re: TD legacy ?

kinda long...(my life---a true story, mostly)

i actually mixed paint at an auto parts store many years ago. this was before mixing paint was computerized..we used a microfiche machine and a weight scale..i sometimes had to mix the batch 2 or 3 times before it matched the paint chip in the book because i absolutely sucked at mixing paint.

i used to resurface rotors without using a caliper..there's no telling how many deaths i've caused on the roads because of brake failure due to faulty equipment.

but, i was the best axle bearing changer in baton rouge because i was fearless/stupid. lots of times the bearing would be frozen to the axle, and the only way to get it off, would be to exceed the danger point of the gauge on the hydraulic press until the bearing exploded off the axle sending shrapnel everywhere.

i had an innate ability of knowing when the explosion would happen, and would duck and hide behind something, normally a basket of cores while giving one last pull on the press handle.

i'd install the new bearing and walk back up front with the axle, normally to a crowd of worshiping admirers..i was a machine shop rock star.

i got fired for giving away too many of those wooden paint stirrer sticks, begged an immediate family member to give me a job at his company where you don't have to get your hands greasy, and i've been doing this less exciting, but better paying job ever since.