New Profession

I think I have found a new profession. Last week I had to mow with a push mower because the belt on the riding mower broke. I single handedly put a new belt on it. Of course, we won't go into how many bolts I took out and how many carter pins I removed and replaced, which really wasn't necessary. But you learn from your mistakes. I was mowing today and the blades wouldn't engage. I thought the belt had come off. It hadn't. So here I was on the ground looking underneath the mower. I found a metal thing that had another thing sticking out on it. Coming down from the top was another metal thing with a hole in it. Hmmmm...Interesting. I connected the two metal things by sticking the thing sticking out into the hole in the other metal thing. But how would I make it stay?? I found a carter pin in the garage. There was a hole but the pin wouldn't go all the way through. So I put it in as far as I could and wrapped it around using a pair of pliers. IT WORKED!!! Think I'll take up lawn mower repair. Think they'll like my terminology of parts?