# Almost Hired An Idiot Tonight **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 5, 2018, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-hired-an-idiot-tonight/811845 "2018-04-05T02:11:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2018, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-hired-an-idiot-tonight/811845/21 "2018-04-05T14:45:08Z")
But couldn’t a stand up kinda, diamond in the rough, mechanic type, have easily swapped out his spare to help out a customer in a real bind? Like, maybe even last week, and he hadn’t got round to replacing the thing? (When people seem too quick to judge negatively, I find I am often confused whether they are hard hearted, harden from other negative experiences, or simply lack the imagination to conjecture an entirely innocent set of events that could have resulted in this same exact circumstance. ) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2018, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-hired-an-idiot-tonight/811845/22 "2018-04-05T16:17:01Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > A confident mechanic wouldn’t have a spare, or even tools, in his car. Why would he? This is so true. Mr.Wrekker and my son are always working on some truck or Jeep and will drive them allover. I have had to go pick them up many times on some gravel road. They call it test driving. Drives me bat shit. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2018, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-hired-an-idiot-tonight/811845/23 "2018-04-05T17:02:24Z")
That’s me, hard hearted, hardend from other negative experiences, but certainly not short on imagination. I figure he scored a rock, and blew me off. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2018, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-hired-an-idiot-tonight/811845/24 "2018-04-05T17:33:47Z")
I vote for that. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2018, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-hired-an-idiot-tonight/811845/25 "2018-04-05T19:28:07Z")
I’d give the guy another chance. Maybe his spare was flat or something. My mechanic is excellent and he drove around in a beat-up ~1990 Honda Civic until a couple years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Heracles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heracles/32/487_2.png) [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2018, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-hired-an-idiot-tonight/811845/26 "2018-04-05T23:57:49Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I get an email, “Tire blew out. No spare. I come tomorrow”. :rolleyes: (bad grammar and punctuation is representative of the actual intercourse) So: he had a punctured-rubber problem, and he had no spare, but he was willing to wait until tomorrow to come, and that sums up your intercourse for today. Don’t worry, tomorrow’s intercourse will probably be more satisfying. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-hired-an-idiot-tonight/811845/27 "2018-04-06T00:04:59Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > … > > A mechanic, that doesn’t carry a spare? Sorry. I’m not hiring you to hang a fucking bird-feeder. A lot of new cars don’t even have spares anymore. Tires are that reliable. Wrong reason to not hire. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-hired-an-idiot-tonight/811845/28 "2018-04-06T02:34:42Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > A lot of new cars don’t even have spares anymore. Tires are that reliable. Wrong reason to not hire. His excuse: “My vehicle has 500k miles on it and parts are hard to find”. :rolleyes: It’s a tire, bro. You are obviously (to me, at least, and it’s my money) sloppy and stupid. None of my cash for you! Would you hire someone who missed the first job interview? Answer seriously. Maybe I should make a poll. But I don’t give enough of a Fuck. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-hired-an-idiot-tonight/811845/29 "2018-04-06T03:04:16Z")
You’re right, he sounds like an idiot. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-hired-an-idiot-tonight/811845/30 "2018-04-06T03:06:59Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > His excuse: “My vehicle has 500k miles on it and parts are hard to find”. :rolleyes: It’s a tire, bro. You are obviously (to me, at least, and it’s my money) sloppy and stupid. None of my cash for you! > > Would you hire someone who missed the first job interview? Answer seriously. Maybe I should make a poll. But I don’t give enough of a Fuck. If his car has 500,000 miles on it, he’s way smarter than you think. That’s like a plus in the skill column as I see I t. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-hired-an-idiot-tonight/811845/31 "2018-04-06T03:40:37Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > If his car has 500,000 miles on it, he’s way smarter than you think. That’s like a plus in the skill column as I see I t. Eh. I got three of 'em with more than that. And they all have spares. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-hired-an-idiot-tonight/811845/32 "2018-04-06T04:45:11Z")
The one with the blown tire and no spare? That was the loaner he was bringing over to your place to pick up your car. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-hired-an-idiot-tonight/811845/33 "2018-04-06T14:26:28Z")
**DesertRoomie** acquired a retired thoroughbred that, with about twenty others, had been literally pulled off a truck bound for a slaughterhouse in Mexico. She was boarded with a woman who had two horses of her own. When it was time to trim the hooves of all three, the farrier she usually used was no longer in business so she called another fellow. When he was trimming **DR** ’s mare while the three of us watched, we mentioned conversationally the horse’s near brush with death. Still bent over the hoof he was working on the farrier grunted something like, “Useless animal; should’ve left her on the truck,” leaving us all flabbergasted. Needless to say, another farrier was found for the next trimming. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-hired-an-idiot-tonight/811845/34 "2018-04-06T15:03:31Z")
^^,I had to take a sick dog to a vet. Not my usual guy. This vet was mostly a farm vet. Small pets were not his thing. He begrudgingly treated my dog for a bad infection in one of her paws. But he lectured me for 20min. on how stupid it was to have house pets snd how utterly useless they were. He lanced her paw and gave her an antibiotic shot. I literally ran out of there carrying my dog, so fast, I forgot to pay for his services. I didn’t think about it til I got home. I decided I would pay a bill, when he sent one with a check and a note reaming him out about his bedside manners. Never got the bill. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-hired-an-idiot-tonight/811845/35 "2018-04-06T17:23:27Z")
So that was what I would call a, “Win-Win”. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-hired-an-idiot-tonight/811845/36 "2018-04-06T18:34:51Z")
^^I have always thought so. But it pisses me off I didn’t get a chance to chew him out. ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-hired-an-idiot-tonight/811845/37 "2018-04-06T22:42:18Z")
Throwing my latest mechanic adventure in: I hired a guy from a mobile mechanic service a few weeks ago to install 02 sensors. When this shaking, rail-thin young dude showed up I thought “oh lord, he’s a tweaker - how do I get rid of him before he touches my car?” Anyhoo, turns out he has mild cerebral palsy and is a damn fine mechanic. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@MonkeyCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyCat)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2018, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-hired-an-idiot-tonight/811845/38 "2018-04-07T23:14:44Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Idk, Gato, mechanics notoriously have problem vehicles. It’s like the Physician heal thyself, thing. Bad grammar that does it for me, though. > I told you to go buy her a new ride. Haha, exactly. Bad grammar would have done it for me, too. Kind of not exactly telling as far as his mechanic skills, and yet, I irrationally would have judged him incompetent even so. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-hired-an-idiot-tonight/811845.md?page=1)