So today my car battery died, couldn’t even be revived with a jump. I was able to walk to an auto store to get tools and a new battery (damn that mfer was heavier than I expected). I had never had to replace my own car battery before.
I screwed the fastener nuts the wrong way for like 5 minutes, cut my hand, and ultimately accidentally crossed the positive and negative terminals with a wrench that exploded in sparks. I don’t even know what stopped me from being electrocuted but I didn’t feel a thing.
While I’m happy I was able to take care of it myself and will be able to in the future, I also feel like such a dunce for not knowing wtf I was doing and almost shocking myself
I do think there is genuine value in understanding how the things you own function and being able to do some degree of first aide on them but even that can only extend to so many different things. Can’t know everything. You can learn anything though. If you wanna learn car repair, do it, if you don’t. No real need aside from what you’ll need to know just to keep a car (gas goes in gas tank etc)