Daggers Posted 31 August 2006 Posted 31 August 2006 I put my season ticket in a very safe place for my holiday. "The house might get robbed " I told Mrs.DB, "so I have to bring it on holiday with me. " She raised her brow and tutted, as she is wont to do, but I paid it no heed. I tucked my season ticket up in a safe place. A very safe place. A place SO safe that it has taken me three and a half hours of frantic panic to uncover it. I snuck it into the portable CD case in the car...I mean, it was obvious the car would not get touched by little baddun's. Sometimes my stupidity even amazes me, and I'm normally too dumb to notice. What have you lost?
Alexikokopops Posted 31 August 2006 Posted 31 August 2006 Lost my camera at a Ball, that was annoying. But thanks to the insurance company after shelling out £40 I got a better camera and a memory card 4 times the size. Ace.
syston_fox Posted 31 August 2006 Posted 31 August 2006 My dad left his I-Pod in the pouch on the back of seats on the aeroplane when we went on holiday earlier this summer. Easy enough to do really apart from the fact as we were about to get off he made a point of making sure he asked everyone in the family to check that we had all of our stuff. He didnt half get some stick from us when he realised what he'd done later that day. Luckily though after a few phone calls he managed to locate it and he was able to go pick it up a few days later from the Thomspon main building in Cyprus. Gotta give the air stewards credit for handing it in coz they could easily have kept it for themselves.... although they probably saw my dads taste in music and decided they would rather get rid of it!
Bluefoxtim Posted 31 August 2006 Posted 31 August 2006 I always do that. Get something important, put it in a really safe place, but they not know where it is!
Daggers Posted 31 August 2006 Author Posted 31 August 2006 I forgot to mention that the wind was blowing a hoolie as we crossed the Channel. The daughter and Mrs.DB were doing their best to recoat the inside of the ferry with the contents of their stomachs so me and little DB went up top. Standing in a force majeur storm, I told little DB that this was a bracing and character building exercise. "Wow!" he said, "Do all bracing and character building exercises involve getting really wet, getting cold and being blown about?" At that point (if he had said those actual words) the wind took my glasses off my face. Bast'd wind! With a 'too ill' co-driver, I had to take the car for the next four hours in my prescription sunglasses in a muggy gray storm. And then the drivers side windscreen wiper broke and we had no tools. Stupid storm. Stupid wind. Stupid glasses. Stupid car. Stupid holiday. Apart from all of that it was really a very pleasant trip and I can commend the North of France to you all. ...apart from Bologne which is populated by bastards.
Thracian Posted 31 August 2006 Posted 31 August 2006 Over £9,500 invested in a company called Eliza Tinsley which went bust!. Good lesson that one.
Daggers Posted 31 August 2006 Author Posted 31 August 2006 Over £9,500 invested in a company called Eliza Tinsley which went bust!. Good lesson that one. That's got to smart a bit...especially as they seem to be going again WEBSITE 150 years trading before going tits up. Ouch!
cisono Posted 1 September 2006 Posted 1 September 2006 I always do that. Get something important, put it in a really safe place, but they not know where it is! Quite common yeah. The important thing is being able to step through your whole train of thoughts when hiding it... and you usually can find your stuff again.
lookwhaticando Posted 1 September 2006 Posted 1 September 2006 My mind. Someone was going to say it, may as well be me.
Thracian Posted 1 September 2006 Posted 1 September 2006 That's got to smart a bit...especially as they seem to be going again WEBSITE 150 years trading before going tits up. Ouch! C'est la vie!. I sometimes think it's a lot easier backing red or black at the routette. That's been a roller coaster at times but never dull and I loved the tale about the hugely wealthy media magnate Kerry Packer. He's a noted gambler and reputedly fell into conversation with a rather brash Texan oil millionaire who, quite unknowing of Packer's reputation, soured the conversation with tales about the depth of his pockets. Eventually he made the remark along the lines that that he was so rich he could get his hands on a £1billion any time he had to. Packer raised his eyebrows and with absolute sincereity said: "toss you for it".
syston_fox Posted 1 September 2006 Posted 1 September 2006 I've woken up in the morning after a heavy night on the town and couldnt find my glasses. For anyone who doesnt wear them I can tell you that there is nothing scarier then waking up and not being able to find them. The world is suddenly a very blury place and when combined with a hangover, its a lethal combination. I didnt know if i'd lost them in the club, in the taxi or whether they were lieing somewhere around the house. Found them under a newspaper on the coffee table after about 10 minutes searching! Never been so relieved in my life!
golden gordon Posted 1 September 2006 Posted 1 September 2006 my sense of direction in various holiday places , usually resulting in me wandering around the most seediest/dangerous places at ungodly hours
Daggers Posted 1 September 2006 Author Posted 1 September 2006 ...resulting in me wandering around the most seediest/dangerous places at ungodly hours Are you Hugh Grant?
Daggers Posted 1 September 2006 Author Posted 1 September 2006 Many years ago, I was at some place by the sea near Canterbury, having a couple of beers. While queuing for chips this random idiot decides he's going to punch my mate. Mate ducks...and in true comedy fashion I cop the full blow to my right eye. Being terribly brave, we both ran off. Back at the flat I realised my defective vision wasn't due to a collapsed ocular socket but to the missing contact lens. Dammit I thought, and collapsed into drunken slumber. In the morning another mate said - 'you'll never believe this, we went back out to look for your contact lens and found it in a puddle'. 'Yea!' say I, 'Where is it?' [believing a puddle to have retained its water-based structure] They proudly pointed at the mantelpiece. At the dry, shriveled piece of plastic sitting there. Damn.
Alexikokopops Posted 1 September 2006 Posted 1 September 2006 C'est la vie!. I sometimes think it's a lot easier backing red or black at the routette. That's been a roller coaster at times but never dull and I loved the tale about the hugely wealthy media magnate Kerry Packer. He's a noted gambler and reputedly fell into conversation with a rather brash Texan oil millionaire who, quite unknowing of Packer's reputation, soured the conversation with tales about the depth of his pockets. Eventually he made the remark along the lines that that he was so rich he could get his hands on a £1billion any time he had to. Packer raised his eyebrows and with absolute sincereity said: "toss you for it". He died in when I was in Australia, t'were all over the news.
Fez of Mahrez Posted 1 September 2006 Posted 1 September 2006 All these replies and still no-one has mentioned losing their virginity. Doh.
Knighton Matt Posted 1 September 2006 Posted 1 September 2006 All these replies and still no-one has mentioned losing their virginity. Doh. Maybe wasn't the worst thing?
Fez of Mahrez Posted 1 September 2006 Posted 1 September 2006 Maybe wasn't the worst thing? Virginity is rubbish though. Was, I mean......
golden gordon Posted 1 September 2006 Posted 1 September 2006 All these replies and still no-one has mentioned losing their virginity. Doh. maybe because no-one wants to admit to it being the "worst" thing to have lost
Knighton Matt Posted 1 September 2006 Posted 1 September 2006 Virginity is rubbish though. Was, I mean...... The virgin suicides on the other hand is a great soundtrack. How odd.
Knighton Matt Posted 1 September 2006 Posted 1 September 2006 Maybe wasn't the worst thing? maybe because no-one wants to admit to it being the "worst" thing to have lost Essentially what I had already said but with more words.
Fez of Mahrez Posted 1 September 2006 Posted 1 September 2006 The virgin suicides on the other hand is a great soundtrack. How odd. You just plucked that straight out of the Air didn't you? I'll get my burkha
Knighton Matt Posted 1 September 2006 Posted 1 September 2006 You just plucked that straight out of the Air didn't you? I'll get my burkha
golden gordon Posted 1 September 2006 Posted 1 September 2006 Essentially what I had already said but with more words. sorry KM you are just too fast for an old duffer like me
Daggers Posted 1 September 2006 Author Posted 1 September 2006 All these replies and still no-one has mentioned losing their virginity. Maybe wasn't the worst thing? Anyone here been to Gartree?
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