Let me pour you a nice cup of Shut The Hell Up!

[KeresM]

I work in a mechanic's shop. I run the front desk and do bookkeeping. When it's busy, I also do oil changes, fluid checks, tire changes, all the minor work that doesn't really require someone to be a mechanic.

Yesterday we weren't swamped, but the mechanic was hip deep in a transmission, so when this jerk pulled in for an oil change, I figured I'd just handle it instead of making him wait. Good customer service and all that .

Guy pulls in, gets out of the car, hands me the keys and tells me 'give these to the mechanic and bring me some coffee sweetie. Atta girl.'

I popped the hood of the car (no, I didn't get him coffee) and he oohed and aahed about how clever I was to be able to manage that overwhelming task, and wasn't I so helpful and run along now and get the oil change man now would you?

At which point, I was done. He got to sit in the waiting room, sans coffee, for the mechanic. And while he was waiting, I did three other oil changes and had them in and out in about five minutes a pop.

[christopherius]

what a freaking a-hole! i would have told the mechanic to take his sweet time

[BookstoreEscapee]

Wow! I know next to nothing about cars (I've even only pumped gas once in my life) and even I can pop the hood! (Honestly the only thing I feel comfortable doing under there is filling the windshield washer fluid.)

When I take my car in for service, I go into the waiting room. Usually one of the service reps catches you on your way in, they get your name, check the list, and send you to the right office. They confirm the work to be done, get your keys and signature, and send you to the waiting room. There's a coffee maker in there. You want some, you pour it yourself.

[HorrorFrogPrincess]

I hope Mr. Manpants saw you change those oils so he could stew in his own suckiness while he waited.

[prb]

Welcome to Customers Suck! Brain Bleach is on the left, STFU Tea is on the right.

[KeresM]

Almost forgot story 2.

The mechanic and the bossman were discussing changing the brand of antifreeze we use as our 'default'. For some reason, this discussion involved pouring several samples of antifreeze into some of the small plastic cups used for the water cooler. These were then left sitting on a shelf in the work area.

I directed a customer into the bay (he was already snotty) and was getting his key from him when he told me to get him a cup of juice. I said we don't have juice, but pointed him to the water cooler. He pointed to the cups and said, 'well, what do you call that then?', then waggled his finger in my face and said, 'I asked for a cup of juice.'

I told him what it was and told him if he still wanted some, he'd have to pour it himself, cups were on top of the water cooler. And the container was $12.

He wouldn't even make eye contact with me after that, just took his keys when his vehicle was done and slunk away.

[LibraryLady]

Why is it that some people who say they're male can't conceive that a woman can be better with cars than they are?

According to them, we're good to get coffee. We're good to intercept messages and of course, we're good for a roll in the hay but we can't know anything about cars, computers or anything else that they think is part of a MAN'S world.

It doesn't matter that they know nothing about the subject under discussion. They're MEN and so, by definition they know so much more than we could ever learn.

It ain't necessarily so. Men don't have to tuck their tails between their legs to acknowledge that a woman knows what she's doing. They have to learn that letting a woman do what she can do doesn't make them less of a man. That realization enriches all of us.

Mercifully, I don't know many Neanderthals like this but they do exist. Let's all work to show them that they need to come into the present.

[PepperElf]

According to them, we're good to get coffee.

most of them can't handle the coffee i make.
I call my favorite brew "o my god, what the hell is that" for a reason.

but... i keep thinking... "man" who feels only men know how to change oil... so why the hell wasn't he doing it himself then?

[Xarlaxas]

Well, living in the UK and being poor my experience with cars is exceedingly limited, I have trouble opening up the trunk, let alone the hood, so I will be at the absolute mercy of mechanics when I get to driving in America....

Silly men and our presumption that we *must* be better than a lady at mechanical things.... -_-

[McGoddess09]

My grandpa is going to teach me everything about cars and how to fix everything. Wonder what that guy would think about that.

[Xarlaxas]

Marry me? <.< >.>

[MoonChild2007]

What an asshole! In fact, what a sexist asshole!

[Spiffy McMoron]

Guy pulls in, gets out of the car, hands me the keys and tells me 'give these to the mechanic and bring me some coffee sweetie. Atta girl.'

Ha! We get those guys in at work more often than I'd like. Our main alignment mechanic is female, and she'll come out and talk to the customers and service writers. More than once, (male) customers will request that a man fix their cars instead of her. They are then politely informed that:

1) That's not in the cards--you get who you get
2) Stop being such a dick
3) She's the best alignment girl in the city

That third one usually shuts them up, and it's true, IMHO. I'd let her align my car anytime.

[...]

That last sentence sounds like a euphemism, but is not meant as one.

[PepperElf]

My grandpa is going to teach me everything about cars and how to fix everything. Wonder what that guy would think about that.

real men love it

[Nurian]

My wife knows more about cars than I do. I can pump gas, put fluids in the car......and that's it. I missed the part of puberty in which I learn how to change a transmission.

She did offer to teach me how to change oil, but I demurred. I told her as long as she can do it and wants to, that's okay with me.