What? Where did it go?
My multi-tasking skills need a little fine tuning. I had an earlier post but somehow I managed to delete it while trying to juggle too many things at once. I would like to say it was a very profound post with many a great insight but quite frankly it was just 3 pictures and me whining about having been sick during my holidays. Maybe Mr. Blogger decided a whiney post was better deleted than published!
Well, because I've been sick I have not even left the house in a couple of days so my real life at the moment is BORING! One of my closest friends is here from Thompson, Manitoba and she too is sick so we've been bitching to each other over the phone. We're hopeful that tomorrow we will actually be able to bitch in person down at our favourite Starbucks.
We became friends at university. We could not be more different which is probably why we are friends. She can assemble anything and is great in a lab situation which is probably why she now runs a lab! I can write tests and reports. I have an awesome short-term memory, but believe me we're talking only short-term here. I have no hands on ability whatsoever. That's why the two of us made such great lab partners. She could do the setup I could do the calculations.
I'll never forget the lab where the prof decided we all individually had to set up a distillation. What?
Myself? No, no, no!
Myself? No, no, no! In no time at all my friend shouts out,"Done." Done? I'm thinking, no way. I look at her station, and I look around the room and everyone else was like me, holding some glass tube thingy staring desperately at the diagram trying to figure out how to connect this foreign object to something, anything and there she was done. Agh! Even the prof was impressed by her speed.
How did she get this ability? When she was 16 her parents bought her a car and had a mechanic take apart the motor. They gave her the car under the condition she could not drive it until she learned how to put the motor back together. Is that not brilliant?
18 comments:
that has got to be one of the coolest things i have ever heard!
I know! I just think if my parents had done the same then maybe I too could actually put together a piece of do it yourself furniture on my own.
how long did it take her?
sorry to hear you are sick. there is a nasty bug going around these days.
I can put furniture together...with only a few backtracks... but a car?
Maybe to change a tire or put an air filtre in...
That lab, that's way beyond me.
Hope you feel better soon.
that is completely brilliant of them! Sorry you were sick on your holiday. I hate it when that happens to me :(
#1 - the bitching by phone thing made me laugh...I could relate to that, as that's all I seem to do lately.
#2 - could I take apart my Volvo motor and you send your friend over?? Just a thought.
(oh, and how rude of me. Hope you're feeling better soon.)
668, 3 days according to her father.
Barbara, change a tire! Isn't that what motorclub is for?
Mellowlee, I'm definitely on the tail end of the bug now. I'm just a whiner, ignore me.
Deb, bitching via phone is one of my alltime favorite activities!
three days?! that's wicked!
What a drag that you were sick on your holidays! Isn't that what work is for?
I know if my parents had done that, the engine pieces would still be lying in their garage and I'd be buying my own car (which is what I did anyway...)
Was wondering where the post went. Bloody blogger.
That is a brilliant tacitc. My parents wouldn't let me drive until I could fully service the entire car by myself and change the tire. I know they teach you that in drivers ed, but my father had a stop watch and timed me in the driveway. For serious.
Hope you're feeling better, and can enjoy a visit tomorrow!
Barbara b, the motor would still be in parts on my floor as well. Actually, without my friend so would my computer table.
Allison, I pretty much learned how to drive after I got my license. Oh, I think I had better post about my one and only driving lesson with my father!
Making sure you can change a tire before getting access to the car. That's probably a really good idea, thank goodness it was not part of my parent's criteria.
Put a motor back together? That's hard, I'm glad that my dad only taught me how to change a tire (and I never had to do it!)!
To set up a distillation? I think I was like your friend when I did organic chem... calculations : not for me! But I was doing the set up because my lab partner was afraid, she did not wanted to make a mistake or to break something!
Evelyne, I'd be your chem partner anyday if you can set the equipment up. I'm like your lab partner always worried I'd break something or worse blow something up!
People like your friend instill a desire in me to be impressed and very jealous at the same time. I don't have the ability to see stuff and put it together. I never have. I would be the one holding the tube whatcha
mathingy. My partner, however, did the exact same thing as your friend except he paid the mechanic to take apart a car and put it back together so he could watch. He worked with the guy for three days looking at everything and by the end of the three days he knew where everything was and how it worked together. He had previous experience with cars before but not as in depth as that. I was really impressed. No matter how he does it I am just glad he can because I always have a car that works!
I like the idea. If my dad had done that to me, I'd still be walking. I have no clue with cars.
Slaygirl, don't worry I'll be right along side you holding the tube mathingy! It's nice your partner is mechanical though.
Busterp, my brother once worked all day on his car to make it run better. By the end of the day he ended up needing a tow truck to take it to the garage to be fixed!
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