Useful Relatives
Once again I’ve had to call on my mechanic brother, Brad to help me out. All my education and yet it still seems to be me calling on him for help and advice more often than him calling on me. I always new there would be little call for my training as a carbonate sedimentologist and even less call for it within my own family, so it just goes to show that mechanics, plumbers, electricians etc. are much more useful than those of us with degrees and other such bits of paper.
First my van wouldn’t start so I called Brad to find out what to do. He told me which bit to ‘whack’ (quite literally) and sure enough it did the trick, the van started and I was able to get home. It didn’t work the next time, but at least it was now broken outside my house rather than several miles away and now Brad is planning on a trip here at the weekend armed with his tools and a new starting motor so that I’ll once again be a happy trucker… Hooray for mechanics!
Mind you, I did recently get to repay him a little by setting up a website for him and his fiancee and by encouraging him to drive up here for some fun in the snow, so it isn’t all one-sided!
