I'm in the market for a different vehicle and today I stopped into a dealership here in Caribou (No local Mensa chapter within 250 miles) and when I went into the building the conversation was beyond stupid.
Okay, I'll see that, and raise it with this:
I was wandering around the dealership where I get my car worked on while I waited, when I was approached by a salesman.
Salesman: Are you interested in a new car?
Me: No, I'm just waiting while I get mine repaired... but I would like to know what the trade-in value is, for future planning.
Salesman begins to gather information, asks what car I'm interested in, I repeat that I'm only getting information.
Time passes... my car repair is completed, and I go back to the service desk for my keys... where they tell me, to my shock, that the salesman has them. So I go looking for the salesman and ask for my keys...
Me: Where's my car?
Salesman: (pulls out paperwork) Well, your trade-in is worth $X... minus the cost of repairs, so that brings it to $Y
Me: I paid for the repair. I want to leave now. The service desk says you have my keys.
Salesman: I thought you wanted to buy the newer version, so I took your car to the used car lot.
Me: I
told you I didn't want to buy a car, that I just wanted information for planning purposes. Can I have it back now?
Salesman: But... I thought you wanted a new car...
Me: Like I said - I wanted information. I didn't give you permission to
touch my car - now go get it before I find your supervisor.
Salesman scrams and comes back with my car... I guess he thought a single female alone in a dealership was an easy mark.
When we left from the bank, my son asked me, "Is that guy for real? Are there people that are actually this stupid?" I replied, "I guess being at a bank with a job counting money, intelligence is not a requirement."
Y'think? Some years ago, a friend of mine was temporarily working out of state, and left me his account numbers, because his company did not have direct deposit, and there were no branches of his bank where he was - so he mailed his paychecks to me, and I deposited them for him.
One day, I took his check to the drive-through, wrote the account number and "for deposit only" on it, and sent it through the vacuum tube - no signature, no ID. His check came back in cash.... when I asked why, it was because I hadn't included a deposit slip... so I filled out a deposit slip and sent it back. Then I called him and told him what had happened so he could make sure it had been credited properly. At his request, I called the bank and spoke to the manager... and had to have my friend call the manager himself, because when I explained the situation, the manager told me that he couldn't confirm the deposit because I wasn't the account holder - which he only knew (my friend's first name is Kerry, which could be male or female) because I had told him the entire story!