Bindlestiff

Tom Watson · 2004-02-29T00:01:25+00:00

Things were going along just fine until Bindlestiff showed up.Today was my first day back in the shop since December and what a niceday it was, weather wise. Fifty-some degrees and sunny - a perfectday to begin cleaning up the mess I'd left from the last job I did.In the normal course of events I clean up the shop just afterfinishing a project - empty the dust collector - re-hang the clamps -put away the odd tools that were left out in the hurly burly ofcompleting an installation. This time I'd gotten bronchitis towardsthe end of the job and it had hung on for the better part of twomonths - so the shop looked like hell.I was well on my way to having things squared away and was fitting afreshly cleaned Leuco finish blade ($180.00 in 1987 money) back ontothe Unisaw when I was startled by a loud banging on the shop door.Now, my shop door is really a pair of fifteen light French doors andany damned fool coulda seen that my back was turned and that I wasbent over the tablesaw, concentrated like.That made no nevermind to Bindlestiff, who pummeled the doors hardenough to rattle the glass close on to breaking and rattling me to thedegree that I dropped the Leuco ($180.00 in 1987 money) into theinnards of the Unisaw - and it didn't sound like it had a real easytrip to the bottom, neither.Bindlestiff pretty much passes the duck test. He looks like a duck.He walks like a duck. And he sounds like a duck. But he's about sixfoot five and weighs better than an eighth of a ton - and he has ahouse down the road from me a bit, so I figger he ain't really a duck.What he is, is a man who constantly tests the forbearance of hisfellow man - what we here in the Southeast corner of Penssyltuckycall, "A real pain in the ass."I calmed myself for a bit by taking a few of those deep cleansingbreaths that I had learned about in the Lamaz classes I'd taken withmy wife, in preparation for the birth of my oldest child, although I'mnot sure why I did that, as it hadn't worked for my wife when...

Bindlestiff

Feb 29, 2004 24 Replies

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Luigi Zanasi 22 years ago

On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 19:01:25 -0500, Tom Watson scribbled:

Tom, this is a pain. You realise that now I have to wait until your post shows up on Google, find the reference, copy the URL, code another line in the humour (humor, Keith) page, test it, fix the typos, test it again, fix it again & upload it.

And then, I've gotta do the same thing for Baglio's latest offering. Sheesh.

Luigi Replace "nonet" with "yukonomics" for real email address

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Andy 22 years ago

Pink Flamingos, the ones with "THIS SIDE TOWARDS ENEMY" stenciled on one side.

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Tom Watson 22 years ago

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Myxylplyk 22 years ago

You could just let them fade into obscure history....

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Tom Watson 22 years ago

"Do you hear, let them be well used; for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time."

(Hamlet - Act II, Scene II)

Thomas J. Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.) (Real Email is tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet)

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