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Real men can, at a minimum, change a flat, change their own oil, and drive a stick.
Yay, I'm a real man.
Now that I mostly ride bicycles instead, I can still fix my own flats. What makes me laugh is when I have to do it for a guy.
Oh, that reminds me, I taught Tony Stewart how to air up his bicycle tires. (In his defense, the valve stems are different that the ones found on cars).
Man, my cousin owns a shop and his main employee is a 24 year old girl that weighs about 100 pounds. She runs circles around the big bad burly men. And it's REALLY fun watching her work I'd trust her any day of the week. It's 2010. Woman are strong and proud now, the way it should be!
I managed a Jiffy Lube locally for a few years (I know I know..but I was in school and needed flexible hours, plus it paid pretty well ) and it always made my day when I could see a guys face after he realized there was a 6' tall gal underneath their car
I liked working in the pit when I wasn't in the office doing managerial stuff. It's fun to yell and a GREAT workout for your upper body.
Although, I actually had a few women tell me they didn't trust me (as a female) to work on their vehicles...I think that was the worst. The guys would just get sheepish and mumble about how they 'didn't have time' to do their oil change
Now that I mostly ride bicycles instead, I can still fix my own flats. What makes me laugh is when I have to do it for a guy.
Oh, that reminds me, I taught Tony Stewart how to air up his bicycle tires. (In his defense, the valve stems are different that the ones found on cars).
I thought I could use "necessary, but not sufficient" here in the Great Debates and people would comprehend this - apparently not...
In the course of a family get together my aunt told us a story. She was going home from work and she needed gas. She wasn't with her husband and there was no one around to help her out. She had to pump her own gas! She was complaining about it like it was a horrible experience pumping her own gas! She felt that women should not pump gas; eventhough a girl in my town pumps gas all day. Since it does not take physical strength to pump gas, but was such the big deal? I could understand women not moving heavy objects around; I can even understand not enjoying pumping gas. But to make sucha big deal of it?! First, how many women refuse to pump gas? Secondly, (I do not know my aunt well) would you call my aunt a "diva" or a "queen?"
I doubt very much your aunt is either; she's merely from a different generation that grew-up with real service stations where helpful young men trotted over to her car when her tires rolled across the dinger hose and pumped her gas and washed her windows and checked her oil. See, those places used to be called "service stations" for a good reason.
It's like my Dad, he'd prolly whine like a little girl with a skinned knee is he had to do the dishes or cook Thanksgiving dinner--a task I bet your aunt would readily embrace.
I think your aunt is just used to the good ol' days when customer service was the norm, and not the lost art it often is today.
I thought I could use "necessary, but not sufficient" here in the Great Debates and people would comprehend this - apparently not...
I guess most of us in this day and age have gotten past the idea that some things are 'requisite' in order to prove you're of superior quality for your gender.
I'm not aware of any full service stations in my town (CA). I know Oregon and NJ have them exclusively. I've been doing it myself for 30 years.
Can't speak about NJ, but I can Oregon...
Oregon does NOT have "full service stations" exclusively. Maybe it's my age and a difference of opinion on what is meant by full service...
Every Oregon station has someone pump your gas, true. But, even in Oregon, as in any other state I've been in, you don't get full service unless you pull into the full service pumps and therefore pay more for your gas.
To me, full service means you pull up, someone comes out, fills your tank, checks your fluids (oil, coolent, washer fluid) or at least asks if you want it checked, checks tire pressure, and cleans your windshield--all like every place used to do for everyone when I was a kid.
Most places in Oregon will pump your gas and that's it, certainly at the convenience stores. Shoot, nearly all of them you still have to get out and go inside to pay...just like any where else.
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(In his defense, the valve stems are different that the ones found on cars).
