07-31-2010, 12:21 AM
When I started out wrenching a million years ago it seems. I was with a field tech on a drill rig in Wyoming. I think I was 23 or 24 at the time. We were taking off a pump. My wrench slipped, I smashed my hand and let loose with some choice expletives and started hitting the pump with my wrench. Carl (my mentor) looked at me and asked me what the hell I was doing. "Haven't you figured out by now, who's got the brains and what is just a piece of machinery?
God gave you the brains so use them. The pump is only a piece of iron. Never let an inanimate object kick your ass."
31 years later, I've never forgotten what he said to me.
And I've never had an inanimate object kick my ass again.
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God gave you the brains so use them. The pump is only a piece of iron. Never let an inanimate object kick your ass."
31 years later, I've never forgotten what he said to me.
And I've never had an inanimate object kick my ass again.
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