Things That Make You Wonder

My wife sometimes goes to this junk sale. Mostly returned items from various stores. She got great buys on a returned deep fryer (forget the brand, but a good one), a weber portable gas grill and an igloo cooler, $18 total. All stuff in the original packaging, just retaped. The grill and the fryer both had small yellow tags indicating a part was missing from the grill and that the fryer "just stopped heating and didn't work", but she didn't notice them until she got home. Can't return the stuff, so I took a look. I assembled the grill just fine, no missing part. The fryer worked fine as well, I think the original buyer was confused by the thermostat cycling the heating element. And the cooler needed the top removed and rotated 180 degrees so the catch would line up on the correct side. Many folks these days aren't too bright or handy.

I never thought about reloading while in the stand, but it would help pass the time on those slow days. May even come in handy on the really good days if you got low on ammo.

I manage construction and shake my head all day, every day.

I drive a concrete mixer truck. I feel your pain.

jbird, you might be surprised regarding the braille yardstick.

Good friend has lost his sight completely to retinitis pigmentosa, and has completed more projects around the house and property than most of who have two working eyes even since the last of his vision went away. Two retaining walls, a sizeable room addition, a deck, and various other jobs. While he still had the bare minimum of remaining sight, he drove his tractors and maintained them, chainsawed a good bit of wood from his forty acres, etc., usually a little more slowly than most of us would have, but without losing any fingers or tractors.

I don't know if Dave has a braille yardstick. I'll try to remember to ask him when I see him. I bet if he doesn't he's figured out a good work-around for the lack of one.

There are some other things that always puzzled me.

The tachometers that are in almost every vehicle these days, even though nearly all of them have automatic transmissions.

I wondered for many years about the little buttons or levers we had to deal with to remove our keys from the ignition before leaving our vehicles. About the only practical use for them I could ever imagine would be the deterrence to a one-armed thief trying to steal our keys. I often wondered about that while I was sitting my big Slurpee on the asphalt of the parking lot at work and reaching back inside to grab my jacket and lunch...and the keys....before entering the plant. Not to wish any more enticement to the disabled key thieves, but I did wonder about the inconvenience to the rest of us and just how many one-armed key thieves there actually were. It was likely some government regulation, and apparently it was recognized after a couple of decades as being too silly by even their standards, because I've noticed none of my more recent vehicle have that particular impediment. Seems like they'd have thrown a party or something to celebrate the end of another really stupid regulation, but I don't recall it even being mentioned on the evening news.

Oh these are some good ones, keep them coming. thank you for the good laughs

INDIANA WEATHER!!!!