Saturday, October 10, 2009

SKILLS


Participate in the poll at right yet?

I wasn't sure whether to be enthused or discouraged at our MEN'S FRATERNITY group this morning. It's a great course and the men are pumped up to be there but the leader passed out a list of '100 Skills Every Man Should Know.'

The concept was that every man should have been taught these by his own father and should in turn pass them on to his children. The instructor asked how many men could do at least 50 of the 100 items.

Wow. No. I could only do 36 of them and that was stretching it. Big time.

I won't list them ALL, for the sake of time and space and embarrassment, but I did manage to 'pass' with flying colors on some of them:
Jump start a car
Perform CPR
Carve a turkey
Solder wire
Prune bushes and small trees
Grill with charcoal
Remove a tick
Ride a motorcycle
Drop and give the perfect pushup
Drive a stick shift
Tie a necktie
Use a socket wrench

But there were so many MORE I had no clue about:
Replace a fan belt
Tape drywall
Mix concrete
Fix a toilet tank flapper (WAIT. WHAT?)
Replace a broken windowpane
Fix a faucet cartridge
Sweat copper tubing
Make a drum-tight bed
Hang food in the wild
Skipper a boat
Build a fire in the wilderness
Find potable water
Tie a bowline (Don't even know what that is)
Install a graphics card
Ditch your hard drive
Use a coolant hydrometer and a framing hammer and an infrared thermometer and a sand blaster [pictured above] and a crosscut saw and a grease gun (HUH and HUH and HUH and HUH and HUH and HUH and HUH?)

So ... now what? Guess I have some things to learn.

And be blessed.

2 comments:

Heidi said...

I'm sure you can do the perfect pushup! Blog idea? Share with us how you first got into shape. When was it and what inspired you, etc? I'd love to hear more about PK.

Courtney Nelson said...

Does such a list exist for women? I can do all of the same things from the list that you can, plus two of the others...hmmmmmmmm.