From: mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere   
      
   "Jim Wilkins"  writes:   
      
   > Entertainers fail at basic life skills like marriage and children   
   > yet "know" how the rest of us schmucks should live. They become   
   > dangerous if handed a hammer or screwdriver, tools are weapons. I've   
   > noticed that among city people too. I've heard a hammer called a New   
   > York screwdriver.   
   >   
   > At a Massachusetts job I was briefly cut off from the Internet for   
   > inquiring during lunch about parts for a chainsaw, a terror weapon   
   > to them.   
      
   City people in general.  My wife was one stopped by a Mountie when   
   driving at night.  I don't know if it made any difference that the   
   Mountie was a woman but my wife waited for a prolonged time in the   
   car.  Prolonged because the Mountie had called in for backup.  Because   
   she spotted a machete on the back seat of our car.   
      
   Very rural area.  An axe, chainsaw, peavy, machete -- any woodsman's   
   tool would be unremarkable, even in a little burb beater car.  Perhaps   
   not in Toronto or Montreal but in rural Nova Scotia, yes.   
      
   Well, they move Mounties' assigments around to give them varied   
   experience.  This one had a lesson in Being In The Back Country. :-)   
      
   --   
   Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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