What price honesty?

(Or carelessness?) Well, in my case it runs about 84 bucks. The lady whose borrowed truck's taillight I smashed on Saturday called Tuesday and left a message on the machine detailing the prices she had gotten for a Nissan RT-RR taillamp assembly, ranging from $84.24 up to $120-something. Yikes. That sure was an expensive load of rock.

Anyway, I forgot all about calling her yesterday until after I got home, so she probably thought I had ditched her, but I left a message on her voice mail yesterday, along with my work number. Just got off the phone with her after figuring out where to send the check. Turns out it was her dad's truck, and he's going to replace the light himself. "I didn't want you to think I was getting prices for installation, too," she said. It would have been okay if she did--it was, after all, my own inattention that made it happen. (Obviously, Litigious-Americans would have found a way to blame ANYone else: the shopping center--for not making the parking lot level; Home Depot--for not having a trained attendant escort to safely guide my purchases to the vehicle; the cart maker--for not having brakes on their trundles, and for building something that was prone to unintended gravitational acceleration; Nissan--for making substandard taillight lenses; and the woman herself--for contributory negligence in parking where she would be most likely to be damaged by gravity.)

Anyway, I suppose 84 dollars ain't so bad.
posted by Terry at 9:33:00 AM