Posted by coshoo on December 07, 2015 at 15:38:05 from (69.10.196.105):
In Reply to: I'll Never Learn. posted by L.Fure on December 07, 2015 at 11:10:33:
Still remember a guy in ag class in high school, doing some oxy-acetylene cutting- got a piece of slag in his shirt pocket, it burned through, and he was doing the "fire dance" in the middle of the shop. These days, folks would have been having him drop and roll, calling 911, throwing water, etc. But in those days, we all (including the ag teacher) just stood there and laughed. Sometimes wish we could go back to those simpler days.
We had a kid named Lon (nickname was "Forest Lawn", given to him by our 6th grade teacher, because you could never really tell whether he was alive or not when he was asked a question. Of course, teacher would be immediately fired for that today. And for bouncing Ray Atteberry off the radiator, even though EVERYONE wanted to bounce Ray off the radiator). Forest decided that for his welding project he was going to braze some steel horseshoes onto a fir 2 X 4, to make a coat rack. We tried to tell him that the wood would just catch on fire, but he was convinced the brass would "soak into" the grain of the wood, and hold the horseshoe on. Wise ol' ag teacher called us over, and after intimating that "the boy just ain't right", told us to just let him try, and stand by with some water to throw on if things got out of hand and the shop was in danger of burning down. Forest tried several times, and (surprise!) it didn't work. But fresh from our discussion with the teacher, we showed some maturity by not just ridiculing him, but instead, giving him some encouragement in his failure ("Well, good try Lon, sorry it didn't work out", etc.). I often wondered what ever happened to Lon. But not enough to actually try to find out.
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