Have you ever had...

....that gut-wrenching 'oh ****' feeling, like, for example, one might
have felt after forty minutes' worth of towing a 'crosser to a
practice track, only to remember that one has left all one's money in
another pair of jeans?

 

Yes. I've got off the bike and then gone in the car to fetch something.
Stuck £20 of petrol in the car only to realise I'd left my wallet in my
bike jacket.

Fortunately, the petrol station was only 4 miles from home and the manager
was happy to trust me to return with the cash later.

 

Oh, yes.

I was admiring the artwork for a PCB I designed after sending it off to
the fab house that only to discover I'd done it upside down.

 

only to remember that one has left all one's money in another pair of

I filled up in Morrissons the other week, around £50 and didn't have my
wallet. They simply print off a sheet and then you have 24 hours to go back
and pay.

Nice of them.

 

I see the way this thread is going. All we need now is Monz to come along
and say how he put £3000 of juice in his MAN...

 

Ewwwww.

<reaches for mind bleach>

 

(SteveH) wrote in :

**** off to alt.sensitive.metrosexual.ducati.owning.types where your sort
are tolerated...

 

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Petrol stationly, yes. Manager was ok when I left my watch with him as
security. It wasn't a wildly expensive one, but worth more than the
petrol.

That's all right - perhaps it fell off the back of the courier's bike.
Not that that ever happened to me, nope.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"It's a moron working with power tools.
How much more suspenseful can you get?"
- House

 

It's fucking annoying how they disable those fill triggers on nearly
every consumer petrol forecourt.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"It's a moron working with power tools.
How much more suspenseful can you get?"
- House

 

Weren't they responsible for a number of forecourt explosions in the US?

--
Veggie Dave
UKRMHRC#2 BOTAFOF#08
IQ 18 FILMS http://www.iq18films.com
POST PRODUCTION http://www.iq18films.co.uk
Toxic Shock Syndrome Gets More Girls Than Me

 

Velcro band

--
Lozzo
Suzuki SV650S K5
Honda CBR600 FW trackbike
Yamaha SR250 Spazz-Trakka
Suzuki GSXR750 L
Suzuki TS50X
Suzuki TS50X

 

Last time I looked, it just needed a pin putting in the hole on the
nozzle. I used to carry a suitable pin on my keyring.
I haven't looked for a few years though.

 

That's a lot of green shield stamps ...

 

You don't do the artwork for music GCSE papers on the side, do you ?

 

<how can I put this without offending our Yankee brethern?>

Dumb customers were, more likely.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"It's a moron working with power tools.
How much more suspenseful can you get?"
- House

 

Apparently it was caused by static. Drivers would put the nozzle in then
go and sit half in the car. When they got up there'd be static caused
by, IIRC, the car seat, which would then earth to the nozzle when they
went to turn it off.

--
Veggie Dave
UKRMHRC#2 BOTAFOF#08
IQ 18 FILMS http://www.iq18films.com
POST PRODUCTION http://www.iq18films.co.uk
Toxic Shock Syndrome Gets More Girls Than Me

 

I saw a report years ago about how the then high price of
Australian Merino wool was causing casualties in the IRA. Woollen cloth
became so expensive that people were switching to synthetic fabrics. So
when your IRA bomber slid across the plastic car seat in his polyester
trousers, the spark as he reached out to the bomb set it off prematurely.

--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

Only the copyright notices.

--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

Um, yers. After getting the fortnights worth of shopping ant
sainsbury's... But at least I didn't travel 40 mins to get there...