Hobby Setbacks
Are hobby setbacks the same difference as actual setbacks? Let the multitudes decide.
As many now know, Crumby's new hobby is sak collecting. Sak is the abbreviation for Swiss army knife. Crumby presently has four saks collected or hoarded. The first three saks Crumby collected, or hoarded, all off EBAY, exceeded or met Crumby's expectations. That is, they all featured a functional hand lens, nothing was broke, and everything worked OK.
But the fourth sac, and many may remember, four is Crumby's special number, is a miserable dud. Oh! It has a hand lens, all righty. Yet the hand lens, like many of the other utensils, is hard to open. Yes. This particular knife features the dreaded, tools won't open hardly at all, ever, syndrome. Mercy!
What if Crumby was in a combat situation? Then, Crumby wasted a bunch of time figuring out which blade to open for self-defense or attack. Then, Crumby couldn't get the blade open in a timely fashion, in the first dang place. Jeez Louise!
Crumby can not, however, merely send his 4th sak back to the sneaky, demonic vendor. That's because Crumby was fixing the stuck utensil problem himself when he applied too much manpower to the vice. Oops! So now the knife can't go back to the vendor for a refund, minus shipping. No. It can not. Because this particular sac now now has issues with its scales, (what mere mortals call handles). See below.
So Crumby is stuck with a defective product. However, since Crumby, in all likelihood, shall never employ the product for any of its multitudinous intended purposes, anyway. Do its defects really matter?
Before that question can be answered, consider this. The particular sak we are now discussing was manufactured sometime between 1991 and 2007. It is known as an Outdoorsman. The Outdoorsman model, now retired, among its multitudinous tools, features a hand lens, a rudimentary or crude rule, also known as a ruler, and a saw. Imagine what a botanist could accomplish in the field with that tool configuration. Goodness! But only if the particular botanist we are presently discussing could get the dern tools open by himself.
OK. Crumby has reconciled himself to his defective sak. He shall get along with it as part of his collection. Perhaps, it shall serve as an object lesson. But an object lesson for what? That even the magic Pythagorean number four, Crumby's semi-lucky number, can stick it up his dang............................ Mercy!
The keen observer may espy the crack and what looks like griddle marks on the west end of the knife scale or handle. Crumby did that employing too much manpower with the vice while the knife was wrapped only in a paper towel. But if the knife had worked right in the first place, Crumby would not have needed to do that.
As many now know, Crumby's new hobby is sak collecting. Sak is the abbreviation for Swiss army knife. Crumby presently has four saks collected or hoarded. The first three saks Crumby collected, or hoarded, all off EBAY, exceeded or met Crumby's expectations. That is, they all featured a functional hand lens, nothing was broke, and everything worked OK.
But the fourth sac, and many may remember, four is Crumby's special number, is a miserable dud. Oh! It has a hand lens, all righty. Yet the hand lens, like many of the other utensils, is hard to open. Yes. This particular knife features the dreaded, tools won't open hardly at all, ever, syndrome. Mercy!
What if Crumby was in a combat situation? Then, Crumby wasted a bunch of time figuring out which blade to open for self-defense or attack. Then, Crumby couldn't get the blade open in a timely fashion, in the first dang place. Jeez Louise!
Crumby can not, however, merely send his 4th sak back to the sneaky, demonic vendor. That's because Crumby was fixing the stuck utensil problem himself when he applied too much manpower to the vice. Oops! So now the knife can't go back to the vendor for a refund, minus shipping. No. It can not. Because this particular sac now now has issues with its scales, (what mere mortals call handles). See below.
So Crumby is stuck with a defective product. However, since Crumby, in all likelihood, shall never employ the product for any of its multitudinous intended purposes, anyway. Do its defects really matter?
Before that question can be answered, consider this. The particular sak we are now discussing was manufactured sometime between 1991 and 2007. It is known as an Outdoorsman. The Outdoorsman model, now retired, among its multitudinous tools, features a hand lens, a rudimentary or crude rule, also known as a ruler, and a saw. Imagine what a botanist could accomplish in the field with that tool configuration. Goodness! But only if the particular botanist we are presently discussing could get the dern tools open by himself.
OK. Crumby has reconciled himself to his defective sak. He shall get along with it as part of his collection. Perhaps, it shall serve as an object lesson. But an object lesson for what? That even the magic Pythagorean number four, Crumby's semi-lucky number, can stick it up his dang............................ Mercy!
The keen observer may espy the crack and what looks like griddle marks on the west end of the knife scale or handle. Crumby did that employing too much manpower with the vice while the knife was wrapped only in a paper towel. But if the knife had worked right in the first place, Crumby would not have needed to do that.
posted by ray pistrum at Wednesday, October 30, 2013
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