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I have had to save women from tossing easily fixed, or not even broken, items on too many occasions. Mom says the lawn mower "is acting up" because the spark plug cap is off. Girlfriend thinks she needs a new printer and it turns out it came unplugged. Have some confidence and sniff around a bit.This is the missing bit: being able to troubleshoot and take things apart while using reasoning to figure something out.
This is where the Boomer parents are largely to blame. When I had my first junky car, my parents hated that I was out trying to fix it myself. That was for poors or something. Nice people pay the grease monkey to do dirty work. Go study.What's the Sopranos quote? "We change tires in this family," or something to that effect.
Now, when they tell me of a list of minor car complaints and I get them all fixed in a few minutes (loose bulb connector, floppy panels, easy stuff) there is no complaining.
There is an elitist view that knowing how to do something that didn't give you a degree is beneath us. The exalted just flash