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- Newsgroups: alt.locksmithing
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:04:25 -0500
- From: James Arthur Burtoft <jbbe+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: Discouragement from Locksmiths
- In-Reply-To: <yabi.12.722112997@ellis.uchicago.edu>
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- >Has anyone else ever been told by a locksmith to "butt out" of his
- >profession? I'd be interested to hear about it.
-
- I used to work in a lumber store. My dad taught me how to rekey a
- lock when I was a little kid, so when the manager found out about my
- latent skill (We were in the office one day and he was digging through a
- closet one day looking for something, and pulled out a rekeying kit and
- sat it down. I picked it up and said "Wow, I haven't seen one of these
- for a long time" He said, "Yea, we have one, but noone knows how to use
- one." "Oh, I do, my dad taught me a couple of years ago."), I was
- called upon often for rekeyings and making keys.
- Inspired by this, I went to the local library, and looked through a
- book on locksmithing. After figuring out how this picking thing works,
- I went to the local locksmith's shop, and asked him if he had any
- half-diamond picks and torsion wrenches (a good start). He asked me
- why, and I told him-I work in the lumber store. Then he asked me how I
- knew that I wanted a half-diamond pick, and I told him. He then told me
- that he couldn't sell them to me unless I was a bonded locksmith, and
- then proceeded to tell me how horrible it was that teenage punks could
- go into a library and get a book out on locksmithing (I assume he meant
- the likes of me:), and what a horrible society this would lead to if
- allowed to continue, and how he was going to ask the library to please
- remove them.
- That's pretty close to "butt out".
-
- Cheerio
- Jim
-
- Love is not blind, just stupid--Me
- Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days,
- nor twenty days; But even a whole month, until it come out at your
- nostrils...
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- Numbers 11:19-20
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