• @LovableSidekick
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    3 hours ago

    TBH I miss 80s shorts, which knew their role in the cosmic order and didn’t try to be pants.

  • sarcasticsunrise
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    44 hours ago

    I rock my skinny cargo pants to work on the regular. It’s not so much about fashion as it is functionality, they still look cool tho

      • sarcasticsunrise
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        33 hours ago

        Late Gen X actually, just trying to Buscemi it up with my fellow blue collar Gen Z/Millennial coworkers

  • @Fosheze
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    188 hours ago

    This is the exact feeling I always had with my big ass tool box on my tiny ass truck. “Hold on, y’all need a kitchen sink? I think I got one in here.” I still remember how good it felt the exactly one time I had all of the tools required to do a parking lot clutch swap just on hand in that thing when a friend blew their clutch up.

    • @Agent641
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      23 minutes ago

      I drive a van, and it’s full of tools, food, and miscellanea. You want an ice cold lemonade? Here you go. Pruning saw? Better take these gloves too. Any gague of fishhook in particular? Protein bar? No worries. Deodorant? Keep it, I have others. Hammer drill? Why don’t you just put your feet up in this camp chair, choose a book from the library, and let me do it for you. I’ll just fetch my steel cap boots and work coat first.

    • Dharma Curious (he/him)
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      7 hours ago

      So I worked security (night shift rent a cop, not like IT) for over a decade. On multiple occasions, I’d get snowed in, and unable to leave, or relief wouldn’t show, and because of the way the law’s written, I legally can’t leave until relieved.

      I got into the habit of keeping everything I need in my car. For literal years, I could have comfortably lived in my car for over a week on a moments notice. To include an inverter, hot plate, small tv, game system, literally all the trappings of an apartment. I still keep some food and a sleeping bag in my pick up at all times, because you never fucking know, man. You never know.

      Eta: forgot the whole reason I was replying before submitting. Lol

      On a few occasions, I have saved the freaking day for friends or coworkers. Hungry? I got the foods. Ripped your pants? Portable sewing machine. Bored and no cell signal? How about we play some video games or watch a DVD? It’s an amazing feeling to be the dude who just has the shit you need

  • @jaybone
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    35 hours ago

    Any recommendation on good brands? I’m not a shorts guy but recently picked up a pair on Amazon. They seem like they are designed to look like cargo shorts, but super light weight, would rip easily and I wouldn’t want to put much in them.

    • @Maalus
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      13 hours ago

      He pulls them out of his cargo shorts because he has so much space in pockets

  • Annoyed_🦀
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    309 hours ago

    Don’t forgot pocket sand, a swiss army knife, and a 3ton floor jack.

    • Mayor Poopington
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      159 hours ago

      They laugh, but you never know when you may need a deep cycle marine battery

      • @betterdeadthanreddit
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        87 hours ago

        Not entirely true, sometimes I go into a situation fully expecting to need a deep cycle marine battery.

  • Ephera
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    47 hours ago

    Yep, was recently looking some lighter pants and it felt like the two available choices were:

    • small pockets
    • all the pockets

    Like, damn, how many items do you expect me to carry around everywhere?

  • @BreadOven
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    68 hours ago

    Pocket tater tots are the best tater tots. Fite me.