Ever broken a favorite tool?
Today I was building a shed and had to massage some plastic pieces into their proper place. I was using my Leatherman Wave's blade in a way it wasn't designed to work, and it cracked. It's still under warranty, but I was sad because it's the one I carried in Iraq. I wrote to Leatherman and let them know that, so I hope they'll refurbish mine instead of offering me an exchange.
My son was laughing at me all afternoon, because every couple of minutes I was reaching back to my hip to grab the Leatherman that wasn't there. My son said I had phantom limb syndrome...
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I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. - Thomas Jefferson
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