re: Can your SO work on her own car?

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My SO can barely drive her own car.

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Same. Driving in reverse is like a foreign language to her. We live on a short dead-end street, and to leave one needs to back out of our straight-as-an-arrow 10 ft. wide driveway into the neighbor's straight driveway DIRECTLY across the street (same width and location). She ALWAYS winds up on the neighbor's grass when doing so.

Parallel park? You might as well ask her to fly a helicopter.

But, she's a doctor and makes twice as much as me, so I let it slide.

Our daughters are a different story. They both drive much better than their mother, can parallel park, and have driven my SUV while pulling our boat. Walked both of them through how to change a tire, how to change air filters (engine and cabin), how to change wipers, how to replace a battery, other basic repairs, etc. Even had one of them get up under her car and walked her through re-attaching the plastic undercarriage cover with some hanger wire.