10 FACTUAL SCENES

I'm not sure if this should be called Files of a Towing Company or Frustrations of a Towing Company ???

1. You have no money, short own tools, short of knowledge on how to do your repair, short on time and no job. You have no hope of income tomorrow, but you need help today, so you’re prepared to promise the world and then some for services if we will only help you today. We help, you no pay, YOU WIN, WE LOSE.

2. You need a jump. No money, no friends, it’s very late. You call us, we help, discover major jury rig wiring problems, but now were committed. I like go to sleep and cannot do that until your fixed or leave. Hmmm again I say, YOU WIN, WE LOSE.

3. You need a repair for a vehicle, but cannot pay for it.
3.1. You promise to pay for the repairs later
3.2. we trust you and repair your vehicle
3.3. unforeseen circumstances develop in your life and you cannot pay your bill is promised
3.4. after you don’t show up as you promised, we go a look for you. We find you and ask you to pay her bills
3.5. you tell us we will have to sue you because you don’t have any money
3.6. okay, so you and women small claims court, because you don’t show up. We get a default judgment. Now we have to pursue collection. We decided that is not worth our time because you don’t have any money or possessions to attach. So again YOU WIN, WE LOSE.

4. You need to borrow a tool. To complete the repairs for yourself. We loan you the tool, you don’t return it.
4.1. Or you return it broken,
4.2. or, you sue us because when the tool broke, it hurt your vehicle or your hand.
4.3. You take us to court.
4.4. We take a day off of work to defend our position. The judge says we should have known better because you cannot loan tools, to someone without incurring the liability. You should know that, especially since your license repair dealer.
4.5. Judgment in favor of the plaintiff. YOU WIN, WE LOSE.

5. You need to borrow a can of gas because you ran out at the top of the road. Please loan me a can of gas.
5.1. We loan you a gas can
5.2. you asked if we can now only loan you five dollars for gas because you left her wallet in the car.
5.3. You promised to return it when you return the gas can. Your wife with you verify’s your promise with a smile
5.4. It’s the last time we ever see you, your wife, our guests can or our $5. YOU WIN, WE LOSE.

6. You need a tire. It’s the first day back to work in a very long time and you had a flat tire. Your plea, please sell me a tire.
6.1. A tire cost $20
6.2. you say, do you have anything more cheap because I only have $5 and I still need to get gas.
6.3. I promise, if you give me a tire today, I’ll gladly return to you tonight on my way home and pay you the balance.
6.4. It gets dark and you don’t return, but today or ever. YOU WIN, WE LOSE.

7. You broke down and need to park your car somewhere safe where it won’t get broken into.
7.1. You ask us to allow you to park on our property where you promised to pick it up the next day, when it is light.
7.2. You show up at about 10:00AM in the morning and ask where that dent in the door came from?
7.3. You choose to sue us for the damage because you claim that the damage on the door wasn’t there when you dropped off your car the night before and you further claim that we should of taken precautions.
7.4. During the court case, issues are raised and we defend our position. End result, judgment in favor of us, the defendant. But we had to take a day off of work to prove our case. You had nothing else to do the challenge the system and hope to get a free repair. End result, we did not get to finish our scheduled contracted work and we have customers that are now disappointed with our performance. I guess - YOU WIN, WE LOSE.

8. You need a car. You can’t afford much but promise to make payments.
8.1. We know that you don’t have credit, a job and no real hope of living up to your promises, but you insist that you’re honest and will pay as you have promised.
8.2. We choose to trust you and give you a vehicle for a minimal value and have you sign a legal binding note to make payments. At the time, you were very grateful and promised the world.
8.3. Within a few weeks, things in your life surface and difficulties become abundant.
8.4. Time to pay comes around and although you’re driving the car from here to there, you do not make payments as promised. Insurmountable problems from rent due, to no food, to no money, to just got robbed, to lost your job, to holidays coming up and need to provide for your sick parents, hospital bills are due because of your asthmatic and diabetic kid, anything but pay us. YOU WIN, WE LOSE.

9. You need a place to stay for you and your children because you have just broken up with your husband.
9.1. You promise to leave in the morning. You pray that we will have a sympathetic heart and allow you to stay just for the one evening.
9.2. We decide that your case is sincere and that you probably are genuinely in need of comfort. We allow you to stay on our property in our home for the evening.
9.3. The one evening becomes a week which then becomes a month and then your friends begin to come over to visit and you still don’t leave.
9.4. We now have a problem with you staying on the property and I have to find a way to get you off the property peacefully.
9.5. I have to take my valuable time to maneuver events so that it will now become impossible for you to stay on our property.
9.6. After many weeks of frustration and stress, we finally get you off our property without any major loss to the company, but you and your friends got many weeks of free rent at our expense. Again, because we trusted you and extended ourselves to help you. YOU WIN, WE LOSE.

10. You need a job. You insist that you are a qualified mechanic. You'll work for a reasonable rate and that you declare firmly that you can work on any type of vehicle. Your wife with you verifies that you can do any work assigned.
10.1. You are informed by us that we don't need any more mechanics.
10.2. You and your wife plea that we are their last hope. They've tried all other channels and need to eat. Their children are hungry and there's no other possible hope. They beg, "Please, help us!"
10.3. I persist that we simply don't have any openings, that we are comfortably staffed. After an uncomfortable pause, with a compassionate heart, I ask if you have any references?
10.4. You say you don't have any local references since you are new in town, but will work only for food for their family until he proves himself to The Company. "Please," he begs. "Be humane, just give us a chance."
10.5. "OK, I will allow you to show up the next day to let you demo some cars for the shredder. I agree to pay you $40 per day as a trial." (average pay at the time was about $7-$10 p.h.)
10.6. "You will be more grateful than you can imagine!"
10.7. You show up for work on the assigned time. All is very busy that day and all seems to be going well. We close for the day and you leave. We begin putting all the tools away and notice that we cannot find certain tools. In fact, after we look around, we find we cannot find a lot of certain tools.
10.8. We discover that many tools are missing and that they may have been stolen.
10.9. You don't show up for work the next day, or the next day, or ever again. Hmmmm again I say, YOU WIN, WE LOSE.

Conclusion of the matter: Embittered, More cautious, More scrupulous, vindictive, spiteful for/to Ho'opilikia . . . nah! Just keeping score so that I can carefully pick and choose the good ones so that someday I can comfortably say: We don't lose any more!

I think I'm just going to retire and No Look Back! THE END!