How Many, Under 40 Years Old Can Identify A Box End Wrench?

[Ingomike]

I'm 37... is it a double box end or a combination wrench? Fixed or ratcheting? Maybe something special like an off-set or half-moon?

Nope, just an exception…

 

[kickbacked]

Here’s an interesting question. On ingo in the past year have there been more threads posted by people under the age of 40 or over on how to fix a minivan?

 

[Lee11b]

Yes, sadly, common sense isn't so common anymore. I agree, my students are a small percentage of our school's population.

Webster's Dictionary is taking out the word "sense" in the next printing. I see NO to VERY LITTLE common sense in this world anymore. The younger generation has very little desire to learn simple everyday tasks: like is the water heater lit? is it gas or electric?? I didn't know that the thermostat takes batteries.....my house is cold.....better call the gas company to make sure I have gas......even though the screen is not lit up on the T-Stat......
Or the one that takes the cake this year.......20 something, college-educated female. Calls in a no gas call. Serviceman arrives, finds that the Red ball valve to the water heater is shut OFF. Serviceman asks college educated female, who shut off the valve?? "I did!!!", replies the 20 something year old. "Neighbors are stealing my internet passwords, so I stopped the flow of the internet!!!", replies the college educated female, "but my shower got cold, so I called you, because you are the gas company."
I was totally amazed that she called us instead of the power company!!!
and they don't get charged for calling us for their pure lack of common sense.....

Then HVAC and electrical contractors get to rake it in when we tell them to call someone that can fix THEIR PROBLEM.

 

[actaeon277]

Overheard a Kid on our Jobsite tell one of his Buddies he'd "been using a Double-Shovel all day"
He Was referring to this:
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[actaeon277]

Webster's Dictionary is taking out the word "sense" in the next printing. I see NO to VERY LITTLE common sense in this world anymore. The younger generation has very little desire to learn simple everyday tasks: like is the water heater lit? is it gas or electric?? I didn't know that the thermostat takes batteries.....my house is cold.....better call the gas company to make sure I have gas......even though the screen is not lit up on the T-Stat......
Or the one that takes the cake this year.......20 something, college-educated female. Calls in a no gas call. Serviceman arrives, finds that the Red ball valve to the water heater is shut OFF. Serviceman asks college educated female, who shut off the valve?? "I did!!!", replies the 20 something year old. "Neighbors are stealing my internet passwords, so I stopped the flow of the internet!!!", replies the college educated female, "but my shower got cold, so I called you, because you are the gas company."
I was totally amazed that she called us instead of the power company!!!
and they don't get charged for calling us for their pure lack of common sense.....

Then HVAC and electrical contractors get to rake it in when we tell them to call someone that can fix THEIR PROBLEM.

Shame on those kids...

But... how about shame on the lazy parents?

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Here’s an interesting question. On ingo in the past year have there been more threads posted by people under the age of 40 or over on how to fix a minivan?

With a can of kerosene and a traffic flare?

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Or the one that takes the cake this year.......20 something, college-educated female. Calls in a no gas call. Serviceman arrives, finds that the Red ball valve to the water heater is shut OFF. Serviceman asks college educated female, who shut off the valve?? "I did!!!", replies the 20 something year old. "Neighbors are stealing my internet passwords, so I stopped the flow of the internet!!!", replies the college educated female, "but my shower got cold, so I called you, because you are the gas company."

That's not stupidity/ignorance, that's mental illness.

 

[churchmouse]

Webster's Dictionary is taking out the word "sense" in the next printing. I see NO to VERY LITTLE common sense in this world anymore. The younger generation has very little desire to learn simple everyday tasks: like is the water heater lit? is it gas or electric?? I didn't know that the thermostat takes batteries.....my house is cold.....better call the gas company to make sure I have gas......even though the screen is not lit up on the T-Stat......
Or the one that takes the cake this year.......20 something, college-educated female. Calls in a no gas call. Serviceman arrives, finds that the Red ball valve to the water heater is shut OFF. Serviceman asks college educated female, who shut off the valve?? "I did!!!", replies the 20 something year old. "Neighbors are stealing my internet passwords, so I stopped the flow of the internet!!!", replies the college educated female, "but my shower got cold, so I called you, because you are the gas company."
I was totally amazed that she called us instead of the power company!!!
and they don't get charged for calling us for their pure lack of common sense.....

Then HVAC and electrical contractors get to rake it in when we tell them to call someone that can fix THEIR PROBLEM.

You cant fix this with a degree.
My "X" BIL was a design engineer with an IQ many can't count that high. He had a dead battery. I loaned him a good set of cables with instructions on how to jump off his car. He got the positive and negative backwards. You know what happened then.
A degree in no way means the recipient is smart.

 

[boogieman]

Hell! Go to any parts store and talk to the kid behind the counter. I'd guess 90 + percent of them don't know the first thing about cars!

Try this but tell them that your 1972 truck has a crate engine from a different era and see how fast their heads explode. I have seen it many times. Usually the older guy comes up and takes over at that point.

 

[Jaybird1980]

Webster's Dictionary is taking out the word "sense" in the next printing. I see NO to VERY LITTLE common sense in this world anymore. The younger generation has very little desire to learn simple everyday tasks: like is the water heater lit? is it gas or electric?? I didn't know that the thermostat takes batteries.....my house is cold.....better call the gas company to make sure I have gas......even though the screen is not lit up on the T-Stat......
Or the one that takes the cake this year.......20 something, college-educated female. Calls in a no gas call. Serviceman arrives, finds that the Red ball valve to the water heater is shut OFF. Serviceman asks college educated female, who shut off the valve?? "I did!!!", replies the 20 something year old. "Neighbors are stealing my internet passwords, so I stopped the flow of the internet!!!", replies the college educated female, "but my shower got cold, so I called you, because you are the gas company."
I was totally amazed that she called us instead of the power company!!!
and they don't get charged for calling us for their pure lack of common sense.....

Then HVAC and electrical contractors get to rake it in when we tell them to call someone that can fix THEIR PROBLEM.

This makes me laugh so hard. I have heard so many crazy stories from the servicemen and linemen.

People have no idea how often this kind of crap happens.

I'm off to install a larger pipe so I can increase the flow of internet.

 

[Ingomike]

Here’s an interesting question. On ingo in the past year have there been more threads posted by people under the age of 40 or over on how to fix a minivan?

It doesn’t work every time…

 

[Ingomike]

You cant fix this with a degree.
My "X" BIL was a design engineer with an IQ many can't count that high. He had a dead battery. I loaned him a good set of cables with instructions on how to jump off his car. He got the positive and negative backwards. You know what happened then.
A degree in no way means the recipient is smart.

There have long been those people since the majority left the farms to live in cities. But life has gotten so simple and so much is done for so many that few have a clue as to how to do anything in their homes or on their cars. No one has to do anything at work but their computer based job, they don’t have to know a thing about cars to travel, at home they don’t have to know how to cook to eat nor anything about the house to be cool or warm as needed. In short us older generations in pursuit of ease, have made life so easy, pure idiots easily survive and procreate…

 

[churchmouse]

There have long been those people since the majority left the farms to live in cities. But life has gotten so simple and so much is done for so many that few have a clue as to how to do anything in their homes or on their cars. No one has to do anything at work but their computer based job, they don’t have to know a thing about cars to travel, at home they don’t have to know how to cook to eat nor anything about the house to be cool or warm as needed. In short us older generations in pursuit of ease, have made life so easy, pure idiots easily survive and procreate…

I have no idea how any middle class family survives if they hire out any and all Maint. or remodel work. We did about everything even roofing for years. Windows/doors and carpentry. Heck, we built the room extension on the front of the house when my friend lived here. I re-plumbed/re-wired the entire house and installed the HVAC system complete with new duct from filter to registers in the attic. We did all the vehicles as well including a few drive train re-builds.
I realize people have limitations and some are more gifted with tool usage than others but man, how do people survive.

 

[Ingomike]

I was totally amazed that she called us instead of the power company!!!

Actually you don’t know that she didn’t, that would have been a great call for Americas Funnies Home Audio…. LOL

 

[HoughMade]

Here’s an interesting question. On ingo in the past year have there been more threads posted by people under the age of 40 or over on how to fix a minivan?

Speaking for the over 40 crowd, my minivan goes to the dealership for service because the over 40 is associated with such things as more $$ (on average), not because I couldn't do it myself.

 

[femurphy77]

Try this but tell them that your 1972 truck has a crate engine from a different era and see how fast their heads explode. I have seen it many times. Usually the older guy comes up and takes over at that point.

That's like when I go in asking for racecar parts. The old one had a toyota master cylinder, corvette brakes in the rear, granada brakes on the front, rearend out of a lincoln versailles, etc, etc, etc. All in a 66 Mustang.

 

[Toomuchsole]

I have a nephew that didn't know how to change a headlight bulb in his car. He is 19. My 10 year old daughter almost knows how to change the oil in my car

 

[Timjoebillybob]

Try this but tell them that your 1972 truck has a crate engine from a different era and see how fast their heads explode. I have seen it many times. Usually the older guy comes up and takes over at that point.

Or that it came from the custom shop. 1977 dodge van, 400 ci small block with heavy duty everything. Kept getting asked what the motor came out of. I'd tell them the factory.

 

[KittySlayer]

I have no idea how any middle class family survives if they hire out any and all Maint. or remodel work.

YouTube and the internet.

My 33 year old son does a boatload of home maintenance / improvement. I taught him basic skills and we did projects together as he was growing up. But he takes on projects I never taught him.

You still need to have basic skills and a good head on your shoulders but there is a wealth of information on the internet that you can no longer get from the (young) clerk at Lowe’s.

 

[churchmouse]

YouTube and the internet.

My 33 year old son does a boatload of home maintenance / improvement. I taught him basic skills and we did projects together as he was growing up. But he takes on projects I never taught him.

You still need to have basic skills and a good head on your shoulders but there is a wealth of information on the internet that you can no longer get from the (young) clerk at Lowe’s.

YouTube has become the go to and I use it myself. But yes you need the basic knowledge of how to apply a wrench to the work at hand.
I did the same with my kids.