Since receiving my Ladies Tool Kit as a hand-me-down gift nine years ago, I have found it to be indispensable. The slim case fits easily under the kitchen sink; there's no need to run to the garage or basement looking for needle-nose pliers or a screwdriver. I'll write more about this handy tool set later. But needless to say, it can't solve all my woes.
On a camping trip last summer, I had to pitch my tent on rock hard soil. Normally, I find a rock and use that to pound in the stakes -- the way the cavemen did it. But the ground was having none of that. I tried the 16-ounce hammer from my ever-present Ladies Tool set, and even that didn't do the trick. I was not a happy camper.
Out of desperation, I dug around the trunk of my Cadillac. I don't know what I was hoping to find ... a tire iron, maybe? I pulled out a dead blow rubber mallet. The very tool I needed, at the precise time I needed it. This was a used car I bought five months prior, and I'd never seen this mallet before it ended up in my hand that day.
I called it a miracle mallet because it saved the day. When I packed up camp, I rolled the mallet in with the tent so I shall never have the same problem again. Here's to small miracles.
On a camping trip last summer, I had to pitch my tent on rock hard soil. Normally, I find a rock and use that to pound in the stakes -- the way the cavemen did it. But the ground was having none of that. I tried the 16-ounce hammer from my ever-present Ladies Tool set, and even that didn't do the trick. I was not a happy camper.
Out of desperation, I dug around the trunk of my Cadillac. I don't know what I was hoping to find ... a tire iron, maybe? I pulled out a dead blow rubber mallet. The very tool I needed, at the precise time I needed it. This was a used car I bought five months prior, and I'd never seen this mallet before it ended up in my hand that day.
I called it a miracle mallet because it saved the day. When I packed up camp, I rolled the mallet in with the tent so I shall never have the same problem again. Here's to small miracles.
