stupid is as stupid does
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i'm writing this from my parents house having arrivedd 30mins ago, which should have taken me 40mins to get to and i set off at 7pm.
however, before i set off i thought i'd change the blown fuse for the radio as i wanted some driving music, so loaded the car through the passenger side, popped the bonnet and locked the door on autopilot. changed fuse, dropped bonnet. no prizes for guessing where the keys were!
as my house keys are on the same ring i enjoyed a wonderful 2.5hrs in the freezing rain waiting for the RAC man to arrive. took him all of 30secs to break in, he does 3-4 a week apparently!
anyone else left their brain in park recently?
however, before i set off i thought i'd change the blown fuse for the radio as i wanted some driving music, so loaded the car through the passenger side, popped the bonnet and locked the door on autopilot. changed fuse, dropped bonnet. no prizes for guessing where the keys were!
as my house keys are on the same ring i enjoyed a wonderful 2.5hrs in the freezing rain waiting for the RAC man to arrive. took him all of 30secs to break in, he does 3-4 a week apparently!
anyone else left their brain in park recently?
Nothing to do with cars, but still seriously stupid of me.
At the moment, i'm living at my Grandads house in Cornwall to help him decorate as he damaged his back a few weeks back, and my Nan can't help too much either.
Anywho, we are close to finishing the downstairs bathroom. Que lots of time spent painting, tiling, etc. The only job left was fitting the toilet, so we spent loads of time making a box and shelf that will fill the gap between the system and wall, but also act as something for said system to screw too.
After all this, we then markup the points where we need to drill into the floor so that we can fit the brackets. We then check where the pipes are to make sure we don't hit them as we drill. My Grandad finds one point which will hit a pipe, so he says to me (as i munch on custard creams while drinking tea) "'ere ya go me lad. Don't be 'ittin this one, as you'll hit the pipe" to which i reply "yup *om nom nom* i'll get right on it." He even put a great big X by it so that i knew not to drill it.
I drill 3 of them and fit the brackets, then look at the one with the X, and my brain even says "Ok Nathan. Don't drill that one." And what do i go do?....Yep.
So now, i've gotta take all the tiles off, the box out, the floor tiles off, and then start taking away the concrete floor to get to the pipes and replace it. Probably a good days work.
I'm such an idiot.
At the moment, i'm living at my Grandads house in Cornwall to help him decorate as he damaged his back a few weeks back, and my Nan can't help too much either.
Anywho, we are close to finishing the downstairs bathroom. Que lots of time spent painting, tiling, etc. The only job left was fitting the toilet, so we spent loads of time making a box and shelf that will fill the gap between the system and wall, but also act as something for said system to screw too.
After all this, we then markup the points where we need to drill into the floor so that we can fit the brackets. We then check where the pipes are to make sure we don't hit them as we drill. My Grandad finds one point which will hit a pipe, so he says to me (as i munch on custard creams while drinking tea) "'ere ya go me lad. Don't be 'ittin this one, as you'll hit the pipe" to which i reply "yup *om nom nom* i'll get right on it." He even put a great big X by it so that i knew not to drill it.
I drill 3 of them and fit the brackets, then look at the one with the X, and my brain even says "Ok Nathan. Don't drill that one." And what do i go do?....Yep.
So now, i've gotta take all the tiles off, the box out, the floor tiles off, and then start taking away the concrete floor to get to the pipes and replace it. Probably a good days work.
I'm such an idiot.
Yep, I was in West Quay a few days ago when the sun was out on the bike and was suitably packing the storage with the days shopping. As usual use all the cavities available and just as I closed the seat down again and the locking "CLICK" happened, looked a the ignition and no keys.
They had been locked under the seat where also the tools were. The solution was call the AA whom with the tool kit proceeded to access the panels and pull the wire. In between this the alarm had reset itself and I felt like a fish in a fish tank completely helpless. It was loud and got some funny looks. Credit given the police was called by some good samaritan and proceeded to check that I was the rightful owner as well.
Now the keys live around my neck on a lanyard! I felt like a fool....
They had been locked under the seat where also the tools were. The solution was call the AA whom with the tool kit proceeded to access the panels and pull the wire. In between this the alarm had reset itself and I felt like a fish in a fish tank completely helpless. It was loud and got some funny looks. Credit given the police was called by some good samaritan and proceeded to check that I was the rightful owner as well.
Now the keys live around my neck on a lanyard! I felt like a fool....
We've all done it (haven't we??)
My moment was with a car with a Clifford alarm I was jump starting. One lead on, fine, 2nd lead hits the terminal, CLICK, the whole car locks and deadlocks itself with the keys in the ignition and all the dash lights on...
Luckily it was a car I was about to break so I didn't even hesitate to grab the Shola and put the front quarterlight in....
My moment was with a car with a Clifford alarm I was jump starting. One lead on, fine, 2nd lead hits the terminal, CLICK, the whole car locks and deadlocks itself with the keys in the ignition and all the dash lights on...
Luckily it was a car I was about to break so I didn't even hesitate to grab the Shola and put the front quarterlight in....
Something similar happened to me a few weeks ago. A friend and I were servicing my car and revving the engine from under the bonnet to release the excess air from the cooling system. Only to realise that my car locks both doors and boot after a certain RPM. 
Luckily the rear vent windows were open, so we spent half hour trying to press the window switches through the rear vents using a long piece of wire. What a frustrating excercise that was.
Luckily the rear vent windows were open, so we spent half hour trying to press the window switches through the rear vents using a long piece of wire. What a frustrating excercise that was.
BoRED S2upid said:
Never locked the keys in the car have locked myself out of the house numerous times its scary how easy it is to break into if you know how.
Did that a few times at my parents old place, mostly when I was a young un and coming back pissed in the early morning. The trick was to balance on a chunk of wood wedged under the oil tank, then do a bit or parcour style bouncing from wall to wall, flail desperately at the edge of the roof, and if you are lucky, drag yourself across the moss covered roof and squeeze in through the spare bedroom window. This caused some embarrassing moments when they had guests I had forgotten about.
Along a similar vein, a couple of years ago I was talking on the phone while walking up to the 928 with a load of work bags. Put down the bags, finished my conversation, unlocked the car, opened up the boot and placed the phone on the small ledge on the edge of the tailgate next to the boot latch.
Loaded up car, shut boot.
Bang - Boot bounced and didn't shut
"Bloody boot catch playing up again"
BANG - Boot still didn't shut
BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG - Boot still bouncing and not shutting
"Hmmm, this is odd, maybe something's broken"
Opened it up and found something was indeed broken, but it wasn't part of the car. Phone was still on the ledge.
Loaded up car, shut boot.
Bang - Boot bounced and didn't shut
"Bloody boot catch playing up again"
BANG - Boot still didn't shut
BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG - Boot still bouncing and not shutting
"Hmmm, this is odd, maybe something's broken"
Opened it up and found something was indeed broken, but it wasn't part of the car. Phone was still on the ledge.
Stallion Pants said:
Could be worse...Could of locked your keys outside of your car like peter here
I locked my keys out of a car once. I was cleaning my wife's car, and it started raining a bit so I shut the door. Sadly I was in the rear seats at the time, and I forgot that we had set the child locks on the rear doors. The keys were on the workbench in the garage - I could see them through the windscreen. Of course the windows were electric, and didn't work without keys in the ignition. The garage was at the rear of the garden, and the car couldn't be seen from the house, and for that matter even pressing the horn wasn't enough to raise any attention from my wife.
In the end I managed to squeeze through the front seats and wriggle out the front door.
Now I never have child locks turned on - instead children are educated never to open the doors without express instructions on pain of ... well, pain. I also never leave the keys on a workbench, and I also tend to keep my phone on me so that I can call for help
I have also stopped cleaning my wife's car.
shoestring7 said:
Sorry, but proper PistonHeaders don't put house keys on the same ring as the car's.
SS7
SS7
shirt said:
why's that then, does your car go faster if the house key is in your pocket?
Because "proper PistonHeaders" have to choose which set of car keys to take when they go out. 
My brother in law was driving along once when he decided to take the keys out of the ignition to look at one of them and then managed to drop them on the floor. As he was fishing about for them coasting with one hand the steering lock went on as he tried to coast around a bend.
Regards
Andy
Regards
Andy
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