An honest mechanic?

Dateline should hire me as an investigator.....I took the van to Midas yesterday am to get the brakes checked. Mark thought they were squeaking and last time we waited too long and it ended up costing us major $. So I was waiting in the lobby of Midas and the guy comes out smiling. (One has to wonder if this is a good smile, bad smile and for whom). He said my brakes were fine. He went on to explain that if I had money to burn, he'd be glad to put ceramic brake pads on it. He gave me a crash course in Brakes 101---then vs. now and why this squeak was not the "bad squeak". I was so delighted because: 1. We didn't have to invest in new brakes 2. The guy didn't tell me I needed them when I didn't. 3. He didn't make me feel like "dumb woman in the mechanics shop." (even tho I am--lol) As he was rotating the tires--for free, the other guy gave me the lowdown on when to have them checked again etc.... It was so refreshing to find some honest mechanics, I gushed over them a bit because they didn't charge me anything. I must have spent 30 min. there---they did say they take banana bread as payment. I had offered to make some knowing that I had dead bananas on the counter at home....So I whipped up a batch--had some warm for the girls when they came home and took them a warm loaf too. The guys told me that they try to treat people honestly so they will return as customers. I told them that I would never have known if I needed new brakes or not (they had me over a barrel), but because they were honest this time, then I would return.....Kind of a "feel good story" of the week.

Too bad the administrators of Indep Pub Schools don't have a similar philosophy---treat your workers right and you'll get better/more work from them. Better work policies help those who need it such as---principals, secretaries and STUDENTS---argh. As you might gather, M is still "in the trenches" trying to get his work done in spite of the uppers who can't see "the big picture" of how technology helps at every level...We can only wonder how long the Lord is going to leave us here in the desert. :)

All for now. It's Wednesday and always a rush to get everything done before supper and church.