Cormac MacConnell: Forever in the money with blue jeans

You dumped your battered old jeans last week.

The backside was out of them on the left hand side, and both knees were ripped during the harvest.

But that is not why you dumped them, neither that or the fact they were covered with splashes of red oxide paint and grease, and oil stains from the tractor and the fertiliser spreader.