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The irony: we have an international student living with us for this Uni semester. He is 24. He had NEVER once changed a tyre. I watched what he thought was the way, to include putting the jack handle in backwards (he tried inserting the dogleg handle into the eye loop!), then did it for him, making sure he watched. He also had never checked water or oil in a car (despite owning 2 prior cars - he told me they don't run out of water or oil). Of course this was AFTER he cooked his engine and I had to replace the radiator and plumbing for him.
I think I changed my first tyre at 10. Then again, we learnt to drive from 8. This generation impresses me with it's impracticality. They expect everything to be done for them (which it is of course, at a price)
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