From: monza1st_REMOVE_144325_THIS_@yahoo.com
Wish me well, I'm off before long to find an air
intake hose for my car, then I'm going to fiddle with
the radio to try to get something in other than one
AM station, strap up some wiring dangling at the
high beam switch...
Seriously, I think at
least one other member had it right...auto shop class
in high school for boys (please don't tell the ACLU
on me); and home skills we called it home economics
years ago for girls. BEFORE they learn how to drive. At
least as a required half year course. I remember
sitting in class all day once with my shirt sort of full
of transmission fluid as a result of letting the pan
slip while doing a fluid and filter change! (shop was
the first class of the day that year, and no one got
coveralls except for the "dirty" work) Anyone else besides
me ever see someone sitting by the road on the cell
phone calling AAA for a flat, with a perfectly good
spare, and a couple of young guys just looking at the
flat? gee whiz! And the farther we get away from the
farm/ranch/etc. into the city the more important it is to train
the kids.
Certain basic skills are getting lost
for a lot of young men, unless they go to vo-tech
schools after high school.
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