Wipe your fingers across your forehead and rub that oily residue on the male portion of the rod before you put it together........this will reduce the tendency for the rod halves to stick together.
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She was standin' alone over by the juke box, like she'd something to sell.
I said "baby, what's the goin' price?" She told me to go to hell.

Bon Scott - Shot Down in Flames