Pluggers by Rick McKee for September 09, 2021

Hunny-doosie is the third line.

If you need to use a pair of Channellocks® on that lid. That also makes you a Plugger.

I say that on anything that involves a twist like that

Exception; left side tire lug nuts on 1960 Pontiac.

So glad I’m not the only one who recites this “Plugger Mantra”.

I use anticlockwise just to see who is listening.

When opening a jar of pickles I say to myself “I don’t like pickles. Why am I opening this?”

Now tell us about bread bag ties.

Best to use a lid gripper ;-)

Funny. I only do that when taking a lug nut off my car.

Nothing like spending 20 minutes trying to remove a nut only to find it is left handed.

I knew a guy in college who repaired OLD clocks. He said you couldn’t assume the makers used right-handed threads.

That’s how I taught my kids. They now say it, and they are in their 30’s and teaching it to their kids.

I generally call mr. pheets if I can’t get the lid off : )

A true plugger knows to first tap the edge of the lid against the counter, or with a breadknife handle, to break the seal.

Say or think that for just about anything that rotates to turn on/off or open/close. Creates major problems when I forget something is left-hand threads though!

I just automatically turn it, don’t think about it!

I use it to turn the gas grill on and off.

Because it’s easier to remember than “Clockwise, close; counterclockwise, open.”

One time my mom and sister were trying to get a lid orr a jar. my mom was holding the bottom and my sis was twisting the the top and the top of the JAR broke off, cutting my sister pretty good. Never had that happen before or since. She didn’t need stitches, but wore some impressive bandages for a while.

If you release the factory vacuum of the jar with a church key first, opening a jar is easy.

No they don’t. The automatically turn counter clockwise to open stuff!

I think of that saying often. (Usually when I’m turning the garden hose off or on). However, I have a walker that has two knobs, one on each side. They loosen up every now and then. (No doubt due to my hot-rodding, lol.) One has to be turned one direction to tighten it, the other has to be turned in the opposite direction! I don’t attempt to remember which way; I just turn until the silly things are tight again.

I actually have a problem with this saying. It depends on how one is looking at something. If one is looking at the other side – the opposite is true. Huh?

If, say, I am tightening something with a wrench and I am standing where I am looking at the bottom of what needs to tightened I need to turn the bottom left to tighten it or to the right to loosen it – and I always seem to be working where this true is.

So my rule is top rightee tightee, top leftee loosee.