Date:         Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:38:20 -0700
Reply-To:     Jim Arnott <jrasite@EONI.COM>
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From:         Jim Arnott <jrasite@EONI.COM>
Subject:      Re: Are Today's Young People Mechanical Nitwits?
Comments: To: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
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Warning!!! Proud papa alert.... and NVC

My eldest dau, 27, came home from visiting friends the other night. Walks
into the house and asks me, "Do you ALWAYS get hurt when you're working on
cars?" I respond that mechanical things frequently demand blood sacrifice.
She goes on to comment that when she was putting the front suspension back
together on her friend's Mitsu, she pinched her hand. Did papa proud!

Want to give your kids a clue?  Make their first car a Beetle. Give them a
Muir Bible. Help them maintain it but don't do it FOR them. Worked for me.

So no, they're not all clueless. But the vast majority are. Of the 20-30
kids that float through my home, there are about three that could show me
where to check the oil on their rig.  Those three could also change said
oil. The rest? I'd have to show them not just how, but THAT the hood opened.
Id10ts.

Jim