Tools of Discovery
It was like finding $10 in your jacket pocket. Yay! Then opening your mailbox and among the AARP mailings or irresistable offers to “Or Current Resident,” finding a bill for $10.95. Boooo. At the time of this discovery, I was doing a sort of modified Warrior II into Downward Dog yoga pose, while clutching a 9 ⁄ 16 - inch ratcheting box wrench in my left paw. The point of this exercise was to reach behind the fender of my ’61 Impala and remove the door-hinge-to-body bolts. It’d be simple with the fender off, but I didn’t want to yank that just yet and the hinges were making that creaky-door sound effect used in low-budget scary movies. The door also had nearly enough vertical movement to qualify as “gull wing.”…