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Originally Posted by Jims5543 View Post
Fun stories....

My older son took on a side hustle job several years ago working for a valet service. They were ecstatic he knew how to drive stick. He learned on stick and has always had a manual car. He got to park a lot of pretty cool cars all because he was one of the only 2 guys that could drive stick working there.

I took my E30 up to the Hard Rock Hotel in Orlando for a long weekend, I parked it with the Valet, the first guy came running up to take the car and stopped as soon as he saw inside the car, he could not drive stick, he had to find the guy that could. They ended up moving it 30 feet and parking it up front thinking it was one of the cooler cars they had in the valet that weekend. Parked among Porsches and Ferraris. LOL!

I leant out my chainsaw one time too many, it was purchased at Sears in 1997, I remember purchasing it do to a job for a client, it was a craftsman that I took very good care of. My BIL borrowed it a few times and every time he brought it back it was in worse shape, the last time he never drained the gas and it was cheap ethanol crap. He ruined it. I threw it away, it owed me nothing. I purchased a Stihl 18" this past Friday with the intent of destroying a bunch of Brazilian Pepper trees behind my yard that have been frustrating me.

I got out back with my new chainsaw with no real plan other than to kill things. I started cutting everything I saw, nothing would fall, they were all interwoven to the point they are all holding each other up. I should have come up with the better plan..

After about 30 minutes, I decided I had created a very dangerous situation for myself and I should GTF out of there. There has been continuous cracking and popping for days now. I am happy to report all the trees are drying so there is that.

I retreated to my side of the fence and started cutting everything reaching over into my yard (what I should have started with) and have a plan to go to the other end now and work my way towards the mess.

Seems I am very dangerous with a chainsaw and no plan.
So are you going to lend out this new CS to the BIL?
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