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If You Can Help Somebody as You Pass Along Your Way… Don’t!
DIY and me? We just don’t get along.
I have to confess, that my DIY skills are not really up to much if I’m totally honest. DIY and me? We just don’t get along.
When it comes to manual labor, anything that involves fixing things, or anything mechanical or whatever, I should probably just leave well alone really.
Like the time in Cyprus when I was sitting on a low wall in the petrol/gas station chatting to my wife Lyn and soaking up a bit of sunshine whilst waiting for my car to be washed.
A little old guy drives in and pulls up alongside the air-line. He’s in a little tiny car, something like an old Fiat.
As we watch him, it’s obvious that he can’t figure out how to make the air-line work.
He just needs to set it to the right pressure and go ahead and pump up his tyres, but he just can’t figure it out. (Yes I know it’s spelt ‘tire’ in the USA, but that’s how us English folk spell it) :)
So anyway, I can’t bear to watch the poor old guy struggle any more and I go over to assist him.
I set the gauge to the right pressure and attach the air-line to his front tyre and start pumping it up for him, knowing that the bell will ring on the gauge when the tyre reaches the set…