Well done, grasshopper.Update: I got my car back yesterday evening. They did a good job when they actually got around to it. Brakes are all fixed, check engine light is gone, and he even re-ground my front rotors because that needed done too (I knew it needed done before I took it in but I just hadn't said anything about it, and he asked if he could do it first so it wasn't like he was looking for extra things to charge me for). I went in to talk to him at lunch yesterday and he said, "we didn't know that you had a deadline for us to get this done but now that we know you need it we've got someone working on it" and he promised that it would be done by the end of the day. So, I reserve the right to not take my car back to him but at the end of the day my car is fixed, I'm not going to miss my trip, and the mechanic working on my car even came into the office from the shop and wished me a safe trip. So I shook his hand and let bygones be bygones. I've found that when I hold onto a grudge with someone it just ends up making me feel worse and they probably don't even know I'm upset so it's best to just forgive and forget and move on.