Fisky's Blog

Guys,

Writing to you to get something off my chest. 

I brought my car into Service (2001 Lancer Evo) at your New Market branch to get checked out. It was making a knocking noise from the right front and I didn’t have access to the tools or equipment to sort it out myself. 

When I dropped it in I explained it was a suspension noise, originating either from one of the arms, sway bar or strut and was obvious when driving low speed over uneven ground. 

Your guys had it from the 17th of August to the 1st of September and didn’t find any issues with the car. The first week you had it, you didn’t even take it for a road test saying that it didn’t have enough petrol in it. If somebody had called me, I could have saved you the trouble and popped down to fill it up for you. But no, you just let it sit there for 4 days until I called to see how you were going. That dealt with the guys then tried a few things over the following week, but the problem wasn’t apparent. Fair enough, these things happen. For some reason the noise it was making went away while you had it. 

So I took the car back and a week later the noise came back again. So I brought it back in. I took the service foreman out for a quick drive so he could hear the noise. Which he did. He thought it could be the C.V joints. I told him I didn’t think so because the noise didn’t increase with the speed of the car. But he seemed sure. I organised to have the car dropped back in again. 

You had it from the 22nd of September to the 8th of October. In this time, you decided to take the C.V out from the right front and swap it for the left front to see if that isolated the knocking noise. Which it didn’t. This took some time. We discussed this over the phone before you did it and I said for the second time that I didn’t think it was the right thing to do. And what do you know? It didn’t work.

Then miraculously on the 28th of September, you found the problem. The ball joints on the lower suspension arms were buggered. You dropped some lubricant in them and the knocking noise went away. I am not sure how this was overlooked for so long. When the car was parked and rocked back and forth in place, you could hear a knocking noise. I am not sure why it took so long to find. 

But then worse, once the issue was found and rectified it then took me a further 8 days to get my car back, which I picked up on the 8th of October. 

So at the end of the experience, I was left with 2 bills. $213.00 and $439.00. Both of which I paid because at the time I was in too much of a hurry to argue. 

I not once received a phone call from you or your staff about anything. I had to chase you at every point. And every time I rang (2-3 times a week over 5 weeks). It was like I was a total stranger. “Who are you? What was your car? What do we have it for? No, not ringing any bells…”. It was incredibly frustrating and showed the complete lack of care on your staff’s part. I was talking to this dude 3 times a week but he doesn’t recognize me from a bar of soap? And seriously, if I hadn’t called, my car would still be in your garage, gathering dust. 

The most frustrating thing of it all was the blind ignorance at which they went about the repair. I don’t know if it’s because all you guys do is fit window wipers and change oil filters all day, but seriously, this wasn’t a hard issue to solve. And whenever I talked to the guys behind the counter about it, they just switched off, like they were listening to some old lady with no car knowledge trying to describe the problem. I crewed for a NZ rally team for 3 seasons on evo 3’s, 6’s and 8’s. I worked myself through uni at a Pitstop garage. I know a little about cars. The C.V joint call was stupid.

The best part was that you guys had the car so long, the license lapsed and I got a $200 ticket for an expired registration while it was parked on Friday afternoon. Not really your fault. But yeah. 

So all in all a pretty bitter experience. I brought it to you guys thinking, big name shop, they will take care of the car. What a joke!
Never again. 

So if you have seen Inception, you will be wondering this. Or maybe you wont. Maybe you just think Cobb (Decaprio) was like - Meh, my kids are what is important and I will take them in whatever reality I can get.

But if you are wondering what happened at the end, if he was awake or still dreaming, here is how it plays out.

If you think of the first class area in the plane as ‘reality’ then the levels are as follows:

1. Level Zero: Plane
2. Level One: Back of the Van
3. Level Two: Hotel Room
4. Level Three: Snow outpost
5. Level Four: Crazy subconcious wasteland

If people die in level 3 - they go to level 4. They dont wake up. They cant get kicked out of level 4 because they’re in too deep. So you have to wait for the drugs to wear off.

But each level magnifies the length of time by 20.

So 10 hours on the plane =
8 Days in the back of the van =
24 Weeks in the hotel room =
3.7 Years on the snow outpost =
76 Years in Crazy Land.

This is why they went to so much trouble to do the Synhronised Kick. Because If they hadn’t - they would all get stuck in there for a life time.

So Cobb either waited it out in Crazy Land and woke on the plane naturally - meaning he was mentally ~70 years older than when he went in as the asian guy definitely looked.

Or the asian guy shot him in Crazy Land and he switched to dreaming about being with his kids. Which is the more likely event.

There are obviously massive holes in the story. Like for example, in the first version of the Old Asian Guy dream (Start of the movie), the dream was created by the long haired architect on the plane. In the second version, they were dreaming about the same place but the same people weren’t involved in creating the environment.

Additionally, when Robert Fisher is shot by Mal, what makes it possible for Cobb to follow Robert into Mal’s 4th Level of Craziness? And why is the Old Asian Guy so much older than Cobb when Cobb finally arrives?

Also - all this is based on you assuming that the place Cobb thought was real, actually was real and not a dream itself. Because if Mal was actually correct when she jumped from the Hotel, they were already in a Dream to begin with.

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There’s an English man, Irish man and a Scotsman. They’re being chased by a policeman. They see this old warehouse so they run in.

Inside there are 3 empty sacks on the floor. They each jump in a sack. In comes the copper and see’s these three bundles on the floor. Goes up to the first one and kicks it.

The English man shout out, “Woof Woof”, and the copper thinking it’s just an old dog leaves it and kicks the second sack.

The Scotsman yells out, “Me-ow me-ow”, he leaves this one as well thinking its just an old cat.

He walks over to the last sack and kicks it, and the Irish man yells out.. “Potatoes Potatoes..!”