Now since I worked as a motor mechanic I've always managed to baffle a garage with big words and question their mindsets when I've taken my car in for repairs (usually because I just can't be bothered to repair it myself / have looked at the Haynes Manual and realised it'll be a pig to do / the cost of buying the specialist tool isn't worth it) before they've had chance to realise I'm a girl so my own experiences don't perhaps reflect the reality of the wider world.
I'm also very choosy over which garages I use (seriously I think more about the garage than I do which place I go to the hairdresser which explains my apprentice cut lack of fringe) and even didn't take it to one garage because I was not happy with the way they looked after their tools (hint - good tools are VERY expensive. If they're being thrown about the place they're either cheap tools meaning they don't like to invest in their company or the grease monkeys don't care about what they're doing!)
Do garages really (in general) treat women differently to men? Or are they just as patronising to men but we don't realise it?
There's a lot in what you say about choosing garages Clarington - I'd use similar criteria when selecting a builder!
Many moons ago I worked for a while at a garage (in the office), and was friends with some big names in the Hot Rod world - for several years I found that name-dropping got me decent service from mechanics - now they're all too young to remember when my friends were Big Stars
I think that some garages treat men as badly as they do women, but they probably don't patronise them while they're doing it - they're just give a carp service as standard. I would never go to a garage without personal recommendation from people I trust.
However, I'm just as picky about my hairdresser too!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
For years my cars were serviced by a "little man' who also then took them for MOT. Never a problem. One year he serviced it and was unable to take it for the test, I took it, guess what? It would need all sorts doing to it to pass. H took it to another garage, passed no problem.
The "little man" has now retired, so H takes it for service & MOT.
Hi all. Here are a few more pics from SA holiday. 3 days were spent on Safari and then 5 days around Cape Town which included some walks in the coastal fynbos which apparently has 1100 species of plants of which 70% grow nowhere else in the world.
I will put some more on later but please let me know when you are bored as I know other peoples holiday snaps can become very dull.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Thank goodness it happened at night and not when children might have been walking by on their way to school! I hope no one was in there.
Punkdoc - fantastic photographs! I can't even imagine being so close to those beautiful animals.
Does anyone here write a blog on their garden? Since I have a habit of loosing paper / coming up with ideas while I'm at work and forgetting by the time I get home (really annoying - especially when you know that they were going to be awesome) so I'm trying to use wordpress as a sounding board for my ideas / to do lists. Hopefully it'll work!
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Thank you, Dove, Kef and MrsG, means alot. Take care. X
Here's a question of curiosity for you.
Now since I worked as a motor mechanic I've always managed to baffle a garage with big words and question their mindsets when I've taken my car in for repairs (usually because I just can't be bothered to repair it myself / have looked at the Haynes Manual and realised it'll be a pig to do / the cost of buying the specialist tool isn't worth it) before they've had chance to realise I'm a girl so my own experiences don't perhaps reflect the reality of the wider world.
I'm also very choosy over which garages I use (seriously I think more about the garage than I do which place I go to the hairdresser which explains my apprentice cut lack of fringe) and even didn't take it to one garage because I was not happy with the way they looked after their tools (hint - good tools are VERY expensive. If they're being thrown about the place they're either cheap tools meaning they don't like to invest in their company or the grease monkeys don't care about what they're doing!)
Do garages really (in general) treat women differently to men? Or are they just as patronising to men but we don't realise it?
There's a lot in what you say about choosing garages Clarington - I'd use similar criteria when selecting a builder!
Many moons ago I worked for a while at a garage (in the office), and was friends with some big names in the Hot Rod world - for several years I found that name-dropping got me decent service from mechanics - now they're all too young to remember when my friends were Big Stars
I think that some garages treat men as badly as they do women, but they probably don't patronise them while they're doing it - they're just give a carp service as standard. I would never go to a garage without personal recommendation from people I trust.
However, I'm just as picky about my hairdresser too!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
For years my cars were serviced by a "little man' who also then took them for MOT. Never a problem. One year he serviced it and was unable to take it for the test, I took it, guess what? It would need all sorts doing to it to pass. H took it to another garage, passed no problem.
The "little man" has now retired, so H takes it for service & MOT.
Lily - hugs for later, and for the next weeks and months too.
Hi all. Here are a few more pics from SA holiday. 3 days were spent on Safari and then 5 days around Cape Town which included some walks in the coastal fynbos which apparently has 1100 species of plants of which 70% grow nowhere else in the world.
I will put some more on later but please let me know when you are bored as I know other peoples holiday snaps can become very dull.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
We'll get bored when you put snaps of Aunty Marge in her sun hat on
Fantastic photos!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Chicky I was blocked as well.... Mrs g not many criminals are nice men!!!! Im not looking for one for me lol.... Ace pics
What a shock! Hope no one was in there! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-25133266
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank goodness it happened at night and not when children might have been walking by on their way to school! I hope no one was in there.
Punkdoc - fantastic photographs! I can't even imagine being so close to those beautiful animals.
Does anyone here write a blog on their garden? Since I have a habit of loosing paper / coming up with ideas while I'm at work and forgetting by the time I get home (really annoying - especially when you know that they were going to be awesome) so I'm trying to use wordpress as a sounding board for my ideas / to do lists. Hopefully it'll work!