When he was younger, my father, (6'5" 185 pounds of lean with hands twice the size of mine) could open pop or beer bottles with the aid of the flimsiest tool--he claimed it just had to be something hard. Driving along with him, he would pull the key out of the ignition (leaving the engine running in those days) and use the key to flip pop caps out the window. With nothing at hand, he could open one bottle against another--even holding them both in the same hand. Party trick was to open one in each hand at the same time--then tap the open lids back loosely in place and use those two to open the 2nd pair. He claims that it was simply strength enough to push one lid off with anything hard to push against the cut metal edge of the cap, but it still amazes me decades later. He was quite a few years getting used to twist-offs, and dropping one of the few purely show-off things he did. :-) It is hard to think of my teenage son now opening jars for his grandfather . . . . GaryJ Craig Jungers wrote: > I had an "opening moment" when I returned from South America after several > years of working for a US Government entity. My father, who was > 60-something, offered me a beer and when I said "yes, please" he took a > bottle out of the fridge, twisted off the cap, and handed me the beer. > > I was dumbfounded. He had clearly gained strength in his hands while I had > been gone. > > It wasn't until my mother did it the next day that I realized that someone > must've invented an easy twist-off bottle cap. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Dec 28 2007 - 18:45:53 PST
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