Speak to me about metal anchors and I picture securing a yacht. Well, I'm a sailor man in fact, so when my adult son phoned me on my cell a few days ago and asked me to buy him fifty metal anchors the very next time I was at the shops, I was completely taken aback. My first thought was, did he have any idea what he was requesting of me? Get real, how on earth might I manage to transport the darn things to his house without having to hire a pantechnicon? That is, if I could even locate fifty ship anchors for sale in any one place, much less in stock at the general retail outlet! Besides, what could he be considering doing with fifty ship anchors in the first place? Afterward I realised that he was referring to the little gadgets you use to fix weighty objects to walls. The last part of the puzzle fell into place after I recalled him saying that his spouse would like a wall-mounted TV in the cooking area and that he would grant her wish the very next time he was in the mood to undertake some D-I-Y.
The metal anchors my son was referring to are, of course, those nifty little screw-like gadgets used to attach weighty objects like television sets to wall areas where normal screws wouldn't be adequate. They may also be used as hooks to suspend stuff from, but I digress; evidently the guy was now in the mental state to proceed to mount a TV set in the kitchen! Okay, I'll be the first to admit that I felt like an idiot for having assumed that my kid wanted ship anchors but there's an explanation for it. My mind had been elsewhere when my son phoned mainly because I was preoccupied with planning the up coming ocean voyage on my beautiful vessel, the Bella Casa. Planning a sea voyage is no small task because there are many variables concerned which I won't get into listed here, the reality is, I trust you'll forgive me for leaping to such a strange observation when my son requested fifty metal anchors. Thankfully, I did not let it slip at the time that I had imagined he wanted boat anchors or he would certainly have started to be concerned about his old man's sanity.
Anyway, to make a long tale short, I bought the metal anchors and presented them to the boy personally mainly because I'd a question to inquire of him. Precisely what, I desired to know, was he planning to do with so many of these little objects when he would most likely only need about five of them to attach the television to the kitchen wall. He replied that when he finished hanging a TV in the cooking area, he was going to do exactly the same in the master bedroom and the living room. He also offered to install a television aboard my boat! I thought he was being somewhat overzealous but believed it best not to mention that he had by no means been this enthusiastic about work when he was a child, so I tactfully refused and said goodbye before I said something I regretted.
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