things in your pockets!

[doug boardley]

Ok, so you've got home from work and heading for a shower. So what do you do with all the screws, wedges, spacers, spare change, drill bits, scraps of paper etc that you've put in your pockets, before you stick your work trousers in the wash basket??

 

[jolly fix]

worked for a german run company for 7yrs,no matter how long a day ,how tired,how much you want to get home etc at the end of every day you would place all tools (clean) back in place,every drill bit back in box,spare screws/sockets/nuts and bolts etc back in the right size box,so still have the habit.every day any bits of paper get sorted into the file in the van,spare change into glove box tin,empty pockets for the wash..

 

[Alan.P]

Simple, I don't empty my pockets coz I don't wash my jeans, wear them till the wearing is done and bin them lol

Tesco's £3 a pair, well I don't want all that grout / sticky / dust going through my machine so why do it for someone else's ?

 

[jolly fix]

had habit of wiping my Silicon finger on a pair of my trousers did'nt get washed due to them being waterproof .

 

[enduro]

Simple, I don't empty my pockets coz I don't wash my jeans, wear them till the wearing is done and bin them lol

Tesco's £3 a pair, well I don't want all that grout / sticky / dust going through my machine so why do it for someone else's ?

I wash them in customers machine when the go out...

 

[faithhealer]

Simple, I don't empty my pockets coz I don't wash my jeans, wear them till the wearing is done and bin them lol

Tesco's £3 a pair, well I don't want all that grout / sticky / dust going through my machine so why do it for someone else's ?

wear to destructon, then bin. here too

 

[Alan.P]

That's about the size of it mate.

 

[White Room]

Empty pockets front and back on wash day, how many pencil sharpners that seem to hide then get washed...

 

[Dan]

I used to shove my jeans in a pillow case (that was left by the washer) so anything *should* get caught in that. However I got a bit lazy trusting this once and noticed screws poking out the pillow case (not quite far enough to get caught on things) which was a wakeup call. After then I got paranoid and would check all pockets 10 times as I didn't know if i'd already checked that one.

Though all the stuff used to end up on the side and the mrs would bin most of it. Always used to end up buying 5 and 6mm drill bits as a result as I could never bloody find one in the pack in the van! Ended up with loads of 'em.

You replace one habit with another. :lol: It's true what they say.

 

[Colour Republic]

Not sure really 😕 the laundry fairy comes in the night and when I get my trousers back 9 times out of 10 she's taken the said screws as payment.

(NOTICE: No cash is left in these trousers overnight)

 

[mikethetile]

window cill and find their way back into the clean jeans LOL

 

[Stewart]

Trousers get emptied every night onto office table ready for clean pair the next morning.

 

[Ajax123]

Tissues and Screws are the bain of my Mrs life with my work trousers. Our washing machine broke down a while ago and the engineer who came to repair it showed her the broken pump he had to change - the diaphragm was apparently peirced with several 2" screws.

At least I think that's what she meant when she said the engineer gave her several screws on the washing machine.......hmmmm!

 

[hillhead]

This is strange but when i get out of bed in the mornings my trousers are still standing up,lol.
Very rarely see the inside of the washing machine.

 

[Andy Allen]

i wish i took the renault key card for the wifes car out my pocket......it went through the wash and cost me over 100 quid for a replacement

 

[SandyFloor]

There's a fruit bowl on the coffee table in the sitting room. In it there is: 2 stanley knives, 1 tape measure, 1 4" screw, 3 screwgun bits, 3 joiner pencils, 6 nails, 1 pkt stanley blades, 1 stubby screwdriver & a wad of receipts. That's tidier than usual :lol:

 

[aph257]

empty onto office table with keys and phone.

 

[doug boardley]

There's a fruit bowl on the coffee table in the sitting room. In it there is: 2 stanley knives, 1 tape measure, 1 4" screw, 3 screwgun bits, 3 joiner pencils, 6 nails, 1 pkt stanley blades, 1 stubby screwdriver & a wad of receipts. That's tidier than usual :lol:

my bedside table is like your fruit bowl then Sandy, the real bane is the philips and pozi driver bits, they always end up in the sump of the washing machine!

 

[Time's Ran Out]

When my £3 Tesco jeans go in the laundry box they never seem to come out!
I usually get 2/3 jobs out of a pair so at £1/job it's worth looking a bit smart when you turn up for a job ( it often means having a couple of pairs on the go at the same time).
The shelf in the utility has a row of used /clean chinese takeaway boxes for screws, Ikea pencils, spacer pegs, and blue fluff!

 

[aph257]

i've just had to drain the wash m/c as it was making a grinding noise. the missus was hoovering over me when i opened the filter and out came a 2mm spacer and a wedge followed by a kick up the backend. so i may be going down the cheap trousers, don't wash, just bin route.

 

[albyshellshear]

my bedside table is like your fruit bowl then Sandy, the real bane is the philips and pozi driver bits, they always end up in the sump of the washing machine!

me too bedside table new troos pocket next day

 

[tfs]

9 time out of ten I will dumpy it all next to my computer on the desk. If I forget to take dosh out my pockets, the misses never fails to notice it:lol:

 

[doug boardley]

9 time out of ten I will dumpy it all next to my computer on the desk. If I forget to take dosh out my pockets, the misses never fails to notice it:lol:

The kids have taken to rifling my pockets now and putting all the change into there piggy bank for Center Parcs spends, may need a bigger piggy bank as we're not going again until 9th december:yikes:

 

[maniek]

so true tfs, it seems they got 6th sense when it comes to money...:lol:

 

[faithhealer]

once washed my wallet, turned all the notes a funny colour and shops wouldn't accept them lol,