Life never goes your way 100% of the time: that's why we have Xanax, booze and daytime television. Regardless of the implied reliability of your "magic" hybrid automobile with the two engines and the perfect service record, one day it will break down and strand you far enough away from home that you give up ideas of walking and just head for the nearest bar.
OK, so maybe that's just me, but I did get a couple of pluses out of my experience. A couple that I'm not going to mention here and discovering Marion's Wrecking Service. I'd like to say I stumbled across them as if guided by fate, but it was my service guy at my Toyota dealership who told me to call them to save my poor little Prius.
The dispatcher at Marion's took all of my details and told me he'd give me a ring when the driver was about fifteen minutes away from my car so I could set out into the rain (of course it was raining) and meet him with the keys. Already in a mindset of total defeat, I went ahead and took the Mrs' precious Mini over to my dead mobile and sat in the grey morning like a pathetic emo kid. Sure enough, about 30 minutes later I get a call from Marion's dispatch letting me know that the driver got stuck in traffic on Central Expressway (we know what Friday morning plus rain is like for Dallas traffic), but would be right there.
When the flatbed arrived, the driver went through the paces in the mystical maneuvers it takes to get my robot car into neutral without power. After that he got the car loaded up on the flatbed, took my key and said I was good to go and the dealer would give me a call when the car was fixed.
Never before had I experienced a towing event so painlessly. Marion's really made it easy for me to get my car where I needed it to take care of its ailments.
Now about that magical non-breaking automobile... read more