Congrats on your daughter's derring-do in the mechanical world!

I can't tell you how many times the guys at the various auto
quick-service places have asked me where the engine was in my van.

I never ceased to be amazed.

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

Jim Arnott wrote:
> Warning!!! Proud papa alert.... and NVC
>
> My eldest dau, 27, came home from visiting friends the other night. Walks
> into the house and asks me, "Do you ALWAYS get hurt when you're
> working on
> cars?" I respond that mechanical things frequently demand blood
> sacrifice.
> She goes on to comment that when she was putting the front suspension
> back
> together on her friend's Mitsu, she pinched her hand. Did papa proud!
>
> Want to give your kids a clue?  Make their first car a Beetle. Give
> them a
> Muir Bible. Help them maintain it but don't do it FOR them. Worked for
> me.
>
> So no, they're not all clueless. But the vast majority are. Of the 20-30
> kids that float through my home, there are about three that could show me
> where to check the oil on their rig.  Those three could also change said
> oil. The rest? I'd have to show them not just how, but THAT the hood
> opened.
> Id10ts.
>
> Jim
>
>