we all have had one.

[Yooper1]

I have to tell you about my neighbor Les. He is a great guy but knows nothing about anything. Here is a quick couple of stores that I feel you all will love.

1) Chain saw: I come home from a hard day's work and Las is waiting by at door to talk to me about his chain-saw that won't start. Okay, I get inside, and come out to look at the saw. Everything seems fine, but the self primer ball won't work. Hamm. Let look at the fuel level, "no he replies, it all full, did it myself". Well lets look anyway, it's all RED!!!! come to find out Las put "Bar oil in the tank" flush it out, all works fine. .



2) Bradded lines: well as we all know in auto shop 101 bradded lines look cool, well Las decided that these would look good on his 85 hot rod. As I walk into his garage I see that the battery is being done as well. Well as I see him putting the "+" to ground I say "hey, that might not be the hot set up" after about 15 min of telling him why the positive batter terminal should not have bradded line on it, he didn't do it.



3) the smoker:

Okay, monkey see, monkey do! I buy this smoker and smoke so beef and fish on it. Being a good neighbor I give Las and his family some food. (they have done this for me all year long). His wife loves it. Las finds a smoke at a yard sale and buy's it. However, it electric! Las wants charcoal. So we convert it.

No big problem. (yet) well as things go, he wants more heat. . As we all do, he starts to put more lighter fuel on the coals. Nothing happens. (for about 2 min. ) then BOOOOOOM!!! It blows the cover off and burns the Turkey hes trying to smoke! and almost burn the house down. If you could only hear his wife yelling his name. "LeeeeeeeeeS! Priceless!



I feel we have someone in our life like this. tell me about your "Las"!

Mike

 

[Joe G.]

I didn't know my brother-in-law was called Las. :-laf :-laf :-laf

 

[Loghead]

Yes, we all know at least one person who's mechanically inept. I know several personally. Of course, I don't get any personal affirmation by telling everyone that my aquaintances are morons.

Who knows?; maybe Les, Las or whatever his name actually is can spell and punctuate.

 

[RRees]

Joe G. ,



You mean we have the same brother-in-law? Can't be, mine lives in Iowa.



Two years ago, said brother-in-law was trying to get the garden hose disconnected from the hydrant on his house. He tried for two or three days. His father came over also, still couldn't get it off. Our family came over to his house (we were going to help them move stuff to their new house).



Anyway, 30 seconds later (turning in the correct direction) and the hose was off.

I did have to use some pliers because of their previous efforts to take it off.



I have other stories too.

 

[jmorse]

I had a fella who wanted to trade his newly purchased tractor in because it didn't have enough power to fill the bucket . All it would do is spin all four tires . I educated him on the proper way to use his loader and told him practice makes perfect. Now,six years later if the pile is hard , he just backs up farther and gets a running start. Not sure how the machine takes it ! Can lead them to water, but can't make them drink !

 

[Yooper1]

Loghead is right I do have an opportunity when it does come to spelling. I was never any good at. However my intent was never to call Les a moron, rather to laugh as my neighbor and do about bone head things we do. Great call out, however meant nothing but :-laf smiles.

 

[Loghead]

I guess you caught me on a bad day. Put more politely, I'd simply say that we all have our strengths and weaknesses. Thank God we're not all the same. It would be a mighty boring life if we were.

 

[donnier]

Some time ago, my sis called and asked if I would help my thenbrotherinlaw do the brakes on their van.

I go over and he has the van on jackstands and is trying to remove the disc.

Inotice he has a vicegrip in the hose. Asked him why ? Replied"So I dont lose any brake fluid"

Asked him" When does the fluid go through ther hose" Answer"When the brakes are applied"

Told him to take the clamp off and try it.

His comment" Hey I guess it wont drain, Huh"

Sister whispers" THats why I called"

After that, they showed up whenever something needed to be fixed.



Heres your Sign.

 

[DJW]

Yooper1 I had no trouble understanding you, my wife and I raised four sons and they were all educated in this country, so at least they have an excuse. For years in work I'm sure some mens' wives had to lace their shoes, place their lunch buckets on their hands, lead them to the door, sit them in the car, and point them in the direction to drive. Talking this over with a friend, he told me of a worker he knew who was so clumsy he was well known to all, but was liked, as he was always very cheerful, then he told me that man had been a Laborer all his life, but had managed to put his two daughters through collage, no wonder he was respected.

 

[Yooper1]

I understand what you mean. I learned something very important about my post, that the way something is told will not always be how something will be taken. Life is funny, but we all have a lot to learn from it.

Mike

 

[GHarman]

I understand what you mean. I learned something very important about my post, that the way something is told will not always be how something will be taken. Life is funny, but we all have a lot to learn from it.

Mike

Very well said. It is difficult to convey your feelings and emotions by way of print alone unless you are a professional writer. GregH

 

[merryman]

A very non-mechanical guy I know bought himself a new CTD in "93. While we were looking it over, it was noted that the under hood area was pretty full. The proud new owner said, " yea, changing the spark plugs is going to be a real job". I agreed with him!!


Vaughn

 

[Kiohio]

When I read "Logheads" reply I thought oh boy here we go.

But what you guys did is exactly the way it is supposed to work and shows how classy you guys are.

I am a member of a couple of other boards and have seen posts turn REAL ugly over a simple missunderstanding or someone having a bad day.

I've been on both ends in a number of boards.

I think my learning gene is a little slow LOL.



As Mike "Yooper1" said (paraphrased) "the way something is told will not always be how something will be taken. "



Thanks for makin my day.....

Way to go guys!



KO

 

[JLEONARD]

I am a mechanical engineer.

I once had a supervisor (Steve) who was also a mechanical engineer... that borrowed his (elderly widowed) neighbor's Troy Built chipper vac. Brand new.

He started it a nnd ran it without ever putting any oil in the engine. Shut it down after a few minutes thinking he should have checked the oil first.

BONE DRY!!! LOL

So he added oil, then tried to start it but it wouldn't move by pulling the recoil handle so he took it back to Troy, NY (from NW CT) to have the tech's look at it (and play dumb about why it wouldn't rotate the engine) figuring he seized the engine.

The tech pulled out a wood chip from inside the blades and it fired right up. :-laf :-laf



He was crapping his pants for a week for nothing!

 

[GCULP]

bought my then father-in-law a cordless screwdriver for father's day, couple months later he wanted to hang shelf on the wall so I suggested he go get the screw gun, he hands me the screw gun and asked, "should I get an extension chord as well?", I said sure, and put the shelf up while he was looking for the chord.

 

[JGrefenstette]

heres one i think yall will enjoy,



one saturday at Tractor Supply, the head manager of our local Ford dealership came in and bought a huskey push mower. think it was a B&S 6. 5 hp. well he came back a few days later and said it was seized up. checked the dipstick, bone dry. we told him to put the oil that comes with it in the box, into the engine next time, where it belongs. week later, he came back, "well it stoped again!" checked the dipstick, dry. he admitted that he forgot about the oil again. haha

think about who youre buying a truck from next time you go to the dealer. ask to see his personal vehicle. it might tell you about how he taked care of his things (and what you may potentially be buying from him or his company!) haha

we all got a good laugh out of that one.



last weekend at work, i was talkin to a fellow employee and found that our forklift (4 cyl. mazda LP converted) had been running on 3 cylinders for well over a year. It had been like this since before i started working there, so i never noticed any lack of power or unuasual diferance. they problem was someone decided to check the plugs and when pulling off one of the plug wire boots the metal cup inside ripped out. so i decided to take the boot off the wire, strip back the boot that then re-wire the cup to the plugwire. i did this and hooked it up with out the boot back over it, just to see that everything was working before i put the boot on. it fired up and ran well. i let it idle for a minute then redlined it once or twice to blow out any carbon build up or what ever could have happened over such a long time. it ran suprisingly smooth and well. i then decided to take of the plug wire for a minute just to see how it ran back on 3 cyl. to get a feel so i could tell if it did it again during operation. when i took the wire off, i was useing rubber grip needle nose pliers and holding the insulation of the wire. my hand was on the metal roll cage of the forklift. i knew that there were going to be sparks coming from it, but thought the rubber would make it ok and the distance form the plug aswell. well... . haha, it started to ark the spark to the block and needless to say it lit me up reall good. for a good 10 sec.

 

[MCummings]

That's funny right there.



So, did anybody see you there holding onto the rollcage, busting a move?



Merrick

 

[JGrefenstette]

unfortunatly yea. haha, they got a real good laff out of it too.



jimmy

 

[BGlidewell]

I really enjoyed reading this thread, partly for the humor, partly for the communication achieved. Most of the stories I have are about myself



Case in point:



I received an email today about an upgrade for my bluray DVD player from Sony. After following the links and reading the instructions, I burned the ISO image file onto a blank DVD used to upgrade the player. I noticed the instructions stopped at the point where the DVD burn was finished and assumed the DVD would play in the player the remaining instructions as it went through the upgrade.



I plopped the DVD in and the system went through a few steps, ejected the DVD and stopped. Hmmm, must be done I thought, so I pulled the DVD out and had to power the thing off because the display was not showing a normal status. Well now it's not functional at all... Back into the computer room to re-read the destructions...



I focus on the last section and decide there MUST be more so I did a refresh on the web page and a whole other section loads at the bottom now with all sorts of warnings about not powering off the unit, leaving the DVD in the tray while it ejects and inserts it back in or it will be inoperable... . So the new bluray disk is being sent off to Laredo to be "reflashed" now





BTW, my version of firefox has spell check which I find almost indispensable since my vocabulary far exceeds my spelling ability :-laf

 

[tgordon]

Hey JG if it makes you feel any better I watched a guy at an antique tractor pull try to push on the boots he shook loose without stopping the engine. I had a good laugh at him trying to do it without even looking for something to insulate himself, you at least did that.