Thread: Trust no One, Ever

I didn't know if or where I should put this, but here it is.
Yesterday, I waited for some guys to come by to fix my internet problems. They decided to put up a very discrete, twenty foot mast on my garage. Whatever it takes, it works now. When it came time for the guy to come into my home I showed him where the PC is and let him get about his work. I decided to wait around to keep an eye on him. They had to run a new, bigger line into my house. To do so, the guy on the inside needed to remove the cover plate over the incoming cord. Next to my PC desk is a small bedside nightstand which I use to put my hones on, hang a strop off and keep things in the drawers. The drawer was open about on fist's with. He, apparently noticed something and reached into the drawer and pulled out my Clauberg Tonsorial Gem razor. He opened it up and looked at it, at which time I warned him it was sharp, thinking the whole time that he was more than rude to reach and grab something of mine. He replied, he didn't have a screwdriver to take the cover screws out. I stopped him with a few whoa, whoa's and some more stern, no effin' way's. I got him a screwdriver. After he was done, I asked him if he was really going to use my razor as a screw driver. He said, "no, not the blade, just the skinny part that sticks out of the handle". Never would, or could I imagine someone would even think to do such a thing. But, I guess it was just a tool to get his job done.
Lesson learned, watch anyone you ever let in your home. I'm just damn glad I was there.

Later all, Don V

Sounds like you was fairly polite to the guy! Id have been dragging him out onto the street. The cheek of some people

Yikes! Imagine what he could have got up to were you not there.

Originally Posted by EisenFaust

Yikes! Imagine what he could have got up to were you not there.

I would only imagine that a straight would make a nice wire-stripper!?

Dude...what a tool!

Good Common sense is not so common.

I believeyou have the legal right to kill him....

That whole butter knife screw driver thing really gets me! An alarmingly high percentage of the people I know no longer own a butter knife WITHOUT a bent and buggered tip. Too many tool illiterate people out there!

Simply a combination of things. No pride in their work, Incompetent, a type of person who has a certain outlook on things and thinks everyone else in the world is like them.

The guy probably lives under a rock somewhere.

Ah well as much as I agree that he never should have considered using any tool he doesn't own to complete his work, I'm a little sad that I'm considered an earthworm because I don't have any problems utiliyzing available materials in order to accomplish a necessary task. Take it easy on us butter knife screw drivers....It's my butter knife...I'll use it however I want, if necessity demands. Geez, Gssixgun made a snurdler out of one and I didn't hear any foo foo's about that.