The Holtonian

STAY AWAY FROM THE AUTOMOTIVE DEPARTMENT AND PHOTO DEPARTMENT AT THE TIFTONIA WALMART

So, I went down to Walmart yesterday to get some pictures made of halloween Anna-Kate and put them on a CD. We need an oil change as well so I figure I'll drop the Honda off, they did my tires fine so I figure "eh, whats an oil change, its easy peasy." So I drop the car off and drop the film off and walk around for a bit. The lady said the film wouldn't take but 30 minutes and same is true for the oil change. So I go up to the film counter at 30 minutes, "its not done yet."

OK, so I walk around some more, look at the toys, some cool transformer toys are out now. Then at about 45 minutes, "No not ready yet."

OK i'm irritated now, so I give em 10 more minutes, maybe 15 I lost track, and go up to the counter, "OK its been an hour its 1 hour photography is it ready yet?"

"Oh our machine's been down all night and we can't seem to get it up."

I think to myself "WHY DIDN"T YOU TELL ME THAT WHEN I GOT HERE!!!!!" But I calmly just say, "What about the CD can I have that?"

"Sure but our label maker is broken so we don't know which CD is yours, its one of these three but we have no way of knowing..."

I respond dumbfounded by their dumbness, "Do you have a computer? You can put it in there and just look at the pictures."

"Oh yeah...." Light bulbs went off, it was amazing.

So after looking at all these CDS and watching the person struggle to figure out how to work the FUJI kiosk which they operate, I think to myself, "You're responsible for this machine and you don't know how to work it..."

So after much frustration I get my CD and get out of there, wife thought I should have made them give it to me for free but I just wanted out of there and in a lot of ways it wasn't there fault the machine was down, though they were pretty awful on the customer service, but then again its Walmart not Macy's.

So I go to pick up my car....

"Mr. Holton we couldn't get the drainage plug for your oil out. It was so tight I was afraid I might break it if I pulled too hard...."

Great so I didn't get my oil changed and now i have to go yell at the quick lube place on broad for jacking up my engine.

SO i'm driving home and the car is not sounding right, not sure what it is, but I figure I'm just being paranoid.

This morning I'm going to work and decide to take the Honda... I think, "I should check the engine real quick..."

The oil cap on the top, where you put oil in, is gone, no where to be seen. The dip stick is just resting ontop of the engine, some how it hadn't fallen off, and there is oil all over the engine. The dumbass at Walmart couldn't even put the cap back on and dip stick back.

So needless to say I'm never going back to Walmart for a simple oil change because the simplest of tasks seem to be too tough for them. And I still haven't gotten my oil change and now I have to go to NAPA and buy a oil cap for the car. ANd frankly his assesment of my drainage plug being too tight was probably bogus because the guy obviously doesn't know a thing.

This was the Walmart at Tiftonia and I have heard of many other people having problems with their automotive department and I highly recommend you not going there.

Posted by holtonian at November 2, 2006 08:49 AM | TrackBack