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WotD: Band-aid solution
Wise people will tell you it’s better to spend the time to fix a problem correctly the first time instead of wasting time on a Band-Aid solution.
Then again, there will be situations when a Band-Aid solution is the best option until the correct one can be completed.
When you call something a Band-Aid solution, you disapprove of it because it is only a temporary solution and not a permanent fix.
However, as I was saying, sometimes a Band-Aid solution is the best one you have at the time.
When I was 18 years old, I drove an old Oldsmobile, Cutlass Supreme.
It was a nice car but required a few thousand dollars to make it reliable.
I didn’t have the money, so, you guessed it, there were many Band-Aid solutions.
I drove around with a coil of wire, a pair of Vice-Grips and some duct tape in the trunk.
You may laugh, but at the same time, you have to agree they are the best Band-Aid solution tools a young man can have.
Well, I needed them.
The armrest on the front passenger side was taped on with duct tape for cosmetic purposes.
If you leaned on it, it fell off, but that’s the definition of a Band-Aid solution.
As I was out for a drive one winter day, the muffler hooked on a chunk of snow in the road and came off.
After pulling over to the side of the road, I had to pick up the muffler and then use the wire and Vice-Grips to reattach it to drive home.
I did such an excellent job with my roadside repair that the guy I sold it to never noticed when I sold it later that year.
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