On 12/22/2012 8:20 PM, Tom Driscoll wrote: > Marshall, > Give her the # of one of those resellers . This kind of thing is a > waste of time. I used to get requests for wire used in cheese slicers or > piano wire for the removal of car windshields. You have to meet them ( > if they show ) and you have better things to do. > JMO > Tom D. I keep a small pile of takeout strings for this purpose. They likely won't show, true, but shop days don't require that they do. Time spent on this list is a waste of time nine times out of ten, but occasionally I learn something, or can pass something useful along to someone else who actually recognizes, needs, and appreciates it. I don't know if the crap is worth the gain, but I continue to try. About four years ago, I got a call from someone wanting fallboard knobs on a day I happened to be in the shop. I told him I could fix him up and he came by to get them. I recognized him as someone I knew in High School, but played it more or less straight as I made a couple of dumb jokes in conversation, charged him a few bucks for the knobs, and saw him off. Maybe five minutes later, I got a call. "Ron?", he said. Hi Chuck, how's things? That got a laugh, and we talked for a while about old times, getting old and spacy and not recognizing old friends, though I pointed out that he did eventually in spite of the disguise beard, which got another laugh. Sometimes, all experience to the contrary, you actually win. Ron N
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