John Ruth said to Kirk Eppler: "surely your family and friends can stash a tool
chest or two for a couple of months until you sell off your duplicates."

And Mike Lynd replied: "*Sell off your duplicates!!! * What sacrilege is this?"

Hush, Mike, you'll spoil John's Cunning Plan. See, he persuades Kirk to park
lots of "duplicates" with  us, and after a few months he forgets about them, and
we don't remind him. Then we get to keep the "duplicates." Easy-peasy.
Kirk, please add my congratulations to all the others. You couldn't have found a
nicer partner, or (as best I can judge) one more suited to you. May you both
live long and happily.
Tom Conroy
p.s. For those of you who don't know Kirk personally, he is perhaps the most
generous galoot I know. Where others take pleasure in finding and accumulating
tools, he seems to take even more pleasure in passing them along to appropriate
homes. I have often benefited from this character trait of his, and feel a bit
treacherous in making up the Cunning Plan I foisted on John---but I'm not going
to suppress it. Someone might smile.   t.