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[mattm04]

Background: A female CW in their mid 30's who is the "smartest, most intelligent person ever." That is a actual quite from them.

About 5-6 days ago they came in and said their "check engine" light was on. Ok, could be anything, but chances are it's fine to drive it home. Two days later...they came in and say the "check oil" light was on the past two days and it made a funny sound when they shut it off. Well they go to leave and when they go to start their car, it won't.

They come back and a CW take a quick look. Just a tiny drop of oil on the dipstick and horrible seized engine sound. Female CW comes back in the store and calls their mother for a ride to their apt while they bitch to every employee who wanted to listen how thew are so smart that they couldn't understand the idiot male who deigned the "check engine" or "check oil" light.

Their mom arrives, goes to Cust. Svc. to have them paged. Cust. Svc. employee was one of the poor souls who listed to Female CW whine. They pick up the phone and hit page...

"<female CW>, your mommy is here for you ride, <female CW> your mommy is here." Many CW's had to hide in the back to laugh it off, including the Store Manager. SM did say it was not totally professional, but wouldn't do anything because it was so funny.

[Racket_Man]

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while they bitch to every employee who wanted to listen how thew are so smart that they couldn't understand the idiot male who deigned the "check engine" or "check oil" light.

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darn I want to find the clip from the TV show Home Improvement where Jill is asked how long the Check Oil Light has been on. I think it was from season 1 or 2. goes something like this

T : How long has the light been on???
J: OH About 4 or 5 days
T: WELL did you not think something was wrong since the light came on???
J: OH I THOUGHT the light would blink brighter or faster if there was a real problem.

they make those lights light up for a reason.

[EvilEmpryss]

Idiot lights: some people are idiots because they don't know what they mean and others are idiots because they don't care.

[mattm04]

darn I want to find the clip from the TV show Home Improvement where Jill is asked how long the Check Oil Light has been on. I think it was from season 1 or 2. goes something like this

T : How long has the light been on???
J: OH About 4 or 5 days
T: WELL did you not think something was wrong since the light came on???
J: OH I THOUGHT the light would blink brighter or faster if there was a real problem.

they make those lights light up for a reason.

I miss that show.

[Chromatix]

Is it only me who misses the days when there was an actual oil pressure gauge with it's own warning light? Along with the other dedicated gauges, of course. It was patently obvious when something went wrong, and *what* it was into the bargain.

[Racket_Man]

Is it only me who misses the days when there was an actual oil pressure gauge with it's own warning light? Along with the other dedicated gauges, of course. It was patently obvious when something went wrong, and *what* it was into the bargain.

I am REALLY glad there is still a temperature guage in my car. or I would have been really screwed several times in the last 6 months

[mattm04]

Is it only me who misses the days when there was an actual oil pressure gauge with it's own warning light? Along with the other dedicated gauges, of course. It was patently obvious when something went wrong, and *what* it was into the bargain.

My Chevy SUV has Oil Pressure, temp, battery voltage, fuel, speed and tach. The fewest I have seen is speed, fuel and temp.

[Sheldonrs]

darn I want to find the clip from the TV show Home Improvement where Jill is asked how long the Check Oil Light has been on. I think it was from season 1 or 2. goes something like this

T : How long has the light been on???
J: OH About 4 or 5 days
T: WELL did you not think something was wrong since the light came on???
J: OH I THOUGHT the light would blink brighter or faster if there was a real problem.

they make those lights light up for a reason.

Here it is. It starts 2:44 into the clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMzBaeJqBPU

[zombiequeen]

That's awesome. My husband is naturally car-inclined, both his biological and adopted fathers are/were mechanics. He's teaching me how to do all the stuff for our car, oil, changing the tire, etc. He even sneaks oil changes for my parents, even though they claim he isn't smart enough to do it and they need to go to a mechanic to get it done. Oh well, it's a lot cheaper to find out how it's done and do it yourself.

[Chromatix]

Funnily enough, knowing how to check fluids and tyres and lights is part of the British driving test. They can actually require you to look under the bonnet during the practical test.

[Setsunaela]

My aunt (who is teaching me how to drive) is requiring me to learn all kinds of these things before she takes me to get my license. She has showed me the lights on her dashboard and the ones on my own car, and what they usually indicate, when it's something I can fix and when to call a mechanic, how to check my oil, how to fill my antifreeze and windshield wiper and brake fluids, how to tell when my tires need changing or just need rotated, and later on she will make me change a tire on her car, and on my own (probably just taking the tire off and putting it back on..) She told me she refuses to have me be one of those women who gets ripped off by a mechanic because my car broke down from no oil or something..

[Big-box-retail-blues]

My aunt (who is teaching me how to drive) is requiring me to learn all kinds of these things before she takes me to get my license. She has showed me the lights on her dashboard and the ones on my own car, and what they usually indicate, when it's something I can fix and when to call a mechanic, how to check my oil, how to fill my antifreeze and windshield wiper and brake fluids, how to tell when my tires need changing or just need rotated, and later on she will make me change a tire on her car, and on my own (probably just taking the tire off and putting it back on..) She told me she refuses to have me be one of those women who gets ripped off by a mechanic because my car broke down from no oil or something..

Make sure you tell her how thankful you are to have someone that cares enough to teach you such things.

[Whiskey]

One of my (mechanic) exs was teaching me car stuff

he was teaching me how to change breaks. See this is how you take them off..

but we broke up


so now whiskey only knows how to take the breaks off a car.

just sayin

Make sure you tell her how thankful you are to have someone that cares enough to teach you such things.

This a miiiiiilllllliiiiiiiionnnnnnnnnn times. Knowing how to fix your own car will save you thousands of dollars.

[Racket_Man]

Here it is. It starts 2:44 into the clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMzBaeJqBPU

thank you Sheldoners. I tried for like 20 minutes to find that on youtube and a TV quote site.

[TawnyMyst]

Growing up with a dad that is in to mechanical things, and now two of his children are mechanics, me included but for heavier equipment. I was not allowed to test for my license until I demonstrated to him, how to check all my fluids under the hood, how to do an oil change on the car, how to change a tire, how to change a battery, how to change a belt, how to do a brake job, and how to properly boost someone. Really pissed me off when he didn't require nearly as much from my brothers a few years later. I still appreciate knowing how to do all that, but now that I'm older and make my own money, a mechanic does most of it for me.