OMG WALMART!!

Kidsandliz went on a bit of a rant said
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So I am on my way back home. 1100+ miles. Got a flat. On the highway. Oops. Car is full up with cats in a big wire cage, an ancient old style TV mom was getting rid of with a working vhs so I took it so the 2, 4 and 5 year old can watch old VHS’s I still have, other crap she was getting rid of that I could use… can barely see out. The fake mini spare is UNDER all that crap. UNDER IT and it took me over an hour to pack it all to figure out how to make it all fit and still be able to see out the windows.

Called my insurance which has road side assistance. 110 min they said and it is 6:05pm all tire places close at 7. A tow truck pulled up while I was still on the phone with them. Helped me unload the crap and changed my tire. Told me how to find the tire places (about 8 miles). Got to the nearest at 6:45. Nope they had closed down everything as the closed at 7. Called Goodyear. They said they’d stay open late. Got there. Didn’t have a tire for my car. Either noon or 4:30 tomorrow. The other 2 places were closed. Went back to walmart to sleep in the parking lot for when they were open at 7am.

AND THEN…drum roll please… the guy who turned me away pulled up and said they’d open back up and change my tire; they didn’t think I was serious that I’d sleep in the parking lot or had no other options (had called some cheap motels, no one would take pets - someone had said earlier they’d pay for a motel room for me on my trip to my mom’s which was sweet - you know who you are if you are reading this). By then it is like 8:15pm (they closed at 7). His manager opened everything back up and they helped me empty the car a second time and helped me load it back up. WHO WOULD HAVE THUNK!!! Walmart no less.

So I am writing a thank you letter to their general manager (sending them copies so that they have them for their next performance appraisal), calling corporate to let them know how wonderful these three folks were… Who would have though. Walmart!!! (and they have internet too). Seriously cool and totally unexpected being Walmart and all with their rigid system.

Oh goat (@pooltoywolf)- blame for the tire and expense, unblame for walmart in the end and for not wrecking my rim driving on it.