On 02/10/2012 01:04 PM, Lee Michaels wrote:


"Edward A. Falk" wrote in message
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In article ,
Pat Barber wrote:

2.Tape measures (thousands)

Check. But you can never have too many of those. If there
isn't one within arm's reach, you don't have enough.

Yep, I hear that. I have three tape measures sitting beside me when I
type this. In my youth, I kept losing my tape measure. So I bought
another. I kept losing them. I bought another. A little better, but
still spent lots of time trying to locate that damned tape measure. then
one day I was at a surplus yard and they were closing out a line of tape
measures that went out of business. They came in bright colors, yellow,
orange, green. They were only a buck or two each. I bought the whole
box. I have never failed to find a tape measure since. And I bought some
more when I needed something bigger or better for a specific job.

Some folks think I have a tape measure fetish. I have them in the
kitchen, living room, office, my wife's sewing room and bedrooms. I have
a tape measure and a set of calipers in all the vehicles. And, of
course, a number of them in the shop.



You have a tape measure in the bedroom?

Never mind...


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