Mr. Fixit.....

When I was a kid I saw my dad throwing a VCR in the trash (they were actually valuable back then), he said it was "totally done".
I pulled it out of the trash and took it apart, found one of the belts had dried up and cracked apart. I found a rubber band that worked as a replacement, then I hooked it up to an old TV in the basement and started watching movies on it.
My dad came down and found me mid way through a tape and said "oh you fixed it", then he handed me $10, said "thanks", unhooked it and took it back upstairs.