the pictures would be warning enough i think
Don't bank on it ? Some things you should know about me:
I still don't wear a watch. As a kid the parental units would give me one every birthday and Xmas, and within 24 hours it would be in pieces. After a while, they stopped bothering, so I never got used to wearing one. I was the living proof that the slogan: "Takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'" was wrong.
Then they gave me a junior carpenters set one snowy Christmas morn. When the arm of the sofa fell off an hour later, the saw was confiscated. The kitchen cupboard doors fell onto my grandfather's head shortly thereafter - bang went the screwdrivers. I don't remember what I did with the hammer, but I do remember having nothing but a ruler by Christmas night.
On the upside, I learned how to fix guitars by taking them apart. My first real guitar (a Fender "The Strat"), which cost me R1,100 in '84 (an absolute fortune then) was in pieces within a half hour of opening the case.
An incident with a neighbor's Jaguar XJ6 taught me to be more circumspect about just whose stuff I took apart though. Fortunately, the cameras belong to my wife...
