So I'm working on this guys truck today see.........
He walks up....starts a distracting conversation while my thoughts are on providing him high quality service at a bitch-free price....... I'm rite in the middle of the delicate operation of pounding the shit outta his trucks akerman arm with an extremely overpriced pneumatic air hammer that was most likely made in China and stamped by the tool truck driver with his personal SnapOn logo metal impression stamp....... when..........I think.........I hear him say......... His son bought him a mint condition 1964, 2 door, Chevy Impala, all original.......never been painted......... FOR CHRISTMAS!!!!
Now.....not having EVER been one to tolerate shit in me ear holes.......I've never used ear plugs in the 30 odd years of using, once reasonably priced, now highly overpriced.... air hammers............................so........there's the slightest of possibilites that what I thunked I heard and what he said were 2 entirely different things.......
so.......... I sit the tool down....(tie rod not off yet)......looked him in the eye....and asked him what his son got him for Christmas.
He repeated his rant...... his eyes were watering......... his lips were dripping................. a cocky little smile on his face...............
He did......he got one......it's all his.......a...... MINT CONDITION 1964 2 DOOR IMPALA !!!! FROM HIS SON !
promised he'd run it by the shop.....let me drool over it.
I got socks fer Christmas......and a pair of new long johns.
~:~ marsh ~takes a toke.............thinks about the new toolbox he bought fer himself for christmas........and no one knows~ ~:~