I looked at friend Reamer's pretty pliers. It seems he is making an interesting collection of them. I don't have many pretty tools. Old, battered, rusty. That's what I have. Some people have the good. I have the bad and the ugly.
After I escaped the clutches of the gang who took all my folding money for a plastic radiator, I felt fortunate. Today, I got industrious and decided to check the coolant level in IMR's new capital expenditure. Couldn't move the cap. Try again with feeling. Arrrrrgh! Nada. Now what? Find a tool.
I remembered having a big pair of adjustable pliers. I even knew where they were. I looked. Nothing. Couldn't see them or my big narrow nosed vise grips. Panic. The plier maniac had been back in my house again. The tools had been in the same spot in the mud room for years.
Look in my tools. Perhaps the plier purloiner was only messing with me. Nothing. I started throwing things off the mud room shelf into the floor. I found my vise grips. I had already looked in my locker once. Time to get serious. I piled stuff out of my locker and found them. I didn't remember them being so rusty, but time does take its toll. The 12-inch Channel Locks easily turned the radiator cap, and then tightened it back up. Whew.
Might as well look at the old things. My Dad used to borrow tools every time anything needed fixing. He had a pair of pliers and a screwdriver. He never kept anything. As soon as he didn't need something, he would swap it off or sell it. He would have sold the pliers, but they were his Dad's. The screwdriver was too sorry to sell. Then he bought these Channel Locks. Very used. Handles wrapped in the same black tape they were decades ago. Finally, a light came on, and he figured maybe he should keep them. What an idea. Best wishes. Gary
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