I got up early this morning to make sure I didn’t miss a potential call from the Ford shop. By 8:00 (they opened at 7:00), I decided that ‘sit and wait’ wasn’t going to work for me, so I called them. The lady who answered wasn’t too helpful, but a mechanic must have overheard and told her to pass him the phone.<\/p>\n
He said that the truck started right up normally and he drove it into his shop. What kind of trouble did I have with it?<\/p>\n
I think it took five minutes for him to understand me because of our accent differences. I kept on having to repeat myself. It’s not just him; I had issues with the tow driver yesterday, the mall security person, the tourist info person, and I’ve experienced this in Savannah, too. And the accent troubles go both ways as I have a hard time catching more than just the gist of what someone says unless I’m listening very carefully.<\/p>\n
Anyway, he said he would look at it today as it is second in line for service, but if it needs part, I may have to wait till Monday.<\/p>\n
I’m going to hang out at home a while longer to see if I get any good news. No sense keeping the rental car into tomorrow if I could return it today, although I’m pretty sure that by noon I’ll be into the next day anyway.<\/p>\n
The mechanic called me back as I was writing this post to ask me what state Alberta is in and for my zip code. I replied Canada and gave him my postal code slowly, remembering to say ‘zee’ instead of ‘zed’. He got the information in one shot, but said, “Gee whiz!”<\/p>\n
I now have to confess how relieved I am my truck is actually where it’s supposed to be. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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