Need help with thieves

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Vic Skirmants
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Re: Need help with thieves

#16 Post by Vic Skirmants »

Roy Smalley wrote:The biggest mistake one can make when laying a tool down is to turn around.........
Yep.

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#17 Post by Richard Shilling »

How about what I've done: walking around looking for something in my hand? Hopefully it was distraction not dementia!
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#18 Post by Greg Bryan »

What delights my wife the most in the garage is a cleared horizontal surface. I won't be clear for long, however ...
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#19 Post by Thomas Sottile »

Yep

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#20 Post by Leo Dreisilker »

A usual repository for a tool is the engine tray. You here it rattle as your drive off.
 

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#21 Post by Ron LaDow »

None of you guys have your coffee cup stolen from where you swear you put it down? You have more sympathetic thieves than do I!
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#22 Post by Randy Mittelstet »

perhaps your patient wife would act as your surgical assistant and hand you the tools and retrieve them as well.
It would probably be easier for her than helping in the search. (my wife would agree)
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#23 Post by Conrad Carter »

My wife in my garage? Never happen! First of all, she would want to know where all the stuff came from. Second, she knows nothing about tools. Best leave her out of this!!!
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PS...she WOULD be welcome to help but........

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#24 Post by Randy Mittelstet »

I can relate.... my worry is my wife will recognize all the items from her kitchen that I have "repurposed"
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#25 Post by Mike Wilson »

"Honey. Have you seen my turkey baster?!"

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#26 Post by Trevor Gates »

Haha, every Thanksgiving she asks me!
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#27 Post by Wes Bender »

...so THAT'S why our Thanksgiving turkey tasted a little like Valvoline this year.....
Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints.....

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#28 Post by Thomas Sottile »

I am going to attach fishing line to all the tools I use I will fix them.

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#29 Post by Eric Meyer »

I find that if I blame somebody else for taking the tool... then almost immediately after blaming them I will find it.

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#30 Post by Craig Richter »

Eric, +1 :shock:
 

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