Mansplain it to me, dear.

On Sunday I opened the hood of my car to replace the air filter only to find that my coolant reservoir was low.

I drive a 2016 30k mile car show this shouldn't happen. I'd thought that I'd smelled that telltale sweetness intermittently anyway.

I always find it funny talking to techs, because there is this culture that assumes woman know very little about cars and it's unlikely that we could understand the complexity of the machinery.

He was instantly skeptical that I had a leak since my car had never overheated. He also EXPLAINED to me that the reservoir can look low if the car has been running since the engine pulls coolant in to cool it. 

As he's mansplaining to me, I'm smiling inside because this dude is clueless that I was a service writer in a past life. 

I put on my most innocent face, nod and ask sweetly if he'd just have his guys check it out for me.

 
An hour later he comes back and says, "Man, you've got a good nose on you. There is a leak, a small one on the return line." 

I smiled, "Glad you found it." 

He said, "I'm surprised you knew you had a leak since the car didn't overheat and its such a small leak." 

"Yeah, well, I was a service writer in my previous career." 

He stopped for a second... "OH!!! I guess that explains it."