I Beat the Odds this weekend
Todd O. Cronkhite Native of Maine
>No Bob, I didn't win the lottery :~(
In order to tell this story I've got to rat myself out abit, but ahhhhhhhhhhhh well, so it goes eh?
Since I had no $$$ to go to the flea-markets (Big :~( ) I decided to contine sorting out and labeling my hardware cabinet drawers. While doing this I came up with "small suff" i.e. screws and nuts that I fiqured I'd never use, so I tossed them into my grocery bag trash bag and felt no remorse.
Later in the day while using my t@b1es@w I experianced a blackout in the shop due to a shoeted wire in the TS's motor. Ahhhhhhhhhh well, no problem, easy fix, but while doing so I decided to move the ground wire from under one of the nuts of the rods that holds the motor cases together to a little threaded hole in the motor case. Wouldn't you know I could find a fine enough threaded screw in my hardware drawers to fit the hole, so I decided to look at the stuff I had thrown out earlier, and lo and behold if I didn't find a perfect fitting screw. I decided to gather up all that stuff I had tossed and put it all into one of the larger plastic drawers and labeled it "Last Chance Drawer".
My buddy describes junk as stuff you keep for years and years and throw it out the day before you need it. Well, by gory, I beat the odds this time and cheated the Trashman out of a screw. (Did that come out right?)
What was I thinking by throwing out that stuff in the first place?
Todd O.