“The Employee Spit In His Face”: GF Gets Revenge On Tow Company That Wrongfully Towed Her BF’s Car
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Getting your car towed is not the nicest thing to receive. It’s not only expensive and time-consuming, but it’s also a stressful situation that can make people panic. Especially if you are running late and you don’t find your car…
Yes, in most cases, I am sorry to break it to you, but it’s your fault. Whether you parked where you are not allowed to, or not in your spot – this may be an outcome. But of course, there are cases when you can get wrongfully towed, and well, if it happens, you’d better get ready for a fight.
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Being fined for something that was not your mistake would probably make anybody angry and ready for revenge
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Woman shares how she got a towing company to apologize and refund the full amount after her boyfriend’s car got wrongfully towed
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The company didn’t look for a parking permit on the car and towed it in the middle of the night, but after speaking, they promised to release it with no charge
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However, once her boyfriend showed up, he got spit in his face by an employee and was ordered to pay or they would call the cops
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After finding this out, she contacted the owner of the complex, explained the situation and received a full refund, apology and never saw this towing company again
A few days ago, a Reddit user shared her petty revenge story that she implemented on a towing company around one year ago. The post went viral and in just 4 days, the author received 12.6K upvotes and almost 500 comments.
So to begin with, the author says that one day, during the night, her boyfriend’s car got towed from their apartment building, despite him having a permit. After a talk with the leasing office, they informed the company to release the car at no cost. Well, once the guy showed up to pick it up, the employees spit in his face and threatened to call the cops if he didn’t pay. And that was a turning point for the OP.
She remembered that her mom always taught her that sometimes you have to fight for yourself to get things done. So the next thing OP did was to call the main office of the company that owns the building and got in touch with the owner. It is safe to say, she wasn’t very happy. Long story short, the company had had issues with this towing company before and it was their last straw. The manager of the towing company contacted OP, apologized and offered to hand-deliver a check for a full refund.
Folks in the comments were sharing their own stories and congratulating the author, as winning against a towing company is almost impossible. “So you’re the person that actually won against a towing company. I thought you were a myth,” was the top comment under the article. “Nope! I’ve done it too!” one person replied, which gave hope to other folks as well.
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Bored Panda contacted Elaine Lou Cartas, M.S., who is a business and career coach, blogger and podcast host. She kindly agreed to share her insights on the importance of standing up for ourselves and confidence.
To begin with, “We are social human beings, which means we are meant to connect with others,” Elaine started. Speaking about how being confident can influence other people’s opinion about us, the expert says that “Depending on our conversation and energy with others, it is easy for people to make their opinion about us. When showing confidence, it will be easy for others to be easily influenced because of our confidence in ourselves first. When we are confident in ourselves first, others will also be confident in us.”
Speaking about if being rude can help get things done faster, Elaine says that “In my opinion, it is about being assertive to help get things done versus being rude. Being rude is based on emotions and someone not having the right self-regulation and coping mechanisms. Rather than focus on emotions, share evidence of why things should get done to the other party.”
And finally, it’s a common thing to see that people are afraid to stand up for themselves in order to get what they want. The career coach listed that the main reason may be based on cultural and social expectations. “For example, women are taught in society to often think of others first and do what is most agreeable to a collective as opposed to what they want themselves. They are looked upon when needing emotional or family support as opposed to men.”
“As a woman myself, I learned to deconstruct and unlearn these expectations because I realized I wasn’t honoring my own voice. As a business and career coach for women of color and allies, I often ask my clients why they don’t want to stand up for themselves and it’s because they don’t want rejection and have never learned how to stand up for themselves.”
“When we learn to stand up for ourselves, we become more confident and aligned to become our best version of ourselves, which inspires others to also honor their best versions of themselves,” Elaine shares.
And of course, don’t forget to check out her website and Color Your Dreams Podcast!
People in the comments were sharing their personal encounters with towing companies
Many many years ago, I wish I had dug my heels in when my car was clamped. I had gone to look at an apartment to rent in the city centre on my lunchbreak, and parked on their parking area as there was nowhere else to park. Did the viewing, took the apartment, returned to my car to find it clamped. Attempting to remonstrate with the clampers got me nowhere, and so I finished up going to a cash machine to get some money to pay so that I could get back to work. I called the apartment company later, but they were adamant that they couldn't do anything after I'd paid. I should have dug my heels in and gone straight to their office after being clamped and told them to get the clampers to come and remove the clamp as I was there on legitimate business. Still salty about it 30 years later!
A couple of years before covid, my dad called me with the funniest news. A tow company had been going around and towing cars or clamping them for made up reasons, and were even caught putting up a sign while taking a car. One day, as they were about to start hooking up someone's car, another tow truck arrived and did a fast snatch of their truck and took it away. Apparently this rogue tow company had given them all a bad name and costing them contracts. After picking up their truck they were never seen again, but rumour has it that all the other companies were there at the pickup and beat the living sh*t out of them
The county where I live has its fairgrounds down a back road that splits off into 2 other roads that adjoin to the highway. Every year they shut down every single road except for one and the traffic is massive. The parking lot (field) is way too small by over half. So when the lot fills up people park every where. This past year people were parking alongside the highway and walking by the police barricades to get to the fair. The sheriffs were smiling and letting people by. Then as soon as everyone parked and filled that section up, they had a fleet of tow trucks come and tow everyone. I was about to park there and thought "no.. not going to risk it" and sure enough. There were no "no parking signs" on the road and the police Said nothing to these families as they walked by about to have a great time and then have their entire weekend ruined when they discover they have no vehicle
I got my one and only ticket for failure to come to a complete stop at a stop sign in a shifty town like that. Of course I stopped. There was a 16×82 ft mobile home in front of me, but they were running a racquet at that stop sign. There were 120 people there the day we went to court over the ticket. They threatened to put me in jail for contempt of court for calling the police officer a liar about me not running the stop sign. The charges were $190 in Mississippi. I'd have to look it up to find the exact town but the mayor told us that they were supposed to be using their cameras in their cars but they told us that they didn't have any, because I requested to see it. I couldn't live in places like this, I'd have to move.
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Many many years ago, I wish I had dug my heels in when my car was clamped. I had gone to look at an apartment to rent in the city centre on my lunchbreak, and parked on their parking area as there was nowhere else to park. Did the viewing, took the apartment, returned to my car to find it clamped. Attempting to remonstrate with the clampers got me nowhere, and so I finished up going to a cash machine to get some money to pay so that I could get back to work. I called the apartment company later, but they were adamant that they couldn't do anything after I'd paid. I should have dug my heels in and gone straight to their office after being clamped and told them to get the clampers to come and remove the clamp as I was there on legitimate business. Still salty about it 30 years later!
A couple of years before covid, my dad called me with the funniest news. A tow company had been going around and towing cars or clamping them for made up reasons, and were even caught putting up a sign while taking a car. One day, as they were about to start hooking up someone's car, another tow truck arrived and did a fast snatch of their truck and took it away. Apparently this rogue tow company had given them all a bad name and costing them contracts. After picking up their truck they were never seen again, but rumour has it that all the other companies were there at the pickup and beat the living sh*t out of them
The county where I live has its fairgrounds down a back road that splits off into 2 other roads that adjoin to the highway. Every year they shut down every single road except for one and the traffic is massive. The parking lot (field) is way too small by over half. So when the lot fills up people park every where. This past year people were parking alongside the highway and walking by the police barricades to get to the fair. The sheriffs were smiling and letting people by. Then as soon as everyone parked and filled that section up, they had a fleet of tow trucks come and tow everyone. I was about to park there and thought "no.. not going to risk it" and sure enough. There were no "no parking signs" on the road and the police Said nothing to these families as they walked by about to have a great time and then have their entire weekend ruined when they discover they have no vehicle
I got my one and only ticket for failure to come to a complete stop at a stop sign in a shifty town like that. Of course I stopped. There was a 16×82 ft mobile home in front of me, but they were running a racquet at that stop sign. There were 120 people there the day we went to court over the ticket. They threatened to put me in jail for contempt of court for calling the police officer a liar about me not running the stop sign. The charges were $190 in Mississippi. I'd have to look it up to find the exact town but the mayor told us that they were supposed to be using their cameras in their cars but they told us that they didn't have any, because I requested to see it. I couldn't live in places like this, I'd have to move.
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