To tell you the truth I sure didn't feel very lucky! By Eddie Windsor

When I was young I drove a 1970 240z sports car. It was a great car, but one day it developed a hesitation when I would accelerate. So I pulled it into our family garage and proceeded to fix the problem. After several days of frustration I concluded I was never going to be able to fix this car. Truthfully I had no idea what could be causing the problem but that didn't stop me from trying.

The next day I drove the car to a local mechanic to see what he thought. After about 30 seconds of listening to my car the Mechanic said four hours and $100 and you’re as good as new. When I returned after four hours the mechanic said to me it is more than he had originally diagnosed. It was not only the part he had already replaced but it was also something else as well. He said he had taken the liberty of ordering the part and if I approved he would install it right away. By now all I wanted was my car back on the road so I said ok. Over the next three hours he changed several more parts and had compiled a $400 bill for parts and labor. As I watched him work on my car I honestly thought to myself several times I wonder if this guy really knows what he is doing. You see he was a great local do-it-all farm community mechanic but about now I am beginning to have serious doubts if he has what it would take to fix my high performance sports car. I guess all the tractors and farm trucks parked in the shop should have given me a clue. But it was just as I had feared. When I got in my car and drove off the hesitation was no better.

From there I drove straight to the best mechanic I knew that specialized on import cars. When I arrived I asked the mechanic what he thought it could be but he would not guess. He said why guess and be wrong when the computer will do a proper diagnosis. After about 15 minutes of computerized testing the mechanic turns to me and said, “You’re lucky! It is just a sensor under your dashboard, give me about 20 minutes.” You guessed it within 20 minutes I am driving down the road and my car was driving better than never before. As I drove I replayed the words of the second mechanic, you’re lucky it’s only a sensor. To tell you the truth I sure didn't feel very lucky!

So what was the really problem? I had taken my car to a good mechanic that did not have the skill to work on hi performance import cars. After he had replaced $400 worth of car parts he still did not have the problem solved. He had a great reputation in the community. But his skill set was in the area of heavy equipment. He tried and tried but at the end of the day he just did not have the skill set to stop my reoccurring problem.

Whenever we face problems that take more skill then we posses we are setting ourselves up for reoccurring problems that produce hard thresholds in our lives. So what is the answer? Increase our skill and competence to match the level of challenges we face.

I didn’t feel that lucky,

Eddie Windsor




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