TOOLBOX-THING

toolbox-thing

Michael M Simon

I’m staring at this toolbox. At least it looks like a toolbox. It’s toolbox shaped. It’s almost rectangular, a bit more than a forearm long by a hand wide and tall. The two longest edges on the top are chamfered thirty degrees or so. Without having to pick it up, I can imagine it’s weight and it gives the sense that it is made of metal. The colour is that bright fire engine red that a lot of metal toolboxes are painted. It has a hinged handle on top and a draw latch on the front - both have shiny nickel plating. It looks a lot like the toolbox that followed my dad around when I was growing up. If it wasn’t on the workbench in the garage, it was in the trunk of the car - wherever we were going. “Just in case” he would say.

Look at Michael's toolbox and figure out just what it is that makes this toolbox his. The full article is in On Site review 39: tools