The Anatomy of Quick Disconnect Couplings

When I was in high school, I participated in my school’s theatre program. I spent two performances onstage (one as a pirate in Peter Pan and another as a Russian magistrate with a ZZ Top beard in a Neil Simon play), but I spent most of my time backstage on the technical crew. If you’ve got kids who are approaching high school age, and if their school has a theatre department, I have this advice for you: make your kids participate in theatre. There are a few advantages to this for them, but for you there are even more advantages. During the weeks leading up to production, they’ll be out of your hair all day and all night for weeks at a time. And at the end of it all, if your kid’s any good, you can nudge your neighbor and say something like, “That’s mah boy,” without really even having to contribute to what you’re boasting about. Continue reading →