Thank you one and all for all the choices We ended up at The Hickory House very tasty indeed. Also a sports bar on the next street west of Olentangy River Road. Good food. As we pulled in I had to check under the hood of my son's car. Someone came out of the restaurant and asked if we needed a jump. Awesome city to be sure. jccaclimber was your car grabbed by C&M towing? They have quite a reputation down there! Reminds me of the Steve Goodman song called The Lincoln Park Pirates. Next on the agenda is to find a reputable car repair shop. Not expecting trouble but should it arise he needs it to get to work. I left him with a small assortment of tools. Between that and the internet he should be okay. But I'm not against any recommendations. Thanks again PM!!!
Not my car fortunately, although I was involved in the eating of said pizza. Thinking about it he should have known better as he went to OSU and used to live down on campus. Don't know the towing company or the specifics, just remember him being pretty angry that his $10 share of the pizza became a $100+ share.
My father worked on campus (Med. Center) for 36 years before being retired. He always warned me there were only three reliable ways to park on campus:
1) With a current A parking sticker and no blue/yellow stickers on your car. Anything less and you might spend more time walking from your parking spot, if you found one, than to where his office was.
2) By bus so you don't have to.
3) By bicycle, but don't leave it outside no matter how good a lock you have.
They used to joke that if they could get ambulances to arrive to injured people as fast as tow trucks arrive to parked cars you wouldn't need the trauma helicopters.
As far a reputable repair shops go, that's sort of like low cost machine shops that produce high quality work with no lead time. Must be why I had to learn to fix them myself.
Edit: My father did use the shop just NE of EN Broadway and Indianola in Clintonville, but only after he got in over his head on things. That was 15 years ago and they're still there, so they may be ok. No recent experiences.
