I did not say anything.

“I said no,” he said.

“And she said good, because that is not a reason that holds up in month nine.

“And then I said the actual reason and she wrote it down.”

I asked him what the actual reason was and he told me and I am going to put it in, with his permission, because I asked for it and he said yes and then changed one word.

He said: “Because there are four bolts in the floor of our shop and you’ve had nineteen years to get the hacksaw out and you never did.