glaze

The 'Beav' came into the shop early. He was grinding away at something when we came back from lunch so we went over to have a look.

There he was, disc grinding a lawn mower blade.

The other fellow said, "Be careful, you'll take the temper out of it."

Beav nodded in agreement and said he knew what he was doing.

The advice continued, "You know the best tool for that job is a file." (It is.)

Right then I saw it! A glaze came over Beav, his eyes fogged right in front of me.

There was no way he was even going to consider using an old fashioned hand tool when he had a perfectly good air drill in his hand with a supply of sanding discs.

That's the way most everyone in this country is. Very few of us will give a second thought to using old methods that proved themselves through the years.

Why I heard just this week about a school math test where the correct answer for a simple multiplication problem (7X9) was about 60!

So if you can stomach using old tried and true methods yourself when you do things just watch someone else when you suggest they give it a try. A real honest to goodness glaze will sweep over them and there is no way they will do it.

They can't even understand it.