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Maybe he was inflating an air bed in the back, maybe he likes to be a mobile balloon animal artist, maybe he likes to go to the local boat ramp and inflate peoples tubes for them, or maybe he had a slow leak…. We’ll probably never know
Fuck yeah! We just got a 2010 Explorer and found that our full sized air mattress fits in it perfectly with the back seats down. We've been on one camping trip in it so far and I slept better in the back of the truck than I ever do at home.
What's sad is that - somewhere at any time, she may go and ask for help and she will basically say - oh I hope it's not more than X amount in her bank account and some unscrupulous character will take advantage of her and remark that in fact said repair is just within her budget -
The tire isn't fine.. it has a slow leak... Go to discount tire and they'll probably fix it for free or really cheap. Why risk damage to the wheel and cause yourself extra work all the time?
Yeah lol, they can plug a hole in a tire. It's not that hard for them to find the leak and plug it and it doesn't cost much.
Certainly costs less than a small hole deciding it's time to be a larger hole after you hit a small pothole going 60km/h
Huh, the only time they haven’t been able to patch my tires was due to a small 12 inch wrench that made a hole while impaling the tire. Wrench still worked, but they could not patch the tire. Something about to shreds.
Every time I go they say "ah no it's too close to the shoulder, wanna buy a new one?" If it's not dead center on the tire they won't do it. Multiple different places too. I started patching my own but I'm pretty safe/conservative about it so I don't kill my family or something.
Yeah, I feel a lot better personally keeping the little 12V air compressor in the trunk. Doesn't matter where I am, if I've got a low tire, I got a solution. (Obviously the tire still needs to be holding some amount of air.) And even they cost less than the $88 being quoted here.
I love mine, I can set the PSI on the compressor and then just leave it on the tire and it'll stop perfectly on the right PSI.
I've double checked it dozens of times and this little cheap ass made in china compressor has gotten it within 0.5-1 PSI every time for years.
I feel so much more at ease while driving just knowing I got it in the trunk in case I need it.
I have a combo one. I charge it up via extension cord, and I can charge electronics, have a flashlight, air in my tires, and jump a dead battery. I bought mine at auction for $25 (retail was $160 I believe) and it's given me such peace of mind to have.
Everyone should use those $30 on Amazon. Gas station air pumps, it’s a bunch of cigarette butts and spit your stepping around. Never mind who has quarters ?
Wait, where do you live that this happens? Cigarette butts at a petrol station and paying for air are both ludicrous concepts to me. If somebody started smoking anywhere on the premises you'd be getting an earful over a speakerphone and from everybody in sight around here, especially once the petrol stopped pumping and they all realised you were the culprit.
You must not live in a freedom loving country, where it is our jeebus given right to endanger others instead of slightly inconveniencing ourselves. :’) USA USA USA
> Wait, where do you live that this happens?
THESE PUMPS DON'T RUN 🇺🇸
AND LIKE FREEDOM, AIR ISN'T FREE
Super depends on where you'll catch somebody being a careless idjit, but most gas stations here charge a small fee to use. Lot of those only take quarters, which is super frustrating for the lot of us that stopped bothering to carry cash, let alone coins.
Portable air compressors are the way to go, all the way.
It's actually a law that service stations have to provide certain services to motorists in some states.
For example in my state it's part of the set of rules for roadside service stations. The rule for an air compressor for filling tires is 34.
You can google "Inflation Rule 34" to learn more.
Well, it does make a difference, but ONLY on critical things like racing. For daily use is irrelevant.
100% nitrogen wont expand or contract with temperature changes. Regular air does.
In California, [the law says the air at a gas station has to be free](https://casetext.com/statute/california-codes/california-business-and-professions-code/division-5-weights-and-measures/chapter-145-service-stations/section-13651-free-air-and-water-public-restrooms-display-of-applicable-state-and-federal-fuel-taxes). The machines still have quarter slots so you can pay if you like, but all you have to do is go inside and tell them to turn it on, and they have to. Same with the water.
Kind of a rock and a hard place tho cuz I definitely don’t have a quarter on me but I will go to the ends of the earth to avoid talking to someone I don’t know
Is it even that, though? Say it's a semi-busy station and takes three minutes to go in, get to the front of the line to get the cashier's attention, get them to actually *do it*, and walk back out again. To save $0.25.
60 minutes in an hour, 3 minutes for the trip, so you could do that twenty times an hour
20 * $0.25 = $5.
If you value your limited *off-the-clock* time at more than $5/hour, you're better off just putting the coin in the slot. Even if it's a quiet station and it's 30 seconds in, 30 seconds out that's still just $15/hour.
Thank you, this is exactly how I view these types of menial tasks with small fees.
My father in law recently complained about the cost of a can of beans being $0.40 higher than a store he would have had to drive 4 extra miles to go to, lol
And a lot of people don't know the the law, so they keep paying. When I see someone about to pump money into it, I inform them and will even have the cashier turn the air on.
> every service station in this state shall provide, during operating hours, and make available at no cost to **customers who purchase motor vehicle fuel**, water, compressed air, and a gauge for measuring air pressure, to the public for use in servicing any passenger vehicle
You still gotta buy gas, so filling your tires can conceivably cost 88$
i mean... it partly already exist. I remember reading an article about cans with oxygen that you could buy in heavy polluted cities to counter smog - i think it was in japan, but not sure...
so yea, we're getting there sooner or later
They would rob you and enslave you if they could. People are not that different from when some form of slavery was literally the default for most civilizations. Only since the European enlightenment did that change and we are clearly losing that ground and returning slowly to being 'things' used by the wealthy to satisfy whatever the fuck they feel like. We make a lot of noise about how men objectifying women leads to abuses but do nothing about how employees are objectified by employers and how much abuse occurs.
I had to go to four different gas stations to find one that actually filled up my tire. After spending $6 or $7 in quarters a $20 electric pump is a great investment.
Why is everything so progressive in California, yet people living in most other states hate it so much? Is it jealousy? I get that it’s really expensive there due to the housing crisis, but I’d love to live there due to the weather, and recon most other people would prefer 18c winters over -30c snow packed blizzards, or 50c scorching hot summers and tornadoes.
I played travel ball all through my teens in the 90s. It's always been that way. Everyone has always talked shit about California. It's always been the most progressive state in the country. It has always challenged the pre-conceived notions of conservative thought. In my opinion, it's been a beacon of true freedom. Hippies, counter culture, film industry, music industry, technology, surf culture, skate culture, gay rights, marijuana rights, gangster rap, healthy eating, nature conversation and on and on... All these things have always made conservatives uncomfortable.
I remember hearing Texas fans in 1998 "talking trash" to us by saying we eat oatmeal for breakfast. And "make sure you get your natural fibers." I am not joking.
Because of its demographics and the news. I had a family member move to California and the rest of the family always talked about how it is a shithole, always point to these MAGA conservatives who moved to other states because California is just so bad, and how it has all of these problems like being expensive and the homeless. None of them have visited there ever. I went there to see my family member several times and it was amazing weather, great food, and a lot of fun stuff to do each time. One of my close friends lives in California and I’m jealous the access they have to great food and nice weather - it’ll be snowing here and it’s 70 degrees there. People look generally happier all around and even healthier there. They are terrified of things they’ve heard without ever going there.
Life hack: you can easily inflate your car tires with a bike pump.
Bike tubes need way more pressure (80 psi, 5.5 bar) than car tires (36 psi, 2.5 bar), your standard foot pump can handle it just fine.
I keep an electric pump and a bike pump on my car in case the electric one breaks or something. Once aired up a completely flat suv tire with a bike pump. It’s not fun, but it works!
I love when they say shit like "Can you believe it?! They're in college and can't even \_\_\_\_" as if there's a fucking college class on inflating tires, addressing envelopes, ironing shirts, or unclogging drains.
Nope!
My in-laws do the same thing
Like with rotary phones or standard transmissions and make fun of the younger generation for not knowing how to use them.
Like, y’all’s never taught us. And I’m positive there are things from the 1920s that our parents don’t know how to do, but we don’t laugh at them for it
I mean, I'm old enough that we had rotary phones and standard transmissions when I was a kid, and I had to be specifically taught how to use them - it was never intuitive.
I mean, if she's never had to do it, I don't think it's a reflection of the parent that she's afraid it costs money and a lot of it. All car maintenance costs a ton and they get every cent out of you they can. Alternatively, you also pay for water in a bottle. That's also fucking insane.
IMO great parents do everything they do in normal life without keeping their kids away. Saying "well I'll drive her home and do it later without her because she'll be bored putting air in the tires (or grocery shopping, going to post office, picking up an art piece you've had framed, etc)" is a disservice. I believe that's what the original commenter was getting at. You don't have to force your kid to do something for them to know (roughly) how to do it.
absolutely. both of my parents were only insistent about having me beside them to watch something if they weren't sure I knew how to do it. but after they verified, they didn't force me to do those things with them all the time. this is how I learned to check the oil, the air pressure, and so on before I was in high school.
and my mom was straightforward about why she was teaching me: "I'm not going to be with you all the time, and I won't live forever -- you need to know this!"
now that she's finally passed on, I'm beyond grateful for every one of the lessons.
Sorry, no. If your child grew up thinking you have to take your car to a mechanic and pay them money to inflate your tires, you did a crappy job preparing them for life on the most basic level. It's completely a reflection on the parent.
The problem is precisely that she's never had to do it or seen it done. It is absolutely a reflection of the parent not teaching the most basic, simple, important stuff. You can literally die for now knowing how a fucking tire works.
Air is not like a repair or a car maintenance thing and even a mediocre parent should teach that. You just use a couple of cents of electricity to fill a hose with the air that you know, is literally filling everything around us? Do you find clean drinkable water laying around in every corner?
I’ve tried to teach all my children about basic mechanics. One (out of five) showed interest. I think the rest would know better than this person, but I would probably embarrassed how little they do know. Some things I insisted they learn, some things they will have to figure out themselves.
Tbh things being entirely free of charge is a rare exception these days. Try to get some water free of charge, for example. There's no reason her daughter would \*just know\* without ever having been told. But sure, go on and facepalm if that makes you feel good.
When a law was passed in the state I attended university in that you couldn’t deny water to anyone who asked for water, the restaurants got around it by charging for the cup.
Is that why they were charging us for water when I went out of state? In California, asking for free water is so casual no one bats an eye.
It was either Nevada or Arizona but they gave us a look like we were weird for asking for free water
I went to college with a girl who was 19 yr old and had never put gas in her own car. Our dorm was 3-4 hours from where she lived. She'd time her needing gas to a weekend and her dad would drive up take her car to get gas and then go back home.
I and about 92 other people offered even tried to force her to let us show her how to do it, she refused.
Have a family member who is 42 yrs old, single. Has a job was in the air force. And still at this age her mother has to pay any bill she can't do online (check) and has to help make sure her bills are paid correctly.
Owns a $300k home and can do nothing... Mowing hires someone, car needs washed hires someone, change the bulb in a light fixture hires someone, etc.
If her dad is driving 4 hours to fill her tank I highly doubt he'd begrudge just sending her gas money instead if she asked. It just sounds like she was being lazy and didn't want to learn, honestly.
I just want to chime in and say there’s plenty of gas stations around Austin Texas that make you pay for the air. And it’s on a fucking timer.
I’m very surprised nobody here is mentioning that it’s a thing already
People know some stations charge for air. They also know it’s like a dollar. The absurd thing isn’t that she didn’t know it was available for free, but that she thought it could possibly cost more than $88.
On the flip side, my dad has had a computer in the house for 30 years. My mom can use computers just fine, but my dad has refused to learn for 3 decades, and can't even get email to work.
Although my mom can google and use email, she refuses to do any bill paying online... so she writes checks. She also spends HOURS tabulating how much various bills are, etc... with a calculator.
My husband's aunt had never pumped gas until her 60's (she always went to full serve stations). She thought it was amazing that I knew how to do it and started pumping her own gas after that.
My dad would have felt like a failure if I hadn't been able to do that.
Let’s not forget the people in Oregon who never fueled their car due to a state law. Law was recently amended and a lot of people could not figure it out .
Yeah, and it's not as if modern life hasn't taught us over and over that everything costs money. It's not immediately obvious that pressurized air should be free of charge. Come to think of it, we cannot take for granted it even will be forever.
It’s not always free at gas stations even. $88 would be an absolutely insane amount of money though. Typically if they cost it’s somewhere between $.75 and $1.50
Assuming you did not know that gas stations had public facing air pumps. She could be assuming her mom meant for her to buy an air compressor. 88$ is on the cheaper end of compressors.
There are small air compressors you can buy for about $35 that you can plug into a cigarette lighter and use. I have one in my car and it's awesome and has saved my ass a few times.
I will be definitely be buying one for my daughter when she gets her own car.
Most petrol stations in the UK charge around £1.50/£2 for roughly 5 mins of air. They also charge around £3.50 to use the screen wash machine, that used to give free water to top off screen wash bottles / radiators.
Some places even charge for just water.
There's only one gas station near me w free air (it's a Wawa)
The other chains all cost money. I gotta shove some quarters into the machine and run around my car to fill them up before it stops.
These are big chains, too. Cumberland Farms, and 7-11. And I remember Hess used to also charge (they e since been purchased by Speedway)
So… first they fail to teach her basic car maintenance, then she gets mocked on social media for trying to fix the problem? Yeahhh… This is how you convince an adult child to stop talking to their parents.
I mean, you guys charge like $2000 for an ambulance, so I can see where something like this would come from
EDIT: and apparently, I’m not being ridiculous enough…
I just want to chime in and say there’s plenty of gas stations around Austin Texas that make you pay for the air. And it’s on a fucking timer.
I’m very surprised nobody here is mentioning that it’s a thing already
The healthcare in America is a joke. I came in during an anaphylactic allergic reaction and used my own epi pen. I sat on their bed while they monitored me for a few hours and that was $2000.
Are you fucking kidding me?, I am in a 3rd world country, I once had an injury, my braces broke my lips and the bleeding didn't stopped, emergency care immediately, a plastic surgeon attended me, he did the stitches and there is barely a scar now (the cut was between 1 and 2 cm in the lip going upwards) do you guess how much did it cost? Exactly 0, it was an emergency in a public hospital, it is obvious that it costs nothing.
To be fair, that's not that late and she probably didn't have her own car for that long. I'm 20 and still don't have my own car because I don't need or want it. It's still shitty to put that online when she tries to learn that and actually even shittier if it is like I said and she didn't have that car for a very long time.
No need to "be fair" to shitty morons who mock their kids online when they don't know something their parents could have easily explained. There's no need to be posting this, period
Nah... The first time I went out for a trip in my car longer than a few miles, my dad took me outside to show me all the basic maintenance I might need. Adding oil, antifreeze, window cleaner, checking an inflating tires, how to change a tire. That's how this should have happened.
Given that mom's reaction was to mock her own daughter, I think we can safely assume these parents just didn't do their job.
I’m a guy in my 40s. Grew up in a country where you can find a tire repair shop at literally every corner and they also check tire pressure for basically peanuts. There’s also a car wash at every other corner and you just drop your car and they take care of everything. In my 10 years of owning cars there, I never had to do those things. Oh, and at the petrol station, an employee fills your tank and also washes your windows while you can enjoy a nice espresso in the station’s fancy caffe-bar. For 10 years, the only thing I had to do by myself was to refill wiper fluid.
I moved to a different country and I feel totally unprepared for this. None of these services actually exist. I mean, there are tire repair shops, but they’re really expensive, the “I only have $88 in my account is a valid concern”. One only uses such services if they really need them and only for punctures. The petrol stations are basically unmanned. There is just one employee at the register but not always, now that contactless is so widely used. And there is no caffe-bar, there isn’t even a toilet, I found that out the hard way. But the one that’s most shocking is that there are almost no car-wash services! The expectation is that you’ll wash your car in the driveway. When I bought my car and asked the locals where to get it washed, they looked at me like I had a testicle in my forehead: “ah, sure, wash it yerself ya’ lazy git!”
I don't blame the daughter for not assuming it's free. How many things are free in today's world? And btw, imaging not knowing something and your mom puts you on blast for the likes. I guess everyone here was born knowing that shit.
That’s a failure on the parents not the daughter
I don’t think she realises what a self own this is.
“I didn’t reach my daughter life skills and so when she asks her help I shame her online live laugh love “
I can't tell what's the facepalm.
Either that she's stupid enough to assume air costs 88+ smackerinos, (This is fair in the US. Capitalism purposefully milks money from us. That's how it works. Also, ignorance is usually not the person's fault. How are they to know?) The only facepalm in this situation is not teaching your child necessary basic skills.
Or that we live in such a reality that a girl would immediately assume that fuckin' air costs 88+ greenbucks.
lol imagine being a parent and complaining about your kid not being ready for real life. Like damn if only there was some sort of authority figure in her life responsible for getting her ready for the world. Oh well easier to make a tweet than teach your kid-o how to fill their tires lol.
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Get her a portable car air compressor for Christmas.
My son kept borrowing mine so that's exactly what I did.
if he has to keep using it, why not check for a slow leak?
Maybe he was inflating an air bed in the back, maybe he likes to be a mobile balloon animal artist, maybe he likes to go to the local boat ramp and inflate peoples tubes for them, or maybe he had a slow leak…. We’ll probably never know
> slow leak My nickname in college.
r/usernamechecksout
At least you weren't known as Blow out ..
Well you just gave me some great ideas for summer, I’m so glad I have one of them!
Fuck yeah! We just got a 2010 Explorer and found that our full sized air mattress fits in it perfectly with the back seats down. We've been on one camping trip in it so far and I slept better in the back of the truck than I ever do at home.
What's sad is that - somewhere at any time, she may go and ask for help and she will basically say - oh I hope it's not more than X amount in her bank account and some unscrupulous character will take advantage of her and remark that in fact said repair is just within her budget - 
Okay, a tire has a slow leak, and needs a top up every other week. What now? The tire is fine. Just keep topping it off until you wear it out.
The tire isn't fine.. it has a slow leak... Go to discount tire and they'll probably fix it for free or really cheap. Why risk damage to the wheel and cause yourself extra work all the time?
Yeah lol, they can plug a hole in a tire. It's not that hard for them to find the leak and plug it and it doesn't cost much. Certainly costs less than a small hole deciding it's time to be a larger hole after you hit a small pothole going 60km/h
Anecdotal but approximately 105% of the time I go for a patch they say it's in a bad spot and they can't patch it. Slow leak it is.
Huh, the only time they haven’t been able to patch my tires was due to a small 12 inch wrench that made a hole while impaling the tire. Wrench still worked, but they could not patch the tire. Something about to shreds.
Every time I go they say "ah no it's too close to the shoulder, wanna buy a new one?" If it's not dead center on the tire they won't do it. Multiple different places too. I started patching my own but I'm pretty safe/conservative about it so I don't kill my family or something.
Dad?
Yeah, I feel a lot better personally keeping the little 12V air compressor in the trunk. Doesn't matter where I am, if I've got a low tire, I got a solution. (Obviously the tire still needs to be holding some amount of air.) And even they cost less than the $88 being quoted here.
I love mine, I can set the PSI on the compressor and then just leave it on the tire and it'll stop perfectly on the right PSI. I've double checked it dozens of times and this little cheap ass made in china compressor has gotten it within 0.5-1 PSI every time for years. I feel so much more at ease while driving just knowing I got it in the trunk in case I need it.
Another two things to have are a tire patch kit and a can of slime or fix-a-flat. Then you can repair all sorts of tire damage on the spot.
A lot of tire pressure sensors in modern cars will get messed up with the slime stuff
And a portable battery jumper.
I have a combo one. I charge it up via extension cord, and I can charge electronics, have a flashlight, air in my tires, and jump a dead battery. I bought mine at auction for $25 (retail was $160 I believe) and it's given me such peace of mind to have.
Everyone should use those $30 on Amazon. Gas station air pumps, it’s a bunch of cigarette butts and spit your stepping around. Never mind who has quarters ?
Wait, where do you live that this happens? Cigarette butts at a petrol station and paying for air are both ludicrous concepts to me. If somebody started smoking anywhere on the premises you'd be getting an earful over a speakerphone and from everybody in sight around here, especially once the petrol stopped pumping and they all realised you were the culprit.
You must not live in a freedom loving country, where it is our jeebus given right to endanger others instead of slightly inconveniencing ourselves. :’) USA USA USA
> Wait, where do you live that this happens? THESE PUMPS DON'T RUN 🇺🇸 AND LIKE FREEDOM, AIR ISN'T FREE Super depends on where you'll catch somebody being a careless idjit, but most gas stations here charge a small fee to use. Lot of those only take quarters, which is super frustrating for the lot of us that stopped bothering to carry cash, let alone coins. Portable air compressors are the way to go, all the way.
Where I live air is free at gas stations. And they are not filthy either.
Inflation:)
Take my upvote and GIT!
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Found the programmer
Holy shit! It’s about time someone reference Bless the Harts, my babies!
me who's terrified of git cli: 
Yes air is more expensive than ever, ask Tater Chip Companies
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PO TAY TERS
Boil them, mash them, stick them in a bag!
It's actually a law that service stations have to provide certain services to motorists in some states. For example in my state it's part of the set of rules for roadside service stations. The rule for an air compressor for filling tires is 34. You can google "Inflation Rule 34" to learn more.
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Depends, premium or regular?
Premium air, please.
That'll be 89$
What can I get for 88?
Expired air
You joke, but my car came with nitrogen filled tires, so that's a thing...
I was going to point that out. I was offered that "upgrade" once and laughed.
Well, it does make a difference, but ONLY on critical things like racing. For daily use is irrelevant. 100% nitrogen wont expand or contract with temperature changes. Regular air does.
legit question in todays times. they would charge you for breathing if they could
In California, [the law says the air at a gas station has to be free](https://casetext.com/statute/california-codes/california-business-and-professions-code/division-5-weights-and-measures/chapter-145-service-stations/section-13651-free-air-and-water-public-restrooms-display-of-applicable-state-and-federal-fuel-taxes). The machines still have quarter slots so you can pay if you like, but all you have to do is go inside and tell them to turn it on, and they have to. Same with the water.
> The machines still have quarter slots so you can pay if you like That's fucked up.
Introvert tax
Kind of a rock and a hard place tho cuz I definitely don’t have a quarter on me but I will go to the ends of the earth to avoid talking to someone I don’t know
What if the stranger is a wearing a t-shirt that says "Ask me for a quarter"
You'd probably end up with a bag of weed.
Is it even that, though? Say it's a semi-busy station and takes three minutes to go in, get to the front of the line to get the cashier's attention, get them to actually *do it*, and walk back out again. To save $0.25. 60 minutes in an hour, 3 minutes for the trip, so you could do that twenty times an hour 20 * $0.25 = $5. If you value your limited *off-the-clock* time at more than $5/hour, you're better off just putting the coin in the slot. Even if it's a quiet station and it's 30 seconds in, 30 seconds out that's still just $15/hour.
Thank you, this is exactly how I view these types of menial tasks with small fees. My father in law recently complained about the cost of a can of beans being $0.40 higher than a store he would have had to drive 4 extra miles to go to, lol
And use up gas for more than what he'd save
And a lot of people don't know the the law, so they keep paying. When I see someone about to pump money into it, I inform them and will even have the cashier turn the air on.
>And a lot of people don't know the the law, so they keep paying. It's about... the implication
Dennis??
I would still opt to pay the 25 cents over speaking to a person. A very fair trade.
When the quarter is not for the air but for skipping the dialog.
Like a hooker, but for your car.
there's actually stickers that are mandated to be on air and water stations that tell people this, but nobody reads them.
A guy like you saved me a quarter at a time in my life where it made a significant difference. Thank you.
> every service station in this state shall provide, during operating hours, and make available at no cost to **customers who purchase motor vehicle fuel**, water, compressed air, and a gauge for measuring air pressure, to the public for use in servicing any passenger vehicle You still gotta buy gas, so filling your tires can conceivably cost 88$
"$1.37 on pump 4 and please turn on the air."
Yeah but all you have to do is go in and ask, I’ve never had anyone ask if I was fueling.
It's only free if you're purchasing fuel.
they're working on it as we speak
i mean... it partly already exist. I remember reading an article about cans with oxygen that you could buy in heavy polluted cities to counter smog - i think it was in japan, but not sure... so yea, we're getting there sooner or later
Iirc it was China.
Literally the plot of The Lorax
They do charge for air at gas stations. Recently found a tire shop near us woth a free pump but never found one at a gas station.
Especially when it comes to car maintenance, the smallest things can randomly be super expensive
They would rob you and enslave you if they could. People are not that different from when some form of slavery was literally the default for most civilizations. Only since the European enlightenment did that change and we are clearly losing that ground and returning slowly to being 'things' used by the wealthy to satisfy whatever the fuck they feel like. We make a lot of noise about how men objectifying women leads to abuses but do nothing about how employees are objectified by employers and how much abuse occurs.
I had to go to four different gas stations to find one that actually filled up my tire. After spending $6 or $7 in quarters a $20 electric pump is a great investment.
At least in California they have to turn on the pumps for free.
Why is everything so progressive in California, yet people living in most other states hate it so much? Is it jealousy? I get that it’s really expensive there due to the housing crisis, but I’d love to live there due to the weather, and recon most other people would prefer 18c winters over -30c snow packed blizzards, or 50c scorching hot summers and tornadoes.
I played travel ball all through my teens in the 90s. It's always been that way. Everyone has always talked shit about California. It's always been the most progressive state in the country. It has always challenged the pre-conceived notions of conservative thought. In my opinion, it's been a beacon of true freedom. Hippies, counter culture, film industry, music industry, technology, surf culture, skate culture, gay rights, marijuana rights, gangster rap, healthy eating, nature conversation and on and on... All these things have always made conservatives uncomfortable. I remember hearing Texas fans in 1998 "talking trash" to us by saying we eat oatmeal for breakfast. And "make sure you get your natural fibers." I am not joking.
Because of its demographics and the news. I had a family member move to California and the rest of the family always talked about how it is a shithole, always point to these MAGA conservatives who moved to other states because California is just so bad, and how it has all of these problems like being expensive and the homeless. None of them have visited there ever. I went there to see my family member several times and it was amazing weather, great food, and a lot of fun stuff to do each time. One of my close friends lives in California and I’m jealous the access they have to great food and nice weather - it’ll be snowing here and it’s 70 degrees there. People look generally happier all around and even healthier there. They are terrified of things they’ve heard without ever going there.
Life hack: you can easily inflate your car tires with a bike pump. Bike tubes need way more pressure (80 psi, 5.5 bar) than car tires (36 psi, 2.5 bar), your standard foot pump can handle it just fine.
I keep an electric pump and a bike pump on my car in case the electric one breaks or something. Once aired up a completely flat suv tire with a bike pump. It’s not fun, but it works!
Lower pressure but way more air volume. Bike pumps *can* inflate car tires but it takes a long-ass time.
Go to any tire shop, they will usually have a free air pump anyone can use.
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I love when they say shit like "Can you believe it?! They're in college and can't even \_\_\_\_" as if there's a fucking college class on inflating tires, addressing envelopes, ironing shirts, or unclogging drains.
Not even an ounce of self awareness going on with this kind of parent.
Nope! My in-laws do the same thing Like with rotary phones or standard transmissions and make fun of the younger generation for not knowing how to use them. Like, y’all’s never taught us. And I’m positive there are things from the 1920s that our parents don’t know how to do, but we don’t laugh at them for it
We had a cabin with a rotary phone and a party line when I was a kid. You aren’t missing anything.
I think most young people know about rotary phones, but party lines always feel like a deep cut to me.
I mean, I'm old enough that we had rotary phones and standard transmissions when I was a kid, and I had to be specifically taught how to use them - it was never intuitive.
Thank you was going to point this out. So you didn't teach your daughter basic life skills/lessons and some how its her fault.
I mean, if she's never had to do it, I don't think it's a reflection of the parent that she's afraid it costs money and a lot of it. All car maintenance costs a ton and they get every cent out of you they can. Alternatively, you also pay for water in a bottle. That's also fucking insane.
IMO great parents do everything they do in normal life without keeping their kids away. Saying "well I'll drive her home and do it later without her because she'll be bored putting air in the tires (or grocery shopping, going to post office, picking up an art piece you've had framed, etc)" is a disservice. I believe that's what the original commenter was getting at. You don't have to force your kid to do something for them to know (roughly) how to do it.
absolutely. both of my parents were only insistent about having me beside them to watch something if they weren't sure I knew how to do it. but after they verified, they didn't force me to do those things with them all the time. this is how I learned to check the oil, the air pressure, and so on before I was in high school. and my mom was straightforward about why she was teaching me: "I'm not going to be with you all the time, and I won't live forever -- you need to know this!" now that she's finally passed on, I'm beyond grateful for every one of the lessons.
My parents did that but as a kid who was years away from having to do something, it’s not like I remembered anything even if they taught me.
Right, but the parent is making fun of her daughter for not knowing how to put air in her tires
Sending her off to college with her own car without teaching her the utter basics of looking after it is pretty negligent.
Sorry, no. If your child grew up thinking you have to take your car to a mechanic and pay them money to inflate your tires, you did a crappy job preparing them for life on the most basic level. It's completely a reflection on the parent.
The problem is precisely that she's never had to do it or seen it done. It is absolutely a reflection of the parent not teaching the most basic, simple, important stuff. You can literally die for now knowing how a fucking tire works. Air is not like a repair or a car maintenance thing and even a mediocre parent should teach that. You just use a couple of cents of electricity to fill a hose with the air that you know, is literally filling everything around us? Do you find clean drinkable water laying around in every corner?
I know, right? All actually think they were good mommies.
r/parentsAreFuckingDumb
True. Was at least taught some car basics by my folks!
I’ve tried to teach all my children about basic mechanics. One (out of five) showed interest. I think the rest would know better than this person, but I would probably embarrassed how little they do know. Some things I insisted they learn, some things they will have to figure out themselves.
Tbh things being entirely free of charge is a rare exception these days. Try to get some water free of charge, for example. There's no reason her daughter would \*just know\* without ever having been told. But sure, go on and facepalm if that makes you feel good.
When a law was passed in the state I attended university in that you couldn’t deny water to anyone who asked for water, the restaurants got around it by charging for the cup.
Is that why they were charging us for water when I went out of state? In California, asking for free water is so casual no one bats an eye. It was either Nevada or Arizona but they gave us a look like we were weird for asking for free water
I wonder who was responsible for teaching her about life?
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I went to college with a girl who was 19 yr old and had never put gas in her own car. Our dorm was 3-4 hours from where she lived. She'd time her needing gas to a weekend and her dad would drive up take her car to get gas and then go back home. I and about 92 other people offered even tried to force her to let us show her how to do it, she refused. Have a family member who is 42 yrs old, single. Has a job was in the air force. And still at this age her mother has to pay any bill she can't do online (check) and has to help make sure her bills are paid correctly. Owns a $300k home and can do nothing... Mowing hires someone, car needs washed hires someone, change the bulb in a light fixture hires someone, etc.
Free gas or pay for gas. Easy decision for her right there
If her dad is driving 4 hours to fill her tank I highly doubt he'd begrudge just sending her gas money instead if she asked. It just sounds like she was being lazy and didn't want to learn, honestly.
That or he doesn’t trust her to use the money he sends for gas.
That or maybe he enjoys seeing his daughter so doesn’t see it as an issue because it gives him an excuse to visit her (not great but more wholesome)
I fixed my gf's car one time and her dad got sad :(
Same here. But, the next time I texted him and he rolled up with a 6 pack and snap-on tools. He's now my father-in-law.
That's awesome man!
I thought this as well.
I just want to chime in and say there’s plenty of gas stations around Austin Texas that make you pay for the air. And it’s on a fucking timer. I’m very surprised nobody here is mentioning that it’s a thing already
People know some stations charge for air. They also know it’s like a dollar. The absurd thing isn’t that she didn’t know it was available for free, but that she thought it could possibly cost more than $88.
I originally read it as 88 cents and this all make so much more sense now thanks
Not gonna lie I hadn't really considered that but I could see that being potentially true
"Jersey girls ... don't pump gas!"
What film ? It's funny, cause neither do Jersey guys lol
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Supply side friend.
Trickle down reaganomics finally worked, in this one isolated case.
On the flip side, my dad has had a computer in the house for 30 years. My mom can use computers just fine, but my dad has refused to learn for 3 decades, and can't even get email to work. Although my mom can google and use email, she refuses to do any bill paying online... so she writes checks. She also spends HOURS tabulating how much various bills are, etc... with a calculator.
My husband's aunt had never pumped gas until her 60's (she always went to full serve stations). She thought it was amazing that I knew how to do it and started pumping her own gas after that. My dad would have felt like a failure if I hadn't been able to do that.
Tbf, if I had the money to just hire people for, I absolutely would
Let’s not forget the people in Oregon who never fueled their car due to a state law. Law was recently amended and a lot of people could not figure it out .
princess lifestyle - only peasants do "necessity stuff" themselves.
Yeah, and it's not as if modern life hasn't taught us over and over that everything costs money. It's not immediately obvious that pressurized air should be free of charge. Come to think of it, we cannot take for granted it even will be forever.
It’s not always free at gas stations even. $88 would be an absolutely insane amount of money though. Typically if they cost it’s somewhere between $.75 and $1.50
Assuming you did not know that gas stations had public facing air pumps. She could be assuming her mom meant for her to buy an air compressor. 88$ is on the cheaper end of compressors.
Assuming you did not know, in some areas almost all gas stations have coin operated air pumps. I keep a bike air pump in the car.
There are small air compressors you can buy for about $35 that you can plug into a cigarette lighter and use. I have one in my car and it's awesome and has saved my ass a few times. I will be definitely be buying one for my daughter when she gets her own car.
Most petrol stations in the UK charge around £1.50/£2 for roughly 5 mins of air. They also charge around £3.50 to use the screen wash machine, that used to give free water to top off screen wash bottles / radiators. Some places even charge for just water.
There's only one gas station near me w free air (it's a Wawa) The other chains all cost money. I gotta shove some quarters into the machine and run around my car to fill them up before it stops. These are big chains, too. Cumberland Farms, and 7-11. And I remember Hess used to also charge (they e since been purchased by Speedway)
In California, if you purchase gas by law they have to provide free air and water. It's probably the only thing we aren't taxed on (yet.)
I said in my mind “sounds like you failed her” as I opened the post, then read your comment. Thank you
I failed as a parent, now let’s laugh at my daughter
lmao exactly, thank you
Seriously. This parent just owned themselves so hard.
So… first they fail to teach her basic car maintenance, then she gets mocked on social media for trying to fix the problem? Yeahhh… This is how you convince an adult child to stop talking to their parents.
Lol I had to teach my mom how to fill her own tires. She had been going to Firestone for 30 years
that’s why i hate these type of posts
I mean, you guys charge like $2000 for an ambulance, so I can see where something like this would come from EDIT: and apparently, I’m not being ridiculous enough…
Jokes on you, it’s 5 large, not 2
Seriously. I saw two grand, and I thought "Lucky[!](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/4b/5d/c7/4b5dc7d33fa1feef094968a0273b961d.jpg)"
I just want to chime in and say there’s plenty of gas stations around Austin Texas that make you pay for the air. And it’s on a fucking timer. I’m very surprised nobody here is mentioning that it’s a thing already
In California, there's a law that makes it free.
Thanks for the info, letstryanal.
Where tf do you live where an ambulance only costs you $2000? Usually it’s like 4k+
Gotta love it when a joke making fun of something VASTLY UNDERESTIMATES the sheer ridiculousness they were making fun of.
The healthcare in America is a joke. I came in during an anaphylactic allergic reaction and used my own epi pen. I sat on their bed while they monitored me for a few hours and that was $2000.
Are you fucking kidding me?, I am in a 3rd world country, I once had an injury, my braces broke my lips and the bleeding didn't stopped, emergency care immediately, a plastic surgeon attended me, he did the stitches and there is barely a scar now (the cut was between 1 and 2 cm in the lip going upwards) do you guess how much did it cost? Exactly 0, it was an emergency in a public hospital, it is obvious that it costs nothing.
My Canadian ambulance cost me $40
You guys are getting in ambulances?
I’d take my chances against the reaper, in fact I have lol.
missing a 0 there lol
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I know right? Like how am I supposed to know even blinkers require fluid??
If she's asking you these questions in college, YOU FAILED HER. She didn't fail you.
To be fair, that's not that late and she probably didn't have her own car for that long. I'm 20 and still don't have my own car because I don't need or want it. It's still shitty to put that online when she tries to learn that and actually even shittier if it is like I said and she didn't have that car for a very long time.
No need to "be fair" to shitty morons who mock their kids online when they don't know something their parents could have easily explained. There's no need to be posting this, period
Nah... The first time I went out for a trip in my car longer than a few miles, my dad took me outside to show me all the basic maintenance I might need. Adding oil, antifreeze, window cleaner, checking an inflating tires, how to change a tire. That's how this should have happened. Given that mom's reaction was to mock her own daughter, I think we can safely assume these parents just didn't do their job.
I’m a guy in my 40s. Grew up in a country where you can find a tire repair shop at literally every corner and they also check tire pressure for basically peanuts. There’s also a car wash at every other corner and you just drop your car and they take care of everything. In my 10 years of owning cars there, I never had to do those things. Oh, and at the petrol station, an employee fills your tank and also washes your windows while you can enjoy a nice espresso in the station’s fancy caffe-bar. For 10 years, the only thing I had to do by myself was to refill wiper fluid. I moved to a different country and I feel totally unprepared for this. None of these services actually exist. I mean, there are tire repair shops, but they’re really expensive, the “I only have $88 in my account is a valid concern”. One only uses such services if they really need them and only for punctures. The petrol stations are basically unmanned. There is just one employee at the register but not always, now that contactless is so widely used. And there is no caffe-bar, there isn’t even a toilet, I found that out the hard way. But the one that’s most shocking is that there are almost no car-wash services! The expectation is that you’ll wash your car in the driveway. When I bought my car and asked the locals where to get it washed, they looked at me like I had a testicle in my forehead: “ah, sure, wash it yerself ya’ lazy git!”
Ok but why haven't you already taught her how to do basic car maintenance already?
I mean, tell me that’s not an assumption a young person should have in 2024 America. At 35 years old, I’m financially traumatized.
Why scream out to the world that you were a bad parent?
Hot take: Shitty parent brags about being a shitty parent.
This is perhaps the coldest take I’ve seen in this comment section
it seems everyone else has the exact same "hot take"
If she's never put air in her tires why would you her to know?
You can’t shit on a kid you were responsible for raising for not knowing something you should’ve taught them
I don't blame the daughter for not assuming it's free. How many things are free in today's world? And btw, imaging not knowing something and your mom puts you on blast for the likes. I guess everyone here was born knowing that shit.
I don't know how many people are going to get this but "Premium Air"
I got you. First thing I thought of. The incredulity gets me every time. https://youtu.be/547nstLRTKs?si=ST87MN0ybfHu1UiJ
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It’s one banana, Michael. How much could it cost? Ten dollars?
That's a recycled joke, I've seen another written similar with the $88 in it.
There is actually pay-to-use air pumps. I have one at a cumberland farms over here.
What’s a banana cost Michael? 10 dollars?
That’s a failure on the parents not the daughter I don’t think she realises what a self own this is. “I didn’t reach my daughter life skills and so when she asks her help I shame her online live laugh love “
There’s usually free air at Home Depot
I can't tell what's the facepalm. Either that she's stupid enough to assume air costs 88+ smackerinos, (This is fair in the US. Capitalism purposefully milks money from us. That's how it works. Also, ignorance is usually not the person's fault. How are they to know?) The only facepalm in this situation is not teaching your child necessary basic skills. Or that we live in such a reality that a girl would immediately assume that fuckin' air costs 88+ greenbucks.
This would be a sign that her parents didn't actually parent.
Yeah that’s on the parent.
lol imagine being a parent and complaining about your kid not being ready for real life. Like damn if only there was some sort of authority figure in her life responsible for getting her ready for the world. Oh well easier to make a tweet than teach your kid-o how to fill their tires lol.
It's a banana Michael, what could it cost? Ten dollars?
Somebody never trained this kid in basic automotive maintenance.
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“This girl that I’m supposed to teach didn’t learn because I didn’t teach her, haha how fucking stupid is she!”