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·A one word title could lead to lots of interpretations, sorry if you're disappointed 😁
Had drinks & mince pies at my neighbours' house yesterday and at one point said that my garage had been broken into a couple of times but my big slide-drawer toolbox hadn't been taken. It contained at least £1000-worth of top quality tools -- at three to four decades ago prices. Lady of the house said that her father had left a super collection of Snap-On tools which he, as the owner of a commercial garage had been buying all his life. I agreed that my best stuff was also Snap-On although there were some bicycle tools which were the equivalent in the bicycle world, Park Tools. And some cheap stuff from my teens and early 20s 😲 A somewhat surprising conversation to have with a lady who didn't look like someone who knew about tools.
We agreed on the point that if you buy the best it will last beyond your own lifetime, buy cheap and keep on buying the same thing over and over, while hoping it doesn't break when you're putting pressure on it. One further thing, when her father passed Snap-On said he'd been such a good customer all his life they would zero-out what he still owed on his account with them.
Had drinks & mince pies at my neighbours' house yesterday and at one point said that my garage had been broken into a couple of times but my big slide-drawer toolbox hadn't been taken. It contained at least £1000-worth of top quality tools -- at three to four decades ago prices. Lady of the house said that her father had left a super collection of Snap-On tools which he, as the owner of a commercial garage had been buying all his life. I agreed that my best stuff was also Snap-On although there were some bicycle tools which were the equivalent in the bicycle world, Park Tools. And some cheap stuff from my teens and early 20s 😲 A somewhat surprising conversation to have with a lady who didn't look like someone who knew about tools.
We agreed on the point that if you buy the best it will last beyond your own lifetime, buy cheap and keep on buying the same thing over and over, while hoping it doesn't break when you're putting pressure on it. One further thing, when her father passed Snap-On said he'd been such a good customer all his life they would zero-out what he still owed on his account with them.
