I needed to take my car in today – not for anything major, I just wanted an oil change and a check up. Kristie was also taking hers in, so around 11 we both went over to Gateway and dropped them off, and Cojo brought us back to the office.
I love Gateway – I think they’re awesome, they’re really nice and they don’t charge an arm and a leg, like some other places I can name (*cough*VW*cough*)… however today they really made me mad.
They called around 2:30-ish to say my car was done. Kristie’s wasn’t ready yet, so I waited to go back with her so we could get them at the same time. It came to be 5 and everyone at work was leaving, so we wouldn’t have a ride back over there, so we went on over there even though they hadn’t called to say hers was ready.
Well, I got mine paid for, but hers was still going to be another 30 minutes, so we decided to head on back in my car, then come back when hers was ready.
Got to my car, and the passenger side window was all the way down. It had apparently been down from the time they put it back in the parking lot (2:30ish) to when we got to it, almost 5:30. So for 3 hours my car had sat in the parking lot, open to anyone who wanted to come take anything out of it. Not like I had a checkbook in there or anything, but I had toys, video tapes, and some CDs in there that someone could have just reached in and taken.
I mean really?