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<blockquote data-quote="OHJEEZE" data-source="post: 3754685" data-attributes="member: 47878"><p>Never say never!!!</p><p>This is a true story.</p><p></p><p>As a child went to visit my Dad (a former machinst) for the normal weekend, long time ago.</p><p></p><p>There on his coffee table he had a cloth of some sort, and a micrometer!</p><p></p><p>Dad: "Come here and sit down, I want to teach you how to read this micrometer!"</p><p></p><p>10 year old me: "Dad, I dont want to learn how to read that micrometer, I am NEVER going to need to know that in my life!"</p><p></p><p>9th grade me: Shop class</p><p>10th grade me: Metal shop class 1 and 2, mechanical drawing</p><p>11th grade me: Machine trades program at the local vocational school (I own two micrometers now), Dad passed away in the fall that year.</p><p>12th grade me: Machine trades program at the local vocational school, early placement, 2nd half of school year start working in shop as a tool and die apprentice, have Dad's micrometers now.</p><p></p><p>After graduation, apprenticeship, more micrometers! </p><p></p><p>I told me Dad I would NEVER need to know how to read a micrometer, and now have a bunch of them and all kinds of precision tools, and reading them is second nature.</p><p></p><p>I never had a chance to laugh with him about that, but I like telling this story of NEVER say NEVER!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OHJEEZE, post: 3754685, member: 47878"] Never say never!!! This is a true story. As a child went to visit my Dad (a former machinst) for the normal weekend, long time ago. There on his coffee table he had a cloth of some sort, and a micrometer! Dad: "Come here and sit down, I want to teach you how to read this micrometer!" 10 year old me: "Dad, I dont want to learn how to read that micrometer, I am NEVER going to need to know that in my life!" 9th grade me: Shop class 10th grade me: Metal shop class 1 and 2, mechanical drawing 11th grade me: Machine trades program at the local vocational school (I own two micrometers now), Dad passed away in the fall that year. 12th grade me: Machine trades program at the local vocational school, early placement, 2nd half of school year start working in shop as a tool and die apprentice, have Dad's micrometers now. After graduation, apprenticeship, more micrometers! I told me Dad I would NEVER need to know how to read a micrometer, and now have a bunch of them and all kinds of precision tools, and reading them is second nature. I never had a chance to laugh with him about that, but I like telling this story of NEVER say NEVER! [/QUOTE]
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