Explanation Please

Bit of a long story. Bear with me here...

Had my rucksack burn in on the drop zone when I was a young stud at Fort Bragg... The frame was bent to hell but no option but to deal with it for the exercise and ruck march.

Fast forward back to garrison and I go to supply for a replacement rucksack frame. The supply Sergeant explains to me that popped rivets and bent tubing are "operator level maintenance"...so I ask what qualifies me for a new frame? He states, "broken (aluminum) tubing...

I step out of the supply room and beat the frame against the wall until the frame breaks....walking back into the supply room and beginning the conversation again as if I'd never been there...

He was flummoxed...

Since then I've had the saying... "Sometimes it's just not broke enough."

Seeing 4 nails thru the phone brought that back