The Scent Of A WalMart Oil Change

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What in heck does he mean?

Well, it's life, you see, and this Chinese Meat Cleaver I got for 40 bucks to chop bones. The Chinese Meat Cleaver I got in despair of HI ever making one. I was sharpening it because it wasn't sharp out of the box. Does that sound like someone we know? The top half was digging in a little to the sandpaper and when I held the blade to sunlight to see why there was a noticable bend in the blade. Bent.

It just feels like circles and the Same Ole, Same Ole. Himalayan Imports has actually been damn good at overall quality. They have their moments. And so do the Chinese. Probably a heck of a lot more moments. And Walmart has oil changes and if the toy you bought there doesn't work grab another off the shelf.

The box is on its way back to Chef's Depot. My wife said, "The replacement will have a bad rivet or something in the handle."

She's right, you know. I remember a Smith and Wesson that went back and forth in the mail between my incapable hands and their hourly wage.

We start out imperfect and stay that way. Take care of your scars. We only get replaced on the inside.



munk
 
Munk,
Scars ARE important. A scar is a visual reminder that something went wrong. Too often our memories "scab over" and we stub ourselves on the same old rock we walked around hundreds of times.
Thank goodness we don't get scar tissue on our brains when we screw something up. I'd look like Frankenstein...oop I mean Fronkenschtein.
 
Sheesh. I'm on the Trail; don't you see? It's always the same story, told over and over again, only the player's names and the places change. The Scent of a Walmart Oil Change. They get you in, and there's no way out except to buy. I was sharpening a brand new blade because it wasn't sharp enough. How many times has that happened? It went back to the factory like so many other products do in our lives today. Always exchanging. Always moving.

While I feel like I haven't moved at all. Even my Wife laughed. Can't you see all the toys and knives and guns and products you've purchased in your life just streaming along, like Dorthy in the Tornado, and here I was so fat and proud and pleased with my new two pound Chinese Cleaver, the one Yvsa said I should just bite the bullet and get, the one I finally got, and like everything else, even HI, sometimes it fails you, sometimes it must be returned, sometimes they break.

I'm either mad or not a good enough writer or both. Send me along the mushrooms when you get them. They won't last either.


munk
 
Munk's not on shrooms...

...he's been breathing in the toxic fumes from a synthetic oil change!

The problem with blaming the Chinese is that a half hour later, I'm angry and vindictive again.
 
The problem with blaming the Chinese is that a half hour later, I'm angry and vindictive again>>>>>>


Isn't this the truth about blaming anyone? I like this. That's good.



munk
 
Munk--I've been trying to come to grips with this very same thing for a while. It's hard being a materialist when you are surrounded by imperfect materials. Things always seem to dissapoint, if not at first, then after a while when they break.
--Josh
 
Bingo.

And you're still the same. But there's a experience of using well functioning tools that is enjoyabe. Everything seems OK because the tools are working. Everything's not OK when they don't work, are imperfect and spoiled, or do not live up to expectations. When things go wrong then, our world inside is often allowed to upset. This seems ridiculous.

The other thing is that on the inside 'you' are renewed while all around you things are failing; liike maybe a liver, a knife edge, the car dash board digital clock. There is no hope for fixing the clock. Is there hope for fixing the 'you'? I think so. That's the part we strive to have faith will continue after death. The body is a thing like a bent knife.

munk
 
Thanks, Danny. You've got a few surprises in you yourself. I've been flapping my mouth on things munk has little business in pursuing. Yes folks, time to return to what I do best, time to organize madness. And I love these knives so much. There's a thunder storm brewing outside and a flood watch. The little guys and I were out and in the yard. I was cutting a few more segments of firewood with the Hanuman. The littlest was watching me and as I cut there was the peace and happiness I get from these warm Khukuries the old men make for us in Nepal. I almost think the words are in that metal. The words are in the metal.


munk
 
Munk,
Wow!! You could make that your signature line - "The Words Are In The Metal." It's so well put, and an accurate description of this whole thing that's going on here. Perhaps that should be the theme of the next khon? Or the new slogan for HI?
Thanks for being a gem.
 
I don't want some other sucker like myself to be unlucky enough to recieve it "factory reconditioned". when something breaks or screws up, I finish it off....I burn it, kick it, saw it, grind it, stomp it, run over it, sometimes I let the broken object sit there and I stare at it until the disgust boils up inside of me and solidifies like a pot of macaroni and cheese that has been sitting on the stove for a week. Deep huh? I go into destroyer mode and then I feel better. Teaching kindergarten will sometimes make me do these things even if the object didn't break.

Otto
 
munk said:
and here I was so fat and proud and pleased with my new two pound Chinese Cleaver,

the one Yvsa said I should just bite the bullet and get,

the one I finally got, and like everything else, even HI, sometimes it fails you, sometimes it must be returned, sometimes they break.

munk
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Munk I just told you to get a Chinese Cleaver, not the $40.00 one. Had you of gotten the high quality although not highly finished one for $10.00 you would've been happy.:p :D ;)

There's something in there that means something.;)
 
Yes there is. !!!
There was no 10 buck model.

It boiled down to 2 generic Chinese blades, 18 and 30 bucks. The 18 had a full tang but also had a thin layer of SS, which I did not want as a protective covering for my cleaver. The 30 did not say it had a full tang, and it's first use was listed as cutting vegitables. As I have a small cleaver at home for vegitables, and as the 35 dollar 2 lbs cleaver had a full tang, I paid the extra 5 bucks for it. With shipping it was 42.

So the plan was to do the simple and cheap thing and not screw it up; but Chef's Depot screwed it up by putting stainless steel on the bottom level model, and not having a full tang on the bigger model.

This is a good signature line; "I paid the extra five bucks"

Yvsa, the metal was hard.

.....I paid the extra five bucks to insure I'd have a better deal, (life, boat, car, radio, dog...) but I had the same life I was going to have anyway.

I think Bill would like that line.


munk
 
Ferrous- I'm a klutz- how would I go about getting a sig line with that?



munk
 
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