A Mess of Her Own Making
We let a client of ours borrow a luxury car, and my boss asked me to call her the following day and ask her to return it by the weekend. She said she would, after complaining that the tank was only half full.
Weekend rolls around and she doesn’t bring the car back. I call several times over the next couple of weeks, and eventually she calls back.
She yells at me over the phone, “I have people coming to trim the trees in my front yard and your car is in their way! Get over here and pick up your car NOW!” I asked her why she hadn’t returned the vehicle to us a couple weeks ago like she promised.
She said, “I decided to take a vacation instead,” as if it was the most rational reason in the world to keep someone’s car for nearly 3 weeks. I asked her to drive the car back to our company, and she refused. “GET OVER HERE AND PICK THIS CAR UP NOW!!!”
I told her the soonest I could make it there was in a couple of hours, but it must have sounded like, “I’m going to end your family and your cat” because she got even more upset. “I’M PAYING THESE TREE TRIMMERS BY THE HOUR AND YOUR CAR IS IN THEIR WAY!!!!!!!”
So a couple of hours later I show up to bring back the car and wouldn’t you know it, she drained the battery. She wasn’t at home when I got there, but when she called me upon her return she, of course, was not happy.
“WHY IS THIS CAR STILL HERE!?!?!?” I explained the battery was dead, and I had called a tow service. They would be there in 3 hours. She screamed back that 3 hours was unacceptable and demanded I call every local tow company, but to use another phone because she wants to listen to make sure I do.
At that point I told her it seems I’m not able to help, and she can go ahead and contact my boss. Story credit: Reddit / mini-you