Used Equipment

Some Confusion Over Metal Anchors

Talk to me of metal anchors and I picture securing a yacht. Well, I am a sailor after all, so when my adult son called me on my mobile the other day and wanted me to get him 50 metal anchors the very next time I was at the shops, I was flabbergasted. My initial thought was, did this guy have any idea what he was asking of me? Get real, how possibly might I be able to carry the darn things to his house without having to hire a pantechnicon? That’s, if I could even find fifty ship anchors for sale in any one location, let alone on the shelf at the general store! Furthermore, what might he be planning on doing with fifty ship anchors in the first place? Then I realised that he had been talking about the small devices you use to anchor heavy objects to wall surfaces. The last piece of the puzzle fell into place when I recalled him mentioning that his spouse would like a wall-mounted TV in the kitchen and that he would grant her wish the next time he happened to be in the frame of mind to do some D-I-Y.

The metal anchors my son was referring to are, not surprisingly, those neat little screw-like devices used to attach weighty items like tv sets to wall surfaces where regular screws wouldn’t be satisfactory. They may also be used as hooks to hang stuff from, but I digress; evidently the young man was now in the mental state to go hang a TV set in the kitchen! Alright, I’ll be the first to confess that I was feeling like a dunce for having thought that my son wanted boat anchors but there is an explanation for it. My thoughts were somewhere else when my son called because I was preoccupied with planning the next ocean voyage on my beautiful vessel, the Bella Casa. Planning a sea voyage is no small task because there are many factors involved which I won’t go into listed here, the reality is, I hope you will forgive me for leaping to such a peculiar conclusion when my son requested fifty metal anchors. Thankfully, I did not allow it to slip at the time that I had imagined he needed boat anchors or he’d certainly have started to be concerned about his old dad’s sanity.

Anyway, to make a long tale short, I bought the metal anchors and delivered them to the young man personally mainly because I had a question to inquire of him. Precisely what, I wanted to know, was he going to do with so many of these tiny things when he’d most likely only need about 5 of them to attach the television to the kitchen wall. He replied that when he finished hanging a Telly in the cooking area, he was going to do exactly the same in the master suite and the family room. He even offered to install a TV set aboard my boat! I believed he was being somewhat overzealous but thought it best not to mention that he had by no means been this enthusiastic about work when he was a child, so I tactfully declined and said goodbye before I said something I regretted.
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