boogieman,
As I consider my posts of late, I am beginning to see myself as The Grumpy Old Man that Dana Carvey used to play on SNL... While I appreciate the fact that my son and his friends feel welcome at my home, these kids have no respect for tools or even in some cases no idea how to use them. I have several Dremel bits that are now nothing more than metal toothpicks. I have a collection of recip saw blades that are bent and toothless. I have RotoZip bits that are as blue as Triumph headers and as dull as a rubber float. My previously full standard and metric socket organizers in my tool box now look like the cratered surface of the moon, as there are more craters than sockets.... I have drill bits that are broken in half, and air tools that just go "pffft"... The best example of all is my favorite claw hammer. I remodelled the kitchen and the living room, replaced the front and rear doors, remodelled the entire downstairs, and worked on a few other people's houses with this hammer. You probably know how a hammer just becomes your favorite. It just feels good in your hand and you rarely miss with it....
The wife and I went away for 1 day to visit her father and when we returned there were 12 kids in my garage, working on an S10 truck. My favorite hammer was laying on the garage floor with it's claws missing. I asked my son what happened and he said "I dunno, I was just hammering with it and the claws fell off..."
My dad would have beat me till I couldn't grow no more....
I just said, "You owe me a new hammer"....
