[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Jesus.

To be able fix stuff. I have zero traditional man skills, yet my Da can fix/replace/create pretty much anything.

I have no idea where or why he learned to be able to do half the stuff he can, but I feel as though theres probably a mystical place that you're supposed to be sent away to in your early teens, and when you come back you have the ability to move plug sockets around the place.

...my dad was like that as well, he could pretty much do anything around the house and for other people as well..he would always say..'oh I'll do it for you, it's easy..'..if anyone said they had to have etc etc done...I'm not sure I appreciated how able he was as a child though..and we often think our dads are the cleverest people on earth so maybe I just thought that was 'normal'...what I was always impressed with though was whenever we went on holiday...if we say drove 350 miles to the destination or something...somehow and without an apparent use of a map..my dad always drove directly there and seemed to know exactly where he was going...(except for one 'Bath' incident..)...I was in awe of that both as a child and now...having to resort to a sat nav when I'm going somewhere I'm not familiar with...whenever we asked where we were going on holiday though, his answer was always..'a mystery tour'...and we camped/caravanned back in the day..so in theory, thinking about it now...maybe he never did know where he was going but just ended up somewhere and put the tent up sort of thing...while we thought he had some sort of magical direction powers....hmmmm...


....anyway, my OH is very good at most things as well...but he wasn't always..also 'back in the day' and when we first lived together, the first time we put up wallpaper was...well, it just wasn't really...but other than his DIY skills, he's always had this obsession/fascination of having to know how every electrical/technical thing works and I would always smile whenever we bought, say a new TV..?...because the first thing he would do when we got it home was to dismantle it, with bits everywhere..so that he could see what he would need to do if ever it broke...it freaked me seeing all these 'bits' on the floor but he always seemed to know where they went and put it all back together again...he did it with every electrical gadget/appliance...

..so if I could have a skill, maybe it would be that..to know more about how things work....