The joys of mechanics
- May 05, 2002
- 2 comments
Yesterday, my dad, my uncle and I spent over 3 hours trying to fix the piece of crap steering mechanism on my dad’s Craftsmen riding lawnmower. It took us over half an hour to remove the 2000 bolts, screws, washers, nuts and the gas tank just so we could get at the mechanism! Once we got to it, we had to remove 2 metal C clamps. Whoever invented C clamps should be shot, if they’re not already dead. I’m getting ahead of myself.
Anyway, when we put the new parts on, and put everything back together, we realized that we had put them in wrong because we could barely turn left! So we took it all apart again, adjusted the part we messed up on, put it all back together again and STILL had it wrong!! By this time, my dad could’ve bit the head off of a nail. So we take it apart again and finally adjust the parts correctly. We’re on the last step of putting the mechanism back together and then we’re home free. What happens, but my dad loses the C clamp! While he was trying to put it on, it suddenly vanished into another time and dimension. We looked for almost an hour for it, even using a metal detector, and NEVER found it.
By now my dad is starting to lose sanity. He rushed out and bought a new C clamp, and when we got it all back together, it was STILL just as bad as before we started!
Yep. I am soooo glad I didn’t become a mechanic.
Tim
Wish I could have been there cousin. I completely understand the losing the C clamp story. It seems that since I hit 40, things disappear from in front of me way too often.