I replied in an earlier thread, but after hearing all your replies I was able to relate because not only did I experience firsthand your problems, but also caregivers constantly visited my senior center office looking for advice and services. So here we go: 1. The most difficult time in your life is the transition from being a child to becoming the parent. It's very difficult and heartbreaking. 2. As people get older they become less interested in activities they once enjoyed because they're just plain tired. As memory fades, they'll talk about the past. Don't fight it. My brother had Alzheimer's, and every time we visited he told us he had just come back from cutting firewood in the woods. Rather than correct him, we continued his conversation about this and he was quite pleased. Get a recorder, as mentioned above, and get as much family history as you can while the person still recalls more vividly past events. Be more accepting of their declining limits. If they just want to sit there and watch TV, let them. Try some simple chair exercises. One that helps keep legs strong is quite simple. Just sit in a chair and lift each leg. This builds the upper front thigh muscle and is one of the first exercises they have you do in physical therapy after a lengthy bedridden stay in a hospital. Also, most senior centers office similar programs just to keep people moving. Be nice to yourself. Take a break. Hire an older person who could more easily relate and also "babysit" for you so you can go out and have a few hours to yourself. If you don't, you will come to resent your caregiving. Also, there are people who would be willing to stay overnight to give you an entire weekend of freedom. Do it! And lastly, don't feel guilty if you're nice to yourself or occasionally lose patience. You're only human. Consider a day or two per week in an Adult Day Care program. Simply being among their peers can do wonders. I've seem an amazing difference in seniors who have participated in this. However, you may have to bring the person screaming and hollering at first, but very quickly they will begin to enjoy themselves. My last suggestion comes from a study I read years ago. Nursing home residents were asked what they would like to do. While activities directors thought they wanted loads of activities, when asked, the residents replied they really wanted to get out of the home for a few hours and take a short ride. We once had a program at our senior center where a local restaurant that offered a soup and sandwich type of lunch donated a number of gift certificates. We would choose an elder along with a volunteer, and they would go out to lunch. Most people really enjoyed this. However, you must keep the outing to no more than a few hours due to fatigue. Hope some of this helps, for I've been there, done that; and I have a special spot in my heart for the caregivers who look after others. It isn't easy.

Worked at a couple dealerships myself. The ones I worked for did stuff all the time under warranty that really shouldn't have been. Whether or not that's a good thing is can be debated because someone pays even if the vehicle owner doesn't. Does the dealership you went too actually have a body shop? If they do, I don't know why they wouldn't just repair it if the paint is still under warranty. It would be no skin off the shops nose. Service writer fills out paperwork indicating paint delamination on the bumper. Their body shop fixes it. They get paid for the repair from the manufacturer, though at a lower rate than if you as a customer had to pay for the repair. If it's out of warranty, that's another story. Even though the paint shouldn't become delaminated due to a scratch, you're at their mercy. Good luck.

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If you don't want to give a GOOD review without fear of ruining the business, then better not to give a review at all. If somebody contacts you directly asking for a recommendation, tell them the same thing you said here. This is the good, this is the bad. They can make their own decision. We chose a kitchen contractor based on glowing reviews and personal recommendations from speaking to past customers that we approached on our own. We had problems. For example, he doesn't pay his bills so his subs hold back work and supplies. Work and supplies we already PAID for, but he didn't forward the money. It was pay out of our pocket again or be S-O-L. It was like our items were being held hostage. Mentioned it to a few of the glowing reviewers to find out they had the same issues, and more. WTF? Why recommend them then? His cabinet worker was an artist, and I am not kidding. He did some custom work to make prefab cabinets look built in and match what we had existing. Awesome work! We got recommendations based on this pretty much alone. But he was a sub. I would have hired him directly had I have known and bypassed the root of the problems. We were left without a kitchen, no sink, no countertop, for months when the whole job should have taken two weeks. Ended up with a custom island that is waaaay too large. It would cost as much to have it fixed as it took to purchase so for now it stays and we have to keep it pushed against the wall due to fire code. So much for the breakfast bar overhang that we have never been able to use. And it is unstable because we had to add wheels so it is moveable (fire code again). We could have avoided a lot of lost money and heartache. Dances.