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Is It Level
New kid hangs a cabinet run all morning. Proud of it. Calls the foreman over to look.
Foreman puts a level on it. Watches the bubble sit off to one side like it's thinking about something.
Kid says, “It's close, right?” And the foreman says…
“It's close to being
somebody else's
problem.”
somebody else's
problem.”
On the word 'close'
Close enough is a real measurement. It's just that everybody downstream of you gets to decide what it means.
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