Many years ago (before reading "do you talk to your tools") 
I was complaining to Mrs.Link that I spent more time looking for the tool than I actuallly did using it, once found.<br /><br />Got home from a week of fishing to find the garage/shop so clean and neat that it looked like I hadn't been there in years! <br />Well I was impressed and took her out to dinner and a couple drinks.<br /><br />Next day Monday. I've got 8-10 hours of work to do that has to be ready on Tuesday and I can't find nothing! So I call herself a bit irate and asked her where this was at or that was at???<br /><br />Well she didn't know what "this was" or "that was" but would I just listen to her as she was sure I could find what I was looking for.<br /><br />She had put everything alike together.<br />IE: All pointy things: screw drivers, Phil, flat head,hex, and punches in one place<br />All wrenches, sae, met, open end, box in another place<br />All of those round things with ridges or flat spots on the inside in another place (sockets)<br />All sanding paper, disk wheels for a drimel to sand paper and sanding belts to cut off saw wheels in another place.<br />All cutting things, jig saw, scroll saw, band saw, coping saw, hack saw, table saw and even hand saws in yet another place.<br /><br />By this time I'm walking around the shop finding all this stuff where she had put them thinking I just should have a beer and relax!<br /><br />But what I was looking for were my power tools.. <br />She said that was easy! <br />She said I put everything with tails in this spot.<br />And everything without tails in that spot!<br /><br />At this time (about 9AM) I used a potty mouth word and said WTF are tails or No tails!!!..<br /><br />DUH! I should have seen the logic! <br />Tail = power cords<br />No Tail = battery operated! <br /><br />Years later as I'm typing this I still get a chuckle out of this. She ofcourse now knows the proper terms for the tools but still calls them with or without tails.. just to bug me <br /> <br />
I was complaining to Mrs.Link that I spent more time looking for the tool than I actuallly did using it, once found.<br /><br />Got home from a week of fishing to find the garage/shop so clean and neat that it looked like I hadn't been there in years! <br />Well I was impressed and took her out to dinner and a couple drinks.<br /><br />Next day Monday. I've got 8-10 hours of work to do that has to be ready on Tuesday and I can't find nothing! So I call herself a bit irate and asked her where this was at or that was at???<br /><br />Well she didn't know what "this was" or "that was" but would I just listen to her as she was sure I could find what I was looking for.<br /><br />She had put everything alike together.<br />IE: All pointy things: screw drivers, Phil, flat head,hex, and punches in one place<br />All wrenches, sae, met, open end, box in another place<br />All of those round things with ridges or flat spots on the inside in another place (sockets)<br />All sanding paper, disk wheels for a drimel to sand paper and sanding belts to cut off saw wheels in another place.<br />All cutting things, jig saw, scroll saw, band saw, coping saw, hack saw, table saw and even hand saws in yet another place.<br /><br />By this time I'm walking around the shop finding all this stuff where she had put them thinking I just should have a beer and relax!<br /><br />But what I was looking for were my power tools.. <br />She said that was easy! <br />She said I put everything with tails in this spot.<br />And everything without tails in that spot!<br /><br />At this time (about 9AM) I used a potty mouth word and said WTF are tails or No tails!!!..<br /><br />DUH! I should have seen the logic! <br />Tail = power cords<br />No Tail = battery operated! <br /><br />Years later as I'm typing this I still get a chuckle out of this. She ofcourse now knows the proper terms for the tools but still calls them with or without tails.. just to bug me <br /> <br /> 
