My Car Inspection Saga

So the car inspection was due last month, but it was December and I forgot. Had other things on my mind...Anyway. On the January 5th, I took it to the Firestore close to my house. Why? I have no idea. It was close and I just wanted to get it done...BUT they wouldn't aprove the car because they said my parking brake was bad, it didn't hold in park or in gear at all. It would be $60 to repair the parking brake and the $14 to get the inspection done. Not that big of deal, but just couldn't afford to do it at the time. But they did also want to do a total brake inspection because they thought the brakes were bad....ugh.
So I say just give me my car and I leave. If I go back to them in 15 days, have them fix the parking brake I will get approved without having to pay the $14 again.
I take the car back yesterday afternoon. The guy pulls up my file. He tells me they can't just do the parking brake, the back brake pad is soo worn it's about to fall off. If it's that worn how come I don't have any problems stopping?? Anyway I got off track...He wanted me to pay $160 this time to get the brakes done so that I would be approved. This is just to do the back brakes they want me to do the front and the back which will cost $740 but the guy is trying to "work with me" I call Jeremy. He says just go. So I get my paperwork and leave.
I didn't want to have to pay the $14 again, but I thought that would be much better then getting pulled over and having to pay however much they are charging these days for having an expired inspection sticker!! So, I take it to one of those little inspection stations the ones where it's just a shack and you pull in and he basically makes sure your car is running and not a danger to the enviroment from the emissions...It took him maybe 15 minutes and he didn't even want to hear why there was an X on the back of the inspection sticker.
(The Firestone people told me that they were putting into "the system" and marking my car, and anywhere I took it would not be approved)
I think that if I wasn't such a nice person I would have gone back to Firestore and rubbed it in there face that I did get the inspection approved and told them things that a nice Christian Girl that I am should not ever say or even think.
So the point of my story is this...Don't take your car to Firestore. They will cheat you out of your money!! It feels good to let that all out...