You KNOW your a tool ADDICT when....

[colin39]

When your on your phone viewing GJ, CL, and eBay so much your wife thinks your having a affair.

Guilty

 

[jakemac]

You buy a tool truck. (see below)

You KNOW your a tool ADDICT when....
Someone posts on a tool forum that they bought a tool truck, and then forgets to load a picture, but .......... you frantically keep looking for the picture anyway.

 

[ggielen]

When you start buying tools for friends, because friends don't let friends work with subpar tools, and because you hope they'll see the light after being exposed to a good tool.

When you start thinking of food as an unfortunate necessary expense that needs to be streamlined to simply maintain healthy subsistence, but have no issues buying three identically functioning high-end combination pliers because you're 'evaluating which brand you like best'

 

[pi_guy]

You know you are an addict when you text your Snap on guy at 5:30 on a saturday night. & you know he is a enabler when he answers at 5:32

 

[619DioFan]

When you see an adjustable wrench in the middle of a busy street and you stop the car and jump out to save it ( as if it were a child or a puppy ) hoping all the while it is a good one. BTW - It turned out to be a 12 inch snap-on adjustable , YEA !

 

[Kracin]

you buy thousands worth of tools as the incentive to actually start projects... not buy the tools when you need them for a current project...

 

[twertsy]

Your in such a rush to order your new SK screwdrivers that you mistakenly ship them to your house instead of the shop.........(she wrapped them and put them under the tree so I had to wait another friggin week!)

 

[Tellingthem]

I wasn't until I ventured into this place...haha

Before GJ: I don't need anything else I got enough Craftsman it works!
...oohhh shiny...
After GJ: You know I think the Easco ratchets do look better next to the Proto...now where should I put the SK?

Before GJ: I got some of the cheap pliers from Lowes they work!
...knipex...knipex...knipex...
After GJ: you know the Germans always make good stuff

Before GJ: I got some cheap plastic toolboxes they work!
...oohhh I like those cantilevers...
After GJ: Toss cheap **** toolboxes and buy some new ones...troll cl looking for something even bigger

Before GJ: Ahh Amazon is where I buy everything!
...what is this Harry J Epstein place?...
After GJ: Why wouldn't I want a WWI fork? 10 please!

 

[benzoni]

You start calling your favourite tool "My Precious".

 

[benzoni]

When you get a teddy bear free for your wife for Valentines Day with that new set of Snap-On sockets.

 

[benzoni]

When you borrow a tool from a co-worker and then realize later that you already have one.

 

[benzoni]

When you've bought almost every new tools available, then start buying all the same but vintage ones!

How do you know me? What do you want?

 

[Canoe50]

You start calling your favourite tool "My Precious".

Good one.

 

[Smokeshow69]

When you post in a thread about being a tool addict

 

[DanInVA]

^^^^+1. GJ may be free to join, but it has cost me loads of money.

 

[benzoni]

When you stand outside Sears or a parts store and ask for spare change to buy some gas.

 

[decaf]

When your own son (10 y.o) tell you that you have 3 times more tools then the car repairshop that is 300 yards away.

The way i see it: Better to be a tool addict then a drug addict...

 

[WMS PERFORMANCE]

When your own son (10 y.o) tell you that you have 3 times more tools then the car repairshop that is 300 yards away.

The way i see it: Better to be a tool addict then a drug addict...

 

[holt2ton]

I don't classify myself as an addict(most addicts don't) but, my girlfriend calls me a "tool *****".... and I'm OK with that!!

 

[PelicanPines]

When your new friend who is a fellow tool guy/gal starts crying when he/she sees your collection... then their jaw drops open when they see the tools under and behind the tools they see.

Then they upgrade your cell phone contact to a single key speed dial on theirs.

 

[ARFLY]

Your wife of 24 years divorces you, kicks you out of the house so you are living on your buddies back porch and you spend all of your Saturday and Sunday afternoons working on HER car just because you got a new set of wrenches to try out. I called my brother one day and that was his story.

 

[drewvdw]

When the Snap-On man comes to your house

 

[3baygarage]

when there's popular pizzeria chain here called "Just Pizza", and yesterday at the big Memorial Day flea market, my vendor friend told his wife I'm like that pizzeria - and called me "Just Tools" due to the way I shop.

 

[zmotorsports]

When the Snap-On man comes to your house

I guess I qualify then. He comes to my home shop once a month as well as my work place shop once a week. I get some weird looks with the truck parked in front of my house as the neighbors drive by. But then again I think I get weird looks from the neighbors anyways.

Mike.

 

[anndel]

When the Snap-On man comes to your house

Yeah he came to my house to shoot the breeze while waiting for traffic to die down. I invited him to have dinner and I'll go grill some steaks but he took a rain check.

 

[panknuckshovel]

I guess I know I am an addict now, bought these because of nothing more than the Harry J. Epstein markings.

 

[Mark in Indiana]

Normal people say: " My air compressor purrs like a kitten. "
A tool addict would say: "My kitten purrs like a compressor."

 

[66354dream]

When you get more excited to see the tool truck pull into the shop than an Ice Cream truck ever did at ANY point in your life.

 

[Cruzomatic]

When I find tools that I forgot I had. Damn, happens all the time. Oh Yea!!!

 

[bfm336]

I guess I know I am an addict now, bought these because of nothing more than the Harry J. Epstein markings.

I saw you posted these in my other thread. I have the same problem - just went to satin SAE Wright set, going to replace the wrench with this one! Although on the HJE pliers I'm going the john deere colors.

Yes, we both have problems.

 

[firworks]

I had a dream that I was at a Milwaukee presentation where they were announcing new tools. I got up to leave after it started because I already knew about all their new tools and the presenter called me out like "Oh you're leaving? Any particular reason?" and I said "I already know about the new tools you guys are releasing" and he said "I bet you don't know about these" and brought out a pair of Milwaukee-talkies. I rushed back to my seat.

Sadly I woke up at that point so I didn't get to learn about them. I know they were M12 though!

 

[WMS PERFORMANCE]

I guess I know I am an addict now, bought these because of nothing more than the Harry J. Epstein markings.

 

[OCD]

When the Snap-On man comes to your house

 

[engineer2]

You consider buying a cool $250 commercial-grade string trimmer and then realize you only need it for two weeks until the lawn mowing kid gets back from vacation.

 

[Superbec]

when you dream you won 500k ,then you realize it's like a few good tool runs...