Life’s little irritations #1
There are some things that don’t necessarily spoil your day but are just irritating.
They often seem to be inevitable despite efforts made avoid them.
Today’s irritation is the little extra charges that crop up even though you have agreed a price for a product or service.
Just about every time I rent a car there is an extra tax, fee, insurance option. When I use hotels they want a bit more money for local phone calls that I won’t make.
The latest irritation was a fee for checking my car’s paint and body work when I took it in for service. It was a small fee and “optional” but I felt obliged to pay for it lest I have warranty queries in the future and my refusal is held up against me.
In the past such an inspection has been part of the service, not an extra.
Generally the garage did a good job so far as I can tell, but that was an irritation and cost them some points when they called through today with the courtesy call (which might be the subject of future irritations!).
