Posted by PJH on January 09, 2012 at 20:11:43 from (50.40.196.120):
In Reply to: Yellow farm gloves posted by Fritz Maurer on January 09, 2012 at 18:14:59:
Good story! I've got a box of worn out gloves in the shop. Savin' them for hard times. I quit buying the big packages of a dozen chinese made gloves. I swear, I can't make it from the house to the barn before the thumb comes unstitched where it joins the palm. Good idea on turning an orphan wrong side out to make one fit the other hand. I'm tight enough to try that.
When I was a young man, I worked a second job in a local gas station - one of the old time ones that sold everything, but long before the convenience stores were born. One day an old timer came in and bought a $1 pair of jersey gloves. He gave the boss a five, and got his change back. On the way to the door he stopped and opened the pot bellied stove, ripped the tag off the new gloves, pitched the change and the new gloves in the fire and kept the tag. I guess he got his hands mixed up or something - but it broke his heart - back then a dollar was a foot long. It was one of the funniest things I ever saw around that old station.
Which reminds me - why are they called Jersey gloves? Angus would be more fitting. . .
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