"charlie b" wrote in message
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Inanimate Objects Aren't

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Amen, brudda.

I have one of those chisels that is in dire need of a good shrink. No
matter where I put it on my work bench it will roll across the entire thing
and fall onto the concrete floor. I watched it once. I put it near the
back edge of my workbench. It managed to roll a full 24" across the bench
and fell onto the concrete floor - point first of course. And I had many
other round objects on the bench at the time that were perfectly happy to
stay by the sidelines and watch this chisel do it's thing. The handle is
tapered so it couldn't just roll like a cylinder. It had to roll in an arc,
bump into something else and turn around. Roll in another arc the other way
and bump into something else and turn around again. It was remarkable just
how hard this poor misguided chisel had to work to get off the bench. It
worked so hard that I didn't have the heart to stop it. The bench may have
a little tilt, but non of the other round objects seemed to mind.

Wayne