[Bramblecot]

When the garage men put white paper sheets on your car seats to protect their overalls .  And they say 'what is that smell '?

[Anke]

my cars in for mot today and at the last minute i did remember to take the chainsaw and fencing buckets out of the back!!!

Yeah... but blokes get away with that much more easily than women... I do often have a bow saw with me, just to make sure that large branch at the side of the road after a storm fits into the van...

[Fleecewife]

No one has ever commented on the small axe we have in a car door pocket - maybe they're afraid to     It is in case of fire - a friend was trapped in a burning car once, unable to break the windows, and he was badly injured.  On another horrific occasion there was a crashed petrol tanker on fire, and no one had the equipment to get the driver out.   But it could also be useful in the case of fallen wood - that's one of the many reasons we have for having an estate car.  Good for picking up neeps which have fallen off the back of an overloaded trailer too 

[bloomer]

another one i already do but others have touched on in passing,


you're prepared to scrounge anything you can use that someone else might just be throwing out!!!


(See my thread on sheep hurdle solutions)

[oor wullie]

Getting to the checkout at Tescos, putting you hand in your pocket for you money and finding only a knife.

Last year me and the OH both tried to get through different airports forgetting about the knifes in our pockets.

But is it soo useful at home for just about any job..........

[sokel]

Always feeling self concious that you may smell of goat/sheep/chicken and then becoming paranoid everytime you speak to others at school gates/shops etc

Knowing you do smell of goat/sheep/chicken and not giving a toss 

I now laugh when people at the till take a step backwards when you have popped to a shop just after mucking out 

[Lesley Silvester]

I once hitched a lift from a man who had two syringes on his dashboard. Turned out he was the local vet. 

[ellied]

Yellow hand from summer fly cream that got through a ripped surgical glove is always fun but when a nurse is clearly thinking of mentioning smoking risks as your nicotine finger belies your claim to giving up in 2006!

[Womble]

We fitted a new chimney liner today. Everything went well except when we came to pour in the sacks of insulation.

I was half way up the ladder for the fourth time, white sack on my shoulder, when I realised the reason this one felt heavier was that it actually contained sheep coarse mix!

I'm so glad I noticed before I started tipping the contents down the chimney! 

[Lesley Silvester]