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Originally Posted by varmint
My dad took off when I was seven. So I never got the basic mechanical mentoring most here seem to have. I had to learn everything through books and a brutal 20 year trial and error process.
I think a lot of the guys of my generation have the same problem.
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My sister's husband is similar, but in his case his dad used to beat him and his mom up. The mom is a hairdresser, so it's as if the husband was raised in the wild by a pack of gays. It's really odd to see a fat, aging Irish guy with a huge potato head act like a prissy and have no clue about checking the air in the tires or changing windshield wiper blades. On the other hand, it must be comforting to my sister to have an idiot who is on her level emotionally and intellectually.
At the opposite extreme are my carnie friends who run the rides at our pumpkin patch. Everything is DIY, but they are like a pack of tweakers with Payless drugstore brand tools, and duct tape from the Dollar Store.