Monday, January 25, 2010

January 25, 2010

Did you ever notice that on all the television advertisements that show services, deliveries the people are nice, clean cut, uniformed and seemingly well mannered people.

This is a perfect example that television reflects a picture that does not exist in real life. At least not in New York.

In New York deliveries are made by people who barely speak the English language. They never smile and are very rarely courteous. The only time they show some warmth is when they receive their tip.

All the service people whoever showed up at our doorstep were always tired, complaining type and any work that needed to be done seemed like a major effort. Hate to be repetitious but it always seemed that English was never their first language.

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A few weeks ago I took my car for service. Nothing wrong just a routine 15,000 mile service. Nothing wrong with the car and it still costs a fortune. I am afraid to think what it costs if something is wrong.

I drive a Hyundai. I like the car, it rides well and it behaves up to our expectations.

I have it for over a year now, and I am absolutely not sorry that we chose it.

The showroom and service is across the street from the Chrysler/Jeep dealer we had our previous cars from. Their service entrance is just opposite Hyundai's.

If one wants to be taken and be out in a reasonable time, one has to be there at least one half hour before opening which is 7:30 in the morning.

When I got to my service entrance early, mine was the fourth car. At the Chrysler place there was a line of at least thirty five cars waiting and more coming. Well, there were more coming to the Hyundai service also but not as many as across the street.

While I waited for my car I walked across the street to check out the latest Jeeps. This Jeep dealer is one of the largest in New York City but that showroom was a disaster. There was only one or two sales people who were very busy talking with each other. The cars exhibited were a very poor representation of the Jeeps that are available.

Their showroom is huge but basically it was empty. Too much floor showing in a car showroom is not very inviting.

No wonder Chrysler is in such a bad shape. They are not even making an effort at selling their products.

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Sunday some alien creature attacked and infected our computer. Wouldn't let us go into the Internet, various messages kept popping up and there was nothing we could do.

I called the security company we have the contract with and they eventually fixed it. But it took almost two hours and had to pay for it. Naturally everything else is always covered except what one needs right at that time.

It is amazing for me to see how they take control of the computer from India and work on it like they were sitting just front of it. But give credit where credit is due, the guy was very good. He did fix it.

These sneaky bastards infect the computers and then trick you to buy their security product. This way they get the bank or credit card information and then Bang!

And we can not find out who these crooks are. They could be from Russia, China, Nigeria or even from the good old US of A.

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