ttugrad
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- Sep 9, 2010
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I am new to this forum and pretty new to boating. For fun I look around the posts for interesting information that I might use in the future as I have been a motor and mechanical tinkerer for as long as I can remember.
I have noticed a trend that people seem to think that they are entitled to the help they are getting from those more experienced. This especially holds true when the posters do something stupid and wreck their gear: the more experienced rib them about it but still give helpful information and they seem to be too thin skinned to take the ribbing along with the pertinent technical advice.
Everyone makes mistakes; many of them in retrospect are STUPID mistakes. Anyone who has ever been through an apprentice program well knows that part of the learning from those who have mastered the trade is taking teases for the dumb and not so dumb mistakes made along the way. Put on your big boy panties and say thank you for the help you are getting only because those who know what they are doing have the grace to share their knowledge. If you can?t take a little ribbing in the process take your rig to a mechanic. When you are paying them to diagnose and repair your problem you don?t have to take any rude comments.
You don?t have the right to free help my fellow Mainers. If you take a little ribbing along the way consider it money well spent.
I have noticed a trend that people seem to think that they are entitled to the help they are getting from those more experienced. This especially holds true when the posters do something stupid and wreck their gear: the more experienced rib them about it but still give helpful information and they seem to be too thin skinned to take the ribbing along with the pertinent technical advice.
Everyone makes mistakes; many of them in retrospect are STUPID mistakes. Anyone who has ever been through an apprentice program well knows that part of the learning from those who have mastered the trade is taking teases for the dumb and not so dumb mistakes made along the way. Put on your big boy panties and say thank you for the help you are getting only because those who know what they are doing have the grace to share their knowledge. If you can?t take a little ribbing in the process take your rig to a mechanic. When you are paying them to diagnose and repair your problem you don?t have to take any rude comments.
You don?t have the right to free help my fellow Mainers. If you take a little ribbing along the way consider it money well spent.
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