Pair of grips

[leethegasman]

I have never been asked this before but my latest apprentice asked me a question I did not no the answer to.
I asked him for a pair of grips (meaning one set I would think like most of us a pair of grips is one set)
He wanted to give me two sets.
So why do we refer to it as a pair of grips
I have a few theories that I have told him but also said I'm not sure and new a group of people that stay up all night talking about important things such as this.

 

[tamz]

Footprints.................the best universal grips ever made.

I once had a boy who called them footsteps lol

 

[IDCHAPPY]

Man, not used footprints in ages, they were phenomenal aswell. I'm off to get a set/pair/whatever today

 

[Dotty]

Thinking of this thread yesterday whilst using a pair of footies in the rain on a call out to change a pump in an outside boiler enclosure.

Thankfully I actually had a lovely young lady with me who had opened up the house, this never happens to me...... I had to drag the callout out......

 

[bassmonster]

Leave any other kind of PRINTS behind croppie? [emoji39]

 

[Dotty]

A gentleman never tells.

 

[AWheating]

A gentleman never tells.

So tell us then