Attribution: AZ Auto Detailing Scottsdale, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, celebrates with the keeper in his ability to “fix things”, seen perhaps by others as “cheapness.” There were two spots of minor surface scratches on their vehicle, one put there by the keeper and one by Phyllis. No dents involved, just small areas of shallow scratches.
The Subaru body shop guys said Phyllis’s scratch repairs would cost $2,300 and the keeper’s would be $1,800 for a total of $4,100.
The keeper picked himself up off the body shop floor, thanked the estimators and went home to use over-the-counter scratch removal and polish at a total cost of about $30 to make the scratches disappear. And if his and Phyllis’s aging eyesight is a factor in that, so be it! For their purposes the scratches are gone and anyone who says they can still be seen is not a friend.
$4,100 is simply obscene!
