Latest / Stuff Mom Never Told You / SMNTY Classics: Car Troubles?
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- 0:05Speaker 1: Hey, this is Sandy and Samantha. Oh your stuff. Never
- 0:07Speaker 1: told you protection of my heart?
- 0:08Speaker 2: Right you?
- 0:18Speaker 1: Okay, So.
- 0:21Speaker 3: This episode, I tell you has come back in a
- 0:26Speaker 3: way I wasn't anticipating when I was talking about car
- 0:29Speaker 3: troubles and I was just pontificating if this is still
- 0:33Speaker 3: a thing where it's used as a pickup line. Because
- 0:37Speaker 3: of travel and health issues, my car has sat unmoved for.
- 0:45Speaker 1: A while, to the point that even I am like, wow,
- 0:50Speaker 1: you really have not moved that car.
- 0:53Speaker 3: And it's becoming such a stressor because I have all
- 1:00Speaker 3: these rules about when I want to go and like
- 1:03Speaker 3: move my car and drive it, and I've made it
- 1:08Speaker 3: into a much bigger deal than it needs to be.
- 1:12Speaker 3: And that's the last thing I need with my health.
- 1:16Speaker 3: So the car is just out there and it's become
- 1:22Speaker 3: like my enemy. But I really need to if I
- 1:27Speaker 3: got in it, like right now, I think what would
- 1:30Speaker 3: happen if I tried to start it.
- 1:31Speaker 1: It wouldn't start.
- 1:33Speaker 3: I would like it to be able to start if
- 1:34Speaker 3: I need it. Yeah, so I need to test it
- 1:37Speaker 3: and I just let it go so long.
- 1:42Speaker 2: Do you need emotional support?
- 1:45Speaker 3: I think if I had somebody sit in the car
- 1:46Speaker 3: with me. It would help because part of the issue
- 1:50Speaker 3: is one of the things that made me think of
- 1:52Speaker 3: this is Samantha No's. But I have a neighbor that
- 1:54Speaker 3: kind of like lingers outside, and I don't want to
- 1:58Speaker 3: deal with what would happen if the car did start
- 2:00Speaker 3: and he was outside. Yeah, so I go, we'll like,
- 2:03Speaker 3: I go it like six am I have. But I've
- 2:07Speaker 3: been sleeping much better lately, actually, so I don't want
- 2:10Speaker 3: to get rid of Yeah, I finally made that step right,
- 2:14Speaker 3: So I don't want to set up an alarm to
- 2:16Speaker 3: go start my car and be stressed if the whole
- 2:20Speaker 3: day I'll be worried about it. So I just have
- 2:23Speaker 3: all these rules around this car and it's gotten out
- 2:26Speaker 3: of control. But it actually looks good. I'm surprised at
- 2:29Speaker 3: how nice it stills.
- 2:33Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 2:34Speaker 3: Yeah, but maybe I'll get you or another friend just
- 2:36Speaker 3: come sit in the car with it while I started,
- 2:39Speaker 3: or try to start it. And I have one of
- 2:41Speaker 3: those things where you can jump start at yourself. Ye,
- 2:45Speaker 3: I've never done it, so I'm a little nervous I've.
- 2:47Speaker 2: Done it, so I'll come and help you.
- 2:50Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, yeah, I got you. All right, we'll figure
- 2:54Speaker 1: this out. We'll get We'll get the old galagy. We
- 2:59Speaker 1: got you. Thanks in the meantime, listeners, please enjoy this
- 3:03Speaker 1: classic episode.
- 3:10Speaker 2: Hey, this is Anny and Samantha.
- 3:11Speaker 3: Welcome to Stuff One Never told you production to buy
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- 3:28Speaker 3: As always, if you are joining us, do whatever you're
- 3:32Speaker 3: dream responsibly drinking or otherwise.
- 3:35Speaker 1: What are you sitting on?
- 3:36Speaker 2: Samantha, my diet soda keep it in on drink water earlier,
- 3:40Speaker 2: so I'm like, okay, I feel like I did a
- 3:42Speaker 2: good job on the water. So I'm a drinker diet
- 3:44Speaker 2: soda today.
- 3:45Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 3:46Speaker 3: Yeah, I had different episode. But I've been having strange
- 3:50Speaker 3: dreams lately. I told you about one of them earlier.
- 3:54Speaker 3: I also had one that was just I couldn't stop
- 3:57Speaker 3: drinking water. The whole dream was about water. Stopped drinking water.
- 4:02Speaker 3: It was very Bazarrey. I am drinking a summer shandy
- 4:05Speaker 3: a friend left up my apartment.
- 4:07Speaker 1: Nice. I'm trying to guess, so hope, I hope it's good.
- 4:11Speaker 2: Yeah, they're usually pretty good. I used to drink those
- 4:14Speaker 2: way back when.
- 4:15Speaker 1: I'm sure it'll be fine. I'm sure it'll be fine.
- 4:18Speaker 3: Uh, so this episode might be coming at you a
- 4:21Speaker 3: little late because we've had a couple of onlin own
- 4:23Speaker 3: technical issues, which is kind of indicative of what I
- 4:27Speaker 3: wanted to talk about. I said recently, I feel like
- 4:30Speaker 3: my life is in disarray. I feel like I have
- 4:31Speaker 3: a lot of things that I've let build up that
- 4:36Speaker 3: just all around me that I have not fixed for
- 4:40Speaker 3: one reason or the other. A big one is my car.
- 4:43Speaker 3: So Anthon knows about this, and my car has been
- 4:46Speaker 3: dead for two weeks now. It does not start. I
- 4:49Speaker 3: had someone come out to look at it. It seems
- 4:51Speaker 3: like it's just a battery issue. But I kind of
- 4:53Speaker 3: wanted to talk about it because I was thinking about
- 4:57Speaker 3: kind of the whole car troubles.
- 5:00Speaker 1: Joke, which for a long time has been like.
- 5:04Speaker 3: A joke about men hitting on women when their car
- 5:07Speaker 3: is broken down, and I just got to thinking about
- 5:10Speaker 3: that and all of the implications they're in. So I know
- 5:16Speaker 3: I've told this story before, but when I was in
- 5:19Speaker 3: high school, there was an automotive class. Women were not
- 5:24Speaker 3: allowed in it unless there was a space after all
- 5:30Speaker 3: of the men had off first.
- 5:32Speaker 1: Wow.
- 5:34Speaker 3: Yeah, because I really wanted to do the choices were
- 5:37Speaker 3: and I'm not joking. The choices were automotive are dance.
- 5:43Speaker 3: I wanted to do automotive. No, it's comical and infuriating.
- 5:52Speaker 3: I wanted to do automotive because I thought it would
- 5:54Speaker 3: be useful. I love dancing, but I thought like this
- 5:57Speaker 3: would be good to know. They would not let me,
- 6:00Speaker 3: and they did let in one of the women from
- 6:03Speaker 3: my class, but I hate to say, it felt like
- 6:09Speaker 3: she was really sexualized in that class.
- 6:11Speaker 1: Oh she could talk about it. So it was like
- 6:14Speaker 1: a thing where I wanted to learn and I didn't
- 6:18Speaker 1: get the chance at that time.
- 6:23Speaker 3: And then you know, I just never had really an
- 6:27Speaker 3: opportunity or real strong desire to learn after that, Like
- 6:31Speaker 3: that would have been a nice Is that a school
- 6:33Speaker 3: I had to attend, right it was there? I never
- 6:36Speaker 3: did after that. I never did get the technology the
- 6:40Speaker 3: expertise that I wanted. And I will say, I want
- 6:46Speaker 3: to say I have always been scared around cars. There
- 6:54Speaker 3: are some reasons for that I've talked about before, but
- 6:55Speaker 3: also I'm just afraid of like expensive things. The car
- 6:58Speaker 3: is expensive. It makes nervous And this is going to
- 7:03Speaker 3: sound like way worse than it actually was. But my
- 7:06Speaker 3: dad used to ask me to pump gas. So if
- 7:12Speaker 3: I needed gas, I'd call him and he would come
- 7:15Speaker 3: and he would pump the gas. And so just made
- 7:17Speaker 3: me feel like I don't know what I'm doing. I'm
- 7:19Speaker 3: going to mess up this very expensive piece of equipment.
- 7:23Speaker 3: So I just have like really deep seated I don't
- 7:27Speaker 3: know how to handle a car. I don't know what
- 7:29Speaker 3: to do about it. And that being said, I want
- 7:33Speaker 3: to shout out my friend Marissa who once this was
- 7:37Speaker 3: before it was like ruined and everything, but it was
- 7:40Speaker 3: like the final Harry Potter movie was coming out. My
- 7:42Speaker 3: car wouldn't start, and she was like, no, we have
- 7:45Speaker 3: to get there on time, and she got that car starter.
- 7:48Speaker 3: She like knew what to do, she did everything. So
- 7:52Speaker 3: in this I'm mostly talking about experiences I've had where
- 7:55Speaker 3: it feels like a lot of this car stuff is
- 7:59Speaker 3: still be pretty gate kept by men.
- 8:02Speaker 1: But I have.
- 8:03Speaker 3: Plenty of examples of women in my life that do
- 8:06Speaker 3: know what they're doing are good at it, So I
- 8:09Speaker 3: just want to make that clear. Also on the other
- 8:12Speaker 3: side of that, I my ex, who was a dude.
- 8:18Speaker 3: Once sheepishly admitted to me that he knew nothing about
- 8:21Speaker 3: cars when my car broke down, So it's also like
- 8:24Speaker 3: I think in a lot of ways, a lot of
- 8:25Speaker 3: us don't know.
- 8:26Speaker 1: Yeah, true story.
- 8:28Speaker 2: I feel like I learned a lot about car stuff
- 8:30Speaker 2: because of so many things i'll let go wrong.
- 8:33Speaker 1: Oh I know.
- 8:34Speaker 2: What this sound is, So I learned from my bad.
- 8:40Speaker 1: Do you feel like you could like do some basic.
- 8:43Speaker 2: Like no, Like the basic is like I know how
- 8:46Speaker 2: to change it higher, but it's really hard, especially with
- 8:48Speaker 2: like the changing of the bolts. But I've made sure
- 8:51Speaker 2: that I did learn. But I'm like it's gonna take
- 8:54Speaker 2: me forever, like forever ever if I really do have
- 8:57Speaker 2: to try this. But I remembered how to do it. One,
- 9:01Speaker 2: I don't know how to change the oil filter, but
- 9:03Speaker 2: I feel like that's an easy youtubem. But I know
- 9:07Speaker 2: what a sound of something is, Like, I'm like that
- 9:09Speaker 2: sound like a whale bearing. I think I need to
- 9:11Speaker 2: go do this. That sounds like the alignment is off,
- 9:13Speaker 2: Like I needed to go do this like stuff like that.
- 9:16Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean my most recent problem when the
- 9:19Speaker 3: guy showed up because I did call a repair service
- 9:22Speaker 3: because again it won't start, so I can't get it anywhere.
- 9:26Speaker 3: I was like, I think it's batter because I recognize
- 9:28Speaker 3: this clicking. I have heard this before, and I have
- 9:34Speaker 3: The sad thing is I used to be pretty good
- 9:37Speaker 3: at like very basic, very basic, admittedly, but i used
- 9:41Speaker 3: to be pretty good at that stuff, and now I've
- 9:43Speaker 3: just become so afraid I'll mess I'll mess something up,
- 9:48Speaker 3: and that's important because I never drive anymore right, but
- 9:50Speaker 3: also just don't feel confident in it. There are a
- 9:53Speaker 3: couple of other things too. So one is, as Samantha knows, I,
- 10:00Speaker 3: my car doesn't move from its spot very often, and
- 10:04Speaker 3: so it's sort of like people know my car. It's there,
- 10:09Speaker 3: and so I'm sort of I'm embarrassed. I'm embarrassed by it.
- 10:12Speaker 3: But also there's like a guy that comes out in
- 10:15Speaker 3: my building to smoke, but he comes out and he
- 10:19Speaker 3: just hangs out, and I don't want to be out
- 10:20Speaker 3: there trying to do my thing, and he's looking at
- 10:23Speaker 3: me like mmmm.
- 10:25Speaker 1: And then my landlord is like ever present, and I
- 10:28Speaker 1: don't want to get involved. But it's all these like
- 10:32Speaker 1: men in my life that I'm like, just not in
- 10:36Speaker 1: your life, yeah, but they're like.
- 10:38Speaker 3: In my.
- 10:40Speaker 2: Yeah. Also, like I would like to go ahead and
- 10:42Speaker 2: put an astrak here with the neighbor because I have
- 10:45Speaker 2: actually avoided going to your door myself, who typically I
- 10:50Speaker 2: will like, it doesn't bother me as much as it
- 10:53Speaker 2: bothers you. I don't want to hang out and be awkward.
- 10:54Speaker 2: I don't want to have a conversation with people. But
- 10:56Speaker 2: he literally stands in a way that is oh so imposing,
- 11:01Speaker 2: as well as smoking right on the steps, as well
- 11:03Speaker 2: as most of times being shirtless and a little over
- 11:06Speaker 2: like he just hangs out there and like all of
- 11:08Speaker 2: those things are like, yeah, he's not gonna move out
- 11:11Speaker 2: of my way, like, and he just purposely stands there
- 11:14Speaker 2: staring people down.
- 11:16Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 11:17Speaker 2: I have noticed that because when I would wait for you,
- 11:18Speaker 2: I'm like, hey, I'm down here, but your neighbor's there,
- 11:20Speaker 2: so might want to wait for a second. I'm gonna
- 11:22Speaker 2: wait for a second. And then he just sits there
- 11:24Speaker 2: and stairs mm hmm.
- 11:27Speaker 1: He does. It's like he's a.
- 11:30Speaker 2: Whole special conversation in itself.
- 11:33Speaker 3: It's yeah, And it's unfortunate because it has Like one
- 11:37Speaker 3: of the things I hate that I'm really having trouble
- 11:39Speaker 3: letting go from the pandemic is that I don't feel
- 11:43Speaker 3: super comfortable leaving my place all the time. And part
- 11:47Speaker 3: of it is what if he's there, What if he's there?
- 11:49Speaker 3: And I've literally like gone back upstairs. I see him
- 11:52Speaker 3: out there, and to be, he's never done anything to me.
- 11:55Speaker 3: He's just like got a vibe that's not great. So
- 11:58Speaker 3: I don't want to be out trying to fix something
- 11:59Speaker 3: with my car that possibly I could fix if he's
- 12:02Speaker 3: going to be out there.
- 12:14Speaker 1: So I call in.
- 12:16Speaker 3: The service that comes to you, and it was a
- 12:18Speaker 3: guy and he was super nice. But then afterwards everyone
- 12:21Speaker 3: was like, well, it sounds like he was flirting with you,
- 12:24Speaker 3: and now, oh no, because he knows.
- 12:28Speaker 1: I can't go anywhere. He knows that.
- 12:33Speaker 3: Two of my friends who when I was telling them,
- 12:36Speaker 3: they were like they were just asking and they were like,
- 12:40Speaker 3: it kind of sounds like do you think he was?
- 12:42Speaker 3: And I said, now, I don't think so, but I
- 12:43Speaker 3: don't have the best track record with that, and I
- 12:46Speaker 3: don't know. I honestly have no idea. Uh, he will
- 12:51Speaker 3: be here getting soon.
- 12:53Speaker 1: So see. But then I started thinking about that because like.
- 13:00Speaker 3: I feel like a lot of times that whole kind
- 13:01Speaker 3: of car trouble thing, that whole like women can't take
- 13:04Speaker 3: automotive class. We're going to get to that episode that
- 13:07Speaker 3: we've been talking about forever about the history of women
- 13:09Speaker 3: in driving. Does feel very like you can't go anywhere,
- 13:13Speaker 3: so I'll help you in this case, like very like
- 13:18Speaker 3: heteronormative man being like, I'll help you then, because it is,
- 13:22Speaker 3: it does feel very i'll swoop in and rescue you.
- 13:25Speaker 3: Whereas I think, I like, I used to be able
- 13:30Speaker 3: to fix a lot of these things, at least like
- 13:32Speaker 3: the smaller things, and it's frustrating to me that it's
- 13:36Speaker 3: gotten to a point where.
- 13:41Speaker 1: I just gotta do. I feel like I have to
- 13:43Speaker 1: deal with this because.
- 13:44Speaker 3: I'm avoiding other dudes, but also like I am scared
- 13:50Speaker 3: I'll do damage to my car.
- 13:52Speaker 1: I've talked about before.
- 13:53Speaker 3: I actually passed out when my parents bought a car
- 13:57Speaker 3: because I saw how much it was and I passed out.
- 14:00Speaker 3: Like I have a lot of anxiety around how much
- 14:04Speaker 3: things cost, and it does feel kind of like.
- 14:10Speaker 1: It's out of my control.
- 14:13Speaker 3: So this also I just don't It's sad because I
- 14:17Speaker 3: also just don't like driving. I don't want to, but
- 14:19Speaker 3: I have to. That's sort of the society we live in.
- 14:23Speaker 3: And I do want a working car, that's the oddest.
- 14:28Speaker 3: I do want one, but it's frustrating because I'm like,
- 14:31Speaker 3: but I want one. It feels like just for emergencies
- 14:38Speaker 3: and this, you know, we've talked before about like stereotypes
- 14:41Speaker 3: around women driving and men driving. That was definitely present
- 14:44Speaker 3: in my last relationship. But this I also feel is
- 14:48Speaker 3: changing because I've seen a lot of my friends doesn't
- 14:51Speaker 3: really feel like that's there anymore for them at all.
- 14:54Speaker 1: But when I, like when my.
- 14:55Speaker 3: Ex and I were dating, he was always like, I
- 14:58Speaker 3: will drive, and he was not a driver or Samantha.
- 15:01Speaker 1: He was actually pretty bad. I was a better driver
- 15:07Speaker 1: than him. I feel confident in saying.
- 15:09Speaker 2: Oh no, yeah, my partner and I share duties, make
- 15:12Speaker 2: sure because we split it. Because also I get carsick
- 15:15Speaker 2: really easily. So like the only times I don't really
- 15:18Speaker 2: get carsick is if A I'm asleep or B I'm driving,
- 15:21Speaker 2: so I can't sit a whole ride like that.
- 15:24Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 15:25Speaker 3: Yeah, And I feel like you and several of my friends,
- 15:28Speaker 3: that's what I've seen is it feels like pretty equal
- 15:32Speaker 3: in terms of how they're driving. So I'm glad to
- 15:34Speaker 3: see that because I remember when the show first started,
- 15:35Speaker 3: there was an episode about like why do men do
- 15:38Speaker 3: most of the driving?
- 15:39Speaker 2: I mean, that's still definitely a stereotype on TikTok. A
- 15:42Speaker 2: passenger princess, yes, all over my for you page on TikTok.
- 15:47Speaker 3: It is definitely still a thing, and I would love
- 15:48Speaker 3: to hear from listeners about it because I always hesitate
- 15:51Speaker 3: talking about some of these older like stereotypes in terms
- 15:54Speaker 3: of you know, how many times do we have to
- 15:56Speaker 3: bring this back? But the thing is they do keep
- 15:58Speaker 3: coming back. But I would like to hear from people's
- 16:02Speaker 3: other experiences. There is something else that has been happening
- 16:08Speaker 3: in recent years where there's been a couple of examples
- 16:12Speaker 3: of women owned are women based automotive repair shops. There
- 16:18Speaker 3: is there was one in Atlanta. I think it's changed.
- 16:21Speaker 2: It has and they've made a big announcement to let
- 16:23Speaker 2: you know it is no longer owned by a woman
- 16:25Speaker 2: like it has been a thing because they still kept
- 16:27Speaker 2: the logo and kept the first part of them because
- 16:29Speaker 2: the title of it is literally like my mechanic as
- 16:31Speaker 2: a woman. And so when that when that stopped, they
- 16:35Speaker 2: didn't take away the name until they finally are like, hey,
- 16:38Speaker 2: a woman doesn't own this, just so you know, I'm
- 16:40Speaker 2: not the owner. So they had to do my mechanic
- 16:43Speaker 2: is and they left that.
- 16:44Speaker 1: Yes, they just left it be, which was sad.
- 16:50Speaker 3: But there have been a couple of examples of those
- 16:54Speaker 3: kinds of things, and it's one of those things where
- 16:56Speaker 3: I have I'm like two minds about. It's sort of
- 16:58Speaker 3: like the women only where I get it, but I
- 17:02Speaker 3: think we should address like a larger issue. But I
- 17:06Speaker 3: do totally get it. Like again, I've laid out several
- 17:09Speaker 3: examples of where men have made me uncomfortable around cars,
- 17:14Speaker 3: so I I do understand, but it's also sort of like,
- 17:20Speaker 3: if this is what we're doing, we might want to
- 17:25Speaker 3: ask why why that is? And you know, unfortunately, the
- 17:33Speaker 3: car repair business is just notorious. The car business in
- 17:37Speaker 3: general is notorious for lying to people or upselling people,
- 17:41Speaker 3: or not being upfront with people. I know it's not everybody,
- 17:44Speaker 3: but that when you go into a situation and you
- 17:47Speaker 3: feel like, oh, I don't know enough about this and
- 17:50Speaker 3: I feel like this person's probably trying to cheat me,
- 17:52Speaker 3: it's like not a great situation. And I think that's
- 17:56Speaker 3: compounded with women because I think the is still women
- 18:00Speaker 3: don't know what they're doing with cars. But clearly, for
- 18:06Speaker 3: a long time we've been prevented from knowing even if
- 18:11Speaker 3: the class you wanted to take in high school was automotive.
- 18:15Speaker 1: And a story.
- 18:17Speaker 3: Yes, so those are my car troubles and car troubles. Yeah,
- 18:22Speaker 3: I just I was gonna I titled it that because
- 18:24Speaker 3: that's what like the joke always is, as the guy
- 18:27Speaker 3: comes up and he's like car troubles. But if anyone
- 18:32Speaker 3: has any thoughts about this, or if you have any
- 18:34Speaker 3: examples of these women based automotive repair shops your experience,
- 18:40Speaker 3: there are just yeah, generally, what's the trope the vibe
- 18:45Speaker 3: of gendered stereotypes around driving?
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