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Also, my socks are wet. Also, my shoes are wet, and the bottom quarter of my jeans. I am at work. (I went out at lunch and could not face cycling and regret this now).

I've removed my shoes, but it's not really helping. What else can I do?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 13:36 (twenty years ago)

I can't see a radiator.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 13:37 (twenty years ago)

I could roll up my jeans maybe?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 13:39 (twenty years ago)

that'd help.

i just dropped a sainsbury's hot and spicy chicken thigh onto my own hot and spicy thighs and now i looked as if i puked all over my trousers.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 13:44 (twenty years ago)

No, don't roll your trousers up! That will only make them take longer to dry. Do you have hand dryers in your loo, or just paper towels? The blow-y dryers are good for drying out socks and things.

― I'm Not Afraid Of Electricity (kate), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 13:45 (twenty years ago)

but the immediate objective is probably to not feel the wetness on the legs rather than actually drying the trousers?

hand driers can do the socks.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 13:46 (twenty years ago)

A colleague of mine nearly got sacked for drying his shoes and socks on a radiator.

Don't roll up your trousers. Hand dryer is a good idea - but don't injure yourself trying to dry the bottom of your trousers without taking them off!

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 13:49 (twenty years ago)

HAND DRIERS! God ILX is clever sometimes! Thanks Kate.

How long will rolled up trousers take to dry? I have 4 more hours here.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 13:50 (twenty years ago)

just keep them rolled up until you get home

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 13:53 (twenty years ago)

Depends on the heat and humidity levels in your office.

― I'm Not Afraid Of Electricity (kate), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 13:57 (twenty years ago)

Also good for drying things - the vents on the top of large, old style (i.e. not flat screen) computer monitors. Though you dust may want to dust first.

― I'm Not Afraid Of Electricity (kate), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 13:58 (twenty years ago)

i mean, if you dry them up now.. they'll just get wet again when you walk out

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 13:58 (twenty years ago)

Ok - no hand driers but I managed to use feet to get some paper towels pretty wet - that must have made me drier, right?

Ken, I don't want to cycle home in jean-shorts! It's raining.

x-post vents! Bloody hell.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:00 (twenty years ago)

well, in that case, if it's raining.. it kind of doesn't matter whether your jeans are wet? since it's wet no matter what?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:03 (twenty years ago)

(You can tell that I got caught in rainstorms a lot before I finally caved and bought an umbrella last year. I know all the places in offices to dry things.)

― I'm Not Afraid Of Electricity (kate), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:07 (twenty years ago)

I fear that the monitor idea may backfire, quite literally.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:08 (twenty years ago)

Do you have kitchen facilities at work? With a cooker? I have dried wet clothes under the grill before now.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:10 (twenty years ago)

Ken are you trying to confuse me? I work indoors.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:10 (twenty years ago)

If there's no blower-type hand dryer then pack huge amounts of paper towels into and around your socks, put them on the floor and rock your whole body weight on them for a while.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:16 (twenty years ago)

It's gross out today. I had to hoik a big red toolbox back from the charity shop with a dodgy pulley earlier, so I feel your pain.

Put your shoes back on, pop out, buy new pair of innocuous man-socks and an Evening Bastard. Return, remove shoes, crumple up dry pages of Evening Bastard, pack into wet shoes, hide shoes in unobtrusive spot under desk. Bin Evening Bastard remnants, remove wet socks, fetch dry socks from bag, pat feet drier before slipping new socks on, walk around office in sock-feet like all other sensible colleagues who got caught in downpour this lunch.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:18 (twenty years ago)

no greg i mean, if your rolled up trousers don't dry up by the time you have to cycle home, just roll them back down because it's raining outside and wet anyways??

(unless you mean your cycle home is indoors too)

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:18 (twenty years ago)

Take your wet socks and trousers off altogether. Sellotape paper handtowels together to fashion yourself a stylish skirt to wear.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:24 (twenty years ago)

maximum dryness in shortest possible time: set yourself on fire!

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:26 (twenty years ago)

I am at work :(

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:28 (twenty years ago)

Rub yourself vigorously against dry co-workers. You could pretend this is a new management directive.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:29 (twenty years ago)

Let's look at this clearly. The main problem I'm seeing here is this: I am at work

Walk away Gregory! Break the back of this shameful work-addiction!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:36 (twenty years ago)

That's what I was trying to suggest! I need the money though. Hopefully I'm starting somewhere new next week?

I tried your rocking-around plan but couldn't quite make it work.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 15:12 (twenty years ago)

Sellotape paper handtowels together to fashion yourself a stylish skirt to wear.
Or just wrap yourself in tape so someone can say without it being a joke, "I can clearly see your nuts."

― Dave will do (dave225.3), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 15:15 (twenty years ago)

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