Okay, after today, I just have to say, "If you love bloody knuckles, buy Craftsman."
I have had craftsman tools for quite a while as many of them were given to me as gifts as a teenager and throughout college (since my wife and I have always too freaking poor to buy much other than groceries, and pay somebody rent. People figure that at least I can maybe fix stuff that I can't afford to replace if they buy me tools). Things haven't changed much, and I still have to wrench on old cars every now and then.
The one tool I have had the most problems with is the dreaded Craftsman ratchet. The ratchet mechanism has an underpowered spring that doesn't actually click the lock back inside the ratchet head all the way. Somehow or another, it will suddenly let go when you are exerting all kinds of force on it, and the handle flies free to let your hand and most notably your knuckles go flying with it, so that you punch large jagged metal object with all your might. If that weren't really enough, you have to manually hold the direction switch over for the thing to even work after a while. I've returned one particular ratchet several times now, figuring them to be flukes. I must admit the lifetime warranty can make you forget the bloody knuckles one or two times. But today, I've determined that they just plain suck.
As Huey Lewis put it, "Sometimes bad is bad." Craftsman ratchets are the badest ratchets around.