Jack has enough problems of his own to deal with, but he can’t help getting involved in the plights of others.
Charlie threw him a plank to keep him from drowning, and now, whenever life gets too real, which is a frequent occurrence for Jack, he can always escape to the mingled scents of wood chips and well oiled precision equipment to add some buoyancy to his mental ship. When Jack Irish was drowning himself in whiskey, self pity, and a healthy dose of soul crushing depression, he wandered into Charlie Taub’s workshop and asked for an apprenticeship. ”Charlie once said, elevation of chin, narrowing of eyes revealing that he was about to deliver a message, ‘Jack, make something, you look at it, you’re happy.
