I want to share my personal experience of last night. It will be long. If you are not interested in, please skip reading it.
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After spent a great time in Japanese festival, we decided to get something to eat. We were not familiar with the area. We chose the chain hamburger restraurant nearby. After we parked our car at the fast food restraint parking lot, we saw a pizza restaurant on the next lot. The smell of fresh baked pizza made us even hungrier. Without thinking much, we were attracted to the pizza restaurant.
At the pizza restaurant, we could create the pizza as we wanted. We chose the pizza crust and the topping. The pizza was baked within five minutes. We ate quickly and left the place. I am sure it was less than ten minutes in the whole process.
When we walked back to the parking lot, our car was gone. We got panicky. First, we thought somebody stole it. But some seconds later, we noticed the sign. It says this parking lot is only for the store customers. And it also says, otherwise the car will be towed.
We saw the towing truck just coming back to the same place. All of a sudden, my memory was back. I did notice the towing truck was parked in the parking lot. I should have paid more attention to this truck and moved our car to the pizza restaurant parking.
I ran to the driver. I asked him if he towed my car. He said yes. I explained our situation and asked him to return our car right now. He was cold-hearted. He didn’t change his face expression at all. He just told me he could not do anything.
My husband called the phone number on the sign. The woman answered the phone. She said the car was towed and parked on their storage. It was Saturday evening. She said the office was closed. She said we would need to call them back on Monday morning and come pick up our car. The towing price is $200, and they charge the parking fee of $20 per day. It will be $260.
I grabbed the cell phone from my husband. I begged the woman to help us out. I asked her over and over again, along with the reasons. We are not from this area. We don’t have anybody to pick us up all the way down here. Unlike Japan, this area does not have many cabs available. We will need to call the cab company and wait for a while. They will charge more than $100 to give us a ride back home. If we ask our friend to come pick us up, we will need to pay the same amount to the person for such inconvenience. In either ways, we will need to wait here for a cab or our friend arrive, at least 1.5 hour. It was already dark in the night. It was raining and cold. Besides, on Monday, my husband has work and my daughter has school. We need our car back right now.
The woman of this company was cold-hearted too. She insisted she could not do anything to help us. She said she was answering our phone call at her home out of business hours. She did not have any authority to help us. She repeated their office is closed at this time. I quickly checked their official website. It clearly says their office hours are 24/7. It is supposed to open Mondays through Sundays for 24 hours. Besides, the company’s official website shows this phone number. That proves she had lied about the business hours and the office official phone number.
I didn’t give up on this. I kept on asking her to help us out. She finally said to give her at least one hour to see if she can help us out. And, we hung up the phone.
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While waiting for her return call, three of us started praying very hard. I believed in my family spirits and angels. I believed in their ability. I believed in miracle.
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Twenty minutes later, the woman called us back. She said she could arrange the driver to bring back our car, but we needed to pay a $100 cash. She said the fee is for dropping off the car. She said she cannot issue the official receipt but it is not a bribe money. We all knew it was a bribe money, but we accepted the offer.
Another twenty minutes later, the same driver who towed our car came back with our car. Remember that he was the most coldhearted person in the world when I asked him to help us out? This time he seemed to be a totally different person. He was the happiest person in the world. He greeted us nicely and friendly. His mood change was the obvious evidence that our $100 cash was a bribe for him.
We paid him a cash. He returned our car. We were so exhausted. We went back home quickly. During we were driving on the freeway, we noticed the air sound from the window of driver’s side. Our tire air lamp was ON.
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When we arrived at our house, we noticed the driver left the towing magnetic lamp on the back of our car. We also noticed our cell phone filled with his text messages and voice messages. We usually keep our cell phone silent while driving, especially driving on freeway, so we didn’t notice all his contacts.
My inner voice urged me to go to the local police department for advice. So we did.
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At the local police department, the female receptionist listened carefully to us. She advised us to call the driver back right there. If something goes wrong, she can arrange the police officer from that point forward. She also confirmed that the driver’s forgetting the lamp was his fault, so that he should come pick it up. She offered us to leave the lamp at the police department. Her offer was helpful. I didn’t want to tell him my home address. Nor, I didn’t want to wait for him to arrive. It will be waste of our time.
The driver asked us to bring the lamp back to the location or at least the half way. My husband gently declined him with the reasonable reasons. I admire my husband to be able to stay calm and polite like that.
If I were on the phone, I really wanted to tell him like this in the most cold-hearted voice tone in the world, just like what he just did to me. “Well, it is your fault. I will charge you $200 for bringing the lamp. It is not my office hour during weekend. My office hour starts on Monday 9 am. So, you will have to contact me on Monday morning. Oh, by the way, I charge the storage fee of $20 per day. Therefore, your total charge will be $260 for the storage fee of Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.”
So, this is what happened to us last night. The fun day ended up with the unpleasant day.
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I am glad that I reported to the police. I appreciate the kind support from the police department. I am also happy that he forgot the lamp. He cannot tow anybody without the lamp. So, we somehow can help other people to become their victims at least for some time.
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Whenever something bad happens, my family spirits and angels always send me a bunch of earth angels.
After we noticed our car was towed, we went back to the pizza restaurant. I wanted to ask them to let us stay for a while until we decide what to do. As soon as I saw a nice young female worker, and asked her “we have a big favor of you”, she said “of course” with her shining beautiful eyes. When I mentioned “our car was towed,” she told me “of course you can stay here. I will get our manager.”
The pizza store manager was very nice too. He told us the same thing happened to his customer before. He had raised a complaint to the towing company. According to him, the owner of the towing company is a real jerk. And unfortunately the towing company is protected by law. They didn’t do anything illegal. The manager was with us during this time. I felt his sincere energy. And maybe he wished us the miracle.
So we have met three earth angels. The kind female worker, the thoughtful pizza manager, and the helpful police department receptionist. And, even though the towing company people were cold-hearted in the beginning, my spirits and angels worked on them to change their mind. It was miracle that we got our car back on the same day.
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I checked BBB (Better Business Bureau) website. Many people raised complaints to the towing company and gave them the bad reviews. As a response, the owner of the towing company wrote down all the excuses. They have been the business for 18 years and did nothing illegal.
These people who deal with dirty business don’t fully understand the Universal law. When we do something untrustworthy, it will come back to them. It might not directly to them, but it might be to their loved ones.
The towing truck driver told me that he had been watching us all the time. Once we crossed the parking property, we went ahead to tow our car. If I were him, I would warn the people before actually towing their car right away. Even if their business is protected by law, I think what they did was wrong in moral. I felt sorry when I read the reviews of the people who happened to be there as a tourist. They didn’t know the area same as us. The towing company told the same way and treated them the same way as ours. The poor tourist needed to spend extra two more nights just to get their car back. And of course this towing company completely ruined their fun vacation.
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In case we become a victim of dirty business, or any kinds of bad deeds, we need to take an appropriate action to voice out. We should not let it go. If everybody lets it go and never speaks up, we cannot prevent the future victims.
There should be many different ways to speak up. It is my way to speak up by sharing my personal experience in my article. Also, reporting the police is another way. We can tell that to our family, friends, teachers, and communities. Eventually, we will find the proper way to stop dirty business or bad deeds.
I don’t wish to deal with any kinds of dirty businesses and bad deeds. I don’t need such low vibrational people around me.
The best way is to avoid drive at night at the unfamiliar places. If that is inevitable, I will be fully alert on the environment and quickly leave the place as soon as possible.
I pray for the people who work for dirty business and the people who think it is okay to do bad deeds to others. They just don’t know the Universal Law. Their true-self deeply understands it, but their physical-self forgets about it. The Universal law is we are really connected. We are one. All the human beings are not here on the Earth to be insincere.
My desire is simple. I want everybody remember about who they truly are and stop hurting others. We are here to help one another.
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