"Tim Attwood" <tim### [at] anti-spamcomcastnet> wrote:
> >>     Stationary is always a good place to look, because stuff placed
> >> there never moves away from there.
> >
> > I dunno, pens and pencils seem to grow legs and wander off..
>
> In the guys defense, wood burning kits (which look a lot like
> a soldering iron, and can do double duty) probably are near
> the calligraphy pens in stationary.

I guess she *may* have known a "soldering iron", but wasn't sure whether a
"soldering pencil" was a particular kind of *soldering* equipment, or a
particular kind of... well, *pencil* maybe?

The reaction sounds perfectly logical to me (though you might argue she could
have asked you for details if she wasn't sure).

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