[knarf]

My dad had a pretty full woodworking shop in the cellar and when it came time to build my birdhouse for cub scouts, I cut the pieces out, but he edged them to look really neat

I nailed it all together and I lost to Arty Graham ... who's birdhouse looked like shit ... but he had built it completely by hand

I missed out on an official Boy Scout knife

Life Long Lesson Learned

I was 8 or 9 or 10 years old.

[yarddog]

My Brother entered the soap box derby in Panama City around 1953. He got the Bay Line Railroad to sponsor him.

Now I remember him going to their shop every day for a while but when I saw his racer, it looked like something Ferrari would have turned out.

No way did Joe build that by himself. He won his first two races but lost the third. He got to keep the car.