Working with my dad

"YSI-what can brown do for you" (ysi-what-can-brown-do-for-you)
11/27/2013 at 14:03 • Filed to: None

It is the most frustrating thing in the world. It doesn't help that we have two different work styles. I like to take things a bit slower and get it done right the first time, he is more like Clarkson. . .

DISCUSSION (14)

CAR_IS_MI > YSI-what can brown do for you
11/27/2013 at 14:07

I know this feel.

SWITAWI > YSI-what can brown do for you
11/27/2013 at 14:07

How many hammers does he use?

YSI-what can brown do for you > SWITAWI
11/27/2013 at 14:08

At least 17.

YSI-what can brown do for you > CAR_IS_MI
11/27/2013 at 14:10

Tis the worst feel.

Danimalk - Drives a Slow Car Fast > YSI-what can brown do for you
11/27/2013 at 14:14

Well duh!

By the time I add in all my metric hammers, they really add up!

George McNally > YSI-what can brown do for you
11/27/2013 at 14:22

My dad passed away 3 years ago, but when I was a kid (I'm 54 now)...he would always blame me when he couldn't find one of his tools. I *always* put his tools back because I knew how anal he was about them.

After I was married for a few months, he called me up one day and wanted to know what I did with his circular saw. Hell, I didn't even knew he had a circular saw........when we would work on projects around the house or fixing up his old pickup, he always did stuff the right way .....taught me a lot about life just by the way he fixed stuff :-)

YSI-what can brown do for you > George McNally
11/27/2013 at 14:31

My dad does the same thing! I feel like it is dad law or something to blame children on lost tools.

My dad, isn't quite as methodical as me. For example, when putting the exhaust on, one of the tips stuck out a bit more than the other(noticeably) , he said it was fine. I was not pleased and spent an hour fixing it. Then he explained how no one would notice. Whatever though, he is my dad and this is how he is.

Sorry for your loss though. Losing a parent is something no one should go through, but everyone must.

davedave1111 > George McNally
11/27/2013 at 14:32

When I was a kid, for about two years my dad kept blaming me for losing one of his powertools, even though I insisted I hadn't. One day my sister overhead and said (to him) 'I've been asking you for two years to take your tools out of my room, where you left them last time you used them, and put them away'.

The man in the iron mask > YSI-what can brown do for you
11/27/2013 at 14:53

Great anectdotes of your father, I lost mine because he found a whore and left my family.

YSI-what can brown do for you > The man in the iron mask
11/27/2013 at 14:59

Who found a whore? Me or my father?

The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 > YSI-what can brown do for you
11/27/2013 at 15:00

I often find myself showing my dad quicker, easier, cleaner etc. (usually less than conventional [it is amazing how you can sometimes get a pound of genius out of an ounce of laziness]) ways of doing things when working on whatever random project it is. And I am always the one who has to talk him into just spending a bit more on better materials, fasteners, tools, parts etc..

The man in the iron mask > YSI-what can brown do for you
11/27/2013 at 15:02

neither. My father. And he was never into cars of fixing things so i had to start on my own.

YSI-what can brown do for you > The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
11/27/2013 at 15:09

My dad is complaining about me wanting to buy a torque wrench and new gaskets for the car. It isn't even that expensive. 20 bucks for some gaskets and a wrench can't be expensive(no one in the family has ever bought a torque wrench). I don't think he gets the saying "better safe than sorry" GAH! I am slightly irritated. . .

YSI-what can brown do for you > The man in the iron mask
11/27/2013 at 15:13

Neither did my dad, I basically had to learn thing by myself which sucks, cause you are bound to get info wrong.