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justin hosier
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Yeah, but can you really trust a craftsman who leaves his tools all over the floor? 
If this is true, it embarasses me to think that I complain about my few little aches and pains, and I'll keep this in mind the next time I am making excuses about something being to hard to do. Talk about determination.
If this is true, it embarasses me to think that I complain about my few little aches and pains, and I'll keep this in mind the next time I am making excuses about something being to hard to do. Talk about determination.
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knife7knut
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It's posts like this that make me realize just how fortunate I am. I have survived cancer for 6 plus years now and I thank Him for each day.
A couple of years ago I received a phone call from someone inquiring as to whether I could do painting on carbon fibre. Thinking it might be a race car or motorcycle(both of which I do a lot of custom painting on),I told him,"Sure;what have you got?"He replied,"A pair of prosthetic arms."!!!
Turns out he was a telephone lineman in Florida and while working inadvertantly grabbed onto a 7600 volt wire.The resulting burns required that both arms be amputated just below the elbow. He was 33 yeqrs old at the time.He had just been fitted with the first set of prosthetics and,in his words,"If people are going to stare at me,let's give them something to stare at;paint FLAMES on them!"
Never one to turn down a challenge I told him to come on over.I then proceeded to lay down a three color flame design(in striping;there wasn't enough room to spray them).After letting them dry for a few days,he came back to pick them up.
Ironically it turned out that he had gone to school with my oldest (step)son.When he asked me the cost,I told him,"This one's on the house;I'll get much more out of just relating the story".I did ask him if I could photograph them for my photo album and he obliged. The enclosed picture shows him next to my work truck.
I have to give Jay a LOT of credit;I don't know if I could be as upbeat as he is under the same circumstances.Last I heard he was trying to get back to his job but I don't think that will happen.
A couple of years ago I received a phone call from someone inquiring as to whether I could do painting on carbon fibre. Thinking it might be a race car or motorcycle(both of which I do a lot of custom painting on),I told him,"Sure;what have you got?"He replied,"A pair of prosthetic arms."!!!
Turns out he was a telephone lineman in Florida and while working inadvertantly grabbed onto a 7600 volt wire.The resulting burns required that both arms be amputated just below the elbow. He was 33 yeqrs old at the time.He had just been fitted with the first set of prosthetics and,in his words,"If people are going to stare at me,let's give them something to stare at;paint FLAMES on them!"
Never one to turn down a challenge I told him to come on over.I then proceeded to lay down a three color flame design(in striping;there wasn't enough room to spray them).After letting them dry for a few days,he came back to pick them up.
Ironically it turned out that he had gone to school with my oldest (step)son.When he asked me the cost,I told him,"This one's on the house;I'll get much more out of just relating the story".I did ask him if I could photograph them for my photo album and he obliged. The enclosed picture shows him next to my work truck.
I have to give Jay a LOT of credit;I don't know if I could be as upbeat as he is under the same circumstances.Last I heard he was trying to get back to his job but I don't think that will happen.
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