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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
I do.
She told us he was driving railroad spikes. I raised my hand and pointed out that, no, he was actually driving a steel. The old bat made me stand in the corner.
...probably one of the seeds of the contempt for authority that I developed.
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I've met a lot of really smart people who never say a word until asked, and then only just enough to make the point...and I have a feeling that incidents like this are a big part of the reason..
(and I would have gone for the laugh and said something along the lines of what kind of a lesson did John Henry teach us when it killed him to try and beat the steam hammer but that's a whole 'nother story, even though the resulting corner time would have netted the same result)
Anyway, that is a cool artifact; I always thought it was a railroad spike, too!