I&M PAGE 5

What a great teacher an experience can be!

INSPIRATIONS&MOTIVATIONS

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On the I&M intro page, you read the story about how I did battle with the bolt

of a starter and how that experience taught me a lesson I will never forget.

Now I would like to share with you another experience that taught me another

lesson I will never forget and will add to my knowledge. (And hopefully your

knowledge as well).

I was at work (Insurance office building) one day when a young lady named

Jennifer went out to her car to get something. She soon came back inside

the building in a down mood and said she had locked her keys inside her

car. So I got a wire or two and went out with her to see if I could help her get

inside her car to get her keys.

We tried to slide the wire between the front window and the frame to reach the

door latch but was having no luck.

Then another young lady named Jill was leaving and she walked up to where

me and Jennifer was trying to get into her car. She looked things over and then

went to get her car. Jill then got out of her car carrying a yo-yo. ( Yes, a yo-yo!)

Jill suggested that since the yo-yo had a slipknot where you put your finger in

that maybe we could tie it on the wire and feed it through the window frame and

slip it onto the door knob and open the car door that way.

I am gong to fess up here and say that when she said that, I thought she was crazy.

"That will never work" I remember thinking to myself.

But at the same time what me and Jennifer was doing with the wire was not working

either. So in desperation I moved aside and let the two ladies work.

As I watched the ladies work, they managed to get the yo-yo string onto the wire and

feed it through the window seal and into the car. Then they succeeded in getting the

yo-yo string onto the door knob and tightened up the slipknot on the door knob and then

pulled up the string, opening the car door.

I was amazed. Totally amazed.

An idea which I thought was crazy and unworkable, these two young ladies made it work.

I thought about the whole experience later and I bought it to both Jennifer and Jill's

attention. I told them both that I was very impressed with their ingenuity and wanted their

permission to put the lesson they taught me on this site. They both agreed.

This experience taught me several lessons. The first being that what some people think

is a crazy idea and won't work, another person may see how it can and will work and set

about doing it. Think back through history. Was not the airplane, the light bulb, the telephone

and many many other inventions unworkable ideas?

The biggest lesson I learned from this is to NEVER, NEVER underestimate the thinking

ability and resourcefulness of a woman. We men tend to think that we know it all, especially

when it comes to mechanical things. But these two young ladies proved my thinking wrong.

I want to give Jennifer and Jill my sincere thanks for teaching me this lesson. One I will

never forget.

And neither should you.

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