Thread: Ya' Gotta' Be Kidding!!

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Originally Posted by green34ford

When I was in High School the Spanish teacher had a flat tire on his car. he got the bumper jack out and jacked the car up in front of the tire at the finder well. everyone was laughing at him about what he had done and ruined the fender. the staff called the automatic's class to come help him change the tire and we all got our laugh before helping with a floor jack. my question was how were you going to get the tire off with the jack in front of the tire. even if the jacking point did work the inner fender well and axle had it blocked on the backside, the jack on the front side. that indecent confirmed me at the time not to take Spanish which looking back I should have with the world today. I was not being racist back in the day nor today because he was not Hispanic just not not mechanically inclined or I guess didn't see the diagram/instructions in the trunk.
some of us that were there still get a good chuckle when we talk about it.

Ah yes, reminds me of the old saying, "Those who can, do...... Those who can't, teach!!!!!

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Ah yes, reminds me of the old saying, "Those who can, do...... Those who can't, teach!!!!!

...and those who can do neither criticize!

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Shoot! I got a whole family full of those Indian folk, both E.I. and A.I. My Bride is Cherokee and Choctaw, and our oldest son married a girl whose parents are immigrants from Delhi and Bombay. The E.I. bunch are all multi-degreed professionals; our side of the family are all trades people except for our oldest son; he broke out of the mold and went to college, and university - has multiple degrees, wears a long robe with "hash marks" on it, fancy colored scarves, and a funny hat for formal educational shindigs. Those folk are scary intelligent, but sometimes don't seem all that smart. One time at a family gathering, one of the young men surmised that this family was a good place to be if something went wrong, got broken, or if you got sick. We had three MD's, and a DMD, several "legal eagles", accountants, and stock market pros, a whole passel of engineers and scientists, a few educators, one truck driver, and an electrician/mechanic; pretty much had things covered.