Hit the jackpot.....

I have an old '78 Chevy K1500 4X4 with a snow plow on it. I've owned it for 20 years, give or take.

This afternoon I pulled the seat out of it to replace it with a better one and found 3 crescent wrenches, a folding knife, a punch, a flexible nut driver, and 57 cents in change.

Lost by the previous owner?
.......... or all misplaced by you?

Just curious.

Shoulda mentioned it reminded me of a time a buddy of mine kept missing tools.

He lived about a mile from a nephew of mine, and in the course of events, he bought an old pickup from my nephew. When he got home with it, my buddy looked under the seat and found most of his tools.

Let's just say my sisters offspring are "interesting".

Not by me.

Going through my old Chevy flat bed glove box, and found a check someone paid me with. About 10 years old. I sold a 65 Chevy back in the 70's. The new owner said he found a lot of change under the seat. The good old days. Stan

took one of my old cars interiors apart and and found 2 condoms ( not mine) 50cents and two tootsie rolls under the back seat -- under the front was a tire wrench,screwdriver,and a 1/2 inch wrench -- always an interesting look under there-oh yea there was a blast jacket rammed in under the rear ash tray-always wondered where that went -- MEMORIES

I am sure that some of my missing tools are lost in vehicles, or covered up by excess junk, in tractor tool boxes, but I think the biggest offender is white plastic buckets and folgers coffee cans. I will grab a bucket and put in what I think, I will need to do a job, and then sit it in some handy shed when I am done. Later when walking by it I see just another old bucket sitting around, till I have to start looking for something I can't find. NOW WHO TOOK MY BIG CHANNEL LOCKS??

Hahahaha that was funny 57 cents in change! Every time I dump my ford pickup, I have a hoist for the box, I back up and hit the brakes the change always falls out of the plastic change bin, I don't know how much change is laying on the floor. I usually put a glove in there to stop the change from falling out, But sometimes forget to.

Anybody ever take an inventory of 12" crescents and 6 in 1 screwdrivers? I must own a dozen of each, couple in each of my using tractors. No wonder I don't know where they are.

car recylers claim the average car yields $1.67 in change.

Backing up in reverse and hitting the brakes brings up good ole memories. When I was in high school (15 years old) and for a few years after I worked for the parks department as a maintenance guy. Great job. I was lucky and got stationed at the local recreational reservoir. Lot of pretty girls to look at and meet everyday. Anyway, the first thing we did each day was a trash run to empty 55 gallon barrels used as trash cans around the lake. Heavy and usually nasty. Behind one of the dams we had what we called the compound. That's where we put unused or unneeded things and also where we stacked the trash to be picked up by the trash company once a week. I figured out that if I backed up fast and hit the breaks unloading was easy. One day the park manager caught me doing that and had a fit followed by don't ever let me catch you doing that again. A few weeks later he needed the truck, but I hadn't emptied it yet. I told him let me empty it and I will be right back. He said ok and that he would go with me to help empty it out. He drove and when we got to the compound he did the old reverse and hit the breaks trick only he missed the mark and trash went flying everywhere. He was laughing like a kid. I looked at him and he said I only told you not to let me catch you doing it. If I don't catch you then you are fine wink wink. That truck was an old International Scout and tough as nails. You just couldn't ever wear it out or hurt it. Not to make excuses for mistreating it though. It was a good old truck. Never let me down.
They bought me a brand new one two years later. 1979 chevy 4X4 step side. Nice truck and at 17 I was in heaven driving a brand new truck. It was my baby. They didn't want it left out at the lake after hours each night like the old one due to vandalism and told me to take it home each day. Pretty sweet deal for a kid.


Greg

Between high school and the Marine Corps, I worked in a dealership where one of my duties was to clean up trade-in cars. Each one would usually yield a couple dollars worth of change.

Then there was more interesting stuff, like women's underpants, bras, etc. under the seats.