Unfortunately....

[Goose]

Unfortunately, there are people out there who need this.

 

[paul]

But you know, I don’t mind if they don’t know, and are actually learning there.

It’s the folk that take this course, and still don’t know how to use a screwdriver that really drive me nuts……

Paul

 

[RedMF40]

Stop me if I’ve told this story before. In a previous job I worked with some high-powered attorneys from big firms. One day an attorney I’d been working with for most of the week came in with a heavily-bandaged hand that he couldn’t use. His wife was out of town and he’d tried to open a can of soup for dinner.

 

[Rystoltenberg11]

Stop me if I’ve told this story before. In a previous job I worked with some high-powered attorneys from big firms. One day an attorney I’d been working with for most of the week came in with a heavily-bandaged hand that he couldn’t use. His wife was out of town and he’d tried to open a can of soup for dinner.

Sometin tells me I know where this is going…

 

[wore out]

Unfortunately, there are people out there who need this.

There are folks that need to understand THIS, as well!

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[GChief]

There have always been people that need that, its not a recent thing

 

[M-MAN]

Everyone has different talents and that's a good thing. It's what makes the world go round. The guy that has no clue how to use a screwdriver might be the one to save your life on an operating table.

 

[caterpillar guy]

Guess I need both since
I use bolts without washers all the time if the hole fits the bolt no need for a washer and many times I don't have an apppropriate screw driver for the job like opening cans or tightening screws so I use what I have at the location. Personally I try not to have screws for things. I like my hex head bolts. washers or not.

 

[Mike(NEOhio)]

Why is he using a chisel on a screw?

 

[560Dennis]

With the white collar jobs being replaced your not far off

 

[rrlund]

I guarantee you there are people who think you can't do it unless they tell you how.

 

[Texasmark]

There are folks that need to understand THIS, as well!

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....."lock" washer! All kidding aside, one of my chaps is to buy something you have to assembly and in the hardware bag there aren't any self locking nuts, nor lock washers.

 

[Goose]

Everyone has different talents and that's a good thing. It's what makes the world go round. The guy that has no clue how to use a screwdriver might be the one to save your life on an operating table.

Interesting thought. One of my long term best friends is an MD, now retired.

Even though he's been a medical doctor all of his adult life, he grew up on a farm and he's no novice with a wrench in his hand. When we were racing stock cars he'd work in the pits with us once in a while when it worked out time wise. No one will downplay a doctor's talents and abilities, but he could never get over the fact that when we built a stock car we actually created another car from scratch instead of just modifying an existing car.

 

[Watthour]

Why is he using a chisel on a screw?

Everyone knows that's not a chisel - It's a Craftsman Universal Prybar.

 

[Texasmark]

Guess I need both since
I use bolts without washers all the time if the hole fits the bolt no need for a washer and many times I don't have an apppropriate screw driver for the job like opening cans or tightening screws so I use what I have at the location. Personally I try not to have screws for things. I like my hex head bolts. washers or not.

On flat washers, some mfgrs. use them to keep the hardware from dinging the painted surface when the item is being built....otherwise no reason unless the foot print of the fastener has to be larger.

 

[NDIHC]

When I was growing up my parents taught me how to be self sufficient. From fixing a car or a lawn mower, to doing household repairs and woodworking. Plumbing and basic electrical repairs. Also how to cook meals, do laundry and keep house. Sew on a button or patch a hole, whatever I needed to know. It served me well as I was a bachelor and lived alone until I was in my mid 30s. My wife has a friend who's husband and grown kids wouldn't have a clue how to cook, clean, sew or do laundry for themselves. Mrs. does everything for them.

 

[will-max dairy]

But you know, I don’t mind if they don’t know, and are actually learning there.

It’s the folk that take this course, and still don’t know how to use a screwdriver that really drive me nuts……

Paul

Ya know what drives me nuts? A steering wheel about this high. (gestures at my desk)...

 

[Goose]

When I was growing up my parents taught me how to be self sufficient. From fixing a car or a lawn mower, to doing household repairs and woodworking. Plumbing and basic electrical repairs. Also how to cook meals, do laundry and keep house. Sew on a button or patch a hole, whatever I needed to know. It served me well as I was a bachelor and lived alone until I was in my mid 30s. My wife has a friend who's husband and grown kids wouldn't have a clue how to cook, clean, sew or do laundry for themselves. Mrs. does everything for them.

That sounds like my dad. Except for basic farm work he was clueless. Mom did all of the household chores including electrical repairs, etc. All my dad knew about a kitchen was that someone was supposed to set a meal in front of him three times a day with no effort on his part.

He and I never had much of a relationship. There wasn't any animosity between us, it was just that our worlds were so far apart we simply had nothing in common. But, that's a whole different topic.

 

[Tony in SD]

Unfortunately, there are people out there who need this.

I hired a "day help worker". Sometimes you get good workers, some times you don’t. Anyway, the agent asked what he needed to know? I said, leftys looseis, rightsy tightsy . After 4 hours of bolting together panels, we had to let him go. He could not figure out how to consistently put a washer on a bolt, then though the holes in the panels, then another washer, and finally hand tighten the nut. The part that made me let him go was, he never could get a nut started on his own. In the 4 hours he worked fo us, other workers had to tell him "THE OTHER WAY!” Finally one of the other workers told me it would be faster without him.

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

Unfortunately, there are people out there who need this.

There have ALWAYS been people who need that. I know octogenarians that have never held a screwdriver in their lives and wouldn't know what to do if you handed them one.