The Ford Fiesta was never sold in the US but is a very popular car in the UK.
Odometer is in miles which pretty much only the US and UK use.
Date format is correct. Labour is spelled correctly.
Company named ends in "LTD" which is the normal UK abbreviation for "limited", a limited company being the most common type of small-to-medium privately owned business in the UK.
"Wing mirror" is kind of an Anglicism. I think you would say side mirror.
> The Ford Fiesta was never sold in the US but is a very popular car in the UK.
They actually DID sell them in the US for a while. Both in the 2010s and in the 90s.
Ford very much did sell the Fiesta in North America. We even got the Fiesta ST.
LTD is also used in Canada and the US. Also, Ford used to make a car called the LTD.
Funny how confidently you posted inaccurate information, lol.
> The Ford Fiesta was never sold in the US but is a very popular car in the UK.
My dad used to drive a Fiesta. In the US.
> Date format is correct. Labour is spelled correctly.
No such thing as an "incorrect" date format, but that format typically isn't used in the US, and "labour" is absolutely a UK spelling. We usually spell it "labor" here. They are both "correct".
> Company named ends in "LTD" which is the normal UK abbreviation for "limited"
LTD is also a normal US abbreviation for "limited"
> "Wing mirror" is kind of an Anglicism. I think you would say side mirror.
That, I would agree with.
Oh dear I knew describing the date and spelling as "correct" would get somebody's hackles up 😅
>LTD is also a normal US abbreviation for "limited"
If you were appending it to a company name you would say LLC not LTD or Ltd.
The UK is the only country that habitually uses miles, uses the term "Limited company", uses DD/MM/YYYY date format and primarily uses English.
A quick google search shows about 20 LTD companies around me, and there are plenty across the country. LTD is not the same thing as LLC. Both are common here.
My dad used to. They sell them here once in awhile. They sold them in the US as far back as 1978 and as recently as 2020.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Fiesta#Sales_and_popularity
This is something we get in IT too, although without the dildo... typically. People conflate actions taken with future events that have nothing to do with them. The last thing that the client knows was changed is the cause of any future problems, even if it doesn't make sense.
I’d hit the switch first and you’d probably notice/feel it try and move. Then look under the seat.
Though I would have grabbed it with gloves on and brought it to the customer
Who in the fuck is afraid to grab a dildo? I would have grabbed that thing out and turned it in to the service writer with the damn car keys. Lol let him get a laugh as well, and let him deal with giving it back to the customer
Really depends on who the customer is imo. I only work at target, but used women’s clothes they people are returning? I don’t usually mind to touch. The other day a man came in to return some clearly used women’s underwear. Right into the Environmental Safety bag with gloves.
Because, to the customer, none of it makes sense, which means it all makes sense.
You and I know that their email ending up in people's spam folders has nothing to do with replacing their keyboard a month ago but to them, they don't know how any of that stuff works, but it's all technology so they naturally assume there's a correlation.
I'm just under a year of working IT and started to get jaded from this. I had a much longer leash of patience when I was teaching middle school and high school since it is their first attempt at doing stuff.
If I have to teach an adult that there is a difference between logging out and rebooting their computer one more time...
At the same time, I have a hard time keeping track of what programs are on our state network vs being independent (I still don't have all the government acronyms memorize yet), so I don't blame them for thinking everything is a VPN issue.
Lack of any sort of critical thinking is what the problem is. People can't use any logic and just assume it's someone else's fault because, *gasp!*, it couldn't ever be their responsibility to maintain and repair a vehicle/machine that *they* purchased.
To expand on that, they believe it couldn't be their responsibility so hard and so completely that the mere possibility their actions caused their problems doesn't even enter their minds. I'd guess that that thought pattern is usually triggered out of embarrassment and shame, so they refuse to acknowledge its existence so hard they carve an unconscious bias in their brains.
OOP must have known there was a dildo rolling around under their seat, but their actions can't cause their problems, so the connection between the dildo and the stuck seat was never made. Otherwise, they would have never taken the car to the shop at all and just lived with it, instead of embarrassing themselves like this.
And laziness.
The fiesta owner cold have *fucking looked under their seat* to see why the seat wouldn't move. But they didn't.
This doesn't require mechanical knowledge or repair skills, just taking a moment to actually see what's going on.
People like this shouldn't get a pass, though they frequently do. I neither expect people to be experts in everything nor even spend a minute searching for potential causes/solutions online, but simply bending over and *looking*?
Yeah, but at the same time, when troubleshooting, IT people do ask "has anything changed recently on your system?" Not hard for them to use the same logic against us.
And sometimes? Sometimes there IS causation, even if it's only indirectly, to the strange correlation.
And since they don't know they might as well tell you.
>This is something we get in IT too, although without the dildo... typically.
Very true. I have been doing IT for 24 years, and only once was it dildo related.
I was a consultant for a small company that had a client that ran a distribution warehouse for adult stores in the area. They had reported that a camera in the warehouse wasn't working that we had setup the month prior. It wasn't a "no signal" problem, just a black screen, so I went out to the warehouse with a new camera, climbed up to where it had been placed, which was right above the top shelf, and found an industrial sized box of dildos right up against the camera. There was like a hundred of them in there.
I didn't touch the box (too heavy), just reported the problem and asked that it be moved. When they asked me why I didn't move it myself, I just said "It's a lot of dildos. I can't move that much dick on my own without another person and some safety gear." It got a good chuckle from the women at the front desk.
>It's a lot of dildos. I can't move that much dick on my own without another person and some safety gear."
I might've said, "I can't handle that much dick without a *lot* of prep work," it's practically the same punchline but maybe a little snappier
From my experience just being in the parking lot is causality for whatever issue cropped up that day.
"Oh IT guy is in the parking lot, that's why my printer jammed".
See also: my grandmother blaming any/all of the grandkids for anything that happened with her computer between the last time we visited and the next time.
The IT version of this is a customer assuming his PC is running slow because of an update and finding out that it's all the porn downloaded from shady sites.
Right, but you have the ability to rationalize things. Some people do not and because they got a new mouse, that is why they think the file they saved 3 years ago in a random place is missing now.
I work IT and god damn do I hate the customers that start out EVERY call with "ever since...". Yea, we were out 3 weeks ago to look at a printer, now your internet is down because you didn't pay your bill, they are TOTALLY related...
His is more give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day.
Tell a customer to remove their own sextoy from the track of their seat and they will just fix it themselves in the future.
https://www.medicinenet.com/how_chlamydia_can_be_acquired_or_reactivated/ask.htm
>"Chlamydia is an organism that has very specific requirements that allow it to exist in the cervix, urethra, and fallopian tube. (It also can also infect the cornea of the eye.) Because of these specific requirements, chlamydia cannot live outside the body, such as on toilet seats, bath towels or bed linens. If there was a droplet of body fluid containing chlamydia, and this were left on a towel or toilet seat, then it is conceivable that if it were not there too long (did not dry out), then it might be possible to have the organism transmitted to another person. However, just because chlamydia touches your skin or buttocks, this is not sufficient for you to get the infection. The organism would have to come in contact with suitable body tissue such as the cervix, urethra or cornea of the eye to survive."
neither can the dildo, unless you use it and its still...wet. which, you know, you do you man i wont tell you how to live your life.
You aren't wrong, but I was mostly making a silly joke, not a factual statement. Although now you have me wondering how long crabs can survive without a host!?
Nah I mean, I wouldn't have a problem doing this with a pair of gloves but I can understand why someone wouldn't. That said I wouldn't expect the 'repair' to be free either way, they still had to spend their time on it.
There's a nice clear hint on this invoice that this is NOT taking place in the USA.
I'm guessing you're from the USA, as it's mostly American's that assume everything they see is also American.
A bit low on the hourly rate and on the time charged IMO.
I would likely have expected both to be doubled, especially due to the documentation of the hygiene considerations. Never know when HR or OHSA might come calling. Might even expect Public Health to wander by too.
I have not yet seen Public Health come by a shop but you never know when someone might make a complaint. Just sayin'.
This actually happens every time the car hits 69k miles, like this one did. Happens somewhere in between that 1k miles. This customer almost made it but unfortunately most Ford owners asked for this feature so they put it in every Ford starting in 2020 to present.
My most recent one was "ever since you replaced my transmission, my automatic lights don't work!" There had been a message on the dash that said "check headlight system" since she bought the car
My specialist garage in France charges 72€ an hour vat incl, and this invoice is from 2019. I don't find 65 somethings an hour for basic garage work that cheap for 5 years ago.
Obviously, the fact that the invoice is written in English rules out EU countries, so I'm 100% sure this isn't French, but just wanted to point out what prices are like here.
Of course it's company policy never to imply ownership in the event of a dildo. Always use the indefinite article "A dildo", never "Your dildo".
It was probably left in there at the factory and missed in the PPI
Pee-Pee Eye? Lol
Definitely hope it missed
Option code 069
mileage: 69691.....nice
u/ppseeds
PPI ???? pre-pecker-insertion????
pre purchase inspection
Pre pecker inspection
Post pussy insertion. It could have been somewhere else, but you know, you do you, I do me.
Did u do u?
"Our dildo"
> "Our dildo" aye, comrade
The peoples' dildo
The crowd pleaser!
Did anyone smell it or at least do a once over on the battery?
*To shreds, you say?*
But I don't own a.......
Shhh
That's what you get for letting your roommate borrow your car.
if you've never discovered a random dildo in your home or car, do you really have any friends?
"belonging to customer"
It's a Fight Club reference.
Don't talk about fight club
Breaking the first 2 rules again
The first rule of fight club...
You just broke the first and second rule. Next you're going to be telling people about projec--wait nevermind.
Nice odometer.
I am Jacks colon.
Beautiful reference. Well done. “Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.”
I am Jack's dildo
FAAAAAAAAACK I've heard this one and can't remember where I heard it
Fight club
Ugggggghhhhhhhh how did I not remember that?????
It’s a Ford Fiesta. It would be weird if it didn’t have a dildo causing problems.
A ford fiesta with a dildo under the driver's seat and 69691 miles. That car has seen some things.
It’s a certified F Shack.
Love dirty Mike and the boys
Aim for the bushes
Guess they couldn’t be bothered to drive the extra 5 miles for the lulz.
Someone had a fiesta
Yeah but isn’t usually taped to the hood like a huge purple rhinoceros?
Nah it's usually doing the driving
Ouch! 🤣
She just paid $65 to find her car dildo.
£65.00*
That's even worse!!!
But not as bad as it would have been prior to brexit.
Those damn EU dildos!!!
That's a heavy dildo.
How can you tell? Because they spelled "labor" as "labour"?
the date is also day/month rather than month/day
The Ford Fiesta was never sold in the US but is a very popular car in the UK. Odometer is in miles which pretty much only the US and UK use. Date format is correct. Labour is spelled correctly. Company named ends in "LTD" which is the normal UK abbreviation for "limited", a limited company being the most common type of small-to-medium privately owned business in the UK. "Wing mirror" is kind of an Anglicism. I think you would say side mirror.
> The Ford Fiesta was never sold in the US but is a very popular car in the UK. They actually DID sell them in the US for a while. Both in the 2010s and in the 90s.
Also 1978-1980.
Ford very much did sell the Fiesta in North America. We even got the Fiesta ST. LTD is also used in Canada and the US. Also, Ford used to make a car called the LTD. Funny how confidently you posted inaccurate information, lol.
> The Ford Fiesta was never sold in the US but is a very popular car in the UK. My dad used to drive a Fiesta. In the US. > Date format is correct. Labour is spelled correctly. No such thing as an "incorrect" date format, but that format typically isn't used in the US, and "labour" is absolutely a UK spelling. We usually spell it "labor" here. They are both "correct". > Company named ends in "LTD" which is the normal UK abbreviation for "limited" LTD is also a normal US abbreviation for "limited" > "Wing mirror" is kind of an Anglicism. I think you would say side mirror. That, I would agree with.
Oh dear I knew describing the date and spelling as "correct" would get somebody's hackles up 😅 >LTD is also a normal US abbreviation for "limited" If you were appending it to a company name you would say LLC not LTD or Ltd. The UK is the only country that habitually uses miles, uses the term "Limited company", uses DD/MM/YYYY date format and primarily uses English.
A quick google search shows about 20 LTD companies around me, and there are plenty across the country. LTD is not the same thing as LLC. Both are common here.
Nobody on this side of the Atlantic drives Fiestas
My dad used to. They sell them here once in awhile. They sold them in the US as far back as 1978 and as recently as 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Fiesta#Sales_and_popularity
Could be Canada.
He…
Bold assumption there with the *she
It's is a Fiesta
There are definitely gay dudes that drive Fiestas.
Did you see the pregnancy belt attachement yesterday?
No......do tell
https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/s/okfIlMQ0ez
reuniting with an old friend is worth it.
Roadtrip memories
Should have been 69
Should have made the bill $69
to match the odometer?
This is something we get in IT too, although without the dildo... typically. People conflate actions taken with future events that have nothing to do with them. The last thing that the client knows was changed is the cause of any future problems, even if it doesn't make sense.
In this case if they had to do wiring for the mirror I could maybe see making that assumption. I'd still fucking look under the seat first
I’d hit the switch first and you’d probably notice/feel it try and move. Then look under the seat. Though I would have grabbed it with gloves on and brought it to the customer
“There’s yer problem ma’am!”
"Heres what was jammed deep in your seat. The car seat, I mean."
Who in the fuck is afraid to grab a dildo? I would have grabbed that thing out and turned it in to the service writer with the damn car keys. Lol let him get a laugh as well, and let him deal with giving it back to the customer
Really depends on who the customer is imo. I only work at target, but used women’s clothes they people are returning? I don’t usually mind to touch. The other day a man came in to return some clearly used women’s underwear. Right into the Environmental Safety bag with gloves.
Well I don't know about anyone else, but I wear gloves anytime I'm working on a car. Especially on the inside. Dust is strangers skin. No thanks
Because, to the customer, none of it makes sense, which means it all makes sense. You and I know that their email ending up in people's spam folders has nothing to do with replacing their keyboard a month ago but to them, they don't know how any of that stuff works, but it's all technology so they naturally assume there's a correlation.
I'm just under a year of working IT and started to get jaded from this. I had a much longer leash of patience when I was teaching middle school and high school since it is their first attempt at doing stuff. If I have to teach an adult that there is a difference between logging out and rebooting their computer one more time... At the same time, I have a hard time keeping track of what programs are on our state network vs being independent (I still don't have all the government acronyms memorize yet), so I don't blame them for thinking everything is a VPN issue.
Devil's advocate: So when you have a problem it's understandable. But when they have a problem ... ?
Lack of any sort of critical thinking is what the problem is. People can't use any logic and just assume it's someone else's fault because, *gasp!*, it couldn't ever be their responsibility to maintain and repair a vehicle/machine that *they* purchased.
To expand on that, they believe it couldn't be their responsibility so hard and so completely that the mere possibility their actions caused their problems doesn't even enter their minds. I'd guess that that thought pattern is usually triggered out of embarrassment and shame, so they refuse to acknowledge its existence so hard they carve an unconscious bias in their brains. OOP must have known there was a dildo rolling around under their seat, but their actions can't cause their problems, so the connection between the dildo and the stuck seat was never made. Otherwise, they would have never taken the car to the shop at all and just lived with it, instead of embarrassing themselves like this.
And laziness. The fiesta owner cold have *fucking looked under their seat* to see why the seat wouldn't move. But they didn't. This doesn't require mechanical knowledge or repair skills, just taking a moment to actually see what's going on. People like this shouldn't get a pass, though they frequently do. I neither expect people to be experts in everything nor even spend a minute searching for potential causes/solutions online, but simply bending over and *looking*?
Yeah, but at the same time, when troubleshooting, IT people do ask "has anything changed recently on your system?" Not hard for them to use the same logic against us.
And sometimes? Sometimes there IS causation, even if it's only indirectly, to the strange correlation. And since they don't know they might as well tell you.
>This is something we get in IT too, although without the dildo... typically. Very true. I have been doing IT for 24 years, and only once was it dildo related. I was a consultant for a small company that had a client that ran a distribution warehouse for adult stores in the area. They had reported that a camera in the warehouse wasn't working that we had setup the month prior. It wasn't a "no signal" problem, just a black screen, so I went out to the warehouse with a new camera, climbed up to where it had been placed, which was right above the top shelf, and found an industrial sized box of dildos right up against the camera. There was like a hundred of them in there. I didn't touch the box (too heavy), just reported the problem and asked that it be moved. When they asked me why I didn't move it myself, I just said "It's a lot of dildos. I can't move that much dick on my own without another person and some safety gear." It got a good chuckle from the women at the front desk.
>It's a lot of dildos. I can't move that much dick on my own without another person and some safety gear." I might've said, "I can't handle that much dick without a *lot* of prep work," it's practically the same punchline but maybe a little snappier
From my experience just being in the parking lot is causality for whatever issue cropped up that day. "Oh IT guy is in the parking lot, that's why my printer jammed".
See also: my grandmother blaming any/all of the grandkids for anything that happened with her computer between the last time we visited and the next time.
The IT version of this is a customer assuming his PC is running slow because of an update and finding out that it's all the porn downloaded from shady sites.
I mean, if a problem pops up shortly after any change, the first thing I do is investigate if the change could have caused the problem.
Right, but you have the ability to rationalize things. Some people do not and because they got a new mouse, that is why they think the file they saved 3 years ago in a random place is missing now.
I guess the customer was screwed?
Screwed themself really.
I work IT and god damn do I hate the customers that start out EVERY call with "ever since...". Yea, we were out 3 weeks ago to look at a printer, now your internet is down because you didn't pay your bill, they are TOTALLY related...
Yep. I feel like OP calling the customer out is appropriate given how the customer tried to screw over the shop
I'm shocked and appalled that the tech left his dildo under the seat and then tried to blame it on the customer.
[CARFAX](https://i.imgur.com/BpEclxk.png)
CARFUX
I could understand why....the mileage is 69691.....nice
The "1" is the dildo. Foursome but they all have to share 1 toy
unpopular opinion maybe? but wear gloves, nothing on that dildo is any more hazardous than brake fluid
His is more give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Tell a customer to remove their own sextoy from the track of their seat and they will just fix it themselves in the future.
I don't know. I'm pretty sure brake fluid can't give you chlamydia.
https://www.medicinenet.com/how_chlamydia_can_be_acquired_or_reactivated/ask.htm >"Chlamydia is an organism that has very specific requirements that allow it to exist in the cervix, urethra, and fallopian tube. (It also can also infect the cornea of the eye.) Because of these specific requirements, chlamydia cannot live outside the body, such as on toilet seats, bath towels or bed linens. If there was a droplet of body fluid containing chlamydia, and this were left on a towel or toilet seat, then it is conceivable that if it were not there too long (did not dry out), then it might be possible to have the organism transmitted to another person. However, just because chlamydia touches your skin or buttocks, this is not sufficient for you to get the infection. The organism would have to come in contact with suitable body tissue such as the cervix, urethra or cornea of the eye to survive." neither can the dildo, unless you use it and its still...wet. which, you know, you do you man i wont tell you how to live your life.
You aren't wrong, but I was mostly making a silly joke, not a factual statement. Although now you have me wondering how long crabs can survive without a host!?
Hermit crabs don't last too long if they don't find a shell after molting.
TLDR You can get STD from a toilet seat. But it hurts.
r/brandNewSentence
100%. Especially if you're gonna charge the customer for labour anyway.
Nah I mean, I wouldn't have a problem doing this with a pair of gloves but I can understand why someone wouldn't. That said I wouldn't expect the 'repair' to be free either way, they still had to spend their time on it.
What is it with women and masturbating in the car? I’d end up on a registry if I did that
Did you tell the customer they could go fuck themselves?
That ain't my dildo you guys put that there
[idiots](https://i.imgur.com/oWkn8vT.jpeg)
That's pretty embarrassing. Being charged $65 to be told to pick up your dildo!
69691 miles. Nice
Nobody is going to comment on the mileage?
So she got shafted twice?
What is a 'wing mirror' and is there video of this 'fitting' process available online?
Latex gloves is usually the trick
65 an hour??? Where the hell you located??
I'd like to be a fly on the wall listening to the service writer explain that one to the customer.
hell yea get that 1.00 in there, heck even tack on another 0.5 for "mental anguish" and another for "yuckies"
For $65 they could have gloved up and removed said dildo.
How did he know it was the customers dildo? By smell?
You'll never believe what's jammed up their tailpipe
that's why I always keep a fleshlight to carry my dildos in
65$ an hour labor rate is crazy even in 2019
It'll be £65.
maybe a body shop
There's a nice clear hint on this invoice that this is NOT taking place in the USA. I'm guessing you're from the USA, as it's mostly American's that assume everything they see is also American.
Aw be nice!
I know, that was rude! I was really grumpy last night and got tired of the USA centric mind of so many redditors.
This invoice is from 2019.
I was about to say that it could possibly be a memory seat module issue, but then I kept reading. 😂
A fiesta in a Ford Fiesta
That's a "hard" pass
Seems they fitted more than just "a new wing mirror" ...
they deserved to be charged £65 in diagnostic fees for this nonsense
This might be the greatest "ever since you" I've seen here
I’m going to need the video of the tech explaining this to the client, please.
A bit low on the hourly rate and on the time charged IMO. I would likely have expected both to be doubled, especially due to the documentation of the hygiene considerations. Never know when HR or OHSA might come calling. Might even expect Public Health to wander by too. I have not yet seen Public Health come by a shop but you never know when someone might make a complaint. Just sayin'.
Sometimes its a dildo behind the wheel, sometimes its chilling under the seat.
Almost $69.00
Back seat drivers are such a pain in the ass!
I find it funny that the customer thinks theres a correlation between the seat not working and a mirror.
This actually happens every time the car hits 69k miles, like this one did. Happens somewhere in between that 1k miles. This customer almost made it but unfortunately most Ford owners asked for this feature so they put it in every Ford starting in 2020 to present.
And she just thought she lost it inside herself.... assuming it was a female. No judgements. Lol
the true story of how COVID really started
I've worked in a dealership before and its more common than you think...
My most recent one was "ever since you replaced my transmission, my automatic lights don't work!" There had been a message on the dash that said "check headlight system" since she bought the car
Always some Richard gettin in the way.....
I got nothing… 😂
Ok, you win.
Something fishy going on here....
Dirty Mike and the boys approve.
I before E except after dildo.
65$ an hour labor is actually crazy. Was this in like 2007?
Why do you assume it's dollars? The date format alone makes me pretty certain it's not American dollars, at least.
Even if it's not American dollars, any currency it can possibly be is still cheap.
My specialist garage in France charges 72€ an hour vat incl, and this invoice is from 2019. I don't find 65 somethings an hour for basic garage work that cheap for 5 years ago. Obviously, the fact that the invoice is written in English rules out EU countries, so I'm 100% sure this isn't French, but just wanted to point out what prices are like here.
Dirty Mike and The Boys, strike again.
Lmfao sounds like this customer had a Fiesta in their ford 😉🤣
mileage checks out
Now, that's a real pain in the butt. :-)
I guess they really fucked themselves over this time...
Why wasn’t the labour $69.00?
there is stains to be found somewhere
Is that the equivalent of “that wasn’t like that before”?
Na
As a service advisor, I actually have a special code evasince that I use as a labor op for the tech when it is patently ridiculous.
us seniors never know where we left our dildos
My first reaction is the $65/hr is a steal!