Thread: dont you just hate it!

I can sympathise with this. In packing up recently, I found severals tools that I'd bought and either never used or thought I'd lost.
Fortunately, I didn't reorder any of the thing I thought were lost

Welcome to my world. Don't know how many times similar things have happened ot me. Doing a job, can't find the tool that I used 10 minutes earlier. make do with something else. Original tool turns up in the middle of the work bench a few days after the job is finished.

bollie7

It's the bloody shed fairy. I've been trying to get rid of mine for years. It's forever moving things so I can't find them. You think it could find something better to do than spend it's time annoying me. What have I ever done to it??

Hi Eskimo,

I prefer it when I'm working in the shed with someone else, rather than alone working on something. That way I can blame them for moving things around, much better than wandering in circles from bench to shelf to cupboard back to bench muttering, who took the <insert anything here>, I had it just a minute ago..

So my advice, get a scapegoat assistant. Works for me.

Regards
Ray

Originally Posted by RayG

Hi Eskimo,

I prefer it when I'm working in the shed with someone else, rather than alone working on something. That way I can blame them for moving things around, much better than wandering in circles from bench to shelf to cupboard back to bench muttering, who took the <insert anything here>, I had it just a minute ago..

So my advice, get a scapegoat assistant. Works for me.

Regards
Ray

never going to your joint...might... no... I WILL get blamed for it

Originally Posted by wannabe

It's the bloody shed fairy. I've been trying to get rid of mine for years. It's forever moving things so I can't find them. You think it could find something better to do than spend it's time annoying me. What have I ever done to it??

the Shed Fairy eh...might have to wait out there with 9mm

Originally Posted by wannabe

It's the bloody shed fairy. I've been trying to get rid of mine for years. <snip>

No fairy's in the shed (that I know of) "not that there's anything wrong with that"

Regards
Ray

Unfortunantly I work alone, MY SHED.MY TOOLS.. NO BODY is allowed in, Not the kids not the wife....Not even my Mates..If someone turns up I finnish what Im doing close the door and proceed to get ri....I mean find out what they want and get back to work.....
I can only blame myself for missing tools

And I thought it was just me; with the constant walking around looking for whatever it was I was just using. It's like xmas at times when I discover those treasures I had put away for safekeeping and forgotten about.

As for the shed fairies; they moved away some time ago and don't annoy me any more.
Kids moving away are a good recipe for retaining your tools as well.

Mind you; putting the shed radio up loud on the worst classical music you can find; locking the workshop and going out for the afternoon with the shed keys in your pocket certainly was NOT a highlight for the kids.

Ken

I have tried a few things to get rid of my shed fairy including rodent baits and roach bombs. Damned determined creature, the least it could do is earn its keep and eat some spiders.

Shed fairy huh... I thought it was the bloody redbacks ganging up on me and buggering orf with anything I look like I'm using or about to use.

I wonder if fairy bread makes good bait for fairy traps - might be a good project, get to use nearly every machine in the garage for that one!

hay i havnt got it

Oh! Thank god!

I thought it was just me.

It means I must be normal

Hey Eskimo, the worst thing is can't find the pencil when it's behind the ear, also 9 mm is a bit serious for fairies, I too worked in Adelaide with guillotines, folders ,spot welders etc. but alas all gone now.
tinkera.