Mama Kat Thursday: The Memorable Dad Lesson
The Mama Kat challenge I selected today was to share, "A memorable lesson I learned from my Dad that still sticks with me today." An amusing picture of Bette Davis from Pinterest During the nearly 5 years I was in the Air Force, I never owned a car. Once I got out of service, returned home and was planning to go off to college in the fall, then I needed one. So I finally bought car. Before I was going to go driving off to live on my own, though, my Dad wanted to make sure I knew all the basics of car care: 1) How to Change a Tire. He made sure I knew where the jack and lug wrench were stored in the wheel well, how to properly place the jack plus block another wheel and how to use the lug wrench. (I had already purchased a 4-way lug wrench because I felt it would provide me better leverage for the task, should I ever be called upon to do change a flat.) 2) How to Check Fluids. He showed me where the oil dip stick was and how to ch...