Well, it IS the SDMB. Have to avoid nitpicks, you know.
Time to put on my shades … 
Serious answer: it just means an auto mechanic shop, where you take the car for repairs/maintenance.
Kozmik sounds like that one person who’s in every workplace. You know, the one who bugs the crap out of you when you’re trying to get through a pile of work, or you’re in the lunchroom trying to eat in the short amount of time you have. The one to whom your silence, complete concentration on the task at hand, and freezing “leave me the fuck alone” body language are as nothing.
The Klueless Kozmik Klone will talk at, around, and through you until you cave in and just brusquely answer one little question. Fatal error. NO FORCE SHORT OF A DIRECT METEORITE STRIKE CAN SAVE YOU NOW!!! :eek::eek::eek:
I hate random loose assortments of trained whelks. I always get the one with coconut in.
Kozmik: “Are you getting your headlights repaired?”
Timmy: ??
Kozmik: “I said, 'Are you getting your headlights repaired?'”
Timmy: “I’m not supposed to talk to strangers.”
Kozmik: “You are going to sit there anyway so you might as well talk.”
Timmy: “MOMMY!”
Well to nitpick - a collision shop would specialize in repair to the body & frame of a car after a crash. Also known as a paint & body shop. Which is usually a separate shop than the shop you’d bring your car to repair/maintain your brakes or engine or the like.
Yes, the conversation was Seinfeldian. But you’re George. On a bad day.
You may not want to talk to someone, but you know enough to not say that very statement, right? It is a rather rude thing to say. It doesn’t exactly justify what Kozmik did, but I don’t understand people acting like Daniels was blameless. I can’t think of any way to say those words that would not be dismissive and rude. And, while I don’t exactly condone it for something that small (and the way Kozmik went about it is bizarre), it isn’t surprising that someone would feel the need to be rude back.
And if you’re wondering how to say it politely? The first thing that comes to mind is “I don’t really feel like talking right now.” It takes out the accusatory “you” and switches “want” with “feel,” which is more passive. Small changes, yes, but they totally change the focus of the sentence.
I might give a less famous person more of a pass, but this is a guy who has made his living knowing how to talk to people.
I think that he said that with the expectation you would just stop talking to him. I don’t think he expected you to go to the moon (Saunder is a lunar crater located in the central highland region of the Moon, to the east-northeast of the walled plain Hipparchus.)
I’m very good at saying “no” politely. The harshest I would probably get was “I’m sorry, I just don’t feel like chatting.”
But the rudeness was absolutely started by asking for the estimates. Um, do I know you?
In fact, I’m not. I’m not worried about your feelings at all.
This is the kind of thing I would expect to happen in Greenbury, Michigan.
Don’t worry, they’re Oakleys. They offer Thermonuclear Protection.
PS- Any side bets on whether that shop had Snap-On Tools…? 
Sounds to me like Kozmik is testing material he intends to submit to Cracked.com. But Brockway and Bucholtz have already got the obnoxiousness shtick down (and your cribbing from them is awfully transparent), so I’d advise taking a different tack. Maybe you could masquerade as an American born Chinese woman who’s obsessed with cats?
Who the hell was famous here? 
It was Kozmik and some old dude at an auto body shop.
Wrongo. Giving short answers to a busybody is not a conversation. He said a couple of things to be polite to the nosy-ass stranger; he realized that was a mistake when you kept peppering him with questions, and tried to cut his losses. This is purely a guess here, but MOST people give off pretty clear non-verbal cues that they don’t want to talk to people, and I’m guessing you missed those, and when you did, that’s when had to resort to saying out loud that he didn’t want to talk to you. MOST people who pick up on the non-verbal cues don’t get all pissy and offended and snark back to people who don’t want to talk to them, either.
He had no obligation to engage in any form of verbal interaction with you whatsoever. He also had no obligation to CONTINUE to interact with you whatsoever. Think about the implications if that was an actual real obligation; you could trap people for hours, or DAYS, simply by asking them where the bus stop was and then NOT SHUTTING UP EVER and they’re obligated to continue talking to you till your voice goes hoarse just because they answered one question. Nonsensical. “Will you please let me go? I’ve missed my flight to see my dying grandmother!” “NO I’M NOT DONE WITH OUR CONVERSATION YET! SIT DOWN!”
I admit that what Autolycus wrote is what I should have said.
That’s what he should have said.
IMO the whole thing was bizarre, but you thinking you “won” or taught the guy a lesson is also bizarre. It’s a meaningless conversation between two strangers. You’re not there to verbally joust or prove your manhood. There was no reason to be agressive, just let the cranky guy sit in peace.
I saund what you did there.
He aspires to be George. I’m seeing more of a Kenny Bania.
Kozmik never gets soup.