Stuff that your Dad used to get from work...

[Kevoffthetee]

My dad worked as a foreman of a large road haulage firm. He brought home anything and everything Motorsport related, remote control cars, scale models, I had the best car collection known to boykind and I'm so P'd off I didn't store them away as my son would love them now

There were also occasions when some highly sought after gifts become available as apparently things fall of trucks

 

[Kajjal]

Beer from the foreign lorry drivers when there were still tight import controls. It was very different to UK beer at the time.

 

[MichaelW2]

My dad managed a pig farm. He never actually bought a pig back but we were never short of baling twine, fertiliser bags, white plastic buckets that pig antibiotic came in.

 

[Julia9054]

My Dad worked for the CEGB training apprentices. Later on, they set up a department making training films. We were the first household in our neighbourhood in 1982 to have a video player - liberated from work! It wasn't VHS or Betamax but some other long defunct type with big square tapes. I recorded 5 episodes of the TV series Fame on it which I watched, along with all the other local teenage girls over and over again! For one brief summer, I was one of the popular kids. Then work noticed and it had to go back!

 

[fossyant]

Snap! My Dad did exactly the same. The steel ball bearings commanded a high "Marble to Ball Bearing exchange rate" (which was great for me, as Dad could get as many as I needed!)

My dad was a mechanic, so all the old ones off busses he used to bring home. All very shiny !

 

[fossyant]

My wife's dad was into electronics (made industrial speakers as a business) but they apparently had the first TV on their road - he made it out of parts and housed it in a cardboard box ! (My wife was the youngest of 4 so was before she was born).

 

[Dave7]

Back in the 60s my Dad worked for Bibby's Oil in Liverpool. He somehow would get wooden barrels full of planks....all of which were coated in Beeswax.
As we had an open fire this was used for lighting the coal.

 

[stalagmike]

Our family business was a dairy. Bottling and Milk round type, we didn't have any cows. My dad used to bring home bottles of Crusha and Corona and as much gold top as we could drink. I was quite a fat kid...

 

[screenman]

My dad was a milkman, you can guess the rest.

A cow?

 

[screenman]

My dad worked for British Airways and
BEA before that, he could have brought home free tickets, he never did.

 

[TheDoctor]

My dad worked for a precious metal refinery. He couldn't bring anything home, sadly, or my patio would be paved with gold. And palladium.

 

[TrishE]

Both my parents worked for the milk marketing board as was. Going through photo albums I can usually be seen wearing t shirts with "I've gotta lotta bottle" and such like on them....nice

 

[the_mikey]

• Mum worked in a bakery (a great big bread factory rather than the 1970's version of greggs) and would bring back fresh loaves of bread every day, sometimes Belgian buns when they had mis-calculated the bun order. Dad once brought home what seemed like a lifetime supply of shallots, after pickling some, there's not much else you'd want to do with that many shallots, we couldn't give them away, I recall the cupboard next to the kitchen smelled of rotting onions for years..

 

[gbb]

My dad was an airframe fitter at Scampton, working on Avro Vulcans. Once or twice he brought home stuff....one was a servo unit, defective of course, its effectively a highly accurate motor gearbox the size of a can of dog food. We were thrilled..why I don't know, you couldn't do anything with it.
One was something that caused him and a museum or similar for the Vickers Valiant a 'nooooo' moment.
He was in discussion with a person, he apparently was heavily involved with some sort of museum or collection for the Valiant. Dad happened to mention he had had the 'spectacles', the control column off a Valiant. When they were decommissioning them, removing the technical or expensive stuff prior to scrapping the planes in the 60s I think, dad removed the control column and kept it as a keepsake. It sat in his loft for decades.
'Where's is it now ?' Asked the guy.
'Peterborough tip' answered my dad. It had sat in his loft for probably 40 years until he'd lost interest in keeping it and threw it out, maybe just a year before.
The guy was gutted, there's probably not another in the world he said.

 

[steve50]

My dad was a milkman, you can guess the rest.

I was a test tube baby..................................my daddy was a w#nker.

Seriously, I never knew my genetic father so , ho hum.