Like the chair - classy.

 

That is indeed a fancy workshop chair. But doing that job on the street could be somewhat dangerous, no?

 

working in public gives you the opportunity for some passerby to stop and lend a hand. It’s the Tom Sawyer - Huckleberry Finn effect.

Z

 

In N.Y.???

 

no NYC bashing please.

My motorcycle broke down in midtown Manhattan and some really nice people stopped what they were doing and went home to fetch tools and got me going again.

there are nice people in every city, and a-holes in every city too. It’s just the luck of the draw which type one brushes up against on any given day.

Sometimes karma helps (or hurts).

Z

 

Equally lots of passers by stopping and chatting aimlessly reducing your working time in the nicest possible way.

 

I concur. I did live in Manhattan for a while, and found both 'Good, Bad, and Ugly', just like most of the other cities I have lived in. Just seems sometime that some cities have a concentration of some types.....

 

I’ve heard that the sign of a “good mechanic” is someone who can fix what they broke while trying to fix something else.

I like that so much that I’ve repeated it to every new hire at shops I’ve been associated with. It’s good to let someone just starting out that sh*t happens, and things get broken. How you deal with that is what matters.

Z

 

"t's not what happens, but how you recover that is important"