Fritz Maurer
Well-known Member
You can get 'em for about 2 bucks, dang near anywhere. I've worn out jillions of them. But even at just 2 bucks, I can't bear to throw out a good one that's been orphaned by some sort of accident, such as loss, battery acid, throwing 133 wire-tied bales, you know the drill (oh, yea there was that time the tattered remains of my glove got wound around a drill bit because I too lazy to go look for a center punch). Before I'll throw a orphan in the washer, it must pass a rigid test. If my fingers can't quite get through the holes, we're good to go. My glove orphanage has about 27 residents which I keep neatly stacked on the dryer for later use. One day I had a lot of money on me, and while I was in Heberlein's General Store in Litchfield buying coffee, I treated myself to 2 pairs. 4 dollars. I gazed at them on the counter,in the way most other guys would gaze at a sleeve and piston set just delivered by UPS. I went out to my truck to go home, excited by the purchase I had just made, and that was the last time I saw them. I had put them on the roof so I could open the door, as I had coffee in my other hand. You know I did... I blew another hour walking along the roadside cursing myself and looking for those gloves. By and by the disgust wore down and I dragged myself to the dryer where I dejectedly sorted through the gloves to find two with the same color wristband... every durn one of them was left-handed.
