Push button release kobalt embarrassed me

[toolaholic]

I have , by luck of the draw I guess, ratchets w/o push button release. Except for a kobal fkex head in my car tool bag. I carpool to work 49 miles each way. The one girl Rhonda we car pool with hit a pothole and her sway bar broke in half(Saturn vue). They limped it to Colleens house. It broke near the carpool meeting place. Broke on passenger side and was dragging on ground .I went to the house and removed the link w/ vicej grips and a 18mm socket/ Kobalt ratchet. Fished link and part of swaybar that was dragging on ground up through wheel well. Then I couldn't get socket off. Gave it to colleens husband thinking the 7 degree weather sapped my hand strength. My hands were numb.He pushed button and handed it back. I was so embarrassed. First time I used the kobalt. I use a mix of armstrong, gearwrench craftsman pro and snap on. All do not have quick release.

 

[Charlief]

The button on the back of the ratchet didn't give it away?! LOL

 

[Todd.Brock]

So much for Impressing Coleen and Rhonda with your hand skills... That funny!!

 

[deafcon]

I bet it gets real quiet every time you walk into a room at work now. It's because they're making fun of you.

 

[JonDick13926]

I feel your pain. None of the ratchets I use are quick release either, and when I had to use one (a craftsman) a while back, I tried to just push the socket on to no avail. I kept pushing harder on it until I realized. It's not that I've never used one before, but when you go a very long period of time, constantly, using nothing but non-quick release, it's easy to forget.

Luckily for me, no one was around.

 

[toolaholic]

Yeah it's funny now but at the time.... I did explain to Joey the husband that its been years since I used a quick release.

 

[thegroundpounder99]

I don't have any quick release either, it would've got me too lol. I have a SO flex ratchet that has a lock and I let a guy use it at work and he thought it was stuck so he started banging it on the crossmember, it was brand new and I still poke fun of him for it.

 

[Need more space]

And with a name like toolaholic, lol sometimes so focused on getting it done your brain goes on autopilot

 

[lightning02]

I don't have any quick release either, it would've got me too lol. I have a SO flex ratchet that has a lock and I let a guy use it at work and he thought it was stuck so he started banging it on the crossmember, it was brand new and I still poke fun of him for it.

sooo you let someone use a new SO ratchet of which he does NOT OWN and he starts bangging it on a crossmember bc he thought the socket was stuck instead and asking you or going by it a diff way?!?!?! lol yea ummmm if i was you i wouldnt let him use anymore of your tools lol

 

[oldldh]

It would all depend on your age...

If that had happened to me...

It would have been a...

SENIOR MOMENT!!!

 

[Zeke]

Never allow embarrassment to take up any of your time. If there ever was a definition of time wasted....

 

[Tucko]

I wouldn't feel TOO bad. After all, YOU'RE the one who crawled under the car and took care of business, while everyone else was standing there scratching their butts.

 

[m.breen]

Pics. of Ronda and Colleen, or it didn't happen....haha.

 

[AA/FC]

Pics. of Ronda and Colleen, or it didn't happen....haha.

This^

 

[Shadowdog500]

I wouldn't worry about it. I really like button release, and am suprised that you never used one before.

Chris

 

[toolaholic]

Pics. of Ronda and Colleen, or it didn't happen....haha.

They're both real cute girls. They'd kill me if I posted pics! LOL

 

[M-EGT]

I hear ya, my main ratchets I use are not quick release. Then I decide to use my 1/2 Craftsman that has it and I keep pulling and pulling the socket to no avail... and then oh, that button

 

[Jarhead0408]

They're both real cute girls. They'd kill me if I posted pics! LOL

Now ya' done it! You admitted they were cute AND you didn't post pictures.

Let the Ban Hammer Descend!!!