Meeting people as a mechanic.

[jammeejamm]

catastrophe work. appraising damages after a large storm or event like that.

i love it when the police are called. those are usually fun days.

one of my favorites is when an entire front end is put on a car. i mean dash and seats are pulled to put uppers and lowers in. motor out, the car looks like it is on the assembly line it is so bare. delivery comes. ignorant customer is finger fucking the shit out of what ever panel he seems to think is "funny looking." and then talk about how they could have saved their deductible if they had gone to abs collision trying to work an angle.

never once have i been asked if we followed the manufacturers' guidelines for structure replacement. the concern of your car folding up like a dr. pepper can in the next accident is never a concern.

[DON SVO]

never once have i been asked if we followed the manufacturers' guidelines for structure replacement. the concern of your car folding up like a dr. pepper can in the next accident is never a concern.

Why would it be? We're in the world of "Do you have a job? Do you have $299? Do you want tree granz minimum fo yo trade?"

[LaserSVT]

Man I was in a part of Waco I have never been to before to look at a customers Benz who was adamant he needed the car moved before night time. It was full ghetto. Obvious sellers on the corner, $1000 cars with $5000 wheels and stereos trying to dislocate the trunk lid and all the buildings and houses have bars on every window. The whole time I was waiting for someone to stab or shoot me. I start to scan the Benz and two *Joe Pesci* "Yewts" with shorts around their knees and the mandatory pick on the back of their head walk up and are looking around inside the damn car while I am standing right there. Fortunatly I am big and happened to be very sweaty and am holding a large Matco pry bar so after eyeing me up they walk on. I get under the dash and all the sudden a donked out Crown Vic pulls in at high speed, blocks in my truck and the Benz *oh poop* and I can see the little .380esq in his pocket. He walks past me as a song starts just BLARING through his stereo that was constant "I like cocaine! I sell cocaine! Wanna buy some ca ca ca caocain! I like cocaine. Kill a bish. I sell cocaine!" with the included constant and annoying trunk vibrating like someone is running a jack hammer on it. I then see an obvious crack head go up to him begging for a "front", not sure what that is but apparently its $20 of which said crack head did not have. I decided I am no longer going to diagnose this car here and call my driver to come tow it. I go inside to tell the Quick -E- Mart owner it has to be brought in and as I turn around to point at the Benz I see crack head picking up my freakin Matco scanner off the battery box! Fortunatly I was still holding onto the Matco 3' long pry bar so when I ran outside he dropped the scanner and ran off.

No wonder the store owner called me to come over and was very adamant he didn't want to leave his car at his store over night.

I had no idea we had areas that bad in this town. The whole time I was there I didn't see one single cop.

[Scott Mc]

How long will you keep telling these stories till you realize Waco isn't a place you should live?

[helosailor]

Sorry mayne, I was juss gonna borrow yo scanner fo a bit. *scratch scratch scratch*

[LaserSVT]

How long will you keep telling these stories till you realize Waco isn't a place you should live?

When my book is done.

[Scott Mc]

What book?

[LaserSVT]

Sorry mayne, I was juss gonna borrow yo scanner fo a bit. *scratch scratch scratch*

It probably looked like a portable game machine to him.

Actually it probably looked like a $20 rock cocaine to him.

I knew we had some screwed up areas but never once have I not felt safe in this town. My neighborhood is quiet and crime free. People by my shop are nice except for the occasional radiator core that gets stolen.
This area though, damn. At first I thought maybe I was being racist just cause they were all black and gangsta dressed and had guns but it wasn't that, they looked at me like I was lunch and when a random dude comes up to check out a car you are working on while eyeing you up, well it just didn't feel right.
I got back to my shop and one of my good customers was hearing me tell the story and interjected with "Im black and I wont go there at night. My sister got held up by an 8 year old kid over there!" lol

[JC316]

I picked up a Saturn SL2 from an area like that in fort worth. It was weird, on one side of the street, it was older black people with beautiful houses and on the opposite side of the street, it was an abandoned church with graffiti and crackheads living there. Same story with the cars and the hood rats cruising the neighborhood. Fortunately I had two other people with me, but I still got that bitch loaded and secure on the trailer in 5 minutes flat.

[LaserSVT]

What book?

Just a joke. I have no idea what I am doing in this shit hole. I lived in the most beautiful crime free state in America and for some stupid reason here I am. That's what I get for trying to help my entire family only to get shit on and then watch each one die one by one and now am stuck someplace I hate with all my heart.

When I decided to start this business I thought of Houston and Dallas and scouted locations. I am an island boy though and the way people drive in those cities makes me want to kill kittens. Figured Waco was small enough to not have drivers to piss me off (wrong) and would be an okay place to live (kinda wrong) and would be cheap (hey, got one right!) LOL

[Baba Ganoush]

I build 2-3 cars a year in my spare time and I'll always work on those, but it seems everyone thinks I'm a mechanic, and they're shocked when I say I'm not and I won't work on their shit. My name is Dave so this comic was perfect, it hangs on my toolbox in my shop.

[helosailor]

Relevant..

[Frank]

My elderly neighbor whom I have provided many hours of free computer support, came to me trying to figure out why she can't see her 10+ year old files from her Mac II on her Windows XP computer. While I did have to do it 15 years ago for a client converting data, I had no desire to do it again, much less for free. She seemed a little agitated that I didn't know how other than tell her she would need to buy a program for it or take it somewhere. A couple of days later, she decided to print out all the data on the Mac II, but couldn't figure out how to connect it to a printer since her printers all had USB connections. She seemed frustrated that I couldn't help her.

[4EyedTurd]

Laser, was that Elm street?

[Scott Mc]

Got ya lazer, just seems like I have a bad experience every time I pass through Waco. Seems like you get plenty of business lol.