[TT] Beavering Away . . .

[Colin Holgate]

On Dec 13, 2008, at 3:26 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote:

> Late, I was working in the married students' garden plots when a  
> pleasant
> woman from Wyoming asked me how I managed to break up the clods of  
> earth
> so effectively. My reply; "I always use a hoe." was received in  
> silence, and then she walked off, never to speak to me again.

At those times when your favored implement was in use, and you decided  
to have a smoke break, your explanation of "if I can't get a hoe, I  
just go out for a fag", would have caused great alarm.