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- Aug 31, 2019
Yeah, it's much more likely to be 'let us upsell you on all of these things that are technically improvements but add barely any improved function or could be bought in bulk and done yourself for far cheaper', or thinking that you couldn't possible know what your car actually needs so they need to get a bunch of info.
Like recently I, Natal Female, had to change a rear turn signal bulb on my ancient Jeep. This is not a difficult process, I've had this Jeep forever, this is not the first time I've done this. I stop at Autozone and ask what aisle the bulbs are on in this particular store, because I know what bulb my car takes. The store dude then: tries to look up which bulb I need despite me telling him I already know, picks out the bulb instead of just pointing me at the aisle, tries to charge me for a ketchup packet sized thingie of dialectric grease which costs twelve fucking dollars (I have a squeezy tube of it that I spent $4 dollars on and has lasted me years, thanks), and thinks that I need them to swap the bulb for me.
*Edit: it took longer to buy the bulb than it did to swap out both rear blinkers (I swap out both when one goes because it means the other side is usually pretty ready to burn out too)
Deeply annoying, yes, but not the entire That Situation these AGPs dream up in their perverted little hearts
I could be down for an entire thread where we detail the insane condescension from auto shops and mechanics towards us. Maybe in the Gorl Tawk forum.












