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Re: Doing it yourself (was RE: painted shop floors)

To: Keith Kaplan <keithka@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: Doing it yourself (was RE: painted shop floors)
From: Scott Hall <sch8489@garnet.acns.fsu.edu>
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 17:53:03 -0500 (EST)
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Keith Kaplan wrote:

> ...and we could all pay other people to fix our cars for us, so we
> wouldn't need the shops we talk about.  I think most of us on this list
> have some of the "I'd rather do it myself" attitude.  If it's a job I
> know I've done before, then I know I can do it again.  If I haven't done
> it before, I'm usually interested in learning, and heck, maybe I can
> justify buying some more tools.

there are times I'd happily pay somebody else to do it for me, if only I
could find someone to do it as well as I could.  that is not in any way to
say I do everything well, it's that invariably I'll pay a 'professional'
then end up fixing/improving his work.  that would be fine if I didn't
have to pay for his services first, but I just make myself angry when I
think I just paid for something to be done poorly.  and of course the easy
stuff that you'd think nobody could mess up I either feel stupid paying
for, of I've had some moron actually mess it up once and now I do it
myself.

thus, like keith said, shop and tools.

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