Old fella overlooks early 20-something-year-old mechanic due to her age and being a woman, next customer teaches him a lesson: ‘I happily helped [her] get some petty revenge.’

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Jul 26, 2025 1:00 PM EDT

It's not easy being the youngest one at the workplace. It doesn't even matter if you're the one with the most experience, customers or clients take one look at you and assume you don't know anything. It's really quite annoying. So annoying, in fact, that you don't even stop them when the demand the 40-something-year-old take over their project, even though you know they were just hired last week and have no idea what they're doing. If you're going to judge a book by its cover, then you better read the whole story. 

 

In the case of this young mechanic, she got judge not only because she was a young 20-something-year-old, but also because she was a woman… 

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  • Mechanics tend to be male dominated, so female mechanics get done dirty all the time. It's also a game where older employees get more respect, but sometimes that employee has only been a mechanic for a year. This woman was able to show her experience to the man who judge here right in front of his face. 

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  • "I happily helped Kim get some petty revenge..."

    Retrdolfrt I watched something similar a few years ago when our car was playing up while travelling in a remote part of Aus. There was one garage in this town but it looked to me like they were familiar with Subarus like
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  • my car (a couple outside the shop). I've pulled up just after an older fella in a land cruiser. It was around lunch time and there was only a woman around early 20s in the shop, but she looked like a mechanic to me as her
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  • clothes and arms showed the usual oil and dirt. The bloke in front asks her where the mechanic was, she looked ped, said she was a mechanic but added that her old man was doing some deliveries and would be back
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  • in half an hour. He said he would wait. So I just stepped up and explained my car was playing up and if she could help. She (Kim) looks out and asked if it was the suby, when I said yes
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  • she immediately heads for the door asking me what year model and what was up. I explained what it was doing and asked if I could keep driving as I had to be at a place 3 hours away that night.
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  • Kim asked a couple more questions then told me it was an easy fix due to a faulty sensor and she had one in stock. It was apparently a known issue with my model, but she hooked up the laptop to confirm it.
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  • So while she was pulling out the sensor I was chatting with her saying I was glad she knew Subarus. Kim just laughed and said that nearly everything around there was either suby or Toyota so they had to. As I watched I leaned
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  • against an old Subaru then made a comment about not doing that to a classic just like the one we had given to our daughter. Kim just laughed and said it was hers, so we chatted about how good those old models
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  • were. She had reconditioned the motor in hers when she was 16 and loved working on Subarus. All the locals knew her as the suby specialist so she only got the people. passing through questioning her skills like the old fella.
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  • Kim had the sensor replaced in less than 20 minutes. As we went in to pay the old fella was still sitting there and looked really p ed that my job was done, so I was happily saying how glad I was to have found experienced hands with
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  • the right part in stock so I wouldn't have to stress the next 3 hours. Then to finish it off, while doing the payment, Kim got a text from her father to say he would be another half hour or more.
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  • So, reluctantly the old fella had to get Kim to look at his car as he did not want to wait any more. So I happily helped Kim get some petty revenge on the old fella.
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