Ain’t that the truth! I always took apart bicycles and derailleurs when I was little and my father gave me advice and brought home axle grease grease for me from his factory he owned. My family made things
From all that we have moved to a paper shuffling, computer gazing, video game playing life for youths
“Ain’t that the truth! I always took apart bicycles and derailleurs when I was little and my father gave me advice and brought home axle grease grease for me from his factory he owned. My family made things...”
Yea, I have vivid memories of working on bicycles, starting in 4th grade, with my buddy showing me how to repack the (loose) ball bearings (my dad was useless). Two years later it was taking the head off our lawn mower. And then on to cars by about 9th grade, to the point of running my own business working on cars in 11th grade (an old neighbor carried me through that learning curve). Along with way, I picked up plumbing, electrical work, AC work, and as an adult, concrete work, basic framing, and a few other skills.
Needless to say, I passed all of that on to my kids and made damn sure that they understand in tomorrow’s world, it’s those skills that will separate living in poverty from living middle class (just as in today’s world, one can live a couple of classes up from most people in one’s salary range, by just not having to pay ‘the man’).