I have to admit this story terrifies me but I admire both you and your ISTJ dad. I've had many recent adventures working out my car with my INFJ dad, but I guess as you can imagine there's a slightly different approach with the INFJ and using Ni-Ti to solve all mechanical problems. As usual you're a wonderful storyteller - happy new year!
It's not unusual when my wife has had enough of my nonsense to remark: "How did your father ever put up with you?" She thinks I am playing stupid because I'm asking a dozen questions about where to find a thing, or how to do a thing right. Because if I don't gather enough information to get all the parameters right before execution, the outcome ... resembles your coffeemaker machine incident.
@@dulles1969 oh dear. Well. That's very INFP, I'm the same. Gathering as much information as again, then going through it again because I'm worried I'm imagining what I learned or saw at first. People don't even think I'm being serious. Anyway, better get back to the coffee machine, it's been thirty minutes so far...
Honored to spend my last half hour of 2024 watching your video 😊 I have not experienced changing car oil yet, to be honest the whole enterprise of owning a car seems awful. It is funny because this exactly the kind of topic my istj dad would ramble about albeit presented less poetically. 😅
Aww, thank you! I caught your 1-1-25 recap earlier today, and it looks like you are off to a good start to the New Year. It probably was awkward but also special to have been with your parents' Peruvian-Swedish friends for the New Year. And I got a big grin out of the mental picture of hotel karaoke: Singing karaoke at a hotel bar is not on your 2025 Resolutions list -- or any Resolutions list, ever! You are right, owning a car is a net liability. It consumes time and costs a lot of money. If you are not forced to have a car, better to pass (a driver's license alone is handy, but it also isn't a must.) Since we both share ISTJ dads, I think you understand what I was trying to tell in the story: My execution was a mess of mediocre Si and bad Te, but there is a different dimension of human experience in the effort. Fortunately behind that ISTJ exterior my dad has always been very loving. But he was puzzled how I could do so badly at work that he found easy.
Pretty recently I took the carburetor off the lawnmower, this a new lawnmower, and whilst I was in the hot sun and grass I made a GRAVE mistake of letting the sockets out of my sight.
Oh no! Here I was going to say that I only know one reverse threaded bolt off-hand (left-side bicycle pedals are reverse threaded to stay tight. Otherwise the constant pedaling motion would work them loose.) But cross threads and stripped threads: the mechanics of doom.
I have to admit this story terrifies me but I admire both you and your ISTJ dad. I've had many recent adventures working out my car with my INFJ dad, but I guess as you can imagine there's a slightly different approach with the INFJ and using Ni-Ti to solve all mechanical problems. As usual you're a wonderful storyteller - happy new year!
It's not unusual when my wife has had enough of my nonsense to remark: "How did your father ever put up with you?" She thinks I am playing stupid because I'm asking a dozen questions about where to find a thing, or how to do a thing right. Because if I don't gather enough information to get all the parameters right before execution, the outcome ... resembles your coffeemaker machine incident.
@@dulles1969 oh dear. Well. That's very INFP, I'm the same. Gathering as much information as again, then going through it again because I'm worried I'm imagining what I learned or saw at first. People don't even think I'm being serious. Anyway, better get back to the coffee machine, it's been thirty minutes so far...
Honored to spend my last half hour of 2024 watching your video 😊
I have not experienced changing car oil yet, to be honest the whole enterprise of owning a car seems awful. It is funny because this exactly the kind of topic my istj dad would ramble about albeit presented less poetically. 😅
Aww, thank you! I caught your 1-1-25 recap earlier today, and it looks like you are off to a good start to the New Year. It probably was awkward but also special to have been with your parents' Peruvian-Swedish friends for the New Year. And I got a big grin out of the mental picture of hotel karaoke: Singing karaoke at a hotel bar is not on your 2025 Resolutions list -- or any Resolutions list, ever!
You are right, owning a car is a net liability. It consumes time and costs a lot of money. If you are not forced to have a car, better to pass (a driver's license alone is handy, but it also isn't a must.)
Since we both share ISTJ dads, I think you understand what I was trying to tell in the story: My execution was a mess of mediocre Si and bad Te, but there is a different dimension of human experience in the effort. Fortunately behind that ISTJ exterior my dad has always been very loving. But he was puzzled how I could do so badly at work that he found easy.
8:59 cross threaded bolts are the devils tools of choice.
Pretty recently I took the carburetor off the lawnmower, this a new lawnmower, and whilst I was in the hot sun and grass I made a GRAVE mistake of letting the sockets out of my sight.
Oh no! Here I was going to say that I only know one reverse threaded bolt off-hand (left-side bicycle pedals are reverse threaded to stay tight. Otherwise the constant pedaling motion would work them loose.) But cross threads and stripped threads: the mechanics of doom.