"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?

[richee3]

What's a hood?

[malpaso]

What's a hood?

it's a bonnet! This might help ya fella .

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Any thoughts?

I bet there are two reason why they just do not know:

a) because they are rich - rich people do not need to "pop up the hood". They pay people doing this for them. More important is price tag (higher = better), fact it is foreign (exotic) car not seen to often around and if is V8 or not (so i bet that doctor with Mercedes has lower credit because having just V6 ).
b) because they are doctors - doctors and engineers are smart. They have the same level of brain power BUT one in technical and second in humanities (I believe it is sorted like "humanistic" and "non-humanistic" science area... do not know how to explain it better in English ). If technician want to connect two things he know there is some kind of cement needed (which one depends on material and demands)... If doctor wants to connect two things together he wait till it grow together it self (because it usually do ) using bandage for a while.

I learned this on university when professor of biology explained us how human cell works two different ways. One as "usual book" describes it and second likening it to machine (functions of each part, connections between them and working conditions)... first description I did not get much, second way was like "turning on light bub". Suddenly I saw everything .

btw.: off topic... just found that used Audi S5, 30k miles on the clock, year 2009 costs the same as new Toyota GT86 here ($41.000). Guss what I would buy having spare 40k us dollars .