Hollywood Conflict Resolution

This is a very RANDOM post...it's one of those weird dream posts. Last night I had a dream and when I woke up from it, I thought, "That is really funny...I should post that in the morning". It probably won't be that funny now, but I felt like I spent too much time in the middle of the night thinking about how I should post it, that I'll just write it out.

In my dream, our van needed some work done at a mechanic shop. We decided to go to a new place that was close to our house. In the dream, the mechanic looked at it over and told us the estimate for the job would be about $1500.00. We were bummed that it was going to cost so much but we decided it was necessary so we said, "Go ahead".


When they were done with the work, we came to get the van and they handed us the bill. The bill said that the work had cost $75,000.00!! The amount was due right then. I began to freak out. (I think I actually dreamed this because when went out for dinner last night, I thought the final bill seemed a lot larger than it should...I'm always afraid I'm going to get scammed because I can be so naive) Anyway, I began to tell the lady at the cash register that they had quoted us a $1500 estimate and that I couldn't believe it was going to cost $75,000. She said, "sorry, but your van really needed some work." I fell to my knees on the greasy floor, with my hands raised to Heaven, and said very loudly, "OOOHHH we should never have gotten this van!" (in my dreams I'm always VERY dramatic and loud...so funny because I am not like that when I'm awake).


And then, this is where the "Hollywood Conflict Resolution" title comes in. In a real life situation, this would, most likely, be a long, drawn out problem to resolve. But Matt and I have said that Hollywood always has these climaxes of family conflicts, etc. that are able to be resolved by someone simply yelling at the one their mad at and telling them every angry thought or feeling they've ever had. In that moment the other person's eyes are magically opened to see all their evil ways and they are changed. They hug and life is rosy.


So, basically, that's what happened in my dream. I bawled about how we should have never trusted this new mechanic. I cried about all the sad things that have happened in my life, as if they should all be a reason for them to give us a break. Finally, in the middle of my wailing, I mentioned something about the receipt saying something about the "country club amount". The woman quickly said, "wait, stop...did you say the 'country club amount'?" I said, yes. She said, "AAAAHHH...that's the problem. We always tack on a little extra for people that we think have a lot of money....sorry, I guess my husband shouldn't have done this on your bill." (isn't this so bizarre?) In my dream, I was so relieved that we only had to pay the original bill that I didn't seem to care about this extremely dishonest business practice.


So, in typical Hollywood fashion, my dream ended with us exchanging phone numbers, planning cookouts that we were going to have together and hugging goodbye. *sniff*...what a wonderful world!


So, I know you are just all wondering how I am so strange. But I just laughed at myself when I woke up because it was the most quickly resolved conflict and it reminded me of a really unrealistic movie.

Happy Monday!