Thursday, March 08, 2007

Observations

...after fixing the daughter's jammed shaver.

Not everything that is battery operated is intended to be opened up.

Just because kids have no fear about taking things apart doesn't mean that they know how to put them back together.

Try the WD-40 first.

2 comments:

genderist said...

It's the fearlessness in opening it that will push her ahead of her future coworkers and her willingness to ask for help that will impress her future boss. (And you'll be proud that next time she'll think to try to WD-40 herself first.)

Cerulean Bill said...

I'm not sure that asking me is the same as asking someone else. Dad is, by definition, supposed to be able to fix the unfixable. Whats interesting to me is that once I get thirty seconds with it, she takes it back and starts fiddling with it some more. She hasn't yet fixed anything by herself, but I think she does have the impression that she COULD. We once fixed a towel bar that she'd pulled down, and we did it together, just so she could see that there was rarely magic to it.

I once told her what the WD in WD40 stood for, but she didn't seem all that interested.