Mechanic Underestimates Tiny Blonde Woman, Receives Public Humiliation When He Tries to Scam Her

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Brad Dickson • Managing Editor
May 1, 2022 3:00 PM EDT

Don't judge a book by its cover. Or, how about, don't judge anyone or stereotype at all. We're all unique individuals with unique experiences to bring to the table, someone's appearance doesn't tell you much about what those experiences are. 

In this story this scammer mechanic completely underestimated his customer because he deemed her to be an easy target, expecting a small blonde woman not to know all that much about cars. The thing is, both her brother and father are mechanics and she knows a "thing or two" herself, to the extent where she had checked the basics before taking it into the shop -just to be sure.

When the mechanic came back with his "inspection results" he told her that her car was going to be "completely broken down and not safe to drive if [she] didn't get several repairs ASAP." 

She was immediately suspicious and decided to stall it out and play the game while she plotted her next move…

 

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    Font - 2 Posted by u/drunken-black-sheep 1 day ago 2 2 2 2 Mechanic tries to scam me, receives public embarrassment in return. I (26f) do not look like I would know a single thing about cars. 5′3 with long blonde hair, soft girly appearance, and an eternal baby face that makes me look about 15-16 years old. I drive a rather beat up looking 2004 Avalon. My dad and brother are both mechanics. Not my profession, but I've learned a thing or seven from them and am very comfortable working on cars. I'
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    Font - A while back, I was pretty overwhelmed with life and didn't have a good space to do it, so I took my car in to get the oil changed. The place offered a free of charge "head to toe" inspection for any repairs that might need to be made. I knew my car was fine. I had pretty recently changed the air filter and brake pads. Rotors had maybe 40k miles on them and were in great condition. New serpentine belt too. Literally just didn't feel like changing my oil. RELEVANT NOTES: Before I went to t
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    Font - After they changed my oil, the guy came back with the "inspection results" on a clip board and was holding my air filter. He had this grave look on his face like something was wrong. Mind you, this is a very busy place and there were lots of customers in the waiting room. He told me that we needed to go over the results because my car was about to be completely broken down and also not safe to drive if I didn't get several repairs done ASAP because these were all completely shot. The repa
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    Font - So I immediately start buying myself time by asking some basic questions that I knew he would have to explain so I could nod at him all wide eyed while I came up with a good way to respond to what he was doing. "What does the serpentine belt do? Is it important? Etc." I texted my dad, "I'm calling in a sec just play along." Told the guy, "omg that's so scary I can't believe I was driving around like that. Thank you so much for caring! I don't have the money so let me call my dad real quic
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    Font - The guy is standing there with me in front of all the customers. I put my phone on speaker and gave my dad a whole sob story about how I need money again I'm so sorry can he help me? He asked what the repairs were and how much. I said "idk but it sounds REALLY bad. He says that it's dangerous. Dad, I can't be without a car. What am I going to do?" Then I asked the guy to tell my dad what the repairs were. He rattles it all off and my dad is playing his part PERFECTLY. "Oh wow", "mmhmm", "
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    Font - He hands the phone back and I dropped the facade and start laughing really hard. As soon as dad hears me he started scream cackling into the phone. I said "DAD DO YOU HEAR THIS BULLSHIT?! Get this, he brought me my new air filter I just put in to show me how dirty it was. He pulled shit off the floor or something and rubbed it on there." Dad and I continue to crack up. The audience in the waiting room was also cracking up. Scammy Mechanny was beet red and completely at a loss for words. H
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    Font - I might have taken it a little far, but I REALLY hate when mechanics take advantage of people who don't know anything about cars, so this felt like a massive win. Big props to my dad for his performance, and for teaching me about cars.
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    Font - Ok-Cheetah-9125 +2 11 hr. ago I had something similar happen to me with the air filter. Guy brought out an air filter claiming it was mine and so filthy it was dangerous. I told him that wasn't my air filter. He asks me how I know and I tell him I don't have a carburetor. Dude didn't think I'd notice he brought in this big round circle and mine was a little rectangle. Still smh 20 years later 2.3k Reply Share drunken-black-sheep OP +2.11 hr. ago DUDE. That's hilarious. He at least brought
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    Font - o PRMan99 +4 • 1 day ago Make sure you document your encounter on Google reviews. 210 Reply Share its_Asteraceae_dummy 1 day ago Yes yes yes! OP, please blast this place on every review site you can. Scummy places like this NEED to know they can't get away with this. There's so many people who you could save from being scammed. Like me. I don't know anything about cars. If I was looking for a mechanic and saw this story on Yelp or Google I'd be so grateful for the warning. 53 Reply Share
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    Font - Emotional Bat_279 +1. 1 day ago You did not go too far at all, he did. He was about to scam someone out of 1,500. I wonder how many poor souls this man has scammed. That is just vile behaviour, people living paycheck to paycheck these days and rely on their cars to get to work or their kids to school. I can't imagine the mental and financial stress he has put unto others because they actually can't afford the "repairs" he brings up to them. Were you able to talk to his boss? I would've le
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    Font - O mithglin 1 day ago Yeah, been there done that. I'm a woman in my 50's and when I was in my 20's I did all of the tune ups on our truck. I was having problems pulling a spark plug. It was in an area difficult to get to. I went to our local gas station/mechanic and opened up the hood and told him I wanted that spark plug replace. He told me I needed to replace all of them and I told him I already done that. He mentioned replacing the points, spark plug wires etc... told him " I done that"
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    Font - W33MAN01 1 day ago Almost had a mechanic try that on me. I just needed new tires. The lady comes back and says "you need new brakes, rotors and shocks... That will be about $2k". So I said, thank you for the letting me know. And walked out, paying for just the tires. A couple weeks later, I checked them out myself with my dad (also mechanic) and said they are still fine. A year later, changed the brakes and a caliper (shredded one side completely) for about $500 on my own. 124 ... Reply S
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    Font - O PistolMama 1 day ago Once I went in to get my oil changed at a chain place while very obviously pregnant. The tech came back very concerned telling me I needed my coolant changed & my transmission serviced asap showed me some dirty green water and my burnt transmission fluid. I played along, got a quote with a bunch of added extras. You could just see this dude adding all the $$ in his head, I played along right up to the part where you sign off on the work to be done. Then I pulled out
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    Font - hypoxiate 1 day ago edited 1 day ago I have one of these situations going on right now. Something in my vehicle isn't properly grounded and I'm on my third PCM in three months. I finally caved in and took it to a shop with a good reputation. I wrote out all my troubleshooting steps, printed out the pinups I was working from, noted that I'd already changed the ignition switch, tested all the leads, tested certain PCM connections, yadda yadda, and they try to tell me that it's because my ba
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