XPost: alt.home.repair   
   From: ron@null.invalid   
      
   On May 01, 2023, Cindy Hamilton wrote   
   (in article):   
      
   >> If someone has an excuse not to change their own oil, it's just an excuse.   
   >   
   > We don't need an excuse.  We just don't want to.   
      
   That is the point.   
      
   It's always the case when someone says they can't do something that   
   everyone clearly can easily do, it's just that they don't like it.   
      
   They should just be true to themselves instead of lying to themselves.   
   Nobody has to like working on a car. That's why they invented mechanics.   
      
   What they do, instead of saying they don't feel like doing the job, is they   
   find all sorts of lame excuses for why they "can't" do the job.   
      
   That's what's wrong.   
   The lame excuses.   
      
   The only justification they need is they don't want to do the job.   
      
   > My mechanic does other things besides an oil change while he has it.   
      
   Unless all the shop does is oil changes, they're trained to drum up   
   business, so I'm sure he'll tell you everything wrong that he sees.   
      
   And, perchance, he might even be right as he likely has more training than   
   the rest of us do (not that an oil change requires all that much knowledge)   
   but changing tires does require more knowledge, as does alignment at home.   
      
   There is almost nothing you can't do at home on your car but there are an   
   almost infinite number of things you don't want to do at home on your car.   
      
   I have found that most people come up with a lame excuse like kids do when   
   they didn't do their homework, when the only rationale they need is that   
   they don't want to work on their car at home. Why lie when that's why?   
      
   Ron, the humblest guy in town.   
      
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