As a new apprentice on the Liverpool docks I was a bit of a nuisance as I couldn't decide whether I was more interested in learning the trade I was being taught or the wonderful Jazz I was hearing at The Cavern (those were the days before the place became infested with Beatles)
I had had a particularly bad 'concentration day' when an elderly tradesman turned thoughtfully to me and said, "You know - I think on the day you were born they threw the best bit away"   
Jim Carroll