http://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/06/17/how-to-read-a-board
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How To Read A Board
Guest Post by Hardscrabble Farmer
I took my first shop class in the 7th Grade. The teacher was a short Austrian with a missing finger on his left hand and an accent that struck fear in the heart of a thirteen year old. On the first day of class he walked us around the meticulously kept room naming each machine and giving a brief description of its use while we followed dutifully in a tight knot of boys dressed in dungarees and T-shirts.
When he came to the joiner he told us about the importance of being aware of our surroundings, of paying attention to what we were doing at all times and then he described how he had once stood fascinated by the shavings that came out of that machine one day a long time ago and how for just a second he forgot what he was doing until he saw the bright red spray of his own blood stain the pile of sawdust at his feet and looked at his missing digit in horror. He held his stump up in front of our faces and said the phrase I have never forgotten, “This is what you get for inky-dinkying around.”
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