We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something
like:

It was the very bottom end though, market stall tat

Really? In that case the decent-quality Makita drills I was using on the
job ~35 years ago must be a figment of my imagination, then.

They most certainly weren't cheap tat.

Most of us are aware that generalisations are only generalisations

Except when they are misleading ********, of course.