Not sure if it was before we laughed about my first experience with demoing plaster, or after he had told me he worked for a bit in set construction on stage crews.
But he said it. You know the saying . . . he paused, You give ten carpenters a hammer. . . .
And that was it, or at least what I remember him actually saying. And to be honest, I did not know the saying. [ . . . ]