cubby wrote:

You bought the tool and then figured out what to do with it? Good
work, that is a wise approach. I do it all the time. I still haven't
found a way to convince SWMBO of this philosophy though. She normally
needs a practical reason. But it's OK, I can normally BS one pretty
quickly. A female interviewer was once explaining to me how her
company tries to sell solutions rather than products, and to explain
her point she said "it's like with Home Depot, people don't buy a
drill because they want a drill - they do it because they want a
hole". I managed to restrain myself from saying "er....well I just
want a power tool, and I'll figure out what I'm going to do with it
later".

Your female interviewer was a graduate of the Dale Carnegie Sales Course.
That's one of their favorite illustrations.

Yours truly,
Satisfied graduate