When I had some apartments as income; I found an old Army Engineer from WWII; who used to kick my butt. The reason i accepted this from someone who I was paying to do my maintenance and improvements, and paid him more is that he forced me, (when i had time, that's most times then) to understand the work, do some of each part of the work, and see what the original design meant or why it had to be changed. Jack McFadden, I'm ever grateful. I was lucky, as he had worked with a gent who was losing vision at a centerfuge company, and played chess with him at lunch. So you guys who are grayer than I are making the world know that it can be done. May I do similarly.
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Bob Kennedy wrote: > There is no limit to ignorance. I was at the woodworking show a few years > back, a huge showing of all sorts of dangerous tools for working with wood. > One of the guys selling Forrest Saw blades was on his stage and didn't want > to sell me a blade because he didn't know how a blind person could work a > table saw and not lose fingers. I can't seem to resist a nasty come back > sometimes and told the guy I didn't know how a company with such a good name > would let an idiot represent them in the public place. I did manage to > resist dropping his $150 blade on the concrete floor. But a lot of people > walked away from his display after they heard him. > > Strangely enough, the next display was for Grip-Tite and the guy running the > booth gave me a 2 by 4 and told me to run it through his table saw. I told > him about the guy from Forrest and he couldn't believe it. > > There are good people out there but it's always covered up by the ignorant > ones... > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jewel > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 7:04 PM > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Dealing with people > > > One of our department stores had a very good special on 20 inch chainsaws > recently, and being a > sucker for chainsaws, I went along to buy one. > > The nasty little jumped-up salesman wouldn't sell me one unless I was > prepared to sign a waiver to > the effect that if injured, I would not sue them. I had no worry about > signing such a document, but > it was a clear case of discrimination for anyone can injure themselves with > a chainsaw, and do those > others have to sign a waiver? no they don't! > Now, this is a store that sold me, without hesitation, a rotary garden hoe > that didn't have a > clutch, even though, for reasons of safety, I had, distinctly, said that a > clutch it must have. > I did not find that it had no clutch until I got it home and was attempting > to find the safety > feature I had demanded it * MUST have! > When I say a * clutch, I mean that the machine can be put out of gear, so > that the hoe tines stops > spinning, but the motor is still running. > > Jewel > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >
