Dress to impress

We used to have a lady lived on the smallholding up the road and she was a real character. She ran a couple of "escort businesses" in Bournemouth and tended to wear just a pair of old overalls with nothing underneath. Depending on what she wanted from you, the broken zipper used to get higher or lower. The old codger who lived in the cottage alongside her was always acting outraged because she fed her chickens on sunday mornings in the buff, but it didn't stop him from looking. Feed delivery drivers were known to arrive there at noon and still have their vans parked outside at 5.30. :LOL:
 
Had to take mum to A&E one night, she had fallen at the end of the cubicle passage and her leg had punctured quite badly on the turnover on the auto scrapers. Pulled my overalls and wellies off, put on a clean or fairly clean pair of work boots and off to go.
Not problem with the state of mother, she was a genuine emergency and was whisked straight around the back to be seen to whilst I was left to wait in the waiting room, sat there arms folded, legs wide apart it must have been a good ten minutes before I realised that the old work trousers I was wearing were actually quite ripe and presumably when I was pulling my overalls off in a hurry had ripped pretty much from knee, up to crotch and back down to other knee. Hadn’t noticed in the panic to get mother into hospital, it was only as time slipped quietly by in the packed waiting room that I realised.
 

Estate fencing.

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Livestock Farmer
I worked in the Cotswolds for a grain harvest, working all hours, I used to stop the tractor in Stow on the Wold, nip into the shop and buy my food/supplies (to cook, I was living in a caravan in the farmyard). What would you have me do? Keep a change of clothes in the tractor?
I have to go to the bank in stow to pay in market cheques, they look at me funny in my ripped hoody, shity dealer boot and worn out jeans when I'm putting cheques in for £50/£60K.
 

ARW

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Yorkshire
The effect is complete when you pull up outside the once local shop (they are all becoming mini-supermarkets/chains these days though) with a tractor and a dirty slurry tanker, ideally dripping and hissing a little. The alternative is with a 4x4 and *loaded* cattle trailer making mooing or bleating noises.
I had a dentists appointment one morning which I forgot about while taking cull ewes to mart they rang to see if I was late, so I told them I was on the way! They laughed at me saying most people leave a dog in the car not 30 sheep
 

Paddington

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Location
Soggy Shropshire
Clean clothes on to visit the dentist, but must have trodden in something on my way to the car as I noticed a piece of straw sticking out from my boot when on the couch. Dentist's assistant also noticed and wearing her rubber gloves pulled the straw off and put it in the bin. I assume she changed her gloves before attending to me.
 

David1968

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Mixed Farmer
Location
SW Scotland
Pulled up at the chippie the other night wearing the same clothes for two days (didn't get to bed the night before, don't ask... ) covered in muck, shiny trousers from where a calf sh!t down them when I was trying to plug it in to the cow. Just deciding whether it would be ok to go in when a van pulled up and 3 builders got out looking worse than me.

So I just followed them in thinking they wouldn't be able to tell who the smell was coming from :whistle: :D
 

steveR

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Mixed Farmer
I have to go to the bank in stow to pay in market cheques, they look at me funny in my ripped hoody, shity dealer boot and worn out jeans when I'm putting cheques in for £50/£60K.
That is a joy... So few cheques these days to pay in though, all electronic...

I had the raised eyebrow once or twice when drawing out a substantial amount of cash for a purchase when in work clothes. The one Teller knew me, so vouched for my purity and honesty... :)
 

7610 super q

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Just spotted on FB. PPE seems to consist of a jacket & tie. :) Halcyon days.

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Paddington

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Location
Soggy Shropshire
A country pub I sometimes visited when I lived dahn sarf re opened under new management. I popped in for a pint one lunchtime. One pickup in the car park and a pair of boots outside the door. The new landlady stopped me in the passage with her hand up. I asked if they were open ? She looked me up and down before letting me in. One worried looking person sat at the bar in a T shirt and bottom half of overalls, and in stockinged feet. He confided in me that she had told him to remove his workboots and not to lean on the bar in his overalls. The place was going upmarket and wanted a better class of clientele, more Coco Chanel less cowsh*t.
 

JWL

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Location
Hereford
Got to the front of a chip shop queue one night after a days combining. I had just dropped a dead tup at the kennels that I had fished out of the river that morning and had been sat in the back of the Land Rover all day on a really hot day.
It had gone through the tailgate with room to spare in the morning but it was a struggle getting it out between the gap of the tailgate and the roof of the Ifor canopy that night after it had blown up plus it hadn't really dried out much after its swim either!
 

Dry Rot

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Livestock Farmer
I am a long way from town so try to combine errands. Had a look around the market, then popped into the bank. Bank was unsympathetic as usual but you have to try, so I left in a bit of a mood.

Oh, who was the dirty beggar who had left a trail of foot prints in slurry across their immaculate carpet? Then the penny dropped! I suddenly felt better! Revenge is always sweet, even if it's only a tiny bit.
 

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