Remember the commercial with the fishbowl on top of the car...
Jun 12, 2021 11:51:40 #
Jun 12, 2021 11:54:32 #
photoam
Loc: Fergus Falls, MN
I use Sharpie or a mailing label on everything, including clothes. Years ago we got a call from a motel in Oregon where my daughter had left her camera.
Last week while delivering Meals by Wheels I lost my fanny pack containing my hearing aids ($5000). 3 days later a man called telling me it was still in the foyer of their apartment building. This is small city Minnesota.
Last week while delivering Meals by Wheels I lost my fanny pack containing my hearing aids ($5000). 3 days later a man called telling me it was still in the foyer of their apartment building. This is small city Minnesota.
Jun 12, 2021 12:22:36 #
I'm in Santa Barbara, Calif and just had started Brooks Institute. Everybody had a 4 X 5 view camera, generally in a fairly large case and typically a Majestic tripod, also fairly large. I had stopped along the road for a shot. After that I found a interesting item in a gully. So I put the view camera and tripod near the trunk and grabbed my 2 X 2 and went down into the gully. I then came back put the 2X2 in the back seat and drove away. I again stopped a mile or two down the road and discovered my 4X5+tripod was MIA. A quick U-turn resulted in a lonely case and tripod setting along the road--never again! Those were big ticket items at that time in my life!
Jun 12, 2021 13:14:28 #
Many years ago, I visited my parents before I left for pilot training. In OTS, they told us that the round sleeve that we had carried all our pay records and not to lose it. My parents lived on a hill and I left the roll on top of my trusty Volvo. Got to the bottom of the hill and checked to make sure I had everything and my pay records were not there. Slowly went back up to my parents' house and saw my pay records merrily rolling down the hill.
Jun 12, 2021 13:18:05 #
No cameras, thank heavens; but I did try to back out of my parking space at the convenience store with my 44oz refill perched on the roof. Thankfully, a fellow drinker laughed and stopped me before it spilled. I still don't know if I should blame it on distractions (can't recall any) or simply the advancing years of my dotage.
Jun 12, 2021 13:44:06 #
tommystrat wrote:
My ex-wife put my treasured guitar in her unlocked car and parked it at a bowling alley... you can guess the rest...
Stole the guitar and left the car?
Jun 12, 2021 13:44:53 #
DHenard
Loc: Northeast Tennessee
My wife left a tablet in its case on top of her car. Fortunately, the case was thick enough that it lodged into the luggage rack and fortunately no damage done.
Jun 12, 2021 13:47:20 #
Mustanger wrote:
I LEFT my camera on the rear bumper once on a back... (show quote)
That’s a funny story. I would have done the same thing ;). Now today, much older, I would walk down and back.
Jun 12, 2021 15:05:50 #
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Jun 12, 2021 15:36:42 #
alliebess wrote:
Haven't done it with a camera, but did it with a large cup of soda. As I started to drive, a girl flagged me down and I stopped, thanked her and retrieved it.
Same here. I can't count the number of cups of coffee and even with doughnuts left on top. When reaching for the coffee, that's when I remembered!!!! I think I'm cured at last. When I need an extra hand while getting into the car, I put things on the hood. That way you see them if you get in the car first. It works.
Jun 12, 2021 16:15:42 #
IDguy
Loc: Idaho
Dragonophile wrote:
Well, I had my hands full and the dog was wanting ... (show quote)
Saw a Station Wagon pull into church one Thanksgiving with a turkey on the roof.
Jun 12, 2021 16:18:13 #
IDguy
Loc: Idaho
DHenard wrote:
My wife left a tablet in its case on top of her car. Fortunately, the case was thick enough that it lodged into the luggage rack and fortunately no damage done.
My wife left her iPad on the hood. It fell off a few blocks away. A guy found it and tracked her down to return it. The screen was hosed but Apple replaced it for free (I always suspected by mistake but didn’t complain).
Jun 12, 2021 16:29:22 #
I left a 2001 Olympus C4040 Zoom digital camera on an empty chair next to where I was sitting in a seafood restaurant in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where we were having dinner with my wife's old boss. While in the car driving back to our hotel, I realized that I had left the camera in the restaurant. I told my wife's boss about the mistake, and he ordered his driver to return to the restaurant. When we arrived, the maitre d' handed me back my camera. Close call that would have ruined our vacation.
Jun 12, 2021 16:36:47 #
Decades ago, working in Saudi on an RSAF base. Put my work loose-leaf binder on top of my Jimmy, drove off. Driving down the road, heard a noise, looked in the rear view mirror, and a paper-bomb had gone off in the middle of the base road. Papers blowing everywhere. Pulled to the side of the road, jumped out, and started running around like a crazed chicken picking up pages from the road and the barren area alongside. Noticed another car had stopped, an RSAF officer standing there. Walked up to him, noticed his boot holding down several pages. I was about to thank him (he hadn't bothered to pick them up but at least he was stopping them from blowing away) when he started to berate me for being so careless with RSAF property. Knowing it was an argument I wouldn't win, didn't bother explaining that they were my personal work notes/papers, just said "Yes, sir". He lifted his boot up, got back in his car, and drove off.
Most satisfying sound in the world: that noise when the immigration officer stamps your passport with the exit stamp as you're leaving...
Most satisfying sound in the world: that noise when the immigration officer stamps your passport with the exit stamp as you're leaving...
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