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Friday, March 20, 2009

Silverman / The Economy Is the Economy So Bad You'd Endure a Hard-Sell Pitch for a Free Oil Change?

Posted by Jack Silverman on Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 8:45 AM

So I'm surfing the Interweb last night and I come across this newly posted video ad for Downtown Nashville Nissan. As the extremely incredibly preternaturally perky and animated Jolene explains, you can get a complimentary oil change and tire rotation just for test-driving a car. Well wouldn't you know it, I'm due for an oil change, and I've personally felt the pinch brought on by our current economic meltdown. Not to mention, the new Tennessee unemployment figure (9.1%, as Pete Kotz noted earlier) doesn't exactly have me brimming with optimism for the immediate future. So here's what I want to know:
  1. Is a free lube job (no wisecracks from the peanut gallery, please) worth enduring the auto hard-sell?
  2. How long do you think it would take to get out of there?
  3. Is it disingenuous to take them up on the offer even though I'm not in the market?
  4. And what are the odds that, though I haven't the slightest intention of buying a new car, I'd somehow fall prey to their guile and walk out with a new 350Z Roadster to help assuage my middle-age malaise?
  5. Anyone else here tempted?

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Jolene scares the crap out of me.
No way your getting out of there in under an hour and a half. Plus its right across the Interstate from the Sewage treatment plant. Stinky.
Nissan no longer makes the 350z. Say hello to the 370z. http://www.leftlanenews.com/nissan-370z.html
If you really need an oil change, I can do it. Just bring me the right oil & filter.

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Posted by TobintheGnome on March 20, 2009 at 9:08 AM

Yes, Jolene is really, uh, something.
Tobin, here are my questions:
1. If I have you change my oil, how long will I have to endure your company for?
2. Will I be subject to a lengthy verbal defense of second amendment rights?
3. Will I have to listen to indie rock of questionable nature?
4. Will my only dining options be Prince's Hot Chicken or East Side Fish?
5. Will my car actually run when you are finished?

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Posted by Jack on March 20, 2009 at 9:38 AM

1) About an hour.
2) No, but you can always walk over the East Side Gun Shop and chat with Bill.
3) No stereo in the garage, sorry.
4) You forgot Bailey & Cato.
5) Yes?

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Posted by TobintheGnome on March 20, 2009 at 1:50 PM
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