When Belly asked to make Navy over into a geisha, I said, “have at it.” This is all while knowing that she had swim lessons just a few hours later, and the pool would remove any damage done. That was my thought until I saw this:
Is this geisha, or FREAK!
This angle improves it a bit.
Here, she is trying to get into character.
The hair really sealed the deal.
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Like I said, we were heading to the pool soon after. But unfortunately, I had just enough time to squeeze in a car wash before swimming. I knew I would look the fool with this little girl at my side, but that is sort of my M.O. So we headed to the car wash. The Asian lady behind the counter (possibly a geisha in her previous years) was baffled. So we went out and waited to hear the guy honk and then wave his towel. When that happened, I took the kids over, scooted the seat in the second row forward to get Icka in the third row. Can you imagine my horror when I found that the plastic piece under the seat in my two week old car was gouged and slashed?!!!
They probably didn’t know I take care of my things (due to the current status of my daughter), and wasn’t about to sit back and let this slide. After the assistant manager, the “real” manager and the owner all explained to me why it was MY fault, I unloaded. After explaining to them that it came in perfectly, that it was a simple seat to slide back, that they had incompetent people who could have easily asked the owner to slide the seat, that “Cafe Auto Spa” had insurance for situations just like this, that the assistant manager already admitted to their mistake, that I wasn’t going away until it was resolved, and that my dad was a retired attorney who had nothing but time on his hands, I saw some movement. Too bad that movement was a guy trying to “fix” the problem. I wasn’t aware of what was going on until I stopped him from sand papering my plastic piece. I flipped! The owner told me that sand paper is how you “fix” the problem. I said, “Yeah right! That is how you temporarily cover up the problem.” About thirty minutes later, and once the owner realized I wasn’t walking, he finally asked if a really nice car wash for free next time would cover the problem. I told him that a replacement piece would cover the problem — and NO LESS! And that he should throw in the car wash also!
I am proud to say that I have one replacement piece ordered.
That’s right — NEVER mess with a lawyer’s daughter. ESPECIALLY an ambulance chaser’s daughter!
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