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My father was a fixer. If something in the house broke it was immediately out with the DIY tool box, which wouldn't disappear until the job was done. However, much to my mother's chagrin, he never quite mastered the art of fixing something before it broke, even if it was plainly in need of some attention. I vividly remember "the stair" - the one step on our staircase that the entire family avoided for about 3 years, as the wood had cracked and a potential death trap for anybody who dared step on it. Rumour has it that my mother got so sick of nagging my father to fix it that she took a cricket bat to it one day when nobody else was in the house - which, thankfully, illicited an appearance from my father's DIY tools once he got home.
So it was, then, that his talents for do-it-yourself passed onto me, his only son, though I doubt that if my father was alive today he'd approve of the contents of my toolkit - growing up as he did in a power tool free world. While Black & Decker tools were available in his day, they certainly wouldn't have been of the same calibre as today's DIY power tools.
Still, I think he'd be impressed by my progress since he first taught me how to install a drill bit - nowadays I work for a construction firm, constantly working with high-end Bosch, Black & Decker, Panasonic and Makita tools - and we're not merely fixing things either, we build them from scratch. And while I may also have inherited my father's unwillingness to repair something unless it's completely broken already (via cricket bat or otherwise), much like my old man, if we repair something, it stays repaired. For a while, at least.
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