Do you know the names of the screwdrivers?

[Cool-Beans]

Well, do you?

I've been getting along fine using "plus" and "minus." When DH needs one, he asks for a "small plus" or a "medium minus" or whatever. And I never get it wrong. I always know what that is.

Someone recently heard him ask me for a "medium-large plus" and got all bent out of shape that I didn't know the proper names for the various screwdrivers. Like I have time in my life for that.

I put Mr. I Know The Names Of The Screwdrivers in his place, but it got me to wondering...

There have to be others out there who don't know them.

Do you?

 

[Mom2Nick]

Flat head and phillips head.

 

[LaraK]

Sure I know their names...the one with the doohickie and the one with the thingie

 

[phorsenuf]

I know them and many other tools too. I'm a geek.

 

[DisneyAddict_M]

I do and I know the names of the different wrenches too. I used to help my father build stuff when I was a kid. Too bad he didn't teach me more about car maintenance lol.

 

[DVCLiz]

Plus and minus??? I have never heard that before!!!!

Yes, I know the names of the two kinds, and the differences between a flathead and a Phillips head screwdriver.

 

[Michelle67]

Sure I know their names...the one with the doohickie and the one with the thingie

Yes, I know the tools. I'm married to a mechanic, though. I won't say I know ALL of them...but I know a lot of them. I can differentiate between a socket and a driver, between a hex head and a star driver, etc.

 

[lovesmurfs]

Sure. Depends on the type of alcohol you use, right?

 

[Imzadi]

Sure I know their names...the one with the doohickie and the one with the thingie

Isn't the one you want always just called, "No, the OTHER one"?


Cool-Beans, you need an "Other" category in your poll. Not that I needed it, but every poll needs an "Other" category here.


BTW, how did it go, teaching Flippin Kitty to sit?

 

[John Smith1]

Of course I do, it comes with the cajones.

I also forget birthdays and anniversaries and don't ask directions... it's all part of the DNA.

 

[mommy*RN]

All I know is lefty loosey, righty tighty

 

[Rora]

I voted no..I only know if it's like a flat head, philips head, etc.

I leave the tools for DFiance to deal with. He likes it!

 

[dhcoffey]

No, I call them the X one and the other one. My husband gets very frustrated with me that I won't learn them .

Heather

 

[julie_yet]

My dad's a carpenter so I know the correct names for most tools.

 

[Morganpics]

Yes. Regular and Phillips. And all the fancy star bits they have out now, and the sockets. Sigh. Sometimes I wish I didn't.

 

[mmexpress]

Flat head and Phillips head.
And to really cause confusion...
they are numbered according to size...
#1 phillips.. #2 phillips etc.

 

[KristaTX]

I call them "flat" and "Phillips". Is that as specific as you meant?

I can see how the shapes are like a "plus" and "minus", but I've never heard anyone call them that.