# Bijou Drains
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bijou-drains/681821
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [February 20, 2014, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bijou-drains/681821 "2014-02-20T21:15:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2014, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bijou-drains/681821/1 "2014-02-20T21:15:47Z")
[You’re a dick](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=716215).
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2014, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bijou-drains/681821/2 "2014-02-20T21:20:53Z")
After reading the link…definitely.
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### Author:  [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2014, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bijou-drains/681821/3 "2014-02-20T21:26:17Z")
Sounds fake.
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### Author:  [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2014, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bijou-drains/681821/4 "2014-02-20T21:54:20Z")
Lawd help me if I ever piss off the QuickSilver! Never before have my eyes blistered from reading the distilled invective, the scathing _cromulence_ as is couched between the lines of the OP. Would that the heat of ire in this thread could be measured in mere suns! Woe, and overthetop woe unto Mr. Drains!
🙂 But yeah. He’s being a bit of a prima donna about it. Either very young, or very thick.
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### Author:  [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2014, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bijou-drains/681821/5 "2014-02-20T22:02:58Z")
I like the part where he calls the shop guys names and says they are dumb and how his dog could do a better job and whatnot, but he didn’t seem to be able to do the job himself. What does that make him?
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### Author:  [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2014, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bijou-drains/681821/6 "2014-02-20T22:25:02Z")
Why didn’t he just have his dog do it then? Geez.
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### Author:  [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2014, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bijou-drains/681821/7 "2014-02-20T23:08:57Z")
> [@even\_sven](#):
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> Sounds fake.
Totally. I can tell by the dixels.
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2014, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bijou-drains/681821/8 "2014-02-20T23:40:09Z")
I could see why he thought he shouldn’t have to pay, at least to begin with. But yeah, definitely a dick by the end.
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### Author:  [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2014, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bijou-drains/681821/9 "2014-02-20T23:42:16Z")
> [@Helena330](#):
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> Why didn’t he just have his dog do it then? Geez.
To be fair, the dog is sometimes confused by metric.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2014, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bijou-drains/681821/10 "2014-02-21T00:20:43Z")
> [@Chimera](#):
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> To be fair, the dog is sometimes confused by metric.
And he makes no bones about it.
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### Author:  [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2014, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bijou-drains/681821/11 "2014-02-21T00:42:25Z")
> [@Helena330](#):
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> Why didn’t he just have his dog do it then? Geez.
The dog charges too much.
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### Author:  [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2014, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bijou-drains/681821/12 "2014-02-21T03:16:30Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#):
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> The dog charges too much.
And doesn’t accept Visa.
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2014, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bijou-drains/681821/13 "2014-02-21T14:26:14Z")
And doesn’t stand behind its work.
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### Author:  [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2014, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bijou-drains/681821/14 "2014-02-21T14:33:02Z")
You gotta like it when absolutely no one shows up for his pity party and agrees with him.
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2014, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bijou-drains/681821/15 "2014-02-21T14:44:55Z")
I don’t know **Bijou Drains** well enough to know whether he **is** a dick, but based on that linked thread, he’s certainly **being** a dick.
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### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2014, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bijou-drains/681821/16 "2014-02-21T14:58:26Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#):
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> I don’t know **Bijou Drains** well enough to know whether he **is** a dick, but based on that linked thread, he’s certainly **being** a dick.
Where there’s smoke…
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### Author:  [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2014, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bijou-drains/681821/17 "2014-02-21T15:46:49Z")
Not sure how big a dick he/she’s being…the garage was paid…an additional $100 filing fee for the small claims court that will probably be a waste of money…sounds more like a dumbass than a dick.
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### Author:  [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2014, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bijou-drains/681821/18 "2014-02-21T16:41:31Z")
While I don’t agree with everything **Bijou Drains** said, the following explains why I don’t fault him (her?) for being upset.
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> [@Car repair question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-repair-question/681747/47):
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> There was no estimate to me for any work other than “fix a broken bolt” which I figured was a $25 job. Nothing in writing or told to me. So that’s another thing they screwed up on , nobody told me it was going to cost $300+.
To me this is a MAJOR failing on their part. Aside from a few long-term-super-good-relationship customers where I know it’s okay, I wouldn’t DREAM of surprising a customer with a bill for something where the price wasn’t clearly understood and agreed to before the work was done. It flabbergasts me that any shop would do this, and I would expect that the customer is not legally obligated to pay for charges he didn’t approve.
I still think it’s questionable that the shop should be liable for the lug stud repair, but in my mind they shot themselves in the foot by proceeding without proper approval. I don’t think the customer can be held liable for the repair charge.
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### Author:  [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2014, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bijou-drains/681821/19 "2014-02-22T00:27:05Z")
Maybe we can get this up to 1000 posts? After all, I am SO upset about being bashed by a bunch of unknown people on a message board!!!
BTW , they refunded part of my money so we are both happy now.
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### Author:  [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2014, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bijou-drains/681821/20 "2014-02-22T00:52:31Z")
Of course you are, drama queen!
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