So Fox was playing on the TV

[Omaha Steve]

I had to get a slow leak in a tire fixed. I walked in and sure enough, Fox was on the TV. It was running down President Biden. There was a lady sitting there watching it. When they called her to the front desk, they explained the tire she had could not be fixed. A previous patch was leaking. Then they told her both FRONT tires on her front wheel drive were under 4/32. They did say she would get ONE new tire free with the road hazard warranty she had.

She called her husband about what to do on her cell phone. After she explained it would be $350 total for the second front tire and an alignment, he started yelling loud enough for me to hear him. After several minutes he demanded to talk to the manager on her cell. It went down hill. She took the phone outside.

I rushed to the counter and asked to change the station. They gave me the remote. I switched to MSNBC. Before I left there were THREE new customers that came in to wait on work, watching MSNBC.

My tire (a nail and a stem leak) was covered by a road hazard warranty. No charge. I left smiling, feeling good about changing the channel away from Fox.

OS

[SheltieLover]

1. Good for you!

[Wounded Bear]

2. Doing good, one small step at a time...

[zuul]

3. Good job!

[Ninga]

4. ❤️

[gab13by13]

5. Who was on msnbc? Andrea Mitchell? Not much difference.

I wait for Nicolle, Chris, and Rachel. My BP is just fine with that strategy.

[Omaha Steve]

18. It was the morning crew

Talking to some Governor.

[hlthe2b]

6. How could a single tire cost $350?! Even if you factor the new warranty on the covered tire,

(usually $20), balancing and discard fees, my heavens. Not to defend a Fox-cultist, but damn.

This sounds like it might have been Discount Tires (?), which has always done well by me. In fact, when I had a flat last month, they decided to cover the second tire too because it had sidewall cracks. So to replace two warranted tires, I paid $65 and those were two expensive special snow-rated all-weather radial tires that had to be ordered from a regional warehouse.

Just saying... Maybe she was charged the a'hole premium?

[Omaha Steve]

9. It needed an alignment too

[bullwinkle428]

17. She could always turn down the alignment. The last time I had an alignment

performed, which was 25+ years ago, the car never tracked quite right after it was done. I totally understand the need for an alignment following an accident, or even something like striking a really bad pothole, but more often than not, it's a case of "the shop manager needing to make another boat payment", as the NPR "Car Talk" Magliozzi brothers liked to say!


Regarding the tire price, it is most likely a very large SUV or pickup, or some really high performance tire for something like a Corvette. I've always driven Honda sedans, and even the highest-end tires are no more than $150-160 each.

[NoMoreRepugs]

33. Maybe a run flat low profile tire? I've paid that much.

[Seinan Sensei]

50. I love Discount Tire. They always do me right.

[Demovictory9]

7. Good job

[Throck]

8. Destiny

That nail was divine intervention to put you in that store at that moment in time.

Can I have an amen?

[SunSeeker]

10. Amen. nt

[FoxNewsSucks]

11. AMEN!!!!

[FoxNewsSucks]

12. You did good

[Omaha Steve]

21. OT: Did you know?

You can get six of these stickers for $5.95 + S&H @ Zazzle.com.

[FoxNewsSucks]

46. Thanks,

I hadn't seen that. I've gotten a lot of good bumper stickers and shirts from Zazzle.

[ificandream]

13. K&R. You are a true patriot for getting that crap turned off!!

[ArizonaLib]

14. This made my week!

I will start doing the same. I am hispanic and I look it but still willing to give it as many tries as possible. Maybe is I ask 'WE were wondering if the channel could be changed'.

[lambchopp59]

48. That's a great way to approach that, and a litmus test.

Certainly if such a suggestion garners an attitude then I'm certain who I DON'T want to be doing business with.
To that end, I've been letting Loves Truck Stops know how they are offending many customers on their website:
"Many of my family are avoiding Loves truck stops because of Fox News being forced onto patrons at many locations. Forcing political propaganda onto a customer base is not a good business practice, and only becoming more offensive since the haphazard lethal falsehoods about the pandemic."
I encourage others to do so too. It's long past time we let these people know how they are offending Americans.
https://www.loves.com/en/about-us/common-contact-us

[ffr]

15. Propaganda programming ceased for even a little bit is good

TY!

[monkeyman1]

26. every body is piling on Russia , pile on fox advertising people ????

[ffr]

40. Both

????

[monkeyman1]

43. you are so right !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lagomorph777]

16. When Fux is on, assume the management are dishonest.

Honest people cannot stomach all that bullshit.

I have permanently written off tire shops for those reasons (Fux on TV AND dishonest).

[barbtries]

19. I always make an effort.

It often pays off.

[TeamProg]

20. !!!

[multigraincracker]

22. About 7 or 8 years ago I stayed at a Marriott Inn near Boston.

I got a review to fill out when I left. I gave them a high score on everything and then when I filled out the comments, I said I'd never stay at another one. Reason, they only had FOX news station on the cable.

[SpankMe]

23. Yep. Good job

There are, like, 8 TV's at my gym. A lot of the time, 2 of them are on FoxNews. If there are very few people in the gym, I'll change one to CNN and the other to some other channel. If there are more people in the gym and I see anyone looking at the FoxNews channel, I'll wait until they're away and I'll put Fox on one TV only, at the very back corner of the cardio area. And I'll verify the other 7 are on a non-Fox channel.

Lately, I've been seeing less Fox on any of the TV's when I get in. I think they know someone keeps changing TV's away from Fox and are starting to keep it down to zero or one TV only.

[EarthFirst]

24. ProTip: if you can manage; block the channel out in the menu... nt

[wryter2000]

25. That is a great day.

Free repair and turning off Faux

[iluvtennis]

27. Sweet. n/t

[Emile]

28. I keep thinking I should buy a TV-B-Gone remote. It's a keychain remote

that will shut off TV's in waiting rooms and has a range of 50 feet. I know they are small enough you can easily and discretely turn off annoying TV's playing FOX.

https://www.amazon.com/TV-B-Gone-Universal-TV-Control-Keychain/dp/B0006GD9CE?th=1

[calimary]

32. I have one! Haven't had the chance to try it out, though.

It arrived just before COVID.

[Emile]

34. Let us know if it works!

[CCExile]

36. They work. I keep one on my keychain just for Fox, etc.

[calimary]

38. That's why I got mine!

[MoriaeEncomium]

39. They DO Work!

I have something similar that I got off amazoom a while ago and it also changes the channels and mutes.
Memorize the controls and keep it in your pocket. Act really inconspicuous, like you don't even realize there's a
TV in the room. Screw with them hard. I dare you not to bust out laughing. Endless fun.

[Emile]

41. LOL +1. That does sound like fun.

[Evolve Dammit]

29. Been there many times, coincidentally at car dealerships. Change the channel or I will. One was

mounted 8 feet on the wall (FL) and I couldn't do anything. Aaaarrrgghh.

[OMGWTF]

30. About 15 years ago I stayed at a nice hotel in Orange, CA

The TV in the room automatically reset to Fux News every time I turned it on and of course, they had Fux playing in the breakfast room. I wrote them a letter complaining about having to swallow lies along with my scrambled eggs, but I'm sure nothing's changed.

[calimary]

31. I've done that before. In all cases but one, I got immediate agreement and compliance.

I always ask nicely and politely.

There was only one time - at a restaurant near the Camarillo airport, where the hostess told me, in kind of a chagrinned manner, that the owner mandated that the big screen ALWAYS be tuned to Pox Noise (although the owner didn't refer to it that way!), so they dared not change the channel.

That told me something: that either

1) they've had this request before, from customers,
or
2) the staff hates it but realizes if they wanna keep working there, they have to grin 'n' bear it.

EITHER WAY, it's good intel. I doubt the owner would have laid down that dictate if the subject hadn't already come up somehow, somewhere, from someone(s).

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

35. I simply don't get why there ever needs to be a TV in a waiting room.

The vast majority of people have cell phones that they amuse themselves with. I always have a book or two with me and I read.

[murielm99]

37. Same here.

Recently, I had to get a new everyday handbag. I made sure it was big enough to accommodate a book. I never leave home without one.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

45. Same here.

A purse absolutely needs to be large enough to hold a book. There's no telling when you'll have to wait around for something.

[Rebl2]

42. I noticed

a couple of years ago a place I go to to get lab work and x-rays quit showing news channels. They show food network, hgtv, history channel, anything but news. Was so happy to see this.

[SMoss]

44. How to kill Fox Noise TV in public places

Buy a small device TV B Gone. I kill Fox Noise in airports, waiting rooms, and lounges everywhere. No on knows what happened. Around $20.

[timvrip]

47. Yep

Fantastic device!

[brewens]

49. I almost got caught putting a parent lock on FOX "News" at our Eagles lodge. I was a trustee and we

had just bought a nice new big screen TV. This was about 15 years ago.

Right after we got the TV I was in the lounge as the bar manager was setting up to open and was almost finished when a couple of the other guys came in and I had to back out before they saw what I was up to. I was just entering my password. 30 more seconds and I would have had it!

[LakeArenal]

51. Why wait? We've just asked to change the channel.

Or turn it off. They always have for me.

[Omaha Steve]

52. They lady was sitting there watching it when I came in

She was there first, so I waited. It wasn't long before she got up to talk about what she needed. That was when I got the channel changed.

[LakeArenal]

53. Nice. You have to wait for the first. But we have asked if they cared if we changed.

[Warpy]

54. If businesses around here have TV in a waiting area

it's either CNN or a non news channel. Pep Boys had the Science Channel on the last time I went there. The local bank branch has CNN with closed captioning and the sound off, so my blind ass can ignore it completely.

MSNBC might be a shock to the systems of regular Pox viewers. I'd most likely have changed it to CNN so the TV had a shot at staying off Pox for a longer period. Just sayin;, MSNBC has fact checkers but the language is still loaded.