Adulting 101- Monday- 2nd period

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Today the Danger Shop looked like a garage, complete with a few cars that the students would totally get to work on today.

"Last week you did some driving. This week you're going to learn what to do when you need to fix something before you can drive that car," Kitty explained. "Things happen. You leave your lights on, or it's freezing, and your battery dies. You drive over a nail and you get a flat tire. Now you could get something like AAA, which for certain issues will come out and help you get out of a bad spot, but it's good to know how to do certain things for yourself, at least until you can get them checked out by a professional. So I'm going to show you how to do them, and then you'll pick a car and try it out yourself."

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Change a tire

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"This is the really annoying one," Kitty said, "because you need to have a jack, and a spare, and this really is a temporary fix if you're on the road with a flat. It's smaller than your other tires, you're not supposed to drive fast on it, and it really is supposed to just get you to where you can get it replaced."

And then she showed them how to raise the car on a jack, remove the hubcap and bolts, and change the tire.

She was terrified how this one might end.

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[white_oleander]

Even though she knew the hows, Astrid hadn't had a lot of practice with this one. She was usually left holding the hubcap with the screws to make sure they didn't get lost while her mother did it or while her mother went to have a smoke while whoever owned the car did it and talked her through it like she'd never seen it done before.

So she actually kind of liked getting to do it now. Mechanical stuff wasn't really her forte, but it was still working with her hands, which was always appreciated, and there was a certain art to it, if you twisted it up enough to make it seem so.

Either way, it was a clear objective with a clear set of goals and a pathway to do it, which was sort of the space that Astrid thrived in.

Re: Change a tire

[meepmeepmeep]

Beaker was only slightly smushed when the jack came down?