SEVENTEEN-FIFTY!?

M got her window fixed today! She got up bright and early (before I was even up!) and took her car down to the crooked repair shop that she got her champagne shitbox from. They screwed her over on that car but she is still taking her new one to the same place. God. So, she tells me when she gets home that she got her car fixed for free! She boasts about how getting the window fixed would have cost her 1750 dollars but the shop guy told her that he would accept the champagne shitbox back as payment. So she actually saved money! Now, I know what you’re thinking. She traded a car for the ability to make her window go up and down? Yes, she did.

This is so infuriating. She actually accepted what they told her. A window regulator costs 1750? Give me a break!!! I am calling an auto shop RIGHT NOW. Ok. I just called the place that I got my car fixed at and he told me he would call me back to give me a price. I then explained to him that it is actually my friend’s car and she got it fixed elsewhere but that I was trying to prove to her that the price she paid was ridiculous. He asked me how much she paid and I told him 1750. He was SHOCKED. “SEVENTEEN-FIFTY!?! The dealer wouldn’t even charge that much!” He is calling me back with a quotation.

*update: Ok, he called me back and said this much. He said that the motor of the power window would be 500 dollars but that it is extremely unlikely that the motor would fail because they simply don’t fail. He said the absolute worst case scenario (if every single thing inside the door that controlled the window failed, which is unlikely), it would cost $1000 including labor. He said that more likely, it would be 300-500 dollars.

Anyway, after she dropped her car off at that place to get fixed, she took a cab to her day job to tell them that she wants to quit. Well, according to her, her boss wouldn’t let her quit. He told her to take the day off (wtf, she’s had like ten days off) and think about it. So, because she was too cheap to pay a cab again, she walked 36 blocks home. Then later she took another cab to the shady shop she got her car done at. 32 dollars in cab fair today. We have buses, you know.

She texted me and told me that she is on vacation for 2 weeks. I wrote back, “Um, you’re not on vacation, you’re unemployed.” She told that she still has her day job but she is taking two weeks off. And I asked her why she needed a vacation when she doesn’t go to work anyway. This is the rest of the convo that I ended up saving:

M: I am on vacay cuz I’m waiting to hear back from Starbucks. So if I get it, I can quit, and if not, well I had a nice vacation and then I can go back.
SS: Paid vacation?
M: I am still working at the gas station though. I have all graveyards for the next two weeks. And no, not paid vacation but it wasn’t optional, lol. At least I have something to back to if Starbucks doesn’t work out. (Please note that later on I asked her if she works tonight and she said, “No, not until Thursday.” So when she says “I have all graveyards for the next two weeks,” she doesn’t mean every night. She means ONE.)
SS: I don’t understand the point of you getting a second job at the gas station. Why didn’t you just work during the day at one job? You have made far less money since getting a second job.
And then she walked in the door, so she had to awkwardly answer that question in person, rather than in text. What she said was something like,
“I realized that I am not the type of person that is able to work two jobs.”

SUCCESS FOR ME.
FAILURE FOR M!

Remember back when she sent that long e-mail to S. Let me just quote it! Oh my god, I am giddy right now. She said,

“And if it does all go horribly wrong, well then everyone can say "I told you so" and I'll say "you were right". But it won't go wrong; I am going to make those payments, pay it off early ideally, and all is well.”
Guess what! I TOLD YOU SO! Stupid cow.