A Bolt by a Blue
One day many years ago I was building a machine of ingenious conception and a mind boggling mechanism. In order to do this I had to hacksaw down about 30 bolts of high tensile steel. Needless to say I gave up before I'd cut one and went out and bought the biggest set of bolt cutters I could lay my hands on. Other than the odd ricochet this proved ideal.
Many years latter I was sitting in a pub when some people I know came along and started talking about removing the security screens from their windows in order to let the building maintenance go ahead Ray Jones offered to lend them a drill and then he remembered that I owned a set of bolt cutters. Which they duly asked to borrow. I imagine of Terry Williams contacts at Rapid Hardware told him I bought them, as they kept careful track of what I bought.
Sometime latter the people who had borrowed the bolt cutters asked if I could set up their PC for them, I agreed. Before I came around however gave them a call just to check they still wanted the job doing and they did. So I trotted around with my trusty Dictaphone what a surprise they did not want to touch the machine themselves and asked me to put it a way in a cupboard when I left, but I remembered to leave set up for "Chris Lee and Lisa by ***********" all over the hard disk and the odd dummy account.
Some time latter I observed a heavily laden Brian Mitten walk down the street from the couples with a system unit sized box.
One day many years ago I was building a machine of ingenious conception and a mind boggling mechanism. In order to do this I had to hacksaw down about 30 bolts of high tensile steel. Needless to say I gave up before I'd cut one and went out and bought the biggest set of bolt cutters I could lay my hands on. Other than the odd ricochet this proved ideal.
Many years latter I was sitting in a pub when some people I know came along and started talking about removing the security screens from their windows in order to let the building maintenance go ahead Ray Jones offered to lend them a drill and then he remembered that I owned a set of bolt cutters. Which they duly asked to borrow. I imagine of Terry Williams contacts at Rapid Hardware told him I bought them, as they kept careful track of what I bought.
Sometime latter the people who had borrowed the bolt cutters asked if I could set up their PC for them, I agreed. Before I came around however gave them a call just to check they still wanted the job doing and they did. So I trotted around with my trusty Dictaphone what a surprise they did not want to touch the machine themselves and asked me to put it a way in a cupboard when I left, but I remembered to leave set up for "Chris Lee and Lisa by ***********" all over the hard disk and the odd dummy account.
Some time latter I observed a heavily laden Brian Mitten walk down the street from the couples with a system unit sized box.
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