by Celedam » Fri Sep 18, 2020 10:02 am
Many years ago I bought a really nice matched set of scissors, one full-sized pair and one kit-sized pair. It was kind of a big deal for me at the time because I bought them to replace the old, blunt scissors that I took from my childhood home when I moved out. My parents let me take a lot of stuff like that in order to help me get started on my own, so it was a mini rite of passage to replace the old scissors with new ones that I selected and bought for myself.
A couple years later, but still many years ago, I lost the kit-sized pair. It was very frustrating — partly because I almost never lose things, partly because it ruined my memory of that rite of passage, and partly because it was a really nice pair of scissors, dammit.
I just found the kit-sized pair. They were in a kit. I build many kits for many different purposes, and I hadn't reviewed or rebuilt that particular kit in a long time.
Yeah, it's a small victory, but I'll take every one I can get this year.