- You’re constantly slapping yourself on the forehead and wondering why your headlamp isn’t there to light up your food prep/book/sock drawer the way it’s always there for you when you’re working.
- You come to think of Aeroshell 33 grease as a viable hairstyling product.
- Your laundry room contains every stain removal agent known to the modern world (and yet you’re still searching for the magic elixir that will remove grease stains).
- You believe that black holes are made from a combination of landing gear grease, brake dust, and tire tread.
- When your washing machine stops working, you start looking for the button to BITE test it.
- Safety wire has replaced duct tape as your favorite fix-all material.
- When your car gets a ding you have to fight the urge to do a quick and temporary repair and then put a little medallion of speed tape on it with the date and your name, so everyone will know when you fixed it.
- When you come home you go looking for the logbook so you can see if any problems have happened since you were last there.
- You call inside the airplane “upstairs.”
- When your car mechanic wants to install a new part, you have to stop yourself from asking to see the IPC and effectivity.
- You think tire repairs should be an Olympic sport, partly because the tires weigh about a million pounds and partly because, with their extremely high pressure (around 225 psi) they’re hard to inflate – it’s a full-body activity to hold the fitting onto the valve against all that air pushing back.
- You consider switching to black washcloths because the white ones are quickly turning gray from all the stuff you wash off after work.
Jennifer Lesher 