On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 20:28:27 -0800, Larry Jaques
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On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 22:00:19 -0500, Clare Snyder
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On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 16:19:39 -0800, Larry Jaques
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On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 00:31:42 -0500, Clare Snyder
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I got my degree from the school of hard knocks.

ANd like Marty Raney " you want my resume' ? -" and he shows his
work-worn hands - - -

+1 for that.


My "rawhide wrench" has turned ito "fine kid leather" over the years
since I stopped wrenching full-time, but one look at my hands and it's
obvious they've worked for a living sometime in their life - - -. A
closer look finds a few fingertips wider than the rest, as well as
scar tissue on knuckles, as well as a few good scars from cuts - and
more recently the displacement of joints due to arthritis - - -

Those scars are called Crapsman Love Taps. '79-80 is when I lost my
pound of flesh and gallon of blood to the new Chiwanese steel, before
they re-sourced once again. Grr.
I can still see the scars across the back of the fingers on my left
hand courtesy of a dull jack-knife when I was 13. The scars from the
coping saw on my knuckle from when I was 12 is almost totally gone -
at 65. My right ring finger is about 25% wider than the left one at
the tip courtesy of my Snap-on air hammer 30 years ago and still
reminds me on my stupidity when it gets cold. Most of the other
miscalaneous divots and gouges pretty well fade into the back-ground.

It's only been a few years now that my right wrist doesn't remind me
on a regular basis about being shattered for the second time by the
gearshift of an old Chevy pickup back when I was 17 (I put it in
reverse - bad gear kicked the lever back and re-broke the wrist Ihad
broken a year and a half earlier.
Between the 2 breaks it made my apprenticeship as a mechanic
something of a painfull process - and driving the floor shift Mini and
Power-Wagon tow truck interesting - - - .