[AT] I guess my sense of humor has timed out...

[Aaron Dickinson]

About 50 years ago my grandfather was finishing up a bathroom remodel when the client stopped by. He commented that the job looked great, and my grandfather replied “Nothing a little half inch paint won’t take care of.”
Several days later the client stopped by to ask my grandfather if he was serious about the paint. Turns out the guy had been going around to hardware stores and paint suppliers looking for it, I guess it wasn’t until the third or fourth place that the guy behind the counter tipped him off that someone was joking. My grandfather never thought the guy would look for the paint, it was just an expression. 

Aaron Dickinson
Mason, Michigan

From: Indiana Robinson
Sent: Thursday, July 9, 2020 2:50 PM
To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
Subject: [AT] I guess my sense of humor has timed out...

My Ferguson TO-20 has been acting up and I cleaned the carb just in case but it was clean inside. Actually the first thing I did was clean the sediment bowl. Well, I tried but the pot metal housing virtually came apart in my hands so I bought a new one and put it on. I had doubts about the coil maybe breaking down after heating up but thought that I would start with the fuel system and just check everything as I go. The thing needs rewiring all over just from age and PO cobbling but I've been putting it off. I am short a couple of coils anyway so I went to pick one up. This tractor has an old (and and unimpressive) 12 volt conversion so I was looking for a 12 volt coil with internal resistor. OK, Rural King had an empty hook that probably held them at one time but no go. Today we stopped at the local O'reillys to pick one up. They are nice folks and always helpful. I told the guy what I wanted and he wrote it down and went to get help... Now I am so old that I tend to forget that most folks behind the counter are used to looking up parts for stuff that is less than 10 years old and my old crap is pretty alien to them.
When I told him what I wanted I quipped that I wanted one of the $3 coils...   :-)   (I remember buying $3 coils)  I just happened to overhear him telling the "crowd" of 3 other people who were helping him look that he could not find a $3 coil...   :-)  I had to explain that I was joking about the price... (Rural King gets about $23 out of coils).
When the dust settled I had a 12 volt coil that said "Use with external resistor" for about $19 and counted myself lucky...  :-)  I have several new external resistors hanging on a hook in the shop and I will use one of those.
I need to be careful joking with people more than 2 generations away from my age group. 


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Francis Robinson
aka "farmer"
Central Indiana USA
robinson46176 at gmail.com








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