Life: Idiotropic

I miss Jiffy Lube.  $30, 30 minutes (or less) while you wait reading your complementary newspaper.

Here, I have NorAuto -   130 Euros, 4 hours, not even a magazine.


Today I went with Kirk to get the oil changed at our "local" Jiffy Lube.  At least it's "Jiffy" for Spain.  It took time to get the information for his truck.  Here, each vehicle is sold with a detailed "specs" sheet that tells the mechanic everything he could ever want to know and more, so without that, it's a bit more complicated.  But soon enough, the man thought he'd found the correct filter and the errand boy from the parts shop ran it over within 10 minutes.  "It will be done in two hours," we were told,  so walked over to the mall for a surprisingly good lunch and a bit of shopping, then returned at the 3 hour point.  Our Ford was up on the rack, but nothing had been done.  They didn't have the filter and they weren't sure how to get it.  I helped them find the VIN number so they could make some more calls.  Eventually, they called the Ford dealership a couple towns over and had the filter delivered.  Nice people, the job got done, but 4 hours?  Ugh.  Is nothing in Spain fast?

The silver lining was the skirt that was only 10% off last week and was 50% off today and in my size and the blessing of a friend who could pick up my girls at the bus stop while we sat stuck at the car place.