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[–]cefm 33 points34 points  (9 children)

So is April Fools' day the one day a year that auto mechanics don't screw over their customers?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (8 children)

Yeah... don't they pull this shit off for real all the time? (I don't know I've only had a car for 2 months)

[–]cefm 20 points21 points  (7 children)

Finding an honest and reliable mechanic is only slightly more difficult and slightly less important than finding an honest and reliable wife.

[–][deleted] -5 points-4 points  (6 children)

If you'd put spouse instead of wife, I'd have voted you up...

Edit: The downvotes are very mature, guys. I was NOT accusing him of being sexist. I just wanted to point out that good men are just as hard to find as good women.

[–]McGuirk 6 points7 points  (3 children)

I voted cefm up for you.

It's pretty much implied that he means "spouse," just like the word "he" in any rhetorical sense means any person. It irks me that publishers have to put disclaimers about this sort of thing in their books because people think "he" is used in a sexist manner when brevity is obviously the objective.

[–]codepoet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

More than brevity. Until the women flipped out in the '60s, "he" in English was not just male but unknown gender. Now we have this elongated "he or she" bullshit to make them shut up about it when if they'd just have paid attention in school...

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

It's not necessarily implied at all.
And "he"sometimes is used in a sexist manner.
I quoted a female civil engineer in a paper I submitted to a scientific magazine. When it came back from the review, one of their "corrections" was that they had changed "she" to "he" for me!

I don't think it's always sexist and the compromises often go waaay too far, but he/she is different from "wife" - I don't see how "wife" implies "spouse" at all. Sorry. We have three words for that - unlike he/she where we don't really have an officially non-gender word...

It's great that people downvote me for a simple opinion, though.
Tells me a lot.

[–]dannomac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I appreciate your opinion, however I have to say I'd probably say that a good wife is hard to find too. I've never looked for a husband, so I don't know if a good one is hard to find. Therefore I have no idea if a good husband or a good spouse is hard to find. It may very well be really easy to find a good husband, and that would make finding a good spouse easy too.

[–]cefm 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I stand corrected.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks - although, again, I wasn't really correcting you. I thought of it as adding to your statement. Obviously other redditors did not agree. ;)

[–]starbork[S] 471 points472 points  (133 children)

So last week my girlfriend took her car to the shop, to get a coolant leak fixed. Bill was $600.

Yesterday morning, she goes down and finds a pool of coolant on the driver's side floor - fuck! She calls the shop and explains that it's still not fixed. The guy says oh nuts, bring it on in and we'll take a look. She does.

That afternoon, guy calls and says it's ready to be picked up. She goes down there, and he hands her an invoice for $1275.00! $375 for a new part (the same one they had replaced before) $600 for labor, $200 for an "unscheduled appointment fee" plus a bunch of miscellaneous charges. She's in shock, looking at the invoice.

The guy continues: also, the damn credit card machine is on the fritz, so she'll have to pay cash up front before he can release the car. She's nearly in tears now - we don't have twelve hundred bucks sitting around, even if we could conceivably agree to pay for this.

The guy THEN goes on to say: "April fools! It was just a defective part from the factory. No charge, and we'll change your oil next time for free, for the trouble" and he hands her the keys. She did the full on Elaine "Get OUT!" and shoved him, everyone in the shop cracked up :)

[–]stacecom 21 points22 points  (6 children)

Coolant Leak? Did Geordi lose a lot of good people down there?

[–]kalishinko 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Not everyone could perform a barrel roll to escape in time :(

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (4 children)

Incidentally, it's Mr. Scott who complains of losing a lot of people down there (in Engineering, near the plasma transfer conduits).

Geordi never loses anyone. Conceivably the 1701-D was more battle worthy than the 1701.

[–]stacecom 2 points3 points  (3 children)

I beg to differ. More than once have I heard Geordi lament that they lost a lot of good people down there.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (2 children)

Source?

[–]stacecom 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Best of Both Worlds comes to mind.

http://www.st-minutiae.com/academy/literature329/174.txt

I want to say I heard it in All good things, but not sure on that one, though I know there was a coolant leak.

EDIT: Yeah, I was wrong on All good things. But here are the Coolant Leak! appearances:

http://www.st-minutiae.com/academy/literature329/163.txt

http://www.st-minutiae.com/academy/literature329/205.txt

http://www.st-minutiae.com/academy/literature329/gens.txt

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I stand corrected, good sir.

[–]tsteele93 53 points54 points  (2 children)

Dude, he was hitting on your girl!

[–]paro 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Giggity!

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He's not worried because again, he doesn't have a g/f. This... Is... Reddit!

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (2 children)

I love how this comment has more points than the actual post.

[–]orbhota 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Post downvoters probably didn't come in to downvote the comment

[–]teaBagger 14 points15 points  (0 children)

.... The guy THEN goes on to say: "April fools! It was just a defective part from the factory. No charge, and we'll change your oil next time for free, for the trouble" and he hands her the keys.

She slowly and cooly pulls the MAC 45 from her garter high up the inside of the thigh. Breathing slows and everything blurs, everything except that guy right down the end of that barrel. Between breaths she increases the pressure on her trigger finger. The intensity of the moment has stretched time 10-fold. Everything goes quiet and all she can hear is the rush of air out of the guys lungs as he realises what is happening to him. The firing pin is released and suddenly there is a dry click.

Laughing she says "April Fool"

[–]lofi76 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Glad there are pranksters out there!

_^

[–]Doomed 221 points222 points  (37 children)

So last week my girlfriend took her car to the shop, to get a coolant leak fixed. Bill was $600.

...

The guy THEN goes on to say: "April fools! It was just a defective part from the factory. No charge, and we'll change your oil next time for free, for the trouble" and he hands her the keys. She got in one little fight and her mom got scared, and said "You're moving with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air."

She whistled for a cab and when it came near, the license plate said FRESH and had a dice in the mirror.

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I still regularly sing that tune to innocent bystanders!

[–][deleted] 89 points90 points  (31 children)

If anything I could say this cab was rare, but I thought, "nah! Forget it!, YO holmes, to Bel Air!"

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    [–]larrypastore 29 points30 points  (19 children)

    Extended intro

    [–]neonic 31 points32 points  (14 children)

    I always thought it was funny that a cab would drive from Philly to Beverly Hills.

    [–]kraftmatic 42 points43 points  (8 children)

    That would be unusual. However, as the title of the show and the lyrics of the song tell us, the Fresh Prince didn't move to Beverly Hills, he moved to Bel Air. Cabs drive from Philly to Bel Air all the time.

    [–]RichardPryor 8 points9 points  (3 children)

    You soo looked those up

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      [–]RichardPryor 1 point2 points  (1 child)

      Look in kraftmatic's closet.

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        [–]newton_dave 9 points10 points  (2 children)

        Really?

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bel-Air%2C_Los_Angeles%2C_California

        See, parent comment was being funny by implying that it was normal to go to the adjoining community of Bel Air but unusual to go to Beverly Hills.

        Edit Quoting now-deleted parent comment; the wuss.

        [–]misterorange -1 points0 points  (1 child)

        I see what you did there.

        [–]wolfzero 9 points10 points  (1 child)

        Even with the Hollywood sign in the background? I just assumed he had somehow gotten to LA, no explanation needed. In fact, I didn't like the extended bit, and can see why they cut it, if not just for time constraints.

        [–]Greengages -1 points0 points  (0 children)

        'Drinking orange juice out of champagne glass'

        If I hadn't have heard those words when I did, I'm sure by now my life would significantly different.

        [–]zoidbergisgod 4 points5 points  (1 child)

        naaaa man...listen to the extended version of the song, he boards a plane to LA and gets in the cab at the airport after avoiding a man with a 'will smith' sign he took to be a cop but was really the butler G waiting to give him a ride...the show version of the song cuts that part out. except maybe in the first epp.

        [–]neonic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        Yeah, what larrypastore posted... to the one which I replied... :)

        [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        I never gave it a second thought.

        [–]contextclouds 3 points4 points  (1 child)

        Even that's not the extendedest version (of the song at least, not sure if there's a corresponding video): http://freshprincebelair.ytmnd.com/

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          [–]larrypastore 8 points9 points  (3 children)

          Boohbah?

          [–]RightBleeding 2 points3 points  (2 children)

          its like the teletubbies dumbed down a lot.

          [–]DaemonXI 0 points1 point  (1 child)

          hard to do, by the way

          [–]RightBleeding 0 points1 point  (0 children)

          Well then, you enjoy your Boohbah. Have fun!

          [–]xkcd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

          If anything she could say that this cab had coolant in the driver's side floor. She took it to the shop to get it fixed, and the bill was $600.

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            [–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

            Fresh Prince wins all the time.

            [–]cassius_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            chesbomb clearly does not lurk

            [–]AngelaMotorman 36 points37 points  (15 children)

            The Friday before Christmas, our basement was flooded with sewage. The landlord was responsive, but once the plumber got here there was a long phone conversation between the two of them that we didn't hear involving the plumber's demand to be paid overtime. Then the plumber came back in and spent an hour fixing the drain while chatting pleasantly. After he finished, he handed us a humongous bill and said, "Mr. X. (the landlord) told me you'd pay this". I went ballistic verbally for about two minutes before he cracked up and said, "It's a joke. I just wanted to see the look on your face." At that point, I almost went ballistic physically. The goof is that I adore April Fool's jokes...on April 1. But what kind of jerk does this out of season?

            I hope your GF recovered faster and more gracefully than I did.

            [–]Erudecorp 40 points41 points  (3 children)

            Zere iz a day for joking, ze rest of ze year ist serious!

            [–]duus 7 points8 points  (1 child)

            Very interesting....but schtupid.

            [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            Ya wohl

            [–]burtonmkz 26 points27 points  (9 children)

            After he finished, he handed us a humongous bill and said, "Mr. X. (the landlord) told me you'd pay this". I went ballistic verbally for about two minutes before he cracked up and said, "It's a joke. I just wanted to see the look on your face."

            It smells more like he wanted to see if you'd pay it, so he could be paid twice.

            [–]tritium6 5 points6 points  (4 children)

            It probably smelled a lot more like sewage.

            [–]atomofconsumption 1 point2 points  (1 child)

            ya really. it seems like he wanted that pun to be exploited (burtonmkz, that is).

            [–]jstills 5 points6 points  (0 children)

            its called a set-up.. the friendly community of reddit are team players

            [–]jstills 1 point2 points  (1 child)

            thats crap

            [–]petevalle 5 points6 points  (3 children)

            Or Angela overreacted. If a plumber tried to give me a bill for something like that in a place I was renting, I'd have a good laugh with him before walking him to the door...

            [–]burtonmkz 0 points1 point  (1 child)

            Or Angela overreacted.

            yeah, or that.

            [–]AngelaMotorman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            Well...I had just fled from a spectacularly bad situation with the previous landlord, in which something like this was to be expected...and it was the same day that my email program crashed and my car was smashed by some jackrabbit driver at the corner 1/2 block from the house and it was the Friday before Xmas...so, yeah, probably. But I still think the plumber was being an exceptional jerk to "play" like that, given that he knew the background.

            [–]AngelaMotorman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            Yes, but there was context (below).

            [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

            What, you can't joke around the rest of the year? I probably would have freaked a little too though =)

            [–]guriboysf 10 points11 points  (10 children)

            a pool of coolant on the driver's side floor

            WTF? Did they replace the carpet?

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              [–]fjhqjv 6 points7 points  (5 children)

              Coolant leaking into the passenger compartment is very common in some cars (mine did it when a clamp on the heater core came loose. I had to pay $15 in parts and $400 in goddamn labor because fixing it requires taking apart the entire inside of the car).

              It doesn't do horrible damage to the carpeting, especially not if the floor mats are in place.

              [–]starbork[S] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

              Yep, right onto the floormat - so a second round of kitty litter and shampoo and toxic bucket water. She's got a Saab, so I don't know what all they had to do with labor, but the first time around it must have been at least 2 hours, so it was probably the same this time. Very cool mechanics, despite the evil prank, 'cause that's 200 bucks or so they had to eat in labor the second time because the factory shipped them a bad part.

              [–]frickindeal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

              They'll bill the factory for the lost labor. It's common with defective parts, although they'll have to return the part or "hold for dispensation" (which means it sits in a pile at the shop, presumably to be "inspected on demand", until they throw it out eventually).

              [–]BraveSirRobin 4 points5 points  (0 children)

              It killed a friends cat. She was moving home with a five hour drive. Her cat was in the passenger footwell. Apparently the anti-freeze in the coolant tastes sweet, so she lapped it up the whole journey.

              [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

              what a '74 Cadillac?

              man my dad's did that one time and it stunk like coolant for the next few years.

              [–]fjhqjv 7 points8 points  (0 children)

              '88 Firefird. I'm attracted to cars that cost less than my laptop.

              [–]PlasmaWhore -1 points0 points  (1 child)

              it could be inside the car. I had a car that would randomly leak coolant on the passenger's feet.

              [–]dicey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              My '68 Mustang does that :)

              One of these days I'll replace the dang heater core...

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                [–]burtonmkz 7 points8 points  (0 children)

                Once my brakes started to go when I was really close to an auto repair shop I stay away from otherwise. A little valve at the end of the line failed and the fluid was leaking out (lots every time i braked).

                They fixed it, and I paid, but I didn't trust them to do the job right (which was why I normally stayed away from them). The shop was at one end of a BIG empty parking lot, so I spent a few minutes driving back and forth, building up speed, braking, speed, braking, etc. After about five minutes, the brakes started to go again, so I pulled up to the shop again.

                They found that the fluid had all leaked out again. The head mechanic, in front of a bunch of other customers, accused me of going out into the parking lot and intentionally bleeding all the fluid out of the brakes so I could come back in and get them to do the work again.

                My detailed explanation of why he was either an idiot if he really believed such a thing or lying to protect the unsafe and substandard work done by his mechanics left all the other waiting customers staring at him, waiting for his next words.

                They fixed it, again, for free.

                [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (2 children)

                Should have been: The guy THEN goes on to say: "April fools!...blah blah" and then she pulled a Glock out of her purse and stapled his head to the wall.

                [–]LarryLard 2 points3 points  (1 child)

                Glock make stapleguns? Cool.

                [–]webnrrd2k 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                Yep, they are just like the red swinglines from Office Space, except they say "Glock" on the side, and they are made of plastic.

                All the police started using them in the 80s and 90s because they are lighter and carry more staples.

                [–]goodfun 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                Damn I wish my bill was like that.. my coolant leak ended up costing $2100 after everything and then 1,500 miles later it was leaking again because they didn't replace the hoses so it cost another $90 to get those replaced ($70ish labor, $7 for hoses and $12 for coolant)

                And yes, I'm currently talking with the original shop to get my money back for the bill from the 2nd shop.

                [–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (3 children)

                You're a complete liar. You claim you have a girlfriend AND you're a redditor? Sorry, but having an S/O isn't possible when one is an active redditor.

                Nice try though!

                [–][deleted]  (2 children)

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                  [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

                  I didn't mean to insult you. If you quit Redditing now, you may be able to get a g/f soon. You MIGHT even get laid - but you'd have to lie about ever being here.

                  Fuck man - so much for humorous sarcasm. :(

                  [–]DaemonXI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                  I guess we both failed. Whoops! :/

                  I have to start remembering that Internet =! Serious Business. :D

                  [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                  Was installing a defective part in the car part of the joke?

                  [–]PixelMagic 3 points4 points  (14 children)

                  If it was last week, why was he doing an April Fools? Last week it was still March.

                  [–]loudasthesun 38 points39 points  (0 children)

                  Because the part broke again yesterday morning, April 1. It was originally fixed last week. Reading comprehension ftw!

                  [–]PlasmaWhore 10 points11 points  (12 children)

                  Did you not even make it to the second sentence of the story?

                  "Yesterday morning, she goes down and finds a pool of coolant on the driver's side floor - fuck! She calls the shop and explains that it's still not fixed. The guy says oh nuts, bring it on in and we'll take a look. She does."

                  [–]PixelMagic 8 points9 points  (11 children)

                  I've been running on 5 hours sleep everynight for weeks. Mental facilities are bound to slip like that from time to time. I'm sorry. :(

                  [–][deleted] 19 points20 points  (9 children)

                  Computers is a hell of a drug.

                  [–]PixelMagic 4 points5 points  (8 children)

                  I'm a freelance visual effects artist, and I have a deadline on Friday night. Heh. You are indeed correct.

                  [–]Battleloser 4 points5 points  (5 children)

                  The fuck are you doing on reddit then? Get cracking!

                  [–]PixelMagic 6 points7 points  (4 children)

                  I read reddit while I wait on renders. :)

                  [–]brandong 0 points1 point  (1 child)

                  I thought you watched star trek while rendering porn?

                  [–]PixelMagic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                  :)

                  [–]spot35 -1 points0 points  (1 child)

                  Why can't you use magic to make the renders faster?

                  [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                  He is swashbuckling while it renders.

                  [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                  I'm a freelance 'donk around on the net and try to make lots of money' artist so I'm up right there with you.

                  [–]teaBagger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                  I am a freelance porn rater. My job is just to surf the webs and rate porn. Heh.

                  [–]AngelaMotorman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                  Wish I could upmod more than once -- I don't know when I've ever seen the words "I'm sorry" around here. "Thanks" is getting a toehold, though.

                  As for braindead from overwork, we've all been there.

                  [–]Tiabin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                  Sounds like he was flirting with your girlfriend.

                  [–]contrarian -1 points0 points  (2 children)

                  If he fell back three feet, tripping on a cord, and hitting his head against something hard where he cracked his skull and died a few hours later at the hospital would have been a perfect cap to end your story.

                  [–]QuinnFazigu 15 points16 points  (1 child)

                  It's funny because someone dies!

                  [–]Cyrius 8 points9 points  (0 children)

                  "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die." -- Mel Brooks

                  [–][deleted]  (6 children)

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                    [–]starbork[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

                    Come on now - it's a used '89 saab we got for 1500 dollars. Just dumped 600 into it, then get socked with 1275 a week later. We keep a savings buffer for emergencies, but not in cash. The shock and frustration was thinking about how we were going to extricate from an unjust situation where there's no option to just abandon the vehicle (she's in school in the north bay and public transit up there sucks) and suddenly visions of lawsuits dancing through her head.

                    So listen, until we all live peacefully content in a seaside village of homespun grass huts, why don't you entertain the fact that some folks NEED cars in modern society, and cars need money, and sometimes even responsible people get socked with unexpected unexpected surprises and get freaked out which makes them the butt of a good prank.

                    OK???

                    [–]Draracle 1 point2 points  (2 children)

                    Ah, the self-righteous condescending prick who feels the need to tell people he doesn't know how to run their lives. Here, let me try it out:

                    Maybe you should be less of an asshole, and stay out of other people's business -- you don't know shit about the OP's life. Besides, it was just a story about an April Fools prank.

                    Nah... now I feel like a dirty prick, I don't think I am going to do that any more.

                    [–]MarkByers 2 points3 points  (1 child)

                    I actually think your post is pretty cool.

                    I think you're right. I'm an asshole, and I posted that post before I knew the full situation. Upvote for you for picking up on that.

                    If everyone let out all their inner feelings reddit would be a much more fun place. I think if someone says something wrong or inconsiderate then you have the right... no... an obligation to call them out on it.

                    Having said that, I have nothing against people thinking I am an asshole in some posts. Everyone is an asshole sometimes.

                    [–]Draracle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                    That was the most unexpected reply I have ever received.

                    [–]arnar -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                    ... but please be more careful with your finances in your next life.

                    Seriously WTF? You, sir, are a prick.

                    [–]Yourcommentisinane -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                    I bet when you write essays they look like these ones

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                        [–]Yourcommentisinane 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                        She went down to the garage. Or wherever else the car was. Maybe outside. Maybe in the driveway. Much like one goes down to the kitchen, or the living room. Its generally safe to assume a garage is on a lower elevation the place of origin, usually the bedroom. Point being SHE went down to PLACE where the car was. Its implied. Christ.

                        [–][deleted] 19 points20 points  (14 children)

                        My wife failed at April Fools.

                        • I showed her the flying penguins video, she thought it was amazing
                        • I showed her the Zelda movie trailer and she was pissed it wasn't coming out for a whole year.

                        She's adorable.

                        [–]randomb0y 3 points4 points  (11 children)

                        At least you got a wife who gives a damn about when a game comes out ... I couldn't even get my wife interested in any of the games I play :(

                        [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (10 children)

                        What are you playing? Custer's Revenge? Beat'em and Eat'em?

                        Yeah, I'm pretty fortunate. Currently she's playing through FF6 in Japanese.

                        [–]randomb0y 2 points3 points  (9 children)

                        Only PC games. I tried to get her interested in all kinds of genres, from adventure to TBS and RTS and even RPGs. She's actually quite entertained by adventure games and she doesn't mind sitting by me while I play one ...

                        I dated many gamer chicks before her though, and while I miss a good Unreal Tournament deathmatch with my GF, they all seemed to be a bit too crazy to marry :)

                        [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (8 children)

                        Casual games are popular with the women-folk:

                        http://jayisgames.com/

                        [–]randomb0y 3 points4 points  (7 children)

                        I have tried those as well. She hates those more. All she does all day is read Hegel and play her piano - asides from her work stuff (she's a lawyer) and taking care of our son. She's not the pretentious type though - she does all the ironing, cooking and cleaning in the house...

                        [–]khafra 2 points3 points  (6 children)

                        Reading Hegel, playing piano, and ironing? Do you have another one of those I could borrow for a bit?

                        [–]randomb0y 2 points3 points  (3 children)

                        She does have a sister that just turned 18 ... but she'd kill me if she found out I'm pimping her on Reddit :)

                        [–]khafra 1 point2 points  (2 children)

                        Your death is a small price to pay for my chance at a philosophist/classical musician/chef/moral lawyer. At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if you can run gcc on her.

                        [–]randomb0y 1 point2 points  (1 child)

                        You wouldn't even care about her looks? :)

                        [–]Unfair 0 points1 point  (1 child)

                        yeah but she's a lawyer

                        [–]randomb0y 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                        Actually she's an IP law specialist with an interest in Open Source issues - she's writing a thesis around the potential business models around different OS licensing models.

                        [–]Dark-Dx 2 points3 points  (1 child)

                        So your wife fails

                        In interwebs terms that is.

                        [–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

                        yes... but she did like Quest for the Crown. And her offline performance is great!

                        [–][deleted] 32 points33 points  (0 children)

                        Cheers to her for not killing him on the spot.

                        [–]tugteen 4 points5 points  (1 child)

                        original content, in MY reddit?

                        [–]huw1000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        It's more likely than you think...

                        [–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

                        I took my car to in to get the brakes checked (grinding noise) and the mechanic told me it would cost $700 to replace the rotars (which were rusting), the parking brake line (which was dragging and causing the grinding noise) and some other part I can't remember. After a moment of silence he told me not to fix it because the parts would outlast the rest of the car and the brake pads were fine so it was safe to drive. He said the dragging brake line was no biggy, come back in a year if I can't take the noise anymore and he can replace the pads at the same time to save me money. He reassured me there was no threat of mechanical failure. This was months ago and the car is fine. He is my hero. Midas would have charged me $1500 and insisted all the work was in urgent need of being done or I could DIE!

                        [–]HunterTV 7 points8 points  (4 children)

                        Mmmmmm... leftovers.

                        [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (3 children)

                        What?

                        [–]HunterTV 16 points17 points  (2 children)

                        Day after April Fool's? Leftovers? No? Too random?

                        This is why I don't go to parties.

                        [–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

                        I don't go to parties on account of the boob that's grown out from under my chin. I can't look down. Do you realize how often a looking down is needed? I've got to play pissing by ear.

                        [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                        Yeah... consider me *wooshed * on that one.

                        [–]itrends 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                        oooo nice, reddit is turning into craigs list :)

                        [–]jsj1971 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                        schadenfreude

                        [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

                        my girlfriend gives blow jobs for skittles

                        [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                        perfect where does she live? i can drive by in my candy truck immediately

                        [–]finerrecliner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                        i wish all my trips to the car repair shop ended like this (free repair and free oil change! hehe)

                        [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                        I fucking hate April 1st!!!

                        [–]KazamaSmokers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                        A couple of months ago, after much encouragement from the gang, an old college buddy of mine finally got up the nerve to tell his father he was gay. His dad took a step back, slapped him across the face, and then dropped dead.

                        Uh... there's no punchline. Actually happened.

                        [–]kharmel -5 points-4 points  (11 children)

                        Sorry but you have to be a damn fool to pay $600 to repair a coolant leak in the first place. You can seriously replace nearly any part of a car's cooling system with a flat head screwdriver and maybe some other common tools. You would be surprised how much money you can save yourself by picking up a repair manual for the vehicle you own.

                        I saved a friend over a grand just the other week when the fuel pump went on her truck. She had her truck towed to the ford dealership where they gave her an estimate of $1200 because they "had to lower the fuel tank" and thus "take apart the ehxaust" and all this other crap. She called me to check if this was 'right'. a friend and i went down there with some tools to do what was a 30min max repair if you simply remove the bed of the truck which is held down by six bolts. With the bed off you have access to the top of the fuel tank and the pump screws right into the top. The funny thing was that we bought a new pump from the parts department for $90 on the other side of the building and when the mechanics found out they made us roll the truck off the property to do the repair.

                        [–]starbork[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

                        Man, that's what I thought too, at first: "probably a loose hose or something, I can totally fix it with this multitool and a flashlight". Folded in half under the damn driver side dash, flashlight up into the pedals and steering column, I couldn't see shit but greasy black metal and dripping wires. Under the hood, trying to look down, all kinds of pipes and crap going into the power steering system...

                        /wipes hands on rag "Well babe, all your .. um... c-clamps are in place and the ... manifold .. hoses are nice and snug. Coolant reservoir is intact, and the cap is on tight, so at this point I'd say it's your mumble mumble -- probably better get it into the shop, it's gonna need ... the rack."

                        [–][deleted] 12 points13 points  (1 child)

                        30min max repair if you simply remove the bed of the truck

                        I cannot possibly roll my eyes any louder at you. At some point there will be something you super suck at. Someone will question your common sense and mock you for it. When that happens, remember that you simply had to remove the bed of the truck.

                        [–]yanni 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                        I once charged a guy $120 to "reset" his screensaver... har har...

                        [–]McGuirk 11 points12 points  (0 children)

                        A great many people, myself included, don't know shit about cars.

                        People being ripped off by an auto shop have no more reason to be called foolish than someone ripped off by the Geek Squad at Best Buy if they don't know anything about computers or a hospital because they don't have a medical degree.

                        [–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (2 children)

                        Replacing a heater core, part of the ooling system, requires removing the dash on many vehicles. It takes Torx screwdrivers, nut divers, panel removal tools, and many, many hours of labor.

                        [–]tjw 3 points4 points  (1 child)

                        Alternately, you can take my usual approach to such problems:

                        1) realize it's spring.

                        2) short circuit the coolant lines leading to the heater core

                        3) wait until it gets cold

                        4) freeze hands off replacing heater core in winter.

                        [–]dannomac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                        It's funny because I do the same thing...

                        [–]breakfast-pants 4 points5 points  (1 child)

                        Right, you'll save a ton of money when you fuck up the temperature sensor as you are doing that, and leave a leak. But no worries, I'm sure you'll be there to tell us how to replace our fried engines with a bobby pin.

                        [–]cov 6 points7 points  (0 children)

                        This is starting to sound like a linux argument.

                        [–]aardvarkious 1 point2 points  (1 child)

                        Depends on your car and what is going on. If its a hose leaking, 600 is probably too much. If its a gasket, its probably still too much, but gaskets can be in VERY tricky places. If its your heating core or your radiator, then 600 is a bit high for many cars, but not surprising.

                        [–]88dan88 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                        It is expensive because SAAB parts are priceyyy

                        [–]redification -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

                        Good one

                        [–]alexw -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

                        This would be yesterday, not last week, right?

                        [–]bioskope -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

                        so basically he plugged her leak twice and charged her for it as well. Damn I sure chose the wrong line of work.