Quote Originally Posted by Geezer View Post
Mostly the trouble they got into was from watching an adult do something and then trying to match it with the objects at hand.
I grew up with two fathers at various time periods. One was a carpenter and, as a very young kid, more than once, I took one of his Lufkin 6' folding rulers and broke it trying to open it. The other , my 'real' father was a pipe smoker and I vaguely remember breaking the stem off of one of his pipes. I had seen him remove the stem to clean it and thought I would do him a favor.