Shoulda told him that the water was too wet. Set it out in the sun to evaporate and dry out a bit, and then pour the air into the carb.
That woulda shortcircuted what brain he has I’m afraid.
Another time the same guy had some sort of insect attacking one of his trees. Once again read on the internet the organic solution to this problem (because you know, chemicals are killing the earth) was ladybugs, because they attack the insects that were making his tree sick. I know all this because we came home from dinner one night and there he was with a container of ladybugs and a butter knife gently placing them on the tree. I had to ask and he told me what he was doing. I didn’t even know you could buy ladybugs but I guess you can. My wife and I could barely contain ourselves until we got into the house busting out laughing.
A week later we started finding a ton of ladybugs in OUR yard........true story...every word.