Aylee
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ORIGINAL: soul2share Morning, gang.....how's everyone this fine morning? I am okay, the other half is sleeping, and Butterhead is running a fever. I do believe that the Death Star is once again on hold. quote:
Aylee, yeah, I knew you were joking....unfortunately, I wasn't! My ex was a terrbile mechanical fixer-upper......I wouldn't let him near anything that was broken! I learned alot about fixin' things when he was around! OY! Oh, I was only joking about him breaking things on purpose. He really doesn't fix things. Years ago I had a catalog to some "Sun Blah blah" company that did all sorts of pins, bumper stickers, and t-shirts. One had a man's face with the wording, "Don't assume I fix things." I have often wished that I had gotten him one. However this was before I even moved to Kansas. Last year we had to put a new blade on the mower. He had the blade but he just could not get the nut removed with my Gerber pliers. When he cam in and told me, I followed him outside, looked at it, and told him, "Well, I would use a socket." Totally blank look. So I went and got a socket and ratchet and removed it for him. But I think that what happens in life is that people with more experience with tools and such get short and pissy when someone does not know what they are talking about right away. And so they loose confidence and are likely to make even more mistakes out of nervousness. But getting pissy solves nothing when a person (the other half) doesn't know what I mean when I say, "Get me the quarter-inch drive ratchet." It works better to answer the what with, "Get me the small twisty handle that fits on these." But many people, some of my ex's included, are very unwilling to do that. For example, it was only after starting the job I have now that I figured out how to use wire ties. I knew how they worked, but I thought that I had been doing it wrong. And so instead of taking two seconds to tell me that yes they do require a little extra pressure to start them, they were always snatched from me. And ya know, that really does not help anything.
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