Spending Saturday

I got up closer to 0700 this morning, and after making breakfast and getting the mail and paper I put all the dishes that I could find into the dishwasher. Then I sat down with a cop of coffee and read the mail. There really was not much there for me, but Kathleen did get several items, but I am not sure whether or not any of it is something that she was looking for either.

Anyway, Chucky called and wanted me to go with him to the Acura dealership about his tires. He has been trying to get his tires replaced under his free tires for life deal for several months and they just keep putting him off.

On the way there, I had him stop by the police station so that we could have a police officer check out his tires and give us his opinion of their condition. The sergeant that looked at them said that he would not drive on the one and that the other two needed replacement as well.

We got there and Chucky started to go to the service bay and I headed to the dealership managers office and Chucky followed. After checking with the service folks for a while, he came back and asked us to go to the service area with him.

One of the service writers looked up Chucky's service records and could only find two time that he had brought the car there, so the manager told us that because he had not done all of his required services they did not have to honor the agreement.

Then the service writer behind him, whom Chucky had seen before when he brought his car in looked up the record and said that Chucky had indeed had his car in many times, but that he did miss a 45,000 mile required service.

I had him check further and he saw that Chucky had had the oil changed at 45,000 miles but not the full service. So I asked why they did not ask him about the service and he thought that perhaps Chucky had refused it, so I had him check the copy of the 45,000 mile oil change to see if Chucky had refused it or not, I found it hard to believe that Chucky would have turned it down.

It took quite a while, but when he found it, he could find no record of Chucky refusing the service, since it was only an additional changing of the brake fluid. So he said that he would write up a service request for the 60,000 mile service and try to get Chucky reinstated in the free tires for life program.

Chucky had 59,000+ miles on the car and probably would reach 60,000 in a couple weeks anyway so I thought that would be a good idea to do it anyway. Then he told us that it would cost almost $600.00 for that service, and my mind started to whirl, but I did not say anything.

So we left and on the way home I suggested to Chucky to stop by at Les Schwab tires to see what a new set of tires would cost. I told Chucky that he could get the service work done at John's and it would cost a lot less and then he would be money ahead and the tires that he was getting for "free" he actually was paying dearly for by having all the service work done at the dealership.

When we got to Les Schwab's I had them give Chucky four different tire options for a full set of four tires. They ranged in price from a little over $400.00 to almost $700.00 I probably would have opted for the more expensive tires as they are better tires, but I knew that Chucky did not have a lot of money and that had to play in his decision.

Chucky opted for the ones that cost just a little under $500.00 total for mounting, balancing siping and taxes. Since he did not have any money, I advance him the money for a month, but at least now he will have good tires on his car. Two of the tires needed replacing and the driver’s side tire needed replacing about six months ago.

Chucky noticed the difference in how the car handled as he was taking me home, so he was happy and I felt better knowing that he and Toni had safe tires on their car. Chucky dropped me off and then had to head home so that he could take Toni to work...it will be a safer ride.

When I got home it was after 1300 so I changed my clothes and then went outside and mowed the front and back lawn and then put the lawn furniture back on the grass. Then I went inside and washed up it was almost 1430 so I made myself my famous Boca burger for lunch.

Then I went into the living room to read the paper, I think that this was the latest that I have read the paper in a very long time. After recycling the paper I went back to my chair where I napped for a while.

When I finally woke up again it was time for Fox news so I turned it on and watched it for a while. About 1900 I went upstairs and asked Kathleen if she were planning on doing anything for dinner because I knew that she was still not feeling good. So if she were still not feeling too well I was going to make something to eat.

But she said that she needed to eat something and asked me what I thought about a salad. Since I had not had my salad at lunch I said that sounded okay. So after dinner I cleaned up all the dirty dishes and put them into the dishwasher and started it up.

Kathleen has gone back upstairs again, I think that in the last couple days she has only spent a couple hours downstairs, yesterday, I had not realized it but she had gone back to bed and slept for quite a while.

Well, other than helping get Chucky some new tires and mowing the lawn I did not get much done, but I am still tired, so I think that I will just say good night!