The Middletons by Dana Summers for January 26, 2024

I’ll show you but first, show me you computer engineering degree so I know that you know what you’re doing.

A long time ago as a teenager, I used to work in a petrol station after school and at weekends filling up cars. This was obviously before all the self serve stations. One day a huge American car drove in. He just sat in the car with a big grin on his face as I went round it multiple times trying to find out where they’d hidden the petrol cap. I had to give up. Laughing, he got out of the car and pulled the number plate down. it was under there. I’d never have found that.

hammer. just pound on it until it opens

And after being SO clever about concealing the fill pipe, manufacturers realized* those locations made rear-end collisions much more dangerous. *AKA lawsuits.

You may want to take your car to a different mechanic, Morris!

The gearbox for my old VW Type 2 would give a few mechanics problems. It had a special way to get it into reverse. Even one VW mechanic had trouble.

The hood release is tricky on my Mini Cooper. The inside lever is also on the right side …I guess like maybe in the UK

Every time I’d start the car, my Prius showed a “change your dam oil” message. I did. Then I stood around for half an hour while the mechanic tried to tell the car so it’d stop showing the message.

Old time mechanics.. good as they were, are no match for today’s computers on wheels. Repair has been replaced with.. replace the part.

use a bigger hammer

I drove a car like that once when I was a teenager. I think it was a 1957 Olds 88 also known as the chrom monster and it was falling apart piece by piece. You couldn’t pump your own gas then and the attendant could never find the gas tank it was hidden under the tail fin and they couldn’t find the dipstick because the neck had fallen into the engine and you had to know exactly where to put it and you couldn’t put air in the tires unless you know exactly where to tap the hubcap to expose the valve

One of my old cars was a combination of pulling the lever hitting tapping the hood.

A swift kick to the rocker panel usually does it

Use the farce.

You competency is duly noted, bye.