o New set of cordless screwdriver bits
---- to replace the ones you used for crow-bars, hammers
---- as well as rounding out every screw you ever touched
o New set of screwdrivers
---- to replace the set I used to open/stir/set-in paint tins
---- to replace the set I used to bend into interesting shapes
---- to replace those whose flat-ends got bits sort of broken off
This is where your significant other is renamed significant bugger. You call it a screwdriver, I call it hole maker in plant-pots & crowbar.
o Spare cordless screwdriver
---- so the battery you forgot to charge doesn't stop you doing the job
---- so the screwdriver bit is in another tool, so you can trash twice as fast
---- so you don't have to change drill/tap/drill/tap/drill/tap all day long
o Replacement drill bits
---- for when you knocked the mains drill off the desk & broke the drill bit
o Replacement soft-board & squishy hole filler
---- to fill the hole you just made in the floor when the drill bit & drill fell off
-------- well it's why they call them drill bits isn't it!
---- and to fill the hole in the soft-board lining of the shed
-------- made by a bit of the 5mm drill that brittle fractured on hitting the floor
o Mole grips, because you know something is going to get stuck
---- forget the spanners, you know you never use them
---- far more effective at rounding-off-anything
o New wooden mallet
---- to replace the one you used to bash things to fit
---- because it is now sort of covered in an odd history of dents
o New cordless battery
---- because you can never wait for the old one to charge
---- so this one has the memory of everything except that it's a battery
---- it has no relation to the female species, except it knows what you screwed up :-)
o Tap extraction tool
---- so you can remove all those broken taps scattered about the things you made
o Tap high speed filing tool
---- so you can file off the broken tap extractor & tap in the things you made
o Assorted set of screws
---- so you can spend time going thro them to find yours isn't there
o Spare drill chuck key
---- so by sods law you will never lose the original, but always the replacement
o Drill storage box
---- so all those drills you refuse to throw out can be categorised
---- into blunt, buggered, hole-not-in-your-lifetime & fire-starter
o Longer hedge trimmer cable
---- since you spent more time trimming the cable forever shorter than the hedge
o First aid kit
---- which doesn't require fingers, thumbs, or teeth to open it
o Bulbs created by a company other than GE
---- which is being renamed *King Darkness
o Freezer alarm
---- because all the junk on top of the freezer stopped the door being shut properly
o Castors for everything heavy
---- like the Freezer, the Dryer and anything else, preferably 4" high nylon
o Odd shaped bits of cardboard or wood
---- because you thought you'd save money by buying non-braked 4" high castors
o VDE Screwdriver
---- since there's no need to turn the mains off to spot weld the screwdriver to the MK again
o Garden vacuum
---- so you can mulch fan blades & stones all over the garden
o Pricing chart
---- for the DIY/tool shop so every time you go they charge the SAME price
Q: If you remove the friction clamps on the tool shop desks, do they collapse?
-- Dorothy Bradbury
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