The Perfect Tool

[universalgrl]

And the air force privates were always looking for buckets of prop wash and 50 yards of flight line.
And if anybody got tasked looking for a pair of left handed wire twisters I actually have one.

[Robert Bergeron]

A long long time ago , fresh out of basic , i got tasked by a nice Seargent to fetch the keys to the parade square ....at the Regimental Ops office ! Chit , what a reception i got .

[Robin Craig]

In the UK jape of the time was being sent by the intake squad Sgt down to the stores to ask for a what was heard as "a long weight and a clump" which ended up being a long wait on the bench opposite the civvy storemen's office while they brewed tea and read the paper and oogled at the page 3 girl and generally ignored you.

When the recruit finally developed the courage and went up to the counter and rang the bell (not a good thing to do to the storemen, who knew you were there and could see you but ignored you) and they came out and said "what do you want?" and the recruit said " I'm here for the long weight and the clump they would reply in a jiffy "you have had your long wait" and clip you round the head and retort "and there is the clump".

Very amusing for someone I am sure

[Paul Taylor]

Years ago I worked in a good old fashioned hardware shop, stocked everything with lots of rambling store rooms in the cellar. A regular customer came in one day and asked the holiday help for a left handed ratchet screwdriver, we gave him about half an hour of poking around in the very extensive cellar before we put him out of his misery. A week or so later another regular came in and asked the same lad for a left handed bagging hook (such a thing does exist, its a form of scythe), took us 10 mins and a cup of tea to calm the customer down again.