The other day, for $59.99 at Costco, I bought a 145 pc. Cresent brand tool set. The nation of origin is unknown, but I would guess Taiwan. I didn’t really need them. But the finish is so good, the ratchets so smooth and so fine, and they all have the ‘flank drive’ feature Snap-On made famous a quarter-century ago. I simply couldn’t resist.

This brings up one of my great axioms of life: To certain men, tools are as jewelry to certain women.