My dad was a civil engineer and had a nice workshop he built himself. He had a place for everything and that's what it was kept. His shop was kept clean and neat. He NEVER EVER loaned out anything. I do recall he let someone mow the lawn for him...I think it's when his neck was broken, we had an electric mower and you guessed it, they ran over the cord! DUH. When he got older and lived alone neighbors "borrowed" stuff and it never came back.
I'm not in the habit of loaning out stuff. I VERY MUCH APPRECIATE the loan of the wrenches. I did not look in the box before I shipped it...I assumed that Kevin cleaned the wrenches after using them. I do remember him saying he was careful to keep the book clean. :)
Kevin will loan out just about anything and it drives me crazy! He loaned our favorite movie to someone and they lost it. It's difficult to find and you have to be of a particular taste to "get" Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" and the people he loaned it to were more into movies like "Hangover".
_I_ never said anything like that but it's true , I DO NOT LOAN OUT TOOLS because folks never seem to get the concept that they fed & clothed my family for many many years...
When a tool comes back damaged or worse yet , not at all , no one yet , in nearly 60 years , has offered to go replace it or even PAY for the damned thing .
" why are you so upset Nate ? it's just an old tool " - never mind they'd convinced me to part with an unobtanium brandy new tool I looked 20 years to find...
Oops . ranting again .
Good on Trish , better on Chip for having faith to loan tools .
-Nate
Chip wrote:
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> Yesterday I got my wrenches I had loaned to Trish back safe and sound. I know many of you begged me not to loan anything to a women, each of you relating horror stories of the things you had lost to women over the years.
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> But guys, this deal came off without a hitch. So, I am going to vouch for Trish and her trustworthiness.
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> But, the homemade dog biscuits she enclosed along with my wrenches are another story! Not that I even have a dog, but the neighbor's dog would not touch them, nor the cat. In fact they are laying on my walk just now, all along, with no interest from even the ants and bugs and stuff.
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> So, loaning of wrenches YES. Ability of dog biscuit construction; suspect!
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> Chip
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Trish Dougherty
PurrFect Harmony Farm
Ennis, TX
http:/purrfectharmonyfarm.intuitwebsites.com
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