Atomictumor

A woman in my class came in distressed the other day.  She claimed that her car had been stolen from her apartment’s parking lot.
Yesterday she came into class and said that she’d received a call from the cops.  Turns out it had been reposessed, not stolen.
Here’s where it gets scammy.  The dealership in question (Smoky Mountain Car Supercenter) had received her car payment only one day late when they sent out their repo guy.  When my classmate called them to ask why they towed the car, the salesman said that he’d mispelled her name on the contract and she hadn’t noticed, so they had voided it.  Hmm.
Luckily, she’d written down the VIN for the car before it got towed.  Upon looking it up, she found out that the car had four owners in this year alone.  It looks like they get their downpayment, maybe a second payment, void the contract and repo the car and start the whole process over again.
Our readers are too smart to fall for something like this, but I know you all know some suckers.  Spread the word and make sure no one gets shafted again.

OK, we all know that Food City has run Bi-Lo out of town, and is taking over their store in Manhattan Place in much the same way that insects will inject their eggs into the living bodies of other insects for them to grow in a nutritious environment. Now, I was wondering what Food City will be doing with three stores, so I figured my beloved east end would lose its store (along with damn near every other business open out here), but I learned differently after talking to a Food City spokesman (as he was putting meat out).

Turns out, Food City is closing both stores in favor of the Bi-Lo. Stay with me now. Food City has a smallish east end store, on the turnpike, and a biggish downtownish store on S. Illinois, and now the Bi-Lo. The Bi-Lo, evidently, has less square footage than the smaller east end store.

So why the hell are they doing it? Not only is the Bi-Lo smaller, its at a lousy location, with a parking lot designed by a drunk monkey that has lousy entrances and exits. The beer selection (currently as good as Krogers) will no doubt suffer with the space constraints, forcing me to either shop at Kroger, which I really don’t want to have to do, or drive way the hell out to Ingles, which I don’t want to have to do either. Grr.�