Drip of the week award

[albany_nomads]

Sunday evening coming back from taking the dog for a walk..got out of the car....and  put my new camo coloured wallet and car keys in my coat pocket.
Got the dog out of the back of the ute..Its a pretty cool evening and the wood fire was going in the house so I thought I would grab a few extra logs of wood in my arms..Get to the back door and my wife comments "that the doors locked...have you got the keys"
So balancing these logs of wood in one arm.. I feel in my coat pocket with the other hand and retrieve my wallet..nope ....I need the keys..so I balance the wallet on the logs of wood and with my free hand retrieve the keys and toss them to my wife who opens the back house door.
I walk straight in... open the door on the fire ...and throw the logs of wood in.
20 minutes later the wife reminds me we forgot to buy that bottle of milk....no problems i reply I'll pop down and get it for you.
Wheres my wallet have you seen it i ask......where did you see it last she replies.
OHHH NO  quick get the BBQ tongs..the fire was going like a beauty manage to retrieve the cards but they were just a moulten heap of plastic and to rub salt into the wound I had $150.00 cash in the wallet... ..normally I would be lucky to carry $50.00 cash on me but I was heading off to do some field work this week so grabbed a bit more...bugga
And so now has begun the task of replacing Credit Cards , bank cards, driver licence, fishing Licence, Skipper Licence , employer ID cards Etc, Etc..the list goes on.

Im going to buy a fluro pink wallet next time so that i can see .....have a good day

[HEM19X]

Don't be too hard on yourself, we have all had "Homer" moments..bet you don't do it again though.

Regards

hem

[Jon]

Somewhat exceeds locking the car keys in the folded camper doesn't it.
Damn.

[GU Rich]

Somewhat exceeds locking the car keys in the folded camper doesn't it.
Damn.

I know somebody that has done that more than once 

Rich

[Tracey family]

BUGGER!!!!! i bet you had a few choice words to say at the time....but at least it was something material and nobody was hurt
            scott

[SteveandViv]

Mate, your making me break out in cold sweats. Big time bummer. Lucky you didn't have a beer in your hand. Now that would have been tragic.

[HEM19X]

Somewhat exceeds locking the car keys in the folded camper doesn't it.
Damn.

Hmmm, better off not mentioning it - Bullfrog can read too.

Hem

[Laith]

That is bad luck mate. What a pain to go through especially when ur going to be out and about all week.

[ralphedward]

Mate I feel your pain,

Not that I would have been that stupid more than once or twice, ok 3 or 4 times in my life - orright 5,6,7,8,9 or many, many more times in my life. I feel that I have learned my lessons and it will never happen again - until next time that is!

Regards
Mark 

[bullfrog]

At least the old bear did a proper job. She folded up the CT with the keys AND my wallet. Apparently , it was still my fault  

[HEM19X]

At least the old bear did a proper job. She folded up the CT with the keys AND my wallet. Apparently , it was still my fault  

Suppose you can forgive her, afterall that damper look yummy.

Hem

[albany_nomads]

May be there's a market for High Vis wallets with Fluro Orange and Yellow stripes with reflection tape on as well.

[Brisan]

At least you know what happened to your wallet! When you lose one and never find it again is the pits (not me but the missus has had 2 handbags stolen)

[MarkGU]

Hmmm, better off not mentioning it - Bullfrog can read too.

Hem

he can read Hem?

well i'l be buggered......i thought all those magazines he has he just looked at the pictures   

[ralphedward]

May be there's a market for High Vis wallets with Fluro Orange and Yellow stripes with reflection tape on as well.

Unfortunately my missus just read this thread and I haven't been able to stop her laughing since. Her suggestion is, and as I've worked in aviation all my life, maybe all women should, as we do with aircraft, attach big fluro tags to things that are important.  With aircraft we attach these to vital things like landing gear pins, pitot static ports, in the military - ejection pins and missile head units.  As SWMBO has suggested maybe all we males should have a 'Remove Before releasing Into The Community tag' attached to our foreheads

I live with my stupidity - what's your excuse?

[duggie]

BUGGER

[Estelle]

Ahhh, life can be frustrating.

Bad luck. I guess in the future you can sit around a camp fire and laugh about it (hopefully).  Sounds as though you are half way there.

At least lives weren't involved. Just so annoying.

And yes, we are having a good giggle at your expense      you won't catch us doing something like that.

[Bill]

That sucks.
But now I dont feel so bad about taking my wheelbarrow full of mulch for a swim in the pool the other week  
Bill and Morag

[Black Diamond]

Strooth

[cancan]

I remember years ago the wife wanted Hungry jacks so I grabbed here purse as she had just been paid (This was in the Middle East and we got paid monthly and in cash at the time) and took off to Hungry jacks, got the bags of goodies and put the purse in 1 of the bags.
Got home and we all ate and put all the rubbish back in the bags which then went in the main rubbish bag.
next morning I got asked "where's my purse?"....didn't take me long to work out where it was, went outside and the rubbish was gone....crap crap crap....found the gardener who collects the rubbish and his comment was "oh the big rubbish truck comes this morning".
We rushed out to the front of the complex and luckily the bin had not been emptied but with 42 villas in the complex there was a lot of rubbish bags in there but my life was spared that day as I remembered the rubbish bag was bright orange and the gardener jumped in the bin and found it easy enough.
I don't think I have ever crapped myself so much, there was over $10,000 dollars plus cards, licenses and security Id's in there.
Would have been an expensive Hungry Jacks although the Gardener was happy, I gave him a small token of our thanks which doubled his monthly pay plus he sneaked in a beer..