Grr. Just Grrr. (But yay free engine?)

So yeah.  Long story ahead. 


So yesterday afternoon I got an oilchange at EZLube.  Usually I try to stay away from these kind of oil change places, but I'm broke and had a coupon.  So yay, oil changed, totally happy.

This morning I was heading to campus to do the Walk for Juvenile Diabetes.  I get a whole 2 miles before I notice that my Oil light is on and smoke's billowing out.  It was foggy so I didn't notice the smoke at first.  I pull off on the first onramp I can and as i get to the end, my car dies.  An older couple stopped to wait with me as I checked the car over.  I had no oil and looking underneath saw it was just dripping out.  So I call AAA for a tow.  In the middle of the phonecall, a cop pulls off and yells at me for being parked on the offramp.  The lady I was with took the phone from me to talk to AAA about where my car was while the cop pushed my car (with HIS car) into (ironically enough) the AAA building's parking lot.  

The couple waited with me for the tow truck, which was sweet of them.  They were on vacation so I felt bad, but they said that they had kids my age and would have wanted someone else to help them. 

So the tow truck takes me to a PepBoys over on El Cajon Blvd, since it was 8:30am and they would be opening soon.  Siobhan in the meantime texts me a photo of a piece of metal sitting in a giant puddle of oil, taken in our driveway.  I show it to the mechanic and he's like "yeah that's your oil filter."  So Bhan meets me there and we go have breakfast (after calling my parents to fill them in).  The PepBoys manager calls me up and tells me that he's not going to touch my car since it's EZLube's fault, and if they touch it, EZLube could be like "we weren't the last ones to touch the car." 

So I call another tow truck then head back to the apartment.  Bhan had already went and bought kitty litter to start soaking up the oil, so we got more since it had already soaked through.  Go back to pick up car again and have it towed back to EZLube.  The dude who worked on my car wasn't there, but the supervisor looked it over, put a new oil filter on (he wouldn't tell me if the dude even had put the RIGHT oil filter on, since the PepBoys guys told me that it wasn't), he put all new oil in, tried to start it up, and car won't go. 

So they had me fill out a claims form and told me that they'll be sending the car for corporate to fix, since it's completely their fault.  I tried to get them to pay for a rental car in the meantime, to which they told me that I would just have to pay for it then later send in my receipts to get reimbursed eventually.  Dad was mad, but he and my mom and just bringing me one of their cars (yay for us having an extra car) to use in the meantime.

It's looking like they fried my pistons, so the entire engine's going to have to be replaced.  So boo for a stupid mechanic fucking up my car, but yay that I don't have to pay for it?