[WFTR]

It's funny, but I never made it to Boy Scouts. However, I've retained a great deal of that "Be Prepared" mentality from just a few years of Cub Scouts and whatever they called that thing between Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts. I also think that my mentality comes from not being particularly good socially. I assume that I'll have to deal with things on my own, so I try to have as much as I need in terms of equipment.

Sadly, the one "engineering" trait that I never acquired was being particularly handy. I can often go into a lab and scrounge the stuff I need to do an experiment. I can't go into the garage and make something that I need around the house. I guess I'd be really dangerous if I could. I'd have all of the tools plus enough generators to rebuild my own house if it sustained damage.

Bill

[DollyCali]

when I read your post it brought to mind a story I read once about shipwrecked people who made a distilling apparatus for water with Tupperware.. WHAT????

NOW... I die & they have the know how.

The engineering person is organized to a fault, prepared, thorough, detail oriented. They are NOT always capable of success in the field but have the knowledge to do it.

The rest of us.. well, laugh on...

[ThomasThomas]

To prepare for y2k I bought a hand crank can opener. Today I went through cupboard and threw out some cans of food that I bought with the can opener. I kept the can opener.