Scott Hembree of West Chester, Ohio-based Hembree Hardwood Floors often wears shorts when he's working on a job site.
Once it gets colder, after Thanksgiving, he wears pants to travel in and brings shorts with him to the job site to change into. One day as he did his usual changing he forgot to transfer the items in his pockets. Among those was the house key for the job he was on—Hembree walked out to his van only to return to a locked front door. He called the homeowner at work to see if there was another way to get in. The homeowner asked how he had locked himself out. Without thinking, Hembree answered, "I took my pants off, and the key is in the pocket of my pants." The homeowner responded, "Does that mean you're on my front porch in your underwear, Scott?" Hembree had to explain that he changed into shorts; then he climbed through a small basement window to get back in the house. "Now I always empty the contents of my pockets first," Hembree says.
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