So Fix It

I've kind of gotten bored of the Katers vlogs again lately, some of which I've actually just skipped along through.  As mentioned in previous posts about other vloggers, that's never a good sign!  But out of boredom I've just let the recent ones play, and I heard something which irked me just enough to bother making a post about it!  And it's partially because I've seen this same thing happen in other couples as well.

Okay, so, Cory seems to like to think he knows about cars.  He's tried to make us think that he knows a thing or two about his dune buggy, for example.  And he went with Kate to help her pick out her car.  He also tried to teach her to drive stick.  But, as someone who does know about cars, I can tell you that Cory pretty much does not.

Now don't get me wrong, I know it's kind of a man thing to say you're into cars.  It doesn't really hurt anything most of the time, which is why it didn't bother me about Cory before, aside from the teaching Kate to drive stick part (which personally I think he couldn't have done worse).  All of the trouble out of Cory's jeep was also kind of an indication that he had no idea about them.  But in this particular vlog, and actually a vlog or two prior as well, Kate had been having trouble with her tire.  Dangerously so, I would go as far to say, because it was affecting her steering.  That's when the boyfriend who conveniently knows about cars is supposed to step in.

Now, as any man who knows anything about cars might do, he would immediately jack the car up, take the wheel off, and inspect it for defects.  Running over shit in the road happens all the time.  I just plugged a hole in my tire after pulling a nail out of it the day before last, as a matter of fact.  So, anyone who knows even the slightest bit about cars can change a tire.  Cory could have checked, patched, or even replaced the tire if necessary.  All he had to do was put the spare on it temporarily (in case she needed it that day or something), throw her whole wheel in his car, and just taken it to get a new tire and balancing done to it.  You don't need the whole car for that, after all.

Instead of dealing with this right away, though, Kate drove on this dangerous wheel for days.  It could have simply gone flat and left her stuck with trying to change it (or more likely, calling someone to), or worse, and left her careening into another car, tree, or worse.

Well when Kate took her car in, she said she was not only going to get the tire fixed, but have a rotation, alignment, and oil change.  The alignment, okay, that's fine.  The equipment at the shop can do an alignment way better than your average Joe ever could.  And the rotation is certainly easier to do on a lift than trying to do it yourself, but it certainly could have been done by Cory at home.  But the oil change is the real kicker.

Mechanics ALMOST ALWAYS rip you off on this.  Some of them don't even change it.  They'll check the stick, if it looks clear, they leave it.  This is partially because people want their oil changed way more often than it really needs to be, to be honest.  But it's still a dishonest practice by mechanics nonetheless, because you're paying for it to be done.  Even if they change the oil, though, lots of them won't bother to change the oil filter.  You can find hidden camera shows a dime a dozen where they've marked the filter somehow and end up getting the same one back after the "oil change."  For anyone who knows anything about cars, as Cory claims to be, this is not hard to do either.

So that's the thing.  Kate is always pinching pennies.  Here's a perfect opportunity to save a lot of money.  But what do they do?  Take it to the shop, and drive it there on the bad wheel.  Some car guy!

The irony of course is that in this very same vlog, Kate's chair is broken, and Cory says "I love to fix things."

I'm sure Kate's chair is still broken as well.