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Random: Ten Piece Tool Set
Posted August 31, 2006 10:45 AM
How can you go wrong gifting a ten-piece tool set to your closest buddy? In concept, you really can’t go wrong, but if you execute poorly and try to get skimpy by gifting him a tool set that was manufactured in some third world country then I bet the following scenario will ensue.
Observe…buddy gets tool set. He’s pretty excited and immediately puts it to work the next day by doing some weekend warrior odds and ends around the house. The chintzy wrench immediately strips his hex nut heads and he curses. Tossing the wrench aside he grabs the pliers from the set and in an instant pinches the fatty part of his hand between his fore and middle finger because the pliers can’t make up its mind as to which setting it wants to be on, the fully closed or the partially open setting. As his blood blister begins to throb he suddenly thinks to himself. This tool set sucks! He grabs the tape measure to switch gears and is immediately irritated that it only extends to five feet and he needs to measure a twenty-eight foot room. Wanting to be a good sport, he decides to give the tool set one more opportunity to get something accomplished. He grabs the ratchet set, goes underneath the kitchen cabinets and begins to mount a bolt in a hard to reach place. The cheap-o ratchet head falls off the flex arm and knocks your best buddy’s front tooth out. Oh I can almost hear the curse words, can’t you? I think they sound something like this, “You suck hole peckersniffing no good son of a…†Well you get the idea. Don’t be penny wise and dollar foolish. Spend the extra few bucks and gift him a really good quality Ten Piece Tool Set. He’ll thank you for it. And you won’t have to pay his dental bill.
