A little more than a fortnight ago, I blogged about my experience at the local auto service station, Waikanae Tyre and Lube. You can refer back it here, I called it “Come See Me.”
This morning I popped down to the Aotea Pathology in Waikanae to have some blood drawn for the routine data-base at the doctor’s. Jeanette accompanied me, as we would do a little Friday morning shopping with the same stone. After dropping the kids at the Mangaone Road bus-stop at 8:00, I arrived at Aotea around after 8:10.
Jeanette waited in the car, entertained by Kapiti Radio, 90-something FM, while I waited in the waiting room. Which is the purpose for which a waiting room is designed. And I waited and waited. Because of staff considerations, the wait extended to just past 9, as there were 10 other patients in the queue ahead of me. All had come early to avoid the morning rush. Instead of avoiding it, they caused it for me! Well, I wasn’t in a hurry, and the service is free, so no complaints from my side.
The friendly nursing sister took the three vials of red liquor from my hard-to-locate veins and I was back in the car at 9:15.
Drat! The engine turned slowly, but it refuse to develop its customary “oomph!” I tried a number of times, but, alas, to no avail. Drat!
We sauntered back to the level crossing in the main Road, and met the fellow at Waikanae Tyre and Lube, who’d fixed our trailer tyre last time. Ten minutes later, the Toyota was back at their garage after a jump-start help from the technician. The battery seemed to have recovered, and was once more working fine. Who, knows? Faced with the alternative of replacing it with a new one at $170, I opted for the “let’s wait and see” choice.
That’s that. At the till, “No problem, mate.” Second time ‘No Charge Service’ I’m starting to like the New Zealand pricing system. For the motor trade, at least.
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