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jaymc have you really never opened the hood of your car? that is like. . . staggering to me

I'm pretty sure I have. But not often enough to know what the issue was this time.

how do you put in new wiper fluid and check oil? or do you just...not do it

That's what Jiffy Lube is for.

dude, you should know how to open the hood of your car.

wow, dude

i got a new car a month or two ago. i popped the hood so a) if i had to pop it in the situation like you described, i'd have some idea how it worked on that car, and wouldn't embarrass myself, and b) so i knew vaguely where the washer fluid nozzle was, so i wouldn't freeze my ass off looking for it in the winter when the juice ran out, as is likely to happen.

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dude, you should know how to open the hood of your car.

Hey, I thought I did know. Maybe if you were there with me this morning, you could've told me what I was doing wrong.

yes that is a jpg from "daddytypes.com"

Nothing seemed to be budging. Was it frozen shut? Was there some latch I had to unfasten? I didn't know. So I just didn't do anything about it, and I stood outside the car and waved to the tow truck when it approached.

The bolded part is what you were doing wrong? I'm not trying to pick on you, but giving up here seems like your first misstep.

there's probably a brief section in your owner's manual about how to open the hood

also gas goes in the gas tank, and the things you drive on are called wheels

^^sorry

It is lame of me to say, but it is sometimes advantageous for me that I am a woman & that car fixing is such a gendered activity. When I had a car, if it ever quit working in the middle of the road, I just had to stand outside the car & look sad & v quickly some guy would help push it to the side of the road, jump start it, etc. Sometimes I will see guys with cars that have quit working in traffic & I realize they just have to struggle with it without quick help.

i don't drive but i've seen enough horror movies and police procedurals to know that "female alone with broken-down car" is a total creep magnet. i would be terrified to accept help from a man who offered.

when it's cold, or if the car is getting old, the hood won't "jump" up when you pull the release. you might have to get your fingers under there and pull it up to have enough room to feel around for the latch.

"so this is a car, huh?"

when it's cold, or if the car is getting old, the hood won't "jump" up when you pull the release. you might have to get your fingers under there and pull it up to have enough room to feel around for the latch.

that's what SHE said

"The Hood Won't Jump (feat. Ice Cube)"

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also sometimes you have to grease the hood and massage it some in order to get it to "jump" up

get bent it was always in full daylight & in busy traffic – lots of onlookers means maybe less likelihood of doing a crime + mad desire to quickly end the embarrassing situation of having your car stalled out in the middle of a busy road. I wld also imagine their motive was to stop an irritating block in traffic.

Basically in the Midwest if you went into labor and needed to go to the hospital you could just stand in the road and the next person who passed would probably drop everything they were doing to drive you there. And the hospital is probably 30 miles away, so that's not a small deal.

The bolded part is what you were doing wrong? I'm not trying to pick on you, but giving up here seems like your first misstep.

OK, look: I went out, ran my hands under the hood, tried to pull it up, no dice. I went back in the car, pulled on the ring again (this time harder), then went back out and tried again. My fingers got pinched under the grill. I put gloves on and tried again. Nothing. I went back in the car, pulled on the ring again (even harder and in multiple directions). I went back out, looked to see if there was someplace else on the edge of the hood that it was meant to be lifted from. I couldn't identify one. Meanwhile, it was fucking freezing outside, so I went back in the car and waited and tried to figure out what to do. I then reasoned that I didn't *really* need to lift the hood because I could just wait for the tow-truck guy to call and then stand outside to wave to him as he approached. So that's what I did. You're right, though: I probably should've consulted the owner's manual. That didn't occur to me. I'll do that next time.

ok, cool. sorry about yr car dude--car stuff sucks!

jaymc staying remarkably civil

i think it's remarkable that he bothered to justify himself so much

we should prob start calling him names now

Yeah, I know, most of my posts on this thread are just cruising for it, which is why I said a few days ago that I probably shouldn't be posting here at all. :/

if it makes you feel any better, i'm really bad at registering my car and paying fees and getting tags and shit because my dad always did it for me and i never learned growing up

^^^ my registration is 4 months overdue now

I'm very good at registration but terrible at inspection. When we got our car, our inspection sticker was for June; it is currently for December.

if it makes you feel any better, i'm really bad at registering my car and paying fees and getting tags and shit because my dad always did it for me and i never learned growing up

i'm this way with figuring out my taxes -- my dad's a financial whiz + way better at math than i am.

btw any tx cops read this, you can find me at 123 fake st. next to the taco cabana

oh it is inspection for me, not registration.

at the combination pizza shack and taco cabana

my buddy at work had a long-expired reg and wound up paying about $1000 bucks in towing, tickets, and registry fees while losing the better part of a week trying to get his car un-impounded.

terrible at inspection

thank you jesse ventura!

It is lame of me to say, but it is sometimes advantageous for me that I am a woman & that car fixing is such a gendered activity.
--just a moonful of sugar (Abbott)

...it is similarly advantageous to shifty mechanics.

what's funny is both of my siblings are bad at it for the same reason--we blame Dad. all of us have been pulled over for it.

i'm good at inspection because the meter maids will viciously ticket me once it's overdue.

oh shit I need a new license AND new tabs

oh god, one year I had something like $10 in outstanding excise tax because I missed the deadline and the associated penalty by the time I paid it, and was therefore denied renewing my registration and basically had to spend two days waiting in lines to get the whole thing cleared up

for the first few years i owned a car, i would just *totally* forget that things had to be renewed every year until i got enough tickets (and LOL got pulled over enough) until it sunk in

I am the worst car owner. it just sits there

I didn't know you even HAD a car.

is it unmanly 2 say cars are the worst idea for getting ppl around and that if i owned a flamethrower or missile launcher i would park in an empty lot and go to town on my car?

i'm assuming that i'd be wealthy enough for an alternative to my car if i owned a flamethrower or missile launcher.

xp You seem so much more masculine suddenly, why is that.

phermones

also m bison u r otm

i think it's 100% manly thing to say

I mean: flamethrowers!

fuck cars

living in nyc makes me never want to ever own a car again ever