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Step 4Find Sucky Replacement Gear and Give Up
After some tantrums and a nap, I get on the phone to Roy at "Sew Special", who was raised by sewing machines. He's the "cider house rules" type boy doctor of them.
Of course he has the gear I need. He gently chides me for owning a "touch and swear" machine.
He: "I thought they'd all been. Something."
A trip to town and I have a new gear. Brand new. Brand name brand new. It's never been out of it's little plastic bag since it was made 17.5 years ago. Unfortunately when I get back I poke it with my fingernail. That's a test for hardness taught in science class in U.S. schools. I determine that my new gear is very much softer than a fingernail. They should have made the gears out of fingernails.
I don't try to return it to Roy. I'm too afraid he'll say something wise and gentle to me while giving me my $9 back.
I check craigslist. No deals. All 70,000 of the nice ladies on the island are trying to get one to sew Hawaiian quilts and kine(stuff like that) cozyoids(I made it up) for her Ohana (extended family).
I can't buy a NEW one, because they're..
horrible.
You've seen them. Plastic knobulated pfaffenkugels. They are the microeconomic equivalent of fishing lures. The salesman drags them past the fish and the fish bites the one with the most jingles on it.
New machines can sew ornamental buttonholes in a demo room which is what the customer wants at buying time. Unfortunately they can't sew denim at home, which is the customer needs for the rest of their life.
"Microeconomics" is the study of why individuals spend money.
It's the same as "Psychology", but there's no Nobel prize for psychology, so it got a new name.
Actually there's no Nobel Prize for economics either, but there is a prize "in memory of Alfred Nobel" (w'pedia) funded by the Swedish state bank.
The peace prize is mostly given to mass murderers to encourage them to be better, and to prominent vulnerable activists to delay their assassinations. I don't know what the Econ prize is used for.
I've run out of time and have to go back to the mainland.
I lost at least a week of boatbuilding time dealing with tools that kept breaking.
Of course he has the gear I need. He gently chides me for owning a "touch and swear" machine.
He: "I thought they'd all been. Something."
A trip to town and I have a new gear. Brand new. Brand name brand new. It's never been out of it's little plastic bag since it was made 17.5 years ago. Unfortunately when I get back I poke it with my fingernail. That's a test for hardness taught in science class in U.S. schools. I determine that my new gear is very much softer than a fingernail. They should have made the gears out of fingernails.
I don't try to return it to Roy. I'm too afraid he'll say something wise and gentle to me while giving me my $9 back.
I check craigslist. No deals. All 70,000 of the nice ladies on the island are trying to get one to sew Hawaiian quilts and kine(stuff like that) cozyoids(I made it up) for her Ohana (extended family).
I can't buy a NEW one, because they're..
horrible.
You've seen them. Plastic knobulated pfaffenkugels. They are the microeconomic equivalent of fishing lures. The salesman drags them past the fish and the fish bites the one with the most jingles on it.
New machines can sew ornamental buttonholes in a demo room which is what the customer wants at buying time. Unfortunately they can't sew denim at home, which is the customer needs for the rest of their life.
"Microeconomics" is the study of why individuals spend money.
It's the same as "Psychology", but there's no Nobel prize for psychology, so it got a new name.
Actually there's no Nobel Prize for economics either, but there is a prize "in memory of Alfred Nobel" (w'pedia) funded by the Swedish state bank.
The peace prize is mostly given to mass murderers to encourage them to be better, and to prominent vulnerable activists to delay their assassinations. I don't know what the Econ prize is used for.
I've run out of time and have to go back to the mainland.
I lost at least a week of boatbuilding time dealing with tools that kept breaking.
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