Problem for me is, I get such a great amount of enjoyment out of helping people, it's like an addictive drug for me and it is far more entertaining than the stupid TV.
This is sometimes why I reenter a thread even after setting an idiot to ignore & that even insults me, usually from lashing out in their stressful situation, sometimes it's to antagonize them too & depending on the vibe!
but it is usually with good intentions.
You can't help people that don't want help, however, sometimes I try too still make them hear my questions.
This is why I gravitated to fixing things more or less + about learning systems of operation from being shear intrigued out of curiousness and being poor was indeed a factor.
It was the consistency I liked most about diagnostic trouble trees and mechanical testing, because when someone talks two directions, especially rationalizing a behavior or diagnostic pattern, oh I listen more and focus in on it.
The consistencies need to be checked and when they are all verified & you still have a problem, you than need to think outside the scope of those checks vicariously, but, but but, also relive & recheck or where you maybe omitted & made a mistake in your consistency check and it does often happen, even too me!
Now there is a lot to be said about the person that says, "I need help, I'm broke or in a bad way, but I don't understand and here is why!", that person I have a lot of respect for & because it's embarrassing to carry these type stresses among others.
I know stress more than people know and it will be most likely what kills me if I don't get it in check.
When my hands become untied and I'm released from my cage, we will have to see, I may get shot calling it an escape!
People often need a good kick in the ASS! or encouragement, wish I would of had that, I grew up "wild" & with superficial rules that changed on a moments whim, no one was there to enforce any of it anyway.
At least here Uwe, Bruce, Eric or all you guys here give me that kick in the ASS or in some cases encouragement!
Thanks everyone for understanding...........