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- DagwoodIII@piefed.socialEnglish3 days
Yes.
Life Pro Tip. Don’t play stupid games with people when they are working.
At best it’s rude, and at worst it might get you thrown out of the shop
- 3 days
Yes, and they would probably be annoyed that you were wasting their time.
3 daysYes.
Unless you drive a 70’s Cadillac or something equally gigantic that barely moves with all that displacement, in which case it’s a pretty good joke about driving a boat ;)
- 8 hours
87 Oldsmobile Toronado, even the gear selector was like a boat… Best $200 car I ever had and I’d love to find and fix another.
- cecilkorik@lemmy.caEnglish3 days
Yes, that would be a strange thing to say, and unless they also happen to be boaters, most mechanics probably have no idea what side “starboard” is, and maybe not even “aft”, so it won’t even be useful information to them, which actually makes it quite frustrating. Similar to someone coming in with a vague and incomprehensible complaint that there car is making “a noise” and they want it fixed, but they can’t explain in any useful way what the noise is, where it’s coming from, when it happens.
Just to be clear, the correct and accepted terminology options are “rear passenger side”, or “right rear”.
- [deleted]@piefed.worldEnglish3 days
The most effective is driver/passenger side because most people use right to mean the right side while in it (passenger in the US) but a few say right side when looking at the car from the front (driver in the US).
- 3 days
Idk, I asked my mechanic to replace the locks in the driver door (which is a word in my language) and the opposite rear door.
They changed one lock, on the wrong front door. -_-
- 3 days
Is your car an amphibious vehicle? If not use the standard language for the thing you’re referencing.
As an ex-mechanic and ex player of Sea of Thieves, yes, I’d laugh. I’d understand, but I’d laugh. Other mechanics likely wouldn’t understand what you mean since pretty much the only crossover terminology between ships and cars is ‘wheel’. Assuming you’re in America, go with ‘nearside rear’.
- 3 days
How far abaft of the beam? How far from centerline? Is that first or second deck?
- 3 days
They will laugh and then keelhaul you.
Was waiting for my car, guy walks in and says to the manager “Hey, can you fix my girlfriend’s car? It’s, like, all fucked up” without elaborating further. As any public-facing job, they have some tolerance for bullshit and will probably ignore it.
- 3 days
Being keelhauled under a modern car sounds no less painfully lethal than the original. Yikes.
- Tomtits@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish3 days
If you were dressed as an admiral and had a smirk on your face you’d be reet
probably
