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HeyBub[_3_]

wrote:

The elder University educated daughter has been slower to take on the
mechanical tasks, but living away from home, where dear old Dad can't
come running to bail her out, has been learning to do some of those
mundane tasks as well.

Pass this story on to your daughter (I've mentioned it before, but it bears
repeating).

The first thing a young woman did after getting an apartment in New York was
to find a single fellow with a tool kit. When she needed a "honey-do," she
invited him for dinner. The conversations in their heads went something like
this:

She: "He's a miracle worker. He can install a towel rack so it doesn't fall
down and all I have to do is throw a couple of extra potatoes in the pot!"

He: "She's a miracle worker. For a pair of thirty-five cent bolts, I get a
homemade rack-of-lamb dinner!"