‘He Yearns For the Shop:' Woman Can't Get Her Baby to Stop Crying. Then She Turns on a YouTube Mechanic

Motor 1

14-07-2025

A mom discovered the key to stop her baby from crying: Play the sounds of a mechanic's shop.
Hannah Plunkett's TikTok depicts her baby's quiet enjoyment of service tech sounds. People overwhelmingly agree it's an early indicator of his future career path. Though it is possible it merely speaks to infants' and children's fascination with mechanics.
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As of this writing, her post has 11 million views.
Plunkett begins her video recording her child swaying to and fro in a baby carriage swing. The wide-eyed infant isn't making a sound.
'Baby has cried off and on all day for 10 hours. NOTHING has soothed him,' Plunkett writes in the text overlay. 'I have tried everything.'
Then she tried something unconventional.
'Turned on mechanic sounds on YouTube and he instantly stopped,' she adds.
She pans her camera to a TV that's playing a slideshow of different vehicles in a garage. As the images cycle through, the noise of drilling, hammering, and other service work plays in the background.
All the while Plunkett's baby sits quietly, looking around the room.
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The child-centric blog,
Romper
, wrote about kids' obsession with automobiles.
Child development experts told them kids like toy cars so much because it echoes real life. These toys are 'familiar objects,' which fascinate them.
This logic could also explain why kids
like playing
with keys.
Additionally, a pediatric psychologist noted that children with heightened levels of testosterone tend to be more fascinated with vehicles.
There are perks to playing with toy cars, per
Romper
.
Often, the storylines children craft when playing with toy vehicles include aspects of teamwork and problem solving. For example, a child may race a firetruck along the carpet to put out a fire and have police officers work together with emergency workers to save the people.
Creating a course for cars to race on also helps tune a child's fine motor skills,
Romper
notes. So does piecing together a train set by linking carts together and setting up a track.
Both these tasks require patience, focus, and hand-eye coordination.
'Babies With Preset Careers'
Enjoying playing with toy cars is one thing. Being soothed by the sound of a mechanic's shop is another.
'Okay but how did we get to this discovery,' one person wondered.
Another joked that the child is already a seasoned service tech veteran. '(Takes bottle out of mouth) you're gonna need a new alternator,' they wrote.
As it turns out, Plunkett's baby isn't the only kid enthralled by automobile sounds.
'My daughter was teething really bad the other night, midnight screaming for an hour. My brother come out & said watch this…put skids on she stopped in 2.5 seconds,' one remarked.
Another thought that the infant's love for mechanical sounds is a clear sign of his future vocation.
'Babies with preset careers are so funny to me,' they quipped.
Motor1
has reached out to Plunkett via TikTok comment for further information. We'll update this if she responds.
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