I swear every time i'm working on somthing and ask my dad for some help he does what ever it is with no problem like today i have the dash out of the supra changing the heatercore(on a side note i didn't know the big bar came out:cry: )well any way i work on it for like 2.5/3 hours with noluck then my dad shows up and is like let me take a look with in 30 minutes the heatercores out:aigo: how does he do it ????????how????
why do DADs make things looks so easy grrrr
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experience, young grasshopper, that's how.
problem solving. he may have never had a heater core out, but he knows how to step back and properly assess a situation and have a plan of attack.
problem solving. he may have never had a heater core out, but he knows how to step back and properly assess a situation and have a plan of attack.
lol no matter what i'm doing he just makes it look easy its awsome and horrable at the same time lol
JSHeinrich
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My dad is the same way. assessing the situation is key....i just want to rip stuff apart and use brute force
Yep! Experience and treachery will beat youth and brute strength every time...LOL 
In addition to stepping back and accessing the problem, I bet he doesn't let it frustrate him when he hits a glitch. That's where patience comes in...he's figured out that getting frustrated is only going to work against you. That's where he will re-access and attack the problem again. Probably learned patience from dealing with his kids all these years (just yanking your chain a little...LOL). All this assumes he's mechanically inclined of course.
Ask him how he does it...not the task itself, but what is he looking at when he accesses the problem. How is his logic working to solve it? I know he'll be happy to tell you...it's not a secret. And after all, you are his son...Dads love to teach their sons the tricks learned through the years
In addition to stepping back and accessing the problem, I bet he doesn't let it frustrate him when he hits a glitch. That's where patience comes in...he's figured out that getting frustrated is only going to work against you. That's where he will re-access and attack the problem again. Probably learned patience from dealing with his kids all these years (just yanking your chain a little...LOL). All this assumes he's mechanically inclined of course.
Ask him how he does it...not the task itself, but what is he looking at when he accesses the problem. How is his logic working to solve it? I know he'll be happy to tell you...it's not a secret. And after all, you are his son...Dads love to teach their sons the tricks learned through the years
MA70Supra88 said:
lol that's awesome.
I gotta give my dad tons of credit he's taught me everything I know. He made me confident enough in figuring things out that I've rebuilt my motor and swapped my trans with very little problems.
Dads will allways be smarter, faster, better then you. Its your job to learn from him and be Smarter, faster and better then your kids..
well then...WTF happened to my dad :rofl: ....he talks out of his ass "thinking" he's right...and 95% of the time....he's WRONG!JMDigital said:Dads will allways be smarter, faster, better then you. Its your job to learn from him and be Smarter, faster and better then your kids..
My Dad is awesome with carpentry and cooking... Mechanics and electronics, he hasn't got a clue... We were a good team when i was living at home
We just have many more years of experience doing things. You don't get to raise children to their teenage years without learning how to deal with problems or going insane. Or sometimes both.
JMDigital said:Dads will allways be smarter, faster, better then you. Its your job to learn from him and be Smarter, faster and better then your kids..
you just proved that were degernerating as a sociaty
ROFL!!! :word8kn:MA70Supra88 said:
But my grandpa.....he amazes me!
I was so embarrassed, I took the door pull on the Supie passenger door off, I was trying to screw back in the screws that are inside of it (the ones covered up by the plastic plug thingys) but it kept slipping and starting to strip. I couldn't get it to go w/o stripping the head of the screw (keep in mind I'm 6/3, 220lbs and fairly strong). He comes over to help, and gets the screw in just fine......hes' 70 years old and did it with his left hand!!!
I wanted to go hang my head and cry lol.
My grandpa taught me so much about how to use tools and more importantly how to have patience and not get frustrated.
My dad doesn't know too much about cars other then how to put gas in them. My dad did show me the actual difference between shit and Shinola though.
My dad doesn't know too much about cars other then how to put gas in them. My dad did show me the actual difference between shit and Shinola though.
s0ulstar said:
I'm thinking that 85% of the time you think he's wrong 95% of the time, is you're just too stubborn and hardheaded to see that he is 75% right...............:biglaugh:
LilMiss sounds like she could be my daughter posting here. I can cook and build anything, but I am a complete idiot at alot of other things...............lol