I was cleaning out a drawer upstairs in my music room when I came upon two boxes of Swan Safety Pins. ½ Great Gross in each box. They were manufactured in Shanghai, China. Two boxes, so I had a total of one great gross of safety pins. But no, they were sets of pins 4 each of three sizes, a total of one dozen each on a little card. A great gross of them, which is a dozen gross or 1,724. That is a lot of safety pins. Hmmmm. That is one hell of a lot of safety pins, but the fact was, I had previously sold twenty-two, ½ Great Gross Boxes of these pins to my Corporate Clients to distribute to their employees and… Oh, it is too complicated to explain in this little article. Let me just say working with corporations on creative, imaginative, sometimes nutty approaches to keeping workers interested and committed to safety on a daily basis for so many, many years finally led The National Safety Council to present me with their Distinguished Service To Safety Award in 2002. They tell me that is the highest award the Council presents to an individual.
Oh there is other stuff upstairs left over from over seventy years in the safety field… Over a dozen books and booklets I have written on Safety. Dozens of VHS’s of my safety talks which others have recorded. My robot named Pos who could still ride around on her bicycle with safety messages for so many children.
And memories, why I bet I have a thousand memories I might pull out of those drawers from the over a thousand and more speeches I have delivered throughout the years on safety in every one of our United States and in most Canadian Provinces.
But there I go reminiscing again. Now, what in the world can I possibly do with all these safety pins?
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