Ricki Yasha TarrYou can't hate yourself into becoming a better person.
GeePawHill@RickiTarr You can't hate anything in to being a better anything.
M.S. Bellows, Jr.@GeePawHill @RickiTarr False. I have hated several stubborn mechanical objects into surrendering to my will.
@msbellows @RickiTarr Interesting assumption, that surrendering to your will constitutes "better". :)
@GeePawHill @RickiTarr Only with regard to mechanical objects, eg, a stubborn nut holding a busted alternator. My standard m.o. is: attempt sensibly, encounter resistance, try harder, slip and skin my knuckles, curse loudly, carefully cultivate my hatred, try again, and force the damn thing off. Continue task as normal.
Snosrapkungfu (They/them)@msbellows @GeePawHill @RickiTarr when the workshop manual says "remove via judicious manipulation" and i interpret it as "apply brute force and ignorance" :) and yes, my knuckles probably look the same as yours :)
@snosrapkungfu @GeePawHill @RickiTarr I once was chaperone on an overnight high school drama club field trip. One student was in a power wheelchair. The bus wheelchair lift failed the first day, so her teacher and I carried her everywhere. Awkward, because it meant men's hands on her body/butt, but we were respectful as could be and she was awesome and grateful.
Next day, the replacement bus's wheelchair lift door jammed. No mechanic or other bus was available. I wasn't gonna make the student go through that embarrassment again.
I borrowed tools from the motel office then broke big pieces of plastic trim off until I exposed the track. Then I hammered half the track flat, slid the roller back in, hammered the track side back up to hold it. Problem solved.
I looked up at the stunned teenagers watching all this and instructed humorously, "kids, sometimes violence IS the answer." And the girl got to accompany her classmates to the theater without indignity.