# Help me fix my zipper
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-fix-my-zipper/821696
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 21, 2018, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-fix-my-zipper/821696 "2018-09-21T19:21:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2018, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-fix-my-zipper/821696/1 "2018-09-21T19:21:47Z")
I’m at work. I went to the restroom, sat down to do my business, and when I stood back up, the zipper slider had come off. I can insert it on one side of teeth or the other, but I can’t get both sides of teeth to fit in. I’ve been trying to slide both sides of teeth through the slider bottom to no avail.
Now I’m hoping when I leave work, my barn door won’t be flapping open, revealing the gaping hole that contains my junk.
_h e l p_
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### Author:  [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2018, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-fix-my-zipper/821696/2 "2018-09-21T19:29:22Z")
If you’re in an office environment you might be able to use office supplies as a stopgap until you can get home to fix it properly. Do you have any paper binder clips available? You may be able to clip the fly shut from the inside using a couple of those. well enough to last a couple hours, at any rate.
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### Author:  [@icantdraw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icantdraw)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2018, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-fix-my-zipper/821696/3 "2018-09-21T19:36:22Z")
Send out a company wide email declaring “pants off afternoon”.
Take your pants off, return to your desk, and no one will be the wiser about your zipper.
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### Author:  [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2018, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-fix-my-zipper/821696/4 "2018-09-21T19:41:34Z")
“Help me fix my zipper.”
That sounds like a line some guy would lay on me in a bar. LOL
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2018, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-fix-my-zipper/821696/5 "2018-09-21T19:43:34Z")
I got nothin’.
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### Author:  [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2018, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-fix-my-zipper/821696/6 "2018-09-21T19:47:42Z")
You are in an office. Just staple your fly together.
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### Author:  [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2018, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-fix-my-zipper/821696/7 "2018-09-21T21:43:38Z")
Wardrobe malfunction…
AFTERNOON OFF !!!