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Post by Steve on Feb 20, 2008 22:22:39 GMT
I've got a hole in the pocket of my jeans. The right one. The left one's fine, no worries there. I could probably get by alright on just one pocket, but the problem is I'm right-handed so I naturally put everything in my right hand pocket.
Several days running now I've been in the shop buying my fags and cheap cider, put my change in my pocket... only to have it cascade down my leg and go rolling off across the floor. It's embarrassing obviously, and yesterday I nearly lost a pound coin under where he has his bread.
It's even worse with my lighter... I keep going out of the back door, lighting up, slipping my lighter into my pocket without thinking... then scaring myself to death because I think something's crawling down my leg or something's fallen off!
Anyway, now that we've got some ladies on the board, I thought it'd be a good chance to ask for a bit of advice... what's the best and most secure way of mending a hole in your pocket - staples or Sellotape?
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Post by dem bones on Feb 20, 2008 22:52:05 GMT
Ooh, sounds nasty that, Steve! Perhaps you could put your jeans on back to front until one of the ladies comes up with the solution? Alternatively, have you tried a blob of blue-tack? That might be a short-term remedy. or perhaps you have a jacket or coat of some description? check and see if the right hand pocket is undamaged and if so, you could use that as a temporary measure. I've had some lighter problems myself (but then I suffer more than anyone so you'd kind of expect it). for example, whenever i go to the pub, i always seem to come home with a different one than i set out with. i don't mind if i've got the better end of the deal but that rarely happens. i lost a nice black one with a blue torch bit on it recently and got a crap red zippo that hardly ever worked in exchange!  hope this is of some help. i'm not an expert on pockets by any means so please approach this as the best i could come up with in an emergency rather than the perfect answer to your dilemma. |
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Post by carolinec on Feb 20, 2008 22:53:42 GMT
My husband usually does his own with a needle and thread - you could try that ...  |
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Post by dem bones on Feb 20, 2008 23:05:06 GMT
i dunno, caz. a bit on the technical side, that. sounds a touch dicey to me.
perhaps if any of the vault grrrrrls are within a fifty mile radius of derby they might like to zoom over to steve's place with some sewing implements?
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Post by killercrab on Feb 20, 2008 23:56:50 GMT
what's the best and most secure way of mending a hole in your pocket - staples or Sellotape? >>
I'd go with sellotape Steve. There's a tendancy with staples to get too attached to your jeans.
of course you could take 'em off first ...
KC
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Post by dem bones on Feb 21, 2008 0:20:19 GMT
see that? the legendary vault camaraderie at it's inspirational best! all brothers and sisters rallying around to help a fellow member who's going through a sticky patch. in his jeans. makes you proud, doesn't it?
read and learn, kids. read and learn!
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Post by Steve on Feb 21, 2008 0:41:10 GMT
Perhaps you could put your jeans on back to front until one of the ladies comes up with the solution? I don't know, Dem... I can't help thinking that might just lead to further - possibly even more embarrassing - problems. I've had some lighter problems myself... i lost a nice black one with a blue torch bit on it recently... They're good they are, aren't they? I've had two of them... a nice black one and a nice blue one. The torch bit works really well. I can't think why more lighter manufacturers haven't cottoned on to the whole torch thing. Anyway, you have my deepest sympathies over your tragic loss. You're a martyr, Kev, you really are... how you must have suffered... it hardly bears thinking about... My husband usually does his own with a needle and thread - you could try that ... I tried a needle as you suggested, Caroline, and it worked quite well I must admit. I had to take it out though because it kept sticking in my Penny Dreadfuls... Your other suggestion was thread. What concerns me about that is it sounds like it might involve some threading. Now, I tried threading once and I really don't know how you ladies manage it... it must be a gift or something... I think that Jesus, who was also a bloke, had the right idea; It's easier to get a camel down the leg of your trousers... There's a tendancy with staples to get too attached to your jeans. of course you could take 'em off first ... I really wish I'd read your post a bit earlier, ade... which brings me to my next question; Can anyone recommend a good way of unstapling the scrotum from the inner thigh? I would go to casualty but they'd never believe my perfectly reasonable explanation for what happened... |
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Post by dem bones on Feb 21, 2008 0:57:11 GMT
Oh, I know a bit about hospitals, me! but the good news is - they have computers! you could go online and show them this thread as proof of how you sustained the injury so they won't think you're a right perve and stuff.
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Post by Steve on Feb 21, 2008 1:13:18 GMT
Oh, I know a bit about hospitals, me! but the good news is - they have computers! you could go online and show them this thread as proof of how you sustained the injury so they won't think you're a right perve and stuff. So you reckon if I limped into A&E with my 'Gentleman's hand luggage' stapled to my leg and asked them if they'd mind me using the internet... they'd be quite understanding about the whole thing? |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Feb 21, 2008 4:05:29 GMT
Just thought I'd do the supportive thing and mention that I suffer from both problems steve: the pocket and the inability to do anything about it.
I also regularly watch change cascade down my leg across floors, continually lose the lighters and rolly tobacco. Because I haven't bought in clothes in over two years I also have several coats with the same feature. This leads to a kind of 'serial killer' effect. Putting change in the pocket. Watching it fall, scrabbling about and then repeating the exercise with the coat.
I continually mention this to any females I meet and strangely they just seem to clam up.
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Post by carolinec on Feb 21, 2008 7:44:28 GMT
perhaps if any of the vault grrrrrls are within a fifty mile radius of derby they might like to zoom over to steve's place with some sewing implements? Tell you what, when Troo and me are in Derby for AltFiction, we'll come along with needle and thread and show you how it's done, Steve. You won't really need both of us, but it might be easier if one of us keeps you still while the other gets to work with the needle and thread ...  |
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Post by Steve on Feb 21, 2008 12:07:47 GMT
...it might be easier if one of us keeps you still while the other gets to work with the needle and thread ... So I'll have to be restrained by a woman and end up with a few stitches? Sounds like a normal night out in Derby... |
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Post by sean on Feb 21, 2008 12:39:55 GMT
The only common sense solution is to cut the pockets out of another pair of jeans and rest them inside the defective pocket of the jeans in question. If you use the left hand pocket of the replacment pocket jeans (from hereon called RPJ1) and, here's the clever bit...turn it inside out, it will then fit snugly into the right hand pocket of the current pair of jeans with the defective pocket (CPJDP for short).
Any other solution is, I'm afraid, just silly.
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Post by Steve on Feb 21, 2008 13:51:39 GMT
Nice to see someone thinking 'outside the box', Sean - is there not a danger though that, with wear, the replacement pocket will eventually work its way through the hole in the defective pocket... unless secured firmly in place by, for example, staples or Sellotape? (both of which, frankly, I'm trying to avoid following last night's humiliating and painful series of mishaps - Sellotape, I've discovered, is fine when you apply it but it really, really hurts when you try to remove your jeans subsequently... even if you rip them off quick. On the plus side, the tops of my legs are now lovely and smooth and I won't be embarrassed to wear a bikini this summer)
I'm not dismissing your idea out of hand, I'm just a bit worried that I might be throwing good pockets after bad...
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Post by troo on Feb 21, 2008 14:24:06 GMT
*drumroll* Get a wallet. I know, it's radical, but it avoids all the wear and tear on the stitchwork that loose change creates (particularly as fingers roll around in there, too). As for repairing the pocket, staples will scritch at your thighs and sewing involves manual labour. I reccommend new jeans |
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