Sherman Bird
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- Houston, Texas
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- 1998
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- 5.2
. The number of people who were able to maintain their vehicles and did so with competence was fairly small. Many people could not add oil or fill their tires and paid extra for full service stations with attached garages to perform work people would not or could not do in their own.
That was your world. not mine. EVERY father in my neighborhood with a very few exceptions worked on. maintained their own cars to the extent of at least the basics like tune ups, oil changes, cooling system work like water pump/tstat, flush and fill.
Heck, even the man next door to me who had one arm did his own basic maintenance. And WE ALL attended the church services, clubs, we kids played little league sports.... AND we had time to mow our own lawns and do the things I mentioned.
No, people are intrinsically lazy, and don't keep up with things they should. They do not instill working with hands and developing skills in their kids anymore. There is such a huge deficiency in skilled workers today....[/QUOTE]