Had to laff!!

[funnymummy]

Ok still can't MultiQuote... I don't have a high IQ LOL!

I'm trying...

If I am sent to carry out a task I need very specific instructions that account for everything otherwise I will only do what the flawed instructions tell me.

That's my eldest alright, I have actulay had to write out step by step instructions for him to use the washer, but he waffles on at me about Physics & Quantum whatnots, while I glaze over!!

Letting a gimp in halfords select your cycling bits is a bit like asking a pcworld monkey for computer advice.
Except that the halfords guys can sometimes be cyclists and know what they're looking for.

Count us as unimpressed

My only defense is I was trying to deal with my two of my sons (then 3&4) the 3yr old was having a tantrum & the 4yr old is autistic & likes to lick or sniff starnge things

You've also got to remember the required length of valve stem, especially after buying new deep rimmed wheels.

2 spare tubes with valves too short to allow the pump to attach = 4 mile walk home (and a whole boat-load of swearing).

Ooooopsie!!

 

[funnymummy]

Wahooooooooooooooooey - Check me out I Multi-Quoted!!

 

[Arch]

He did a Mensa test at 12.... was 159 - I have NO idea where he gets it from

High IQ doesn't necessarily make you practical.... Having spent 10 years odd in a university environment, I've seen top flight academics baffled by anything practical.

5 of us once went to Mexico for a conference, and were bambozzled when we tried to buy a ticket, by the metro system, which had the simplest fare structure ever*. Our problem, of course, was that despite having about 20 degrees between us, no one spoke Spanish.


*Almost too simple - 2 pesos per trip, any trip, any distance. We assumed all sorts of zones and whatnot.

A colleague once arranged an apple scrumping and pressing day for all her friends. She borrowed a press and we collected apples from an abandoned orchard, and chopped them up and started pressing. At which point she said "Oh, I wonder if we have any bottles...."

We did end up filling jam jars and tupperware boxes

 

[Night Train]

High IQ doesn't necessarily make you practical.... Having spent 10 years odd in a university environment, I've seen top flight academics baffled by anything practical.

Very true.
I am the other way round though.
I got good scores in the tests because I can see patterns in things and spot practical solutions without necessarily knowing why. Makes me a good mechanic but a bad academic.

I did spend my university days solving design problems, for other students, with practical solutions sketched on the back of paper plates from the refectory. I just couldn't do the maths to prove them.

 

[Arch]

Makes me a good mechanic but a bad academic.

As a fairly competent academic, I'm well aware of the benefit of being a good mechanic! My exhaustive knowledge of medieval animal measurements isn't going to be much good when I need to put a shelf up!