this night, from an old customer, someone I have worked with a while

I did a lot of work for them over the winter of 09/10, spending the better part of a month there. I spent enough time there that I took to leaving my kit there during the week.

This customer- the engineer on the job, who was just beginning to take over responsibility for the automation- sent me this note.

Dear ____:

One night when you left your tools here, I opened your toolbox and went through it. I saw what you do and woindered if you had some kind of magical toolbox that allowed you to do such wonderful things. So I looked at your tools and saw nothing unusual.

Still, you seemed to be able to do things that our millwrights with giant toolboxes couldn’t do.

So another night when you left I took inventory and bought every tool, trying to purchase even the same brand when it was available. And now, several years later, I find that there is almost nothing I cannot accomplish with the tools in that kit.

Thanks

I have chosen those tools pretty carefully over the years, and they work OK for me, but I gotta say, it was cool having someone else notice.