Yeah it isn't HARD Which is why paying someone else to do it only costs twenty bucks Which is the small cost of having a business to yell at and demand compensation from if they don't put the drain plug back in correctly
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(People really don't game out high-impact low-probability events enough when making these calculations You don't buy title insurance when closing on a house because running a title search is that hard You do it because on the off chance of something weird, you lose the house)
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Anyway I don't fuck with car stuff because the stakes are pretty high and your car unexpectedly failing on you doesn't just endanger you but everyone else on the road
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Driving, in fact, falls into that category of things that don't seem that hard but if you fuck it up one time you can instantly kill a dozen people I think a lot about how US DMVs probably make it way too easy to get and keep a license because our infrastructure requires it
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If I could take public transit everywhere, I would, but alas
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I can do it mostly because I grew up in a place and time where it was expected that you do it yourself, and we disposed of the oil by using it to choke out the mosquitos breeding in the open ditch. I don’t do it now because it’s a shitty job and I can afford to pay someone.
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I rather spend the 15 minutes doing it myself than the hassle of taking it somewhere
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My favorite story is from one of my dad's former co-workers who accidentally drained his transmission fluid and put in an additional four quarts of oil, then drove off with no transmission fluid and eight quarts of oil in his engine.
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Also increasingly companies are trying to make it more difficult to change your own oil. Whether it's just special bolts or deciding that an oil change should involve a computer. Now the bolt itself as a basic prevent idiots from fucking up device would be fine, the rest though.
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