I grew up in construction. My Dad worked in construction either for someone else or later for his own construction company. I learned about tools and how to use them early on. If Dad was working on something and hollered for a Magillacuddy's double-barreled left-handed wedginator, I'd better know what it was.

When I was in the Coast Guard, I was a marine diesel mechanic and while in school we had a week long class on tools. Until that time, I'd never met anybody who didn't know how to use the business end of a screw driver or didn't know the difference between a flat blade and Phillips head screwdriver. But I discovered there ARE people like that.

The instructors of the school pounded into our head that there was always "the right tool for the right job." Of course, once we graduated and…