A Family Remembrance
A Trick on Grandad by my Brother Granddad was a carpenter. He built a mobile home he, three other adults and two children took behind their car to Arizona, USA, about 1949-50. He was always interested in inventions. All his life my brother was always building inventions. In the early '50s one contraption was sitting by the counter in the kitchen when Granddad was spotted coming for a visit. Quickly brother told me, "Push these buttons and levers and tell Granddad what they do. I will do the rest." Then he jumped into the cupboard and closed the door. "Wha'?" I was about to say but no time. Granddad came in so I said, "Hi Granddad! Do you know how my brother's invention works?" "No!" said Granddad immediately interested, "How does it work?" "Well," I said dramatically and loudly for my brother to hear in the cupboard, "When I push on this lever the drawer opens!" And THE DRAWER STARTED