Didn't expect that reaction, but OK

"Hey, you can use a calculator, right? Can you fix this abacus for me?"

I'll take a crack at repairing anything, word of warning though, I warrant my work for ten seconds after I say I'm done or three seconds before you plug it in.

just because they studied it, didn't mean they were any good

Tell that to that Indian dudes mum who tore up his Electric Eng degree because he couldn't fix the fan

Also, when someone asks me to fix something electrical (I'm a mechanical engineer at an electronics company), they always say, "I think it's a short." No, if it were "a short," the circuit breaker or fuse would have tripped. It's actually probably an "open," which is the opposite of a short. Tell me what the symptoms are, what happened right before, during and after the problem occurred, and what changes you made between when the thing worked and when it didn't. From fixing things on people's cars, the description is often really bad, like "the instruments suddenly went out while I was driving," when in actuality they turned the brightness all the way down accidentally, so it didn't happen while they were looking at the instruments as their story went.