Lol, Nutmeg Had those experiences also, and many more, but yet I don't have enough sense to let someone else do it to this day. Learned what it must be like to shot, at least by a dart gun, while using the tablesaw. Small piece flew back at me and put a nice hole in my stomach, through my shirt.
My Dad is like yours, but he always tells me to fix things myself, yet he never did it himself when I was growing up. Actually he did, if he could use duct tape, he would "fix" it. On of the original duct tape generation. He had a bag filled with at least 10 different colors of duct tape for all situations.