A feel good story? Well not exactly!

Went to pick up the wife's car from the dealership.... and 2.5 hours later was home without the car!

So we wake up about an hour early to get everything done so we could get to the Dealership repair shop when it opened at 7:30. Generally if there is no traffic, the one way trip is about 25 minutes or so. Today it was about 40 which considering it was the start of rush hour wasn't so bad.

To backtrack a bit. The dealership was not able to provide a loaner for whatever reasons, so I had to drive with her yesterday to drop off and then drive with her today to pick up.

Anyways, we go there not too terribly behind schedule, which was about 7:40 rather than 7:30. No biggie. Wife says, hang for a few to make sure I get my car. Five minutes goes by. Ten minutes. Fifteen. Finally I go in to talk to her, and she has no clue. Can they not find the car? Why is it taking so long? Finally the driver comes back without a car and says they cannot "unlock it" and are looking for a new battery for the FOB.

So they find the battery for the FOB, but it doesn't work. Turns out the car battery itself had gotten completely drained to nothing. They say it looks like someone messed with the FOB buttons and the car was "looking" for the FOB since the repair was done and drained the battery. Well they now have to charge the battery and make sure nothing else is wrong and so they will now give her a loaner.

Only the I-pad they are using keeps erroring out as they try to get the loaner agreement completed. Three different times she hands her insurance information and still it doesn't work. They are told they need to get a hard copy from sales to create the paperwork. 15 minutes later she has a car.

Now it's rush hour and I am getting back on Hwy 5 to go home and the left hand turn lane taking us to the freeway on ramp is backed up. Every time the left hand turn light goes green, one or two cars make it through and in some cases no cars make it through. Once I am up there I see that they have the on ramp closed with cones and a cop car blocking it. 20 minutes or so later, I am right where I would get on the ramp and I see the cop go pick up the cones and I see a tow truck coming up the ramp with the car that was obviously causing the issue. So this cool. I will just wait the 2 minutes for the two truck to come up and jump right in.

Nope the cop waves the car in front of me, me, and the car behind me to keep going. He waves rather aggressively. I think he was seconds away from pulling his gun! Then about a minute or so later I see the car two behind me (who was not waved past) able to use the lane and get on the freeway. I was still 20 minutes or so from that next entrance which is only 3 blocks away and about 10 feet from where I could have gotten on the ramp.

Needless to say I was late to get home and start work and we still have not gotten confirmation from the dealership that our car is done. How is that for a great start to a day!