Dumb girls..

Me and Charmaine were washing our cars the other day. Yup. We finally came down to bringing the car to the garage and washing it after buying the soap over a month ago. While we were washing, I open up the front of the car (trunk? boot?) and wanted to put water into the radiator.

Charmaine immediately stopped me and said you can't put tap water into the radiator. She has special yellow "coolant" for it. I had no idea what she was talking about. As far as I could remember, I always see my dad putting tap water into the radiator. Why can't you put water into the radiator?

After reading the directions and explanations of the coolant bottle, I found out that the purpose of the coolant was to cool down (duh!) the engine and stuff. Em.. sorry if I sound totally unknowledgeble. Charmaine wasn't much help too. All she could tell me was that her father told her to put coolant and nothing else.

Is there a difference between the cars in tropical countries and the cars over here?

Both us girls just look at each other helplessly while deciding how much coolant should we put. Coz technically it was Charmaine's first time too..

Why can't schools teach these stuff to us? What's the use if schools doesn't teach us how to take care of our own cars? What is the difference between air tools and power tools? Why must man be the one that knows all these things? I wanna learn too but where?

Argh.. I hate to admit it but I need a guy. That's all I can say.

Sigh..