how to pass a joint

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My brother Roger is 5 years older than I. When I was a kid, he would always smoke a joint while we were driving any where. It became very important to him that I learn how to pass a joint in a car to a driver who is doing 70mph on the freeway. This involves positioning the joint up near the radio controls and holding it in such a way that you maximize the grab space for the driver. It's a complicated thing to learn when you are 11. And who knew I would ever have a use for this skill. Today, we had 75lbs of power supplies delivered to a super computer that needs to have a final benchmark number available by end of day tomorrow in order to be considered for the top 500 list. 75lbs of power supplies and 1 poor, over-worked Dell guy to install them. I'm like "you need bodies? I can get you bodies." I came up to the office, cancelled the Friday morning staff meeting, scrounged up screwdrivers for everyone who didn't have one and set up a power supply installation assembly line down in the machine room. What does this have in common with passing a joint in a car doing 70 on the freeway? It turns out that I am really good at setting up and supervising the supply line. As I stack power supplies and chassis for the guys to work on, I just naturallly stack them for easy grab-ability. Years of being trained via burnt fingers that when you pass parts, you should make them easy to grab.