Throughout life I have found that many intelligent people lack common sense. At the Natural gas compressor station I worked at for 31 years, had hired a engineer for the facility. I was giving him a tour of the plant and the pumphouses that each had 6 2500 HP slow speed units that run on natural gas, and each drove three double acting compressors. While in the basement of one of the pumphouses he asked me which lines carried the gasoline to the engines. Its pretty basic knowledge that engines in a gas compressor station run on Natural gas. I knew that when I was hired, and I didn't spend 4 years in a school of higher learning. I have often wondered how some of the book intelligent people are able to drive to work.
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I've seen that more and more in the
decades I worked in the automotive
industry. Lots of the workers and
management especially don't have
any basic knowledge or affinity of
vehicles or the physics involved with
much of a vehicle. I know 4 ( that I
can think of right now) master technicians
that can't rebuild a carburetor or install
and time a conventional distributor
or set the timing. Can't check cylinder
compression or use and interpret a
vacuum gauge. I fixed a 2 stroke outboard
for one and a weedeater for another.
Despite what the soothsayers have been
spouting for years,
you can't do anything
you want to. You can try, but you
will usually fail unless you have an affinity
for the work
