F2041-1 Car Trouble

Sometimes it's not wise to disclose automotive malfunctions to people at work. Because when you do, the word spreads around the shop like wild fire and everyone has his own pet theory why coolant disappears from a coolant reservoir. Or, if they lack a suitable explanation for the disappearing fluid, they will tell you about their sister-in-law's '83 Booger Supreme that leaked radiator fluid and they never did find the problem, and how they finally had to haul the car off to the junkyard. Or they will tell you that the problem is in the mass air flow sensor, or in the exhaust gas recirculation valve, or maybe even in the idle bypass solenoid, and you'll tell them that those things can't cause coolant leakage problems, and then they will stand there and argue with you, and then they will tell about the time they blew out the freeze plugs on their '59 Desoto when it got down to 20 below zero and they had forgotten to put antifreeze in the car, and how the block was cracked so badly that they had to get another engine from Ralph's Auto Wrecking, and that they had to remove the engine themselves, and that they paid way too much for the engine, and that the engine had a bent crank, and how Ralph screwed them big time, and how they would never buy anything again from Ralph even if he gave it to them. And then you will tell them about the time you took your mother and sister-in-law-to-be to Milwaukee to shop for a wedding clothes in your old '64 Buick Wildcat when it was about thirty below zero, and how you put that sheet of plywood in front of the radiator so you could get some heat out of the car in the winter, and how the heater then threw so much heat that it burned your legs, and how you had some severe gas problems on the way to Milwaukee, and how you had tried to sneak out one of those little "Silent Giants," and how, if you took the five rottenest stinkers you ever let in your whole life, this one was at least three of the five all by itself, and how you and the women didn't say anything, and how everybody could hardly breathe, and how your eyes welled up with tears, and how they all remembered how bad it smelled thirty years later, and how your sister-in-law had seriously considered not marrying into the family, because if the brother would do something like that, well, her fiancé would probably do the same thing, too - and he does! And they will tell you about the time they tried to drive across the Mojave Desert during the day, and had six five-gallon jugs of water with them, and that wasn't even nearly enough water to keep their old steam kettle running without overheating, and how they had to sit in that 140 degree sun all day so they would have enough water left to drive to Needles, California during the night, and how his old lady got sick from the heat and puked all over him, and how his kid kept whining about being hungry and wanting a Happy Meal from McDonald's. And then the foreman will come up and tell you all to break it up and get back to work, or "I'm going to fire all of you," and, "What the hell do you think this is, Show-and-Tell or a machine shop?" And you will say that you were just talking about the coolant leakage problems on your truck. And he will tell you about the bad distributor he had on his '57 Chrysler Imperial and how it cause the engine to overheat, and how that caused the radiator to lose fluid, and how he thought it was the thermostat at first, and when he went to replace the thermostat, he found that the gasket was leaking around the water pump, and when he tried to remove the water pump, he broke the flange off the doggone thing and had to get another one, and how they wouldn't give him the core charge deposit money on the busted pump, and how he wouldn't buy another water pump from Western Auto even if they gave it to him. Yeah, it's not wise to tell about automotive problems at work. Not at all.