Invisible wrote:
> ...showing a member of staff how to operate a piece of software when you 
> don't actually know how to operate it or what it's supposed to do.

I just walked (on the phone) my brother thru setting up Time Machine to a 
new blank zeroed-out USB drive on his Mac. Note that I'm not sure I've ever 
even touched the keyboard of a Mac. :-)

> But hey, I'm sure people probably think that a car mechanic can fix any 
> imaginable device as long as it's purely mechanical too...

My dad is a car mechanic. He pretty much can fix pretty much any mechanical 
or electromechanical device. He fixed TVs, washing machines, vacuums, 
automobiles, central heating units, built his own lawn mowers and fences and 
laid his own patio, built extensions onto the house (including a door from 
outside into the basement thru the basement wall), etc.  Of course he 
maintained all the equipment it takes to run a garage, too, like the tire 
machines, alignment machines, air compressors, etc. And of course the vehicles.

Indeed, killing the termites and replacing the central heating unit was the 
only things I can remember he ever hired someone to do it for him. (Well, 
other than rebuilding the house when half of it burned down.)

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Ouch ouch ouch!"
   "What's wrong? Noodles too hot?"
   "No, I have Chopstick Tunnel Syndrome."

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