Tales From Dishonest Used Car Dealership

Thanks. Thanks a lot. Good thing today is Saturday or I would be so far behind by now......nukkaheds.

"Every conversation with (the IT guy) was like standing on a playground slide. At the top was incompetence; at the bottom, insanity. You just had to try and push the conversation upwards hard enough lest you slide downwards into madness. Eventually, gravity would always win."

Took me a while to place it but the writing style reminds me of the BOFH stories. Which is to say amazing.

The0retical wrote: Took me a while to place it but the writing style reminds me of the BOFH stories. Which is to say amazing.

Writing reminded me of tales of one "N. Fogger Jr.".

Just finished the last of them. Disappointed that the follow-on series on Dishonest Exotic Car Dealership appears not to have started yet.

Love 36055512's writing style, very relatable.

Zomby Woof wrote: I just can't read that Reddit stuff. The format looks like it's from the early days of the internet

Ah, so it's not just me! I mean, I don't need flashy graphics. But I need some sort of...flow.

This is the best thing I've read in weeks.

Just read both parts of The Fire. Did not expect the feels trip at the end.

In reply to Chadeux:

Somehow I knew when he examined the photo early on in the story that there would be a sad part. That was the only one that didn't leave me chuckling.

In reply to EastCoastMojo:

I mean, I saw it coming, but I still wasn't prepared.

I think I know what dealership it was...

Hm. Was trying to place the dealership and figured it had to be PNW.

Uh that bored me. In all of thirty seconds. Sorry.

Oh my god, I thought I had read through all of them just clicking the links at the end of each story, BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE! Oh glorious day, which will now surely be wasted

In reply to Furious_E:

How do you find the rest of them? I too thought they ended when the links ended.

In reply to Pete Gossett:

There's another link, it's all of the guy's posts, which as far as I can tell are just these stories.

In reply to Chadeux:

Ah, cool!

Thank you! I immensely enjoyed those. I'd love to find out what stealership that was. I assume from his username that it was on the Seattle area.

This has been a really good use of my time.

The0retical wrote: Took me a while to place it but the writing style reminds me of the BOFH stories. Which is to say amazing.

BOFH is my hero.

"I only have 4 megabytes of space, I need more!"
"click click Okay you now have 4 megs of free space."
"So I have 8 megs now? Thanks!"
"No, you have four..."

I used to worry that the Bastard Operator From Hell saga would be less understandable as time went on. Centrally located time/space-share computing with dumb terminals? Nobody does that anymore! But now the trend is to dumb computers and putting all the processing and data storage on "The Cloud" and oh it looks like the pendulum has swung back to the pre-1990s again.

In reply to Knurled:

A smartwatch is just a dumb terminal for your phone.

Javelin wrote: I think I know what dealership it was...

I dont know about the specific dealership but the "360" part of his name and his mention of "the other side of the mountains" gave me a very Washington feel to things.

note: 360 555 1212 would have been "information" for parts of Washington state

In reply to Hungary Bill:

He was definitely in Seattle. I think Nashco may have even bought parts from him for his electric car.

Daaaaaaaaaaang! Small world.