Man I know one English teacher that must have slashed her wrists after half a semester.
My 1,250 watt Honda, with belt drive FAILED the voltage regulator when a neighbor borrowed the generator in 1987. I saw him yanking the recoil starter, and ran toward his campsite yelling for him to STOP! When I got there the generator had started, no power and the breaker was switched on. He understood when he borrowed it to leave the breaker OFF until the motor started and had run for half a minute. He was a "know-it-all" who ignored common sense. So he went ahead and block-headed "his way". Voltage Regulators cost 116 dollars and I had a spare. "Pieceajunk must have been already blown up when I borrowed it" was the only words to escape his lips. Oh he was suuuuch a nice guy when he came to borrow it. This was on a beach 630 miles south of the border, and they had gne without lights for three days. The same afternoon, they packed up and left. Never Again. Wotta freakin' arrogant idiot.