Did he offer to change the headlight fluid in your car as well?
Hahhahahahahahahhaha. Reminds me of the time the guy at the muffler repair shop (a major USA chain. Name begins with M and ends with as) dragged installing the new muffler for like six hours, with me sitting with the much younger Daughter in the waiting room. Then came in and with a "ooh, this is serious" face on. Took me to my [four year old] car and pushed down on the back end. The car, of course, bounced back up. And he proceeded to tell me that I needed $800 worth of new struts because that was a sign of them going bad.
I read him the riot act then and there. The way I got my first car, so I could go to community college without having to walk six miles, was to rebuild an old car that had been parked in our back yard for a few years, rusting. Not only did I have to rebore the pistons, rebuild the carb, and redo the brakes (among other things), but I became well-acquainted with the various parts of an automobile (of that era) and their malfunctionings. I drove that old bomb for several years before someone hit me, and I got another car as part of the insurance settlement.
I ~hate~ it when they try to do that. Like watching the guys at Sears Automotive try to sell engine power-washings only to the older ladies in the waiting room, saying it was urgent it be done. The look on my face when he tried that one must have been priceless, as Daughter got up between us and said something more diplomatic than I was about to say....
But yeah, that's a good one. Headlight fluid. Must remember it.
[And the remote village, actually, sounds pretty darned nice. I'm jealous!]