10/09/2026
Today’s chapter of Bloomwoods story is being called “The Jeep appointment that wasn’t an appointment” 🤦🏻♀️
The plan was simple. Take my Jeep about 40 minutes down the road for an appointment I made THREE WEEKS ago. New key fob programmed (I lost my original one that’s a story in itself), get an oil change, and have them listen to the fan that sounds like it’s running high while they already had it in the shop.
Easy, right?
We dropped the Jeep off early this morning and headed back to Newport. After volunteering at Bread Basket, doing some errands, and a whole lot of driving around all while grandbaby was in tow, it was suddenly late afternoon and we realized we still hadn’t heard anything about the Jeep.
We tried calling. Couldn’t get anybody.
Since we were already nearby, we went back to the dealership.
….. And there sat my Jeep.
Exactly where we had left it 7 hours ago!
Apparently, according to them, my three-week-old “appointment” was actually just an appointment to DROP OFF the Jeep. Whether they actually had time to work on it that day was apparently a completely different matter.
Which is interesting because that morning they had asked if we wanted to wait for it or leave it.
At that point I was done. 😡
John went inside and told them we wanted the Jeep back. Forget the oil change. Forget the fan. Forget everything. We weren’t leaving it there for days waiting for them to maybe get around to it. And btw give us the key fob we already paid for. Now I’m needing to figure out who can program this thing for me.
Oh, and somewhere in all of this, my WeatherTech bug guard cracked and flew off my Jeep on the highway. 🤦🏻♀️
Because apparently the Jeep Quest needed one final plot twist.
Did I accomplish anything on the property today?
Absolutely not.
Tomorrow, the woodland can have me back because the outside world at times annoys the crap outta me.
