When working with someone who does not want to carry their tools so they plan on taking turns using my tools I always say, "You make your owne pay check don't ya?, then bring your owne damn tools!"
I'm 59 years old and sometimes I'll get a new young apprentice who is polite and wants to carry my tools for me and I always tell him, "Every man saddles his owne horse." Which means every man carries his owne tools.
When you've got a worthless person on the crew that is lazy and does not like to work. "That dog don't hunt."
When somebody wants to borrow my pocket knife and ask me, "You got a pocket knife?" I answer them back sarcastically, "I'm a man ain't I?, of course I've got a pocket knife!" Meaning, you ain't a man if you aren't carrying a pocket knife. And I do not let then borrow it. Incidently, im so used to having one in my pocket that I had to give mine up at the SLC airport the other day. Getting a new one tomorrow.
When in a group of people and nobody can decide what we gonna do next, I go ahead and take the initiative and decide and then boastfully call myself a man of decision.
I love Sam Elliotts answer when a kid ask him in the movie Conager, "Hey Mister, who gave you that black eye?" Conager answers back, "Nobody gave it to me son, I fought for it!" I've had to borrow that line a time or two in my life.
Thats enough for now. Fatrascal.