Pete & Mike
Sometimes I fell like I have outlived my usefulness.
For all of my childhood and most of my adult life as
well, I have carried (and yes, used) a pocket knife.
Now I can't carry one into the courthouse, because it
is a "weapon", even the one onkey chainhain, about an
inch long! Things are just NUTS.
John
--- Mike Decker <mdecker@g...> wrote:
> Hi Pete:
>
> A few years ago, we were out to Connecticut for a
> nephew's wedding. Some of
> us "guys" were sitting around the picnic table at
> his folks house.
> Something came up that looked like it required the
> precise application of a
> cutting tool....."what are we going to do?" say the
> "kids". Well....his
> Uncle from Northern Wisc., and his Uncle from South
> Dakota (ex of central
> Wisc.), reach into our pockets and come up with our
> pocket knives. You'd
> have thought we were about to swing a machete at
> them...."WHAT are you doing
> with those in your pockets?" Our response was,
> "doesn't everybody carry a
> pocket knife?" I guess not. Out here on the
> ex-Alliance Div., most knives
> carried run right up against the Company's "weapons"
> policy :>)
>
> Best,
>
> Mike Decker
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
> To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
> > Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:08:12 EST
> > From: PSHedgpeth@a...
> > Subject: Re: Troop Trains on the Q
> >
> >
> > How many men carry a knife these days...probably
> afraid we'll be
> > arrested....my dad always did and also a pen or
> pencil....and admonished
> me
> > to always do the same...I never paid much
> attention to the knife thing,
> but
> > to this day you will never find me out of the
> house without pen or
> > pencil...Guess you could say I followed 50% of my
> dad's advice...I
> suffered a
> > stiff rebuke for not following the other 50% on
> that hot July night 46
> years
> > ago.
> >
> >
> > Pete
>
>
>
>
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