Actually, in a flat tire but no spare (or goo does not work) situation, you would call roadside assistance for towing.
For those talking about running the dishwasher overnight, google dishwasher fires. We only run ours when we are around, after we had one.
My daughters went to catholic school and have beautiful cursive writing because they worked at it. For years. They then went to public schools and most of their friends cannot read or write in cursive. No big deal you say, until you have a job as a lawyer and have to read old deed documents and you have to ask your secretary (if you still have one) to read it for you.
One can drive a stick (but her boyfriend can’t) and one can’t drive a shift (but her boyfriend can). The one who can’t will NEVER rent a car in a foreign country. She has spacial issues and shouldn’t rent anywhere. She can drive her car and that’s about it.
I don’t think any of these things are impossible to overcome unless you don’t want to learn how to mail a letter or do the laundry if you are shown once. We all had to be shown at least once.
I could tie a (boys) necktie when I was 7 because I was a Brownie and had the old style uniform (not pre-tied). Every Tuesday.
I taught my kids how to go through an airport when they were 14-15. The most important thing was to ASK for help if they didn’t know where to go. They learned in steps with non-stop flights first, then changed planes at airports where I knew someone who could rescue them if there was a problem.
Am I late for the party! Lol
I totally gave up on DS doing laundry, imagine I was once thinking of teaching him to iron his clothes!
But then you lose your designated driver. 
Other benefit to manual transmission is it makes it hard to drive and text.
When my kids were home at Christmas my daughter and youngest son went out with friends. Our daughter was driving and when they stopped for gas, her brother jumped out to fill it up. Poor guy had forgotten how and his sister had to get it started!
My husband was at the gas station a few months back and a teen guy at the next pump asked him for help. He had received a gift card and didn’t know how to use it.
I recently heard this question: What’s an f.a.x. machine? Younger D went to work with me to help out with a marketing/mailing project. On the plus side, she now knows where stamps go.
As a right of passage, I sent my son to the grocery store when he first got his driver’s license. Ten minutes after he left he called from the store: “Where do they keep the milk?”
It IS important! My daughter went to an expeditionary elementary school where the teachers made the kids figure out how to get to museums, etc., using public transportation. She really knew her way around town via buses, which proved really useful when she got old enough to go across town to see friends or go to the mall. I didn’t have to drive her: her first taste of independence. Priceless!
No, but she never steps out of the car to see what we’re doing when we pump gas. In Israel it’s like NJ, and the attendant pumps gas. So the first time I needed to pump gas when I got back to the USA, I was pretty confused as to how the whole thing worked.
@MaryBarbara58 My husband still sends me those texts from the market ; )
So I have a good one… my D18 is a really bright kid. Her street smarts have improved now that she is in college 2000 miles away from us…but…
She was really into baking her senior year of high school. She was making a recipe that called for 2/3 of a cup of some ingredient.
She said “mom, we only have a 1/3 cup measure and not a 2/3 cup. I can’t make this dish”. I sat there for about 4 minutes until she said. “Oh, you use the 1/3 cup measure twice”. Seriously, this is a really smart kid… I was like, do you not remember fractions?
@momofsenior1 - off topic, but… I WISH my H still sent me those texts. He is endlessly creative at getting stuff at the store that is close to, but definitely not what I asked for. And he loves to go! Most recently I asked for coconut milk for a curry, and he came home with a half gallon of coconut beverage.
That seems like the unfortunately common posters here who have difficulty calculating their unweighted HS GPA.
Are we married to the same guy? This just happened to me last month with my husband.
Generally, he is good about calling with questions and he’s good at shopping for us often.
We have given the kids a quick lesson on changing a tire and jumping a dead battery but more important I got them a AAA subscription and taught them that if they find themselves on the side of the road with a flat tire and an expired AAA account all they have to do is call the 800 number and renew the account on the spot. I don’t think any of them have ever had to change a tire but they have had to jump a few batteries. It’s all well and good to say they can look it up on the internet but that won’t work if the battery dies when they’re someplace without service.
When my kid needed a check for a security deposit on an apartment filling out the check wasn’t the issue. She didn’t know where to get a check!
At my HS, “college prep” students weren’t allowed to take typing. Made typing those first college papers a rather interesting exercise!
I learned to drive stick in HS and later taught my college BF and DH how to do so. S2 says it would be a good skill to have in the Eastern European country where he now lives
Taught both guys how to address envelopes when they did college apps.
S2 knew how to do laundry, but freshman year he lived on the fourth floor (no elevator). Instead of hauling down the bottle of detergent and his duffel of dirty clothes, he put the bottle in the duffel and dropped it down the stairwell. You can imagine what happened next.
I will admit I laughed.
It may have worked better if he measured the correct amount, poured it into the dirty clothes in the duffel, then closed it, then dropped it…