Forum Overview :: No Stairway to Heaven :: Can I call your mom when I next have car trouble? Apparently she can tow too?

[quote name="Fussbett"]If the car breaks down somewhere else, how does it get to the junkyard? Don't say your mom pushes it. DO NOT SAY YOUR MOM WOULD PUSH A CAR TO THE JUNKYARD. I like how most of this discussion sounds like standard mom jokes, but they're actually seriously about YOUR MOM THE JUNKYARD MECHANIC. Again, not a joke. I mean, I hear your mom is DOWN AT THE JUNKYARD LOOKING FOR JUNK. Seriously though. It's amazing I've gotten this far and avoided a joke about her having a lot of junk in the trunk, but that's only because you've hinted it's a hatchback. [quote name="Jerry Whorebach"][quote name="Fussbett"]So you're telling me when your mom's Datsun needs a new part she... Goes to a junkyard. Finds the correct part. Possibly removes it from an old(er) Datsun? Brings it to her car in the parking lot (fortunately it didn't need a tow) and installs it. Like, she pulls out a socket wrench set? Or whatever the poor equivalent is? ("Wrench"?) Perhaps she has an '81 Datsun 310 repair manual to guide her? Now I look stupid for questioning this.[/quote] This is Fussbett, literally flabbergasted by all the things old ladies are doing these days. "You mean to tell me she puts on <i>men's-style</i> trousers? Drives <i>herself</i> to the petrol station? <i>Opens</i> her own door? <i>Reads</i> the labels on the pumps? What next, does she break into sing-speak like the negro <i>Kanye West</i>?!"[/quote] Is auto repair more difficult than pumping gas by a large margin? (y/n) Anyway, first it was Zseni's lifting power, and now Jerry's mom's auto repair prowess. Caltrops has really shown me that I shouldn't judge a woman by my prejudices (except I don't even know a <i>man</i> who could repair a Datsun from junkyard parts, or knows where a junkyard is, or knew they still existed (because I don't know Ray of Light's dad)).[/quote]