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Appreciation post: the old guy who fixed my lever arch file at the thrift store
I was digging through a box of old road maps last Saturday at the local Goodwill when this older gentleman saw me struggling with a rusty lever arch binder that wouldn't close... He walked over, showed me how to tap the metal lever just right with the heel of my hand to pop it back into alignment, and it worked perfectly... Has anyone else had a random stranger teach them something useful about fixing up an old collection item on the spot?
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theagibson14d ago
Honestly that's just how real knowledge gets passed down, no YouTube tutorial needed.
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jamesf4113d agoTop Commenter
Yeah but the problem is nobody ever writes any of that stuff down... so when the one old guy at the shop retires that whole chunk of knowledge just vanishes. I've seen it happen a few times where someone spent 30 years doing things a certain way and then poof, it's gone forever. It's great that it works in the moment but it's not really passing anything on to the next person. Without some kind of record it's just a story that gets harder to remember over time.
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