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Monday, June 30th, 2008
To make a point...
2 of the part time "children" work out of my toolbox at work. I don't have a problem with people using my stuff, as long as they clean it up and at least make an attempt at putting it back in the right place. I'm not the most organized person in the world by any stretch of the imagination , but obviously driveline removal tools don't go in the same drawer as wire strippers.
However, one of them started getting into the habit of walking up with a handful of tools and dropping them in the biggest available drawer, supposedly to put them up as soon as he was done. Asking nicely stopped it for about 2 days. Now I was tempted to deal with this with a full-blown Walter Sobchak "I said mark it ZERO!!!" fit (minus firearm), but elected to take a calmer route.
Turns out nothing says "Please put my things back where you got them" quite like silently slinging a tool found in the wrong place for the eleventeenth time across the building and giving the offender a brief death stare before walking away.
To make a point...
2 of the part time "children" work out of my toolbox at work. I don't have a problem with people using my stuff, as long as they clean it up and at least make an attempt at putting it back in the right place. I'm not the most organized person in the world by any stretch of the imagination , but obviously driveline removal tools don't go in the same drawer as wire strippers.
However, one of them started getting into the habit of walking up with a handful of tools and dropping them in the biggest available drawer, supposedly to put them up as soon as he was done. Asking nicely stopped it for about 2 days. Now I was tempted to deal with this with a full-blown Walter Sobchak "I said mark it ZERO!!!" fit (minus firearm), but elected to take a calmer route.
Turns out nothing says "Please put my things back where you got them" quite like silently slinging a tool found in the wrong place for the eleventeenth time across the building and giving the offender a brief death stare before walking away.
HAS THE WHOLE WORLD GONE CRAZY? AM I THE ONLY ONE HERE WHO GIVES A S#!T ABOUT THE RULES? MARK IT ZERO!
For the record, I'm absolutely horrible at keeping my own tools in order - I've got projects from the basement to the second floor, indoors and out, and equipment scattered every step along the way. Nothing reminds me of senility like losing a screwdriver that's still in my hand.
So far it's working, but with a holiday weekend and the resultant 'brain in neutral' effect they seem to have on some people coming up, the jury is still out.