Returning the TransSport & I Need Some Help: A Request Request
Turned in my new/used Pontiac TransSport back to the dealership today for a full refund after 3 days of owning it . For letting me do that, I will give kudos to Chuck Olson Kia Chevy in Shoreline, WA, but I did feel a little dissed today, like I wasn’t a worthy client.
Showed up a little after noon to return my vehicle. It took them an HOUR to get me a refund check. Come on… Why should it take an HOUR to cut a check?? Furthermore, my salesman never came over to talk to me as I sat in the lobby couch and they didn’t even attempt to even make a token comment of “so, you’re back in the market for a car, we’d like to keep your business,” or “your $1200 refund would make a nice down payment on this such-and-such better car…”
I felt belittled.
Having been a big ticket salesman for my all of my adult working life, I recognize there are certain customers you just want to let go and not deal with anymore. I am not in that category! You sell me a car that requires as much in repairs as I paid for it, yeah, I’ll take advantage of your offer to return it. To be written off as unworthy of being sold to, I’m offended!
In any case, it’s water under the bridge. My indignation registered in my psyche, but I’ll just let it go. Neither party is any worse off (although I did turn in the TransSport with half a tank of gas that it didn’t come with), and if they wanna discharge me as a customer based on whatever assuptions they’ve made, that’s their loss.
So.. Moving on. I want a new musical dare. See, some of my best videos have come not from me, but from you guys, the people who happen to read my blog & comment. I still owe SPK a video for successfully answering a question I put in a comment about a month ago, but I am going to forget that for a sec and make a request for requests again.
What song do you like that you think would be an unlikely cover on the ukulele? Dare you dare me to perform it in an unusual place?
These request requests go back a few years for me. Here is me responding to a request/dare to play “Like A Virgin” in a public place:
Another from that time: Amazing Grace in a Church.
A couple years ago, a request for requests of unlikely ukulele videos yielded the Kiss Off video, one of my favorites I’ve ever done.
Last year, a friend requested I sing “What a Wonderful World/Over the Rainbow” in a Hawaiian Restaurant while wearing a Hula Girl outfit. For me, it was a mission to prove I could still be outrageous while sober.
So, tonight, I am asking for requests. Tomorrow, I want to make a video, but I can’t decide on a song to choose. Give me some suggestions, please. The more weird, outrageous and different, the better. What should I sing next?
How about a rousing version of
Just a thought… :groovy:
P.S….Glad you could work something out of the car….:)
Seriously though I really think it’s time for the blues to be represented on ukelele…nothing real fancy just a good old classic blues song something like this one
with a little twist thrown in…like sung outside in the worse weather you can find…..dressed in a tux,or a skindivers suit,mask….and flippers….something to jazz up the presentation a little,something to keep the listener interested….anything really.Something that will make the listener stop and say to themselves…”just what exactly is wrong with this person”……
Friggen Lemurs huh….well you asked….:)
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sing this in a vegan restaurant 🙂
you are better off with waiting on a better car…all things happen as they should….if you can pick up a saturn. Id recommend one cos Ive owned 2 and they have been very economical and reliable and the bodies are plastic!!! WOO!!!
P.S. Michael Vick is the devil. 😈
ok, how about this….
Sing “Dizzy” by Tommy Roe beside out front of one of the occupation sites or in front of a mental facility.
I’m sure the Ukelele part will be easy enough.
Good news on the refund (lots better than non action)
The stones did a song to poke fun at Nashville a ways back…not a big challenge for the Uke, but the comical/cornpone flavor would be funny to see parodied.
Here is Soul Sister – where the chorus is Wisconsin’s anthem…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVpv8-5XWOI
Do it in a transitional neighborhood. And wear something really white guy-ish, like jeans with a plain t-shirt (color of your choice). But it has to be something like blue jeans with a plain black shirt or black jeans with a green polo or something of the sort.
He-ey. Heyeyeyey. Heyeyeyeyeyey. Tonight….
seems you have plenty of suggestions. I will be in the bleachers waiting for the show. 😉
Here’s a challenge for you: Paranoid Android by Radiohead. Another one: Oh So Quiet by Bjork.
How about Song 2 (Blur)? 19 by Paul Hardcastle? 😛
Joe.
P.S. Sorry about the car. You’ll find something better…
PLEASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEE…pretty please Joko. Do your hair like him and where black and play you ukulele dancing like Elvis. I can just see you do this……it would be so cool. Pretty please with sugar on top! Don’t forget the lip thing Elvis does. 😉
I do feel the need for a song called Give Piss a Chance. Prostate enlargement is such an under glorified issue…
I think a Teen Angst song is called for.
Anything by Dickey Lee.
Recorded by Dickey Joko.
I may still do some of these requests, and I thank everyone of you making suggestions, but I really liked that ROlling Stones tune Elise suggested…
Elise, are you new here? Can’t say I remember seeing you around before. In any case, enjoy…
Take me down, Ann Coulter, Take me dowwwwwn!!!!
I don’t know if this would transfer over to ukelele or not.
Mighty penis laser at a car wash 🙂 That would be really funny. 😉
http://youtu.be/kk99KcuAG7M
Hey Joko, I’m not sure how to send you an email via your Friendburst, but I thought I’d tell you I posted a video on my Bog today.
Mom
Joko’s Mum on the toilet? This I have GOT to see. 😀
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