Males, and their "I'm Always Right" Opinions

Over the past few weeks, I've been having a LOT problems with my car. In a nutshell, I've pretty much totaled the front end of my car (being without one for three weeks), I left my keys in California, the battery had lots of issues so my car wouldn't turn on properly, and after the battery got fixed, the keys were locked in my car. All of these events were a lot more dramatic when they happened, but my car isn't the main topic of this entry. I brought it up because of something I noticed when I was getting my car fixed one time. Males definitely think they know the answer, and they aren't afraid to tell it.

I had finally gotten my car back after losing my keys, and I was really excited to drive it. When I decided to go somewhere, my car wouldn't turn on. The battery wasn't dead, but the ignition just wouldn't start. So of course my first resort was to call my dad. I told him all the symptoms that my car was having, and he came to the automatic conclusion that it was my battery, and the cables just needed to be cleaned for the car to be fixed.

So my brother-in-law (we'll call him Steve) came over with the intents to take the battery apart and clean it. Once Steve got there, my car decided to turn on all by itself. We decided to take a little drive to trusty old Wal-Mart just to keep my car running. After we turned off the car, it wouldn't start again. We went inside, back to the automotive dept. and luckily there were two workers there. We once again told them the symptoms of my car, and automatically one of the workers told me, "it's a problem with your ignition." The other worker agreed, and so after I talked to them, I called my dad back and told them what the workers said. Immediately my dad was adamant about the fact that the problem with my car was DEFINITELY not the ignition. His logic was, "they didn't even look at your car, so they don't know."

Next, we bought a new battery and Steve changed it, making the funny comment, "I almost hope this battery doesn't fix the car, just to prove him wrong." We hoped that it would fix the problem, but it didn't, so a few minutes later, a couple of random nice men (thank heavens we're in Orem with lots of friendly people!) came over to help. The first thing the younger guy said was "It sounds like a problem with the ignition to me." Over the next couple of minutes, the older guy pretty much shot down the first guy's theory about my car with his own opinion. He was saying it was a short in the wiring, or something like that.

I told my Brazilian roommate this story, and she had almost an identical story happening in Brazil, with the opinionated men and everything!

Everyone likes to be right, it just stuck out especially in males to me last night while I was sitting around surrounded by so many differing opinions of only men.

I'm sure that a lot of these men have good intentions, but sometimes their opinions on things aren't always right, even if they think they are. It was interesting to watch, as the nice man helped me get my car started how determined he was and how positive he was, that he was going to fix the problem.

Having strong opinions is obviously a good thing, as well. Lots of things probably wouldn't get accomplished if no one had an opinion. I'm not trying to be sexist here, I just thought it was a funny observation how all of these guys would tell me, without any question in their mind what they thought was wrong with my car. I just kind of laughed because I don't know too much about cars, so I couldn't give them any input.

The good news is I have my car back, and it finally works again!