Someone's in trouble
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Syntax_Error
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I keep my toolbox's in the house and took a weekend to teach my wife about my tools and how I treat them. Kinda painful at first a little crying but eventually the overwhelming feeling of the tools subsided and now if i ask her for a 14mm crows foot, flare nut wrench, e-torx socket rail, or anything else shes on the point and excited because she knows what im talking about. and not to mention no more crying when she helps with projects. I love her but she is soft.
I kinda get excited when my girl chooses the snap on tool versus grabbing another like tool but different brand.
Most of the times I'll see her using a little tool to do something dumb and I'll say "wait honey I have a better one for u to use"
She sighs....and then waits for me to go get it
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Most of the times I'll see her using a little tool to do something dumb and I'll say "wait honey I have a better one for u to use"
She sighs....and then waits for me to go get it
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Steelhorse27
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not long ago my wife was painting a piece of furniture in some "as seen on pintrest" method and had laid down a sheet of plastic to protect the lawn..... well it was windy and to hold down the plastic she grabbed my allen wrench sets and stabbed them in the ground. a couple days later she removed them from the dirt and put them back on (not in) my tool box probably a week or so goes by before I go out to get another tool from the box and I find my dirty rusted Allens, but only the larger ones in both standard and metric. Needless to say I don't think she will be doing that again......and I slept on the couch that night lol
Cope
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Back in the 80s Snap On made an Indy 5 pc screwdriver set in a fluorescent looking white. I bought it for my wife and made a walnut wall rack for it.
boiler7904
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Luckily for me anything that breaks during the day gets left for me to deal with when I get home so I don't have to deal with tools missing yet. My son is almost 3 and I can see the day coming where he is in and out of my toolbox regularly. Time to find the keys and get in the habit of locking up.
My wife was somewhat excited / impressed with herself last night for actually using a screwdriver to help assemble a toy for our son's upcoming birthday.
My wife was somewhat excited / impressed with herself last night for actually using a screwdriver to help assemble a toy for our son's upcoming birthday.
That's why my tool box is locked....... She needs a tool she asks and I will get it for her and I make sure it's used for what it's suppose to be used for. I came home from work one night to see her useing one of my larger snap-on screwdrivers as a hammer. Yeah...... She won't do that again.
Which felos are you talking about? I love my 550s
gipraw
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That's why I bought my wife her own set for inside the house. When she does need something from one of my boxes she always puts it back and takes care of them when she uses it.
theoldwizard1
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My wife has here own "tool box" (small plastic, "shoe box"; pliers, screwdrivers, etc.) in the laundry room. She has been bitchin' about "missing" screwdriver for months. Well, she found them the other day when she cleaned up one of her projects that had been sitting unfinished for that long ! 
Frank Dukes
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this is why she has her own small hobby toolbox in the house. she stays outta my garage.
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volleyball
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Was this a hint your screwdriver not needed as shes got batteries?
I forgot those snap ons are too flimsy for women to use, they will break them in no time.
creativecars
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Back to the OP...
I am pretty sure the "Someone's in trouble" is you...
and if you don't get your **** together and fix something you will be replaced by a screwdriver and a set of batteries.
I am pretty sure the "Someone's in trouble" is you...
and if you don't get your **** together and fix something you will be replaced by a screwdriver and a set of batteries.
cuengineer
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Over 40 years ago before our wedding, my wife-to-be received a plastic tool box with assorted screwdrivers, pliers, a small hammer, assorted screws and nails, and some other items as a shower gift. She was so proud of it, and we still have it. It has really come in handy when we have moved and need to hang curtains, pictures, fix a little something, tighten something up or hit something (not someone!). In fact on several occasions, she has given other women a similar tool box with tools. I keep thinking about getting one of the pink Cman tool bags for her but can't seem to catch one on a good sale. Maybe Black Friday!
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Can't use the GOOD tools, they might get broken!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol... Alot of people use the wrong size tip for the application, and can ruin the driver! I get your frustration. Get her a Harbor Freight set! 
Can't use the GOOD tools, they might get broken!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol... Alot of people use the wrong size tip for the application, and can ruin the driver! I get your frustration. Get her a Harbor Freight set!
I've got craftsman pros by they are at our other house. I am thinking about getting her the new channellock set.
Gotta stock some perty CM screwdrivers in the tool box. Never lost sleep or got anxious about a slightly damaged CM-USA screwdriver used by the misses or the teeners. Just warranty them back to perfection.
Give them "cheap" screwdrivers and risk irreparably damaging the screw heads or more
Give them "cheap" screwdrivers and risk irreparably damaging the screw heads or more
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1950mercury
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The next time she needs a screwdriver do you think shes going to remember which one to use. Your better off giving her a set of her own
Years ago my dad borrowed some of my tools. I pretty much mostly have quality stuff, he has an old cman 20" mechanics box full of the junk they sold at sears at the time and a small cabinet roller with assorted cheap junk in it.
We had this freezer that wasnt frost free so you had to remove the ice after time. I will never forgive him, he took my favorite wood hammer and a rather expensive wood chisel and use them. Didnt dry them off and when I found them all rusted to hell a few days later I almost beat him with the tools. This is the same man who used that same hammer to put down one of those pergo floors and got the freaking glue (since he glued it) all over the same hammer and I had to refinish it.
Never mind dad has his own hammer and chisels and other tools. I have a 44 HF roller, it freaking stays locked. Should you want something you ask, should you break, misuse/destroy, ruin or whatever your buying me a new one. I dont loan out my tools to even my family really, I made my brother give me 50 bucks when he wanted to borrow a bunch of stuff. That way it comes back in pristine shape like it left.
We had this freezer that wasnt frost free so you had to remove the ice after time. I will never forgive him, he took my favorite wood hammer and a rather expensive wood chisel and use them. Didnt dry them off and when I found them all rusted to hell a few days later I almost beat him with the tools. This is the same man who used that same hammer to put down one of those pergo floors and got the freaking glue (since he glued it) all over the same hammer and I had to refinish it.
Never mind dad has his own hammer and chisels and other tools. I have a 44 HF roller, it freaking stays locked. Should you want something you ask, should you break, misuse/destroy, ruin or whatever your buying me a new one. I dont loan out my tools to even my family really, I made my brother give me 50 bucks when he wanted to borrow a bunch of stuff. That way it comes back in pristine shape like it left.
ddawg16
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Most of you need to get a life......a real life.....it's just a ******* tool.....
God forbid something serious happens....
God forbid something serious happens....
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Probably ergonics. They're too soft, make my hands cramp.
My wife makes a lot of necklaces, she was complaining about the hobby store tools not working well for cutting and crimping stuff so I brought home a Knipex precision cutter and needle nose for her to use. She loved them but didn't want to use them anymore when she found out they are $40 each.
neonlazer
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I know right! Some of them probably needed to write up an agreement when they got married about the use of their tools. Lol
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nicksnothereman
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What about that awesome warranty bro?
Ooooh burn!
(I don't like people borrowing my tools either)
Outlander
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What else does one do with all those cheap tool sets you win at some raffle? My wife has socket sets, screwdrivers, pliers, hammers - the whole nine yards. Gave her a toolbox that was my Dad's so she keeps it securely stashed away (see what I did - even played on the sentimentality).
Fretters
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volleyball
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Not simpler, you divorce her and she gets all the tools in the settlement, you won't need them because you will be living out of your car.It'd be a lot simpler to just ditch the wife and keep the tools.
Her new BF will be using your mac and snapons to pry open his beer cans and to use to bring to the pawn shop.
Fretters
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That's a possibility, but anyone with an ounce of gorm would have sneaked them out and stored them somewhere safe weeks or months beforehand. They can't get what they can't find. 
zakmartin
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I have an old carry-type toolbox where I keep all of my older Craftsman screwdrivers, RP wrenches, etc. and told my wife she could use those tools anytime. The "good" tools (Snap-On, S-K, Proto, C-Pro, Knipex, Wiha etc.) stay in my locked Snap-On tool box. The other day, I got home from work, and my wife was tightening the screw on a door knob. She was holding in her hand one of my Wiha extra heavy duty screwdrivers. I asked her what was going on and she told me that she hates using the Craftsman drivers because they "smell like puke" and she loves the way the Wihas feel and they're easier on her hand. I thought to myself, HOLY SH--! She actually GETS it. I was very proud.
Murphy4570
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I've lost more than two #2 Phillips snap-on screwdrivers from this phenomenon with my father. I have been missing my current one for over a week now.