# This looks legit **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [June 15, 2023, 6:01pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-looks-legit/191147 "2023-06-15T18:01:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TwinTurbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@TwinTurbo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/TwinTurbo)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2023, 6:01pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-looks-legit/191147/1 "2023-06-15T18:01:10Z")
This would get most guys’ attention- ![351122264_797936152332042_3083116093234187097_n](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/5/f/5fe1c114e360d3a887a13e118e779884d2b0fcf2.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![db4690](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/db4690/32/2583_2.png) [@db4690](https://community.cartalk.com/u/db4690)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2023, 6:57pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-looks-legit/191147/2 "2023-06-15T18:57:44Z")
I’ll take all the “free” 10mm sockets I can get, considering they’re the ones that get used . . . and lost ☹ . . . the most Great grammar and spelling, btw 😆 Both my parents were English teachers and would have had a field day with this 😉 ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-looks-legit/191147/3 "2023-06-15T19:00:03Z")
Yeah, legitimate & successful businesses frequently use old vans with major rust damage… 😏 ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2023, 7:45pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-looks-legit/191147/4 "2023-06-15T19:45:52Z")
I’ve had to go to the hardware store several times for a 10mm socket. I keep a couple extras but I think someone sneaks in an steals them all the time. ---
**Author:** ![TwinTurbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@TwinTurbo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/TwinTurbo)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2023, 7:55pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-looks-legit/191147/5 "2023-06-15T19:55:46Z")
They’re right next to the socks that disappear from the dryer 😀 ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2023, 8:05pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-looks-legit/191147/6 "2023-06-15T20:05:37Z")
Heh heh. I was working on my garage door springs and my socket fell off my step ladder and on the floor. The square bolts take a 7/16 socket since you can’t hardly buy a square socket. At any rate looked everywhere and couldn’t find it. Bought another one and finished up my springs. Several months later my wife asked if this was what I was looking for? The socket with painted brown stripe for say identification. She found it in the bottom of the trash container we use to hold flags and other upright items. So the dang thing hit the floor, bounced to cover ten feet, and up and over a two foot high waste container. The magic socket. I’ve got two now. ---
**Author:** ![weekend-warrior](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/weekend-warrior/32/26122_2.png) [@weekend-warrior](https://community.cartalk.com/u/weekend-warrior)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2023, 8:13pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-looks-legit/191147/7 "2023-06-15T20:13:37Z")
I think mine keep getting transported to a different dimension. ---
**Author:** ![TwinTurbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@TwinTurbo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/TwinTurbo)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2023, 8:19pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-looks-legit/191147/8 "2023-06-15T20:19:52Z")
Some tools must have a wicked sense of humor. I search for too long, can’t find what I know I already own. Finally give up and go buy yet another one only to find the original hiding in plain sight shortly thereafter… ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2023, 8:34pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-looks-legit/191147/9 "2023-06-15T20:34:41Z")
> [@TwinTurbo](#): > > Finally give up and go buy yet another one only to find the original hiding in plain sight shortly thereafter Thanks… Now I know that it’s not just me. 🫡 ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2023, 9:44pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-looks-legit/191147/10 "2023-06-15T21:44:01Z")
Don’t flag me bro, but this may help. We had a bus load of Protestants touring Europe and one catholic. She lost her phone or iPad or something important. She taught us the prayer to Saint Anthony that we had never heard before. Saint Anthony please come around, I have lost my socket and it cannot be found. Her missing item was found that night. Sometimes works sometimes doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2023, 9:54pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-looks-legit/191147/11 "2023-06-15T21:54:27Z")
> [@bing](#): > > Saint Anthony please come around, I have lost my socket and it cannot be found. Her missing item was found that night. Sometimes works sometimes doesn’t. That prayer always seems to work… or at least it does… most of the time. A woman in my tour group had her US passport stolen at St. Peter’s Basilica, and despite every type of prayer and exhortation, the _Caraboniari_ assured her that she had been the victim of well-organized pick-pockets, and that it would likely never be recovered. Luckily, the personnel at the US Consulate were able to issue a new passport to her w/in 48 hours. ---
**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2023, 11:10pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-looks-legit/191147/12 "2023-06-15T23:10:59Z")
> [@bing](#): > > socket fell off my step ladder and on the floor. … dang thing hit the floor, bounced to cover ten feet, and up and over a two foot high waste container. Good story … here’s mine, recently was replacing small engine carb fuel inlet valve , metal needle goes into 3 mm diameter donut shaped rubber fitting. Needle keeps falling onto driveway, landing here & there, no problem, can find it with magnet. Rinse off, good as new. Try again. Bigger problem, replacement 3mm rubber donut also got away, festive-mood apparently, bounced around like crazy … lol … worse yet, magnet finding method wouldn’t work. Took 45 minutes, lodged in sidewalk crack. I expect 50% of my diy’er repair time is used to find stuff I’ve dropped. Maybe that’s part of the reason why auto repair shops have to hike the parts price. ---
**Author:** ![oldtimer-11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e79b87/32.png) [@oldtimer-11](https://community.cartalk.com/u/oldtimer-11)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 3:10am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-looks-legit/191147/13 "2023-06-16T03:10:04Z")
I took the head apart on my string trimmer to replace the string, felt a call of nature and when I came out of the house and finished the job, I could not find the bump button. I looked all over the yard and my gates were lockedIt was a hard to fond part and the only dealer that had one was about 25 miles away in a direction I never went. It was already fall and I raked the whole yard after the last cutting. In the spring I made the 50 mile round trip and bought the $10 plastic button. When I brought out the trimmer, my West Highland Waite Terrier got all excite4d and went and dug up the old ome he had buried beneath a tree and brought it to me. wagging his tail. ---
**Author:** ![oldtimer-11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e79b87/32.png) [@oldtimer-11](https://community.cartalk.com/u/oldtimer-11)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 3:33am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-looks-legit/191147/14 "2023-06-16T03:33:14Z")
I have a set if 3/8 rive Craftsman square sockets I have had for 50 yearts. Only used them a few times, but when \* needed them, I needed them… ---
**Author:** ![bscar2](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bscar2/32/2468_2.png) [@bscar2](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bscar2)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2023, 7:09pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-looks-legit/191147/15 "2023-06-17T19:09:50Z")
> [@db4690](#): > > considering they’re the ones that get used . . . and lost ☹ . . . the most > [@bing](#): > > someone sneaks in an steals them all the time. > [@weekend-warrior](#): > > I think mine keep getting transported to a different dimension. And along comes the magic “10mm Socket Van” to help you replace your missing items. ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2023, 7:20pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-looks-legit/191147/16 "2023-06-17T19:20:29Z")
> [@bscar2](#): > > And along comes the magic “10mm Socket Van” to help you replace your missing items. This is their other van, which I suggest that you keep your kids from approaching. ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/4/f/4f6b18ec55fabcf351b0d9986fb6706b797b9dea.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2023, 8:56pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-looks-legit/191147/17 "2023-06-17T20:56:31Z")
Homer Simpson can’t resist that van though. ---
**Author:** ![william969](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ec9cab/32.png) [@william969](https://community.cartalk.com/u/william969)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2023, 7:59pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-looks-legit/191147/18 "2023-06-19T19:59:37Z")
You’re traveling through another dimension, another place, another time where sockets travel when a mechanic reaches into his toolbox. The passageway opening beneath every 10mm socket. . . . . into, the Twilight Zone,