"pop your hood" Options

[supershannon77]

Today at work I had my mind blown. I work in a doctors office and many of the doctors have really nice cars. I started talking to the one doctor about his car. Its an audi s5 and he had it built to his liking. I was telling him how beautiful I thought it was. Later, he went out to put the top up before it started to rain so I ran out and asked him if he could pop his hood for me so I could see the engine. He looked at me with a shameful face and said "sure, but I have no idea how to pop it" he than gave me his manual and asked me to help him. I popped it and admired it for a little while. Then, One of the other doctors came out and asked us what we were doing and talked to us a bit. Later, the doctor that came out to talk to us came to me and said he was jealous I didn't ask to see his engine so I said "sure, I'd love to see it".He has a mercedes E350. As we start walking to his car he tells me "btw, I don't know how to pop my hood either" I just couldn't believe it. He took a few minutes to try and figure it out but I just walked over and popped it for him. I told another doctor my disbelief that they couldn't pop their hood. That doctor, a third doctor laughed and said "I can't pop mine". I was shocked. I mean I understand these are brand new cars but I just imagined that popping a hood was a simple task and after spending that much money you may just want to simply admirer your engine.

Anyway, I just wanted to share because I thought maybe someone else could appreciate how shocked I was that these people have these beautiful cars and have never looked at their engine. They also have never washed their own cars. If I spent that much money on a car I know for sure no one else would be washing it or touching it and that I would be washing it often.

Any thoughts?

[krom8]

I once saw a nice 5th gen celica parked on the side of the road. There was a guy and his daughter in the car and I asked if they needed any help, the guy told the car just died on them. I proceed to ask him what was wrong with it and he was clueless so I told him to pop the hood so I could take a look at it. He had no idea what-so-ever how to pop the hood so I did it for him. I saw that the belt had broken so I told him. He thought that meant the engine was blown and he started freaking out a little. Before he had a chance to call a tow truck I ran to autozone and got a new belt for him, showed him how to put it on and I swear it was as if he just rebuilt the motor the way he was going on about it.

I think that some have been led to believe that engine work and knowing how to do simple maintenence is witchcraft, and I think a lot of this misdirection comes from hearing various mechanic's double speak. Of course there are those people who just don't care and one of my biggest pet peeves is people who buy a car without ever taking a look at the engine.