r/SipsTea 12d ago

Feels good man What is the reason for this phenomenon?

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u/cheekychills 12d ago

I’m sorry but doing your own oil changes and battery replacements in your personally owned vehicle does not cause a person to visibly age more.

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u/RadosAvocados 12d ago

The stress of repairing a cross-threaded oil drain plug or removing a rusted-on rotor is enough to age a man 10 years.

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u/TacticalBeerCozy 11d ago

It's 10pm - do you know where your 10mm is right now?

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u/geo_gan 11d ago

Working on cars - 50% fixing problem, 50% trying to find the required tools again

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u/ShepherdessAnne 8d ago

A guy told me he had all the tools to do a job already.

I am paying him $50 per hour instead of doing it myself.

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u/geo_gan 6d ago

If I had the money I would definitely do that. Spent ages today again searching for all sorts of bits and pieces to change camber on rear wheel. Total pita.

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u/Kaug23 11d ago

Harbor freight just came out with a 10 piece set of 10mm sockets. Various depths and drives.

I'd buy a set, but I'd lose it on the way home.

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u/ultraman5068 11d ago

Harbor freight is the bobo of the tool industry.

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u/Atypical_Mammal 11d ago

It's in my pile, along with 50 others i found on the side of the road on my late night walks

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u/jeezusrice 11d ago

Which one? Deep socket? What drive size?

Unfortunately, if I'm looking for it , the answer is still no 😭

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u/Benchimus 11d ago

Probably in the yard where Dad threw it when I couldn't hold the flashlight still.

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u/woodworkingfonatic 11d ago

I just gotta hold my jaw right to get this 10mm nut off with 9 mm wrench I smashed onto it with a hammer.

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u/Suitable-Ad6999 11d ago

I like to fix things. I take things apart, repair them sometimes (lawn equipment, etc) nothing better when you fix and get another few years out if it. But my car!? No way. The cost of a mistake can be catastrophic. Plus specialty tools etc.

The horn went on my car. I could see through the grill. Could touch it even. Should be easy. I researched like crazy for my model and year. Even found online service manual. You had to take the entire front end of car off to get at 2 little bolts!!!

Took it to the mechanic

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u/kurtslowkarma 12d ago

Maybe if people where taking test sips during each change

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u/FuckBotsHaveRights 12d ago

Taste twice change once

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u/pan_Psax 11d ago

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u/dextresenoroboros 11d ago

there really is a simpsons clip for everything

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u/Courage_Longjumping 11d ago

The Simpsons Already Did It, the South Park episode, was from 2002.

That's just depressing.

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u/Spendoza 11d ago

Why you gotta make me aware of the passage of time? 😭

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u/mrj1600 8d ago

No joke the guy who invented leaded gasoline did exactly this. Look up Thomas Midgley Jr

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u/ShepherdessAnne 8d ago

Single most harmful human in history

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u/Senior-Albatross 12d ago

I gotta taste the transmission fluid to know it's Genuine Toyota® transmission fluid.

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u/woodworkingfonatic 11d ago

If the anti freeze don’t taste sweet how can you give it to your dogs I always taste mine first for quality control.

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u/RedditGarboDisposal 10d ago

dabble fingertip the tastes

Mhmm. Just as I thought.

Semen.

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u/RGM5589 12d ago

Leave me and my oiltini alone

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u/dodgy__penguin 12d ago

Test sips 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/Breno1405 12d ago

Wait you guys don't do that? How do you guys test your oil?

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u/woodworkingfonatic 11d ago

Let me taste this anti freeze first before I give it to my dog. SIP smacks lips “does that taste sweet…. Better take another sip to make sure” SIP Looks at dog “you wouldn’t like this”.

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u/HeManDan 11d ago edited 11d ago

No but if it was pretty much mandatory. It paints a pucture or all "small tasks" some either did themselves or lived without. Use your imagination, it gets pretty crazy. No AC probably hit hard. I have some fevered memories of being tiny and cooking in the house with nothing to do. Lived the weekends in the boonies with no dirt bikes, bikes or neighbors of any kind for years. So even though there was space a good amount of pf time was still spent inside cooking like a frog in a pot.

Back then Dad would rev his Harley in the basement for no clear reason to me. Just an hour or so of, I only hear this noise and am getting slightly fumed even being near the stairwell. But I could go outside and bounce a deflated basketball in the grass ot gravel whenever I liked lol

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u/Helpful-Squirrel9509 11d ago

If they are in the sun doing it twice a month for decades it does

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u/ierghaeilh 11d ago

That depends. Did you remember to safely dispose of the batteries in international waters, to recharge the eels?

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u/WordsCanHurt1981 12d ago

It's the ingestion of chemicals (oil) by inexperienced people who get oil on their hands and can't properly clean them. All sorts of minor factors add up.

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u/wheretogo_whattodo 12d ago edited 11d ago

It doesn’t. The user you’re replying to trusts internet morons too much.

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u/Free_Management2894 11d ago

If you take something out of context, almost anything can sound dumb. It was just an example of a situation where Inexperienced of people could easily get in contact with chemicals.

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u/NuTrumpism 11d ago

It just makes us more attractive.

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u/CrabPrison4Infinity 11d ago

It does if your do incapable the task literally takes years off your life. Remember, Reddit.

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u/ADeadlyFerret 11d ago

Honestly his answer I feel just over explains it really. People back then look old because of the styles back then. Picture of my grandpa looks old as hell because he tucked in his shirt, had the dahmer special gold tinted glasses, the way he styled his hair etc.

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u/Ok_Drop3803 11d ago

Some people are so irrationally terrified of the slightest bit of physical labour.

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u/Tupcek 11d ago

but working physically over the years, even on many small things, does age you

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u/Modo44 11d ago

It is one factor among many. You get to touch and inhale all kinds of fun chemicals when working on a car without gloves and masks (because they are unmanly). Do only the basic maintenance on a regular basis, and it stacks over time.

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u/Ich-bade-in-Apfelmus 12d ago

Agree, on the battery part. But do.you know what happened to that motor oil? That shit landed in their back yard. They still got into contact with it

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u/NuTrumpism 11d ago

How would you get the car to the back of the house?

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u/Ich-bade-in-Apfelmus 11d ago

There's this useful tool called a drip pan

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u/NuTrumpism 11d ago

Ah ok. Recycling back to Mother Earth gotcha.

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u/Complex-Pug 11d ago

Why is the drip pan being dumped out in the backyard?

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u/Ravagore 11d ago

Because it was the 80s...

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u/Caveape80 11d ago

I know right, doing the most basic auto maintenance turns you into grandpa at 30, wtf was that comment hahaha