I may be a girl but I am not stupid!

Yesterday I took my car into Jiffy Lube to have the oil changed. I hate doing this because I do not know anything about changing the oil and most car service places try to take advantage of people (i.e. GIRLS) like me. And I am also scared to death I am going to miss the ramp things you have to drive up on and my car will crash down into the big hole. Then Doug would kill me.

So I pull my car up to the window and thankfully there is another car ahead of me so they escort me to the waiting room. I tell them I just want me oil changed and I wanted the same oil I got last time. After waiting a few minutes they call me out of the waiting room to talk to me about what they needed to do. I tell the lady again that I just want my oil changed and I have a coupon for $7 for the oil change service. She replies by telling me my air filter is dirty and she suggests that I replace it. "No thank you. Just the oil change today, please."

Then she asks if I do a lot of stop and go driving. I told her all I did was drive to work and back everyday. She suggested I get the synthetic mix oil because it was better for cars who drive mostly in the city. Well what I wanted was $30 something and what she was trying to sell me was $46. I told her no thanks and that the regular oil would do just fine.

"Well we are out of that kind of oil"

I may be a girl but I am not stupid! She was trying to up sale me so she wouldn't loose the sale because they were out of the oil I wanted. I asked her if they had already started and she said they had. They seriously thought I was stupid enough to be able to tick me into going ahead and upgrading without telling me why they really wanted me to upgrade. Why would I pay the extra money for the better oil because they were out of the basic stuff? I mean, really!

Since they had already drained my oil I made them give me discounts. I ended up paying less for the better oil than what I would have paid for the basic. Ha Ha! They should have looked up what I got last time and told me they were out before they started. I may be a girl but I am not stupid.