{"id":14132,"date":"2018-07-26T21:21:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T19:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=14132"},"modified":"2018-07-26T22:44:55","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T20:44:55","slug":"s-is-for-slippery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/s-is-for-slippery\/","title":{"rendered":"‘S’ is for Slippery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s an update on my last posting about the problems I’ve been having after my car’s engine expired near Paris back on 25 June. I’d agreed terms with Pascal, a breakdown recovery contractor, to uplift it from the garage where it’s been ever since and bring it back down to the Dordogne where I can arrange for the repair to be diagnosed and carried out by a trusted mechanic.<\/p>\n

I didn’t want to raise the question of a release fee with the garage as that would have been an open invitation for them to make up a figure and quote me, so I was keeping my fingers crossed that if the subject was raised when Pascal arrived to take the vehicle away, any amount quoted would not be extortionate. In that case, Pascal said that he would pick it up for me to reimburse him when he arrived with the vehicle.<\/p>\n

As it happens, Pascal phoned the garage a couple of days ago and then contacted me to say that they’d quoted a figure to him of 60\u20ac, which I was quite happy with and told him to go ahead and pay it on the day. Shortly afterwards I myself received a telephone call from the garage and said that OK, 60\u20ac was OK by me, to which the reply was, ‘No, no, the amount is 90\u20ac!’<\/p>\n

So what I can only interpret as the garage’s deviousness has continued right to the very end of the sorry saga. I had no choice but to agree to the charge in order to bring matters to an end and contacted Pascal to tell him that he should go ahead and pay it. In reply, he said that he’d be able to pick my car up today and earlier on I received the following picture by SMS.<\/p>\n

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So at last I’ve managed to extract my car from the garage’s hands and I think that it could have been worse. The name of the garage is Point S in Villeneuve la Garenne and during my dealings with them, I have come to the conclusion that ‘S’ stands for slippery. However, on second thoughts, maybe they should change their name to Point G, because the French for slippery is ‘glissant’ \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

I’m now just looking forward to my car arriving back with me on Monday and can only hope that that will be the start of bringing what I think can only be described as an unedifying story to an end. At least I hope so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s an update on my last posting about the problems I’ve been having after my car’s engine expired near Paris back on 25 June. I’d agreed terms with Pascal, a breakdown recovery contractor, to uplift it from the garage where it’s been ever since and bring it back down to the Dordogne where I can … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14132"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14138,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14132\/revisions\/14138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}