This week I'm taking a bit of a different approach to this reoccurring topic to note that I really wish I knew how to do this.
I've been spending a lot of time recently in an auto body shop, given that I've had an entire series of automobile incidents recently. Indeed, I didn't even bother to post about the last couple of things that have gone mechanically wrong, I'm getting so used to it.
The whole experience has been aggravating, but not because of the shop, but rather because I've had up to three automobiles in shops of one kind or another at the same time. We have what I've always regarded as a surplus of vehicles. Four a household that had four drivers (now three, that my son is in college and not in the household) we have up to six vehicles, which just seems excessive. Well, right now, with one of those vehicles gone with my son, and three in the shop, I"m down to two. And of those two, one is a really heavy truck that, while I'm using it around town and for short trips into the country, I can't really use it in my day job if I have to go anywhere. It's been quite an experience.
But my experience with the automobile repair places hasn't been bad in any way.
Indeed, what it has done has sort of revived a long wish of mine that I knew how to do auto body work and really good mechanical work.
Yes, I know that's odd.
It's not that I'm going to take up a late career move from law to auto body repair. I just admire their work. And that of mechanics as well. And having a lot of old wheeled stuff, I really wish I knew how to do it.
Indeed, I looked at the Casper College course catalog and saw that the offer courses in this. But, of course, their courses are designed for the young who are educating themselves for their careers. So the cases last for hours, and are mostly during the day.
Even at that, if I were retired, I'd seriously think about taking them. By the time I retired, I'll be too darned old to do that. But it's something I can admire anyhow.
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