over the phone that he'd been
> recommended, which from his tone of voice he'd seemed quite pleased by,
and
> he'd made an effort to get my car done as quickly as possible. And then it
> turns out he wasn't actually who'd been recommended and he's lost out on a
> job. There's not much I can do about that, I mean I can in the future
always
> put more effort into making sure I'm reading the _right_ number (how many
> people really have to put in that kind of effort?) but I can't change the
> situation right now.
>
> - Pheobe, feeling somewhat bad and embarrassed, and not looking forward to
> the phone call from the current garage. And wondering whether this takes
> spaciness to a new degree?
>
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