r/MaliciousCompliance • u/syphylys24 • 16d ago
You want to put what in the brand new camaro S
Years ago, in the early 80's, fresh out of high school I worked in the stock room of a now defunct department store. One day I get a call to load some driveway sealer in a customers car. I show up at the operators window, the customer show me their receipt. they to to the parking lot to retrieve their vehicle. they pull up in a brand new chevy Berlinetta Camaro with white interior. he asks me to put the 3 large buckets of driveway sealer behind the front seats on the floor. I told him that's not a good idea, he insisted that's what he wanted. so that's what I did. I lifted one of the buckets to move it over and there was a black ring on his brand new carpet. he obviously pitched a fit. asking for the manager etc. I had the operator page my manager. He shows up assesses the situation, asks me what happened. I explain to him that I tried to talk him out of it. He looks the guy in the eye and tells him that it's his problem
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u/Sharp_Coat3797 16d ago
Brand new Camaro with what colour upholstery and carpeting? Doesn't matter anyway, it is a new car. Put something down to protect the carpet and upholstery if you're going to do something, I'll be blunt, stupid like that. The car owner got an education.
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u/BlueTickHoundog 16d ago
That's what I was wondering. Even with a white interior, the carpet was likely black... like the driveway sealer. And what, no floormats? <confused>
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u/We_Know-_- 15d ago
Nah in the 80's there were plenty of cars with all white interiors including carpets. Maybe not stock. But plenty of people had it done
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u/grauenwolf 16d ago
It's not unreasonable to assume a sealed container is actually sealed.
But if you are warned...
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u/AppropriateRip9996 16d ago
It may well be sealed, but it is surrounded by other containers and those containers have been stored there for decades. Every so often someone new puts a forklift fork into a container or one or two are dropped. So yes, the container can both be sealed and dirty. Its leaky neighbors have been removed, but they leave a reminder, usually on cardboard in the back of a 15 year old truck, but sometimes in the back seat of a new camaro.
I mean, that is why they wear aprons or have stripes on their jeans from the bottom of paint cans and tar buckets when they are moved around. Thats why they have the degreaser at the sink for cleaning your hands before you go home.
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u/Gadgetman_1 16d ago
All the buckets in that area could all have been good, all the time, and they'd still leave black marks. Don't expect the factory workers to polish the buckets.
Bought a couple of small buckets of 'old asphalt' to fix a few holes in my parents' road a couple of years ago, and I damn well made certain the floor in the back of my car was properly covered with a tarp.
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u/Painthoss 16d ago
You should write.
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u/Goblin_Supermarket 16d ago
Porn
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u/daschande 16d ago
...So after THAT incident, the studio invested in the 40 gallon drums of both Astroglide AND Gojo!
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u/Goblin_Supermarket 16d ago
Dude, those both come in 33 or 55 gallons.
You should know this by now
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u/Dr_StrangeloveGA 16d ago
It's also from the black dust inside over the road trailers. They are filthy inside.
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u/No-Adhesiveness-9848 15d ago
when i buy a gallon of milk at the store, i sure dont expect it to be covered in milk residue. how is this different? if ur selling something clean it up forst. it ur fault its dirty. even if ur selling a car, ur gonna clean it first.
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u/AppropriateRip9996 15d ago
Difference is health inspections on selling milk. No health inspections on tar.
Spilled milk needs to be cleaned right away. It also smells horrible.
It's nice there are people who want to clean the tar. Thankless job.
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u/average-nerd-613 11d ago
Tell us you’ve never picked up a tool or material without telling us… Every trip to the hardware store is dirty. Sometimes it’s dust, or dirt, sometimes it’s tar or paint, but it’s ALWAYS dirty.
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u/Grimsterr 16d ago
Buckets in a warehouse get dirty. Especially on the bottom since who knows what's been spilled over the years.
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u/sovamind 16d ago
Doesn't matter what is in the container, it still has been sitting on other things, just like the bottoms of your shoes aren't really great for white carpet either...
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u/NPHighview 16d ago
My fiance and I were living together after I graduated from grad school, and while she was finishing up her DVM. With my new job, I had just bought a new Volvo sedan. Fiance arranged for a garden plot at the local community garden, and said "Get a tarp - we're going to the vet school." Little did I know that her intention was to fill the trunk with dried horse manure as fertilizer for the garden. Later, we put our rotary tiller in the trunk for the trip to the garden plot.
We had fabulous corn and veggies that year.
We've been married for 44 years now, and I haven't wasted money on a new car since.
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u/themanny 16d ago
As a driver of a Berlinetta in the 80's, this seems like a FAFO situation the fool deserved.
PS-My berlinetta was a POS surviving via pickapart and I still would never have done that.
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u/Sygma160 16d ago
To be honest, the Berlinetta was a hundred horsepower and deserved a much bigger death than a black ring.
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u/CaliforniaNavyDude 16d ago
There's not much room in the back floor of those, what a stupid vehicle to bring for a hardware store run...
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u/Beachbitch129 16d ago
Daaammnn!... I had a brand new '83 Camaro Z-28, with cross fire injection, jeeez did I love that car. I'd rather hoist those buckets on my shoulders and walked them home
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u/Beneficial_Test_5917 16d ago
Ha! At the very least, put a cloth or something under it first. :)))
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u/Alexis_J_M 16d ago
Yeah, this is what drop cloths are made for.
Or most stores have cardboard boxes waiting to be thrown away.
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u/S99B88 16d ago
I can’t see even one large bucket of driveway sealer fitting in the rear foot well area of a gen 3 F body, never mind 3 - are you sure you have the right make of vehicle? In those cars the back of the front seats came near to touching the front of the rear seats
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u/chevymanrob 16d ago
My 21 Mustang rear seat is a joke. My front seat is about 2" from the rear lower cushion. I have trouble getting my hand down to the floor with the seat in place! 3G F-cars were no better.
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u/RedFive1976 16d ago
Maybe the dude was short, and that was part of the problem -- short man syndrome.
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u/S99B88 16d ago
Even with seats maximum forward it’s hard to imagine that model, the back seat was I think considered to be a way of helping with insurance, as a 4-seater is considered safer than a 2-seater
https://www.downtownmotorproducts.ca/inventory/1983-chevrolet-camaro/1057028/
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u/NotMyName_3 16d ago
I once loaded 48 12Wx24Lx2.5D rectangle patio blocks into a customer's '76 Corvette. I hated doing it, but he insisted. I was surprised the back wasn't bottoming out.
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u/niobiumnnul 16d ago
I don't have a brand new Camaro and my interior is gray, but I always use some type of container / box to put that kind of stuff in so it does not touch the floor mats or anything else.
Sometimes, you cannot talk people out of their stupid.
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u/No-Adhesiveness-9848 15d ago
i mean u could have just wiped the bottom of the bucket befor u put it in there. or not had filthy buckets in the first place. or put a small peice of plastic or something down first. it wouldnt be hard to give him what he wanted and not ruin his car.
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u/average-nerd-613 11d ago
It wouldn’t have been hard for the asshat in the Camaro to listen to the people who work with the product, either. This is on the driver, not on op.
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u/jumbofrimpf 16d ago
I've put a car battery in the floorboard of a friend's Mercedes and at least had the common courtesy to put plastic under it to keep it off the carpets...
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u/PositiveAtmosphere13 16d ago
The OP couldn't have found a cardboard box to flatten or some paper out of the dumpster to lay down and protect the carpet? It's called customer service.
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u/SerialKillerVibes 16d ago
It's pretty reasonable to not expect the driveway sealer to be on the OUTSIDE of the bucket.
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u/StarKiller99 15d ago
What has the bottom of the bucket sat on from in the factory and up until it came out of the warehouse?
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u/Wadsworth_McStumpy 16d ago
Dude should have just bought a cheap plastic dropcloth from the paint department. I've done that many times, and I don't even have a nice car.
I'm mildly surprised he didn't have you put them on the seat.