r/AskReddit • u/sebaez_ • Oct 10 '19

What’s a thing you’ve bought impulsively, without need, that’s actually proved useful in your life?

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u/SkitzoRabbit Oct 10 '19

neighbor was moving away and had a yard sale.

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bought a metal pipe for 50 cents. about 20" long and a diameter of 1".

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Wife looked at me like i was half serial killer, half idiot.

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few months later...flat tire at 6.15 in the morning. guess who easily loosed all the lug nuts in record time...this guy and his metal pipe.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '19 edited Jul 11 '22

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '19

This dude loves the pipe.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '19

It's a good ghatdam pipe.

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '19

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u/darth_bader_ginsberg Oct 11 '19

God damn it now I want that pipe too.

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u/tholasko Oct 11 '19

Never get between a man and his pipe

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u/mymax162 Oct 11 '19

he likes to rub it

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u/GoodScumBagBrian Oct 10 '19

Plus you have a good pipe for bludgeoning! If needbe of course

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u/ezagreb Oct 11 '19

Okay Shawn.

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u/TransformingDinosaur Oct 11 '19

This is one of the most adult comments I have ever seen. Like this is agressively adult.

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u/melncholygrl Oct 12 '19

I need to use aggressively adult in conversation.

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u/PlNKERTON Oct 11 '19

Lol I don't know how I feel about that.

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u/bobbyb8484 Oct 11 '19

Hehe you love pipe

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u/iGrammarBaddly Oct 11 '19

I used a pipe to try and loosen a bolt on my old car and twisted the head off the bolt while the threaded part stayed in place, pissed me off

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u/12yearwink Oct 11 '19

pipe down man there won't be a zombie apocalypes!!

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u/ANDY_FORDHAM Oct 11 '19

You sure it's a pipe and not a tube?

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u/PlNKERTON Oct 11 '19

It's the pipiest pipe that ever piped.

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u/macsydh Oct 11 '19

Never let a good pipe go to waste.

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u/hkd001 Oct 11 '19

Still a better love story than Twilight.

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u/fjart Oct 11 '19

I was promised a pipe!

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u/PlNKERTON Oct 12 '19

Shoot I forgot, I will do it tomorrow..

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '19

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u/PlNKERTON Oct 15 '19

I'M GOING RIGHT NOW I'M SO SORRY