Haywire Haywood
Fiscal Conservative Social Retard
A co-worker buddy of mine that I go firewood cutting with occasionally mentioned in conversation shortly before X-mas that smoke started rolling out of his old old circular saw the night before and that he had to finish up a dog house project with a Sawzall. That afternoon, I was in Lowes, as I often am, wandering aimlessly up and down the tool aisle leaving a trail of drool behind me and I stop in front of the circular saws. I think, what the heck. It's a perfect X-mas gift with perfect timing. I pick up a middle of the road Porter Cable saw and go over to his mom's place where I know he'll be on X-mas day and stash it in the garage on the workbench with a short note scrawled on the box in magic marker. He called and left a message on my answering machine thanking me. I thought that was the end of it.
Apparently it's been eating him alive for over a month now.
His Stihl 029 has seen it's better days, so he had a Bailey's catalog at work, mulling over the Makita 6401s, vs another 290, vs a 361. We were flipping pages and when we got to the skidding tongs, I mentioned that I had been looking for a pair of those on the cheap but had never seen any in the junk shops or flea markets I've been to.
A day or two later he starts talking about ordering himself a set of tongs and how they were on back order. Today I asked him what he was going to do with skidding tongs and he said, "Nothing, they're yours." I asked him what he did that for.. he said something about saws appearing in his mom's garage, whereupon I said, "But it was X-mas!" He said, "You don't celebrate X-mas.", whereupon I countered, "But YOU do." After a bit I said, "Ok, but I'm keeping them at YOUR house." He said that I could keep the tongs at his house if he could keep a saw at mine.
It went on for a few minutes like that till we were both tired of whining about uncalled for gifting.
Neither of us accept gifts very well,
Ian
P.S. He ended up with a 361.
Apparently it's been eating him alive for over a month now.
His Stihl 029 has seen it's better days, so he had a Bailey's catalog at work, mulling over the Makita 6401s, vs another 290, vs a 361. We were flipping pages and when we got to the skidding tongs, I mentioned that I had been looking for a pair of those on the cheap but had never seen any in the junk shops or flea markets I've been to.
A day or two later he starts talking about ordering himself a set of tongs and how they were on back order. Today I asked him what he was going to do with skidding tongs and he said, "Nothing, they're yours." I asked him what he did that for.. he said something about saws appearing in his mom's garage, whereupon I said, "But it was X-mas!" He said, "You don't celebrate X-mas.", whereupon I countered, "But YOU do." After a bit I said, "Ok, but I'm keeping them at YOUR house." He said that I could keep the tongs at his house if he could keep a saw at mine.
It went on for a few minutes like that till we were both tired of whining about uncalled for gifting.
Neither of us accept gifts very well,
Ian
P.S. He ended up with a 361.
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