It's worth noting that "Your car has some problems that you might want to know about..." easily translate from Mechanic to English as "We found some things that we would like to charge you for"
This. Most mechanics will warn you about potential problems with your car, but a good mechanic will tell you how likely it is that it will actually be a problem in the near future, and what you can do to prevent it becoming a huge problem. Also, if you have even the slightest bit of mechanical skill, you can pick up a book that will show you how to fix everything on your car. A lot of it is too in-depth for the layman, but for routine maintenance stuff, it's great.
WERD.
Also on the topic of this thread...
I almost forgot: For over 15 years I've had a painless, non-irritated odd mottling on my skin. Looks kind of like Psoriasis combined with liver spots (but isn't either one of these). Starr always joked that I'm rusting.
Now, it's only on places that usually nobody sees (thighs, armpits) and didn't bug me, so I just didn't care. Recently my Doctor was concerned that no one had ever bothered to figure out what the hell it actually was so he sent me to a Dermatologist. Yesterday the Dermatologist called me to say they stil didn't really know what it is, but it may be a precursor to a precursor to skin cancer. Oops!
Anyway, it's not that shitty. I've had this FOREVER, so I don't think I'm going to start rotting like a Zombie and fall over dead tomorrow and they said that if it turns in to the precursor singler they'll just do specialized UV treatments on it (note that those parts of my body almost never see any real light - not a cooincidence, it seems). They only real annoying thing for now is that it looks like they're going to be taking more bits and peices of me for further analysis. *sigh*