What's sadder though is that none of them got even the orientation, let alone home maintenance 101 course from their parents.
While yeah, they could take the initiative to figure some of these things out, many didn't get taught ####.
I had a handy dad who did nearly everything. But he wasn't a good teacher so only some of it was absorbed. It's enough to make me handy enough to handle basic issues, but really unless you're going into that field for work then you need the right type of upbringing and mentoring to have a chance to learn those practical skills.
It really should be incorporated into schools. So many useless option classes exist when kids could be learning basic life skills and go into adulthood with a modicum of confidence. Instead, kids are clueless and don't have role models to show them the ropes of how to live and survive.
To disparage them while discounting the environment they were raised in (where commonplace stuff from decades ago is no longer commonplace) is a little unfair.
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