I'm spending way more time at Sears than I should

[mmebahorel]

So, two weeks ago, my car battery died. Today, I went out to my car to go to Trader Joe's, and discovered a very, very flat tire. So, a call home to double-check that I just let AAA tell me what to do, then a call to AAA to get the tire changed (since I can't get enough torque to budge any of the lugnuts), then a trip over to Sears since they sold me the tires four years ago.

And I keep not giving Sears much money. Hallelujah for roadsize hazard insurance whatever that I didn't actually remember buying. Tire was repaired for free.

This is why I like Sears for these things: they have good warranties and nationwide locations just in case something happens when I'm not in my home district.

Also, the closer tire place is the NTB on East West Highway, literally walking distance from my apartment, and they have the worst reviews ever on Yelp. Sears may be slow when they get really busy, but I've never had an actual problem with them not taking no for an answer on upselling or completely forgetting about my car, which seem to be the issues with that NTB location. Will continue giving Sears my money for this sort of thing, and my local mechanic the business on everything else.

So today was a lot less productive than I had hoped. Meant to go grocery shopping and work on fic; ended up waiting for AAA, waiting for Sears, hitting TJ's at the godawful hour (I needed four things; I walked out with three of the four and a box of Joe-Joes, which is pretty good considering I was hungry by then), and just made a couple quick edits to get the next chapter of Corner of the Sky up. Will have to work on the heavier stuff, about three chapters on, some other time.

At least the car is taken care of without impinging on my London spending.

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[mmejavert.livejournal.com]

It's not just that NTB location. A few years back I ended up having to replace a tire on my old Saturn. I went there and they told me I needed that one tire replaced (it was the right rear), but my front two were so worn down that they pressured me into buying those -- and since nobody buys three tires, I ended up getting all four (although they let me have the fourth free). Fine. Then they made me get an alignment -- also fine. And then they sold me other services. All told it was like $850 and I felt so, so cheated. I never went anywhere but the Saturn dealership after that (it was impossible for Sears to easily get the parts I needed), but now that I've got a really common Chevy model I just take it to Sears and I LOVE them.