Stupidly Challenge (Reply)

[FRED W TREMPER]

Ed:

Your point is well taken.  The more experience one has the greater the 
score on the Tremper Stupidity Index.  Yours is 7.

Fred

On Fri, 6 Aug 1999 A440A@AOL.COM wrote:

> Greetings, 
>     Stupidity is more keenly exhibited by those that are no longer beginners. 
>  Here is mine. 
>    Several years ago,  I was stringing a new pinblock when I 
discovered that 
> one of the holes was not drilled quite all the way through.  I discovered 
> this when the pin stopped going down about 1/4" from the rest of them.  
> So.........
>    I just hammered it until it did, and then noticed I had delaminated the 
> bottom of the pinblock.  THIS was  stupidity, and it cost me a new block, 
> several days delay,and a lot of work.  
>     What should I have done?  I should have taken the pin out, drilled a 
> slightly undersized hole through the remaining plank, and then if necessary, 
> gone to a larger pin.  
>     There is never enough time to do some jobs right, but always enough time 
> to do it twice....... 
> REgards,
> Ed Foote 
> 

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