{"id":70279,"date":"2011-11-08T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T06:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/70279\/returning-transsport-help-request-request\/"},"modified":"2011-11-08T01:00:48","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T06:00:48","slug":"returning-transsport-help-request-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/70279\/returning-transsport-help-request-request\/","title":{"rendered":"Returning the TransSport & I Need Some Help: A Request Request"},"content":{"rendered":"

Turned in my new\/used Pontiac TransSport back to\u00a0 the dealership today for a full refund after 3 days of owning it .\u00a0 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.<\/font><\/p>\n

Showed up a little after noon to return my vehicle.\u00a0 It took them an HOUR to get me a refund check.\u00a0 Come on…\u00a0 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…”<\/font><\/p>\n

I felt belittled.<\/font><\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 I am not in that category!<\/strong> 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.\u00a0 To be written off as unworthy of being sold to, I’m offended!<\/font><\/p>\n

In any case, it’s water under the bridge.\u00a0 My indignation registered in my psyche, but I’ll just let it go.\u00a0 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.<\/font><\/p>\n

So.. Moving on.<\/strong> I want a new musical dare.\u00a0 See, some of my best videos have come not from me, but from you guys, the people who happen to read my blog & comment.\u00a0 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.<\/font><\/p>\n

What song do you like that you think would be an unlikely cover on the ukulele?\u00a0 Dare you dare me to\u00a0perform it in an unusual place?<\/font><\/p>\n

These request requests go back a few years for me.\u00a0 Here is me responding to a request\/dare to\u00a0 play “Like A Virgin” in a public place<\/font>:<\/p>\n

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Another from that time: Amazing Grace in a Church.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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A couple years ago, a request for requests of unlikely ukulele videos yielded the Kiss Off<\/strong> video, one of my favorites I’ve ever done.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Last year, a friend requested I sing “What a Wonderful World\/Over the Rainbow” in a Hawaiian Restaurant while wearing a Hula Girl outfit.\u00a0 For me, it was a mission to prove I could still be outrageous while sober.<\/font><\/p>\n

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So, tonight, I am asking for requests.\u00a0 Tomorrow, I want to make a video, but I can’t decide on a song to choose.\u00a0 Give me some suggestions, please.\u00a0 The more weird, outrageous and different, the better.\u00a0 What should I sing next?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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