Well, in all fairness, he likely wouldn't have used the tools very much.
I guess I should be happy that we raised a man who has a mind of his own
even if his views are somewhat different than my own.
He and his younger brother are very different people. My younger son is
a journeyman auto tech with a significant investment in Snap-On tools.
My elder son is an architect and is not much interested in any sort of
do it yourself mechanical work. He does do work on his home. He and his
wife have painted every square inch of the interior since they bought
the house about 5 years ago, and have renovated both bathrooms. They
have gutted the basement and have plans to improve it as a workshop
mostly. They have plans to re-do the kitchen next. They have also made
some fairly major changes to the back yard. She is a landscape architect
so no doubt felt compelled to put her mark on it.
I just thought that the tool set was a good thing to have around even if
he wasn't into rebuilding his car engine on the weekend. He buys new
vehicles and has them serviced at the dealer.
Randy
On 7/18/2022 6:25 PM, Rick Knoble via Mercedes wrote:
You use the fan to keep yourself cool, whilst paying someone treble an hour (or
more) what you earn at your position to fix whatever is broken. (That you could
have fixed, with a video or two, and some sense.... Oh and tools.)
Rick
From: mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: July 18, 2022 6:10 PM
To: mercedes@okiebenz.com
Reply-to: mercedes@okiebenz.com
Cc: d...@penoff.com
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Girl child's 08E350
Tools for a fan? I don’t see the relationship. What can you fix with a fan?
-D
On Jul 18, 2022, at 2:49 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
wrote:
At least she kept the tool set.
I bought my elder son a big set of tools as I knew he would not buy it for
himself and I thought he should have it. I was visiting him and we needed some
tool and I asked where the tools were. He somewhat sheepishly admitted that
they had returned the tools and bought a Dyson fan with the monies. I wasn't
angry but I did tell him that I thought that was a mistake on his part and that
I had expressly bought him the tools because I thought he would need them and
knew he would never buy a set like that for himself.
Randy
On 18/07/2022 4:38 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes wrote:
I told her it was not hard to do. Her toolset (I got her years ago -- big
Craftsman set when it was still Sears) was back home so she went to Lowes and
bought a set of torx somethings, did not take her long. Small hands made it
easier than when I did mine! I raised her right!
Dr. Boy on the other hand has no patience or interest in dealing with cars, but
he will call me when he thinks there is an issue so at least there's that. And
even now that he has a real doc job he has no interest in upgrading his 2012ish
CRV as he really likes it and it does what he wants it to do. He kinda got the
cheap gene from me so there's that.
--FT
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