[AT] Shop Toys For Christmas ? (Charity Auction item)

[James Yost]

That 5" wrench ought to go to the ATIS Charity
Auction. What do you think? 8-)))))))))))))))






--- dglass <dglass at mail.newnanutilities.org> wrote:

> A couple of years ago my son was working for
> Williams tool co. division 
> of Snap-on tools as a computer programer.  He told
> me they were going to 
> have a tool sale and he thought the prices were
> going to be pretty 
> good.  I gave him a $100 bill and told him to buy me
> whatever that would 
> get and he agreed.  I talked to him a couple of days
> later and I asked 
> him if he got me $100 worth of tools.  He said it
> turned out that his 
> truck wouldn't haul $100 worth of tools . (I thought
> it was because he 
> had a Ford truck)  He gave me my $100 back and said
> he would just give 
> me the tools for Christmas.  He gave me sets of
> wrenches from 1/4 in to 
> 5 inches.  (Did you know a 5 in wrench weighs 55
> lbs.?) Piles of sockets 
> up to about 3 inches.  Half a dozen or so crescent
> type wrenches. 
> Several tool boxes, screwdrivers, flare nut
> wrenches, ratchets up to 1 
> inch drive.  He had to wrap up a couple of wrenches
> and after I opened 
> that, he backed his truck up and we unloaded the
> rest. The box end 
> wrenches I  now have about twenty of each size up to
> about 2 inches.  So 
> far, one 5 inch wrench has been enough. It was an
> exciting Christmas for 
> me. Unfortunately, he left that job for more pay. I
> thought about 
> subsidizing him to stay, but too late. It was good
> while it lasted.
> 
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Jim and Janna Yost
Utica, Ohio
USA
jnyost at yahoo.com


		
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