Day 146: 5 Minute Freewrite: Wednesday - Prompt: monkey

My Dad had several Monkey wrenches in his toolboxes, and it was my favorite tool of all as a kid. From the time that I was old enough to take directions, dad would send me from wherever he was working to the tool shed for whatever he needed for the task at hand. I never walked or loitered on these errands, it was implied that the need was urgent and that daylight was wasting so I raced all the way there, sometimes on from the far end of our twenty-acre farm, and all of the way back with the required item. It didn't take me long to learn the names of each tool because if I returned with the wrong thing I got a scolding look and was sent back until I got it right.

To me, the monkey wrench was a magnificent and beautiful tool if I ever saw one. The one in the above graphic has the typical wooden handle from the late 1800's to early 1900's, the wrenches that we had were in perfect conditioned and the wood had been stained dark brown from years of continuous coats of grease and oil. They were perfect for the square headed nuts and bolts often found on older farm equipment, and the stationary head of the wrench was often used as a light duty hammer. Most of these wrenches in my Dad's collection had originally been included with the toolkits on the Ford Model A vehicles. What a great invention that still lives on to this day! I have to wonder how many people have been whacked in the head by one of these things that were often sitting on top of a toolbox or workbench within easy reach when a fight might break out.

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**Disclaimer: I often use the freewrite prompt to tell a story instead of doing a pure freewrite, so they sometimes take longer than 5 minutes and usually have some editing. But I try to do my story straight through at one sitting without any unnecessary breaks.
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Prompt: monkey

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