What’s the shortest time you have owned something?

[GetCarter]

bomb said:

havoc said:

The Nur said:

Cantaloupe said:

GetCarter said:

Job phone selling ... asked where the bog was and walked straight out.

Your foppish lethargy is an example why the UK needs immigrants to do work that Brits think is beneath them.

We are surprised you found the energy to type your post.

Have a lie down, don't tire yourself.

This'll be good.

Oh yes. Trailer load of popcorn is ready to go. You may commence.......

Ha... I'm certainly not rising to this tripe. As a matter of interest, I walked straight out of that 'job' into being a delivery driver in London. 50 hour week for £26.00 - Luxury

[bobtail4x4]

AB said:

I've had 3 drones in the past 12 months, all 3 flew away never to be seen again the first time I used them. I've given up now. Luckily they were relatively cheap, all under about £30. I've learnt my lesson.

ever bought a homing pigeon?

[dxbtiger]

Probably one of these, I'd guesstimate under 10 mins is the shortest period.

[fathomfive]

A Jaguar S-Type. Owned for an hour short of 21 days.

The gearbox developed a very well-known fault two weeks after purchase. The dealer took another week to refund the purchase price and come to collect the car.

[OzzyR1]

Zero seconds

Age of 10 or so, I had pestered my folks for an Aerobie for ages and my dad finally agreed to get me one when we were on holiday on the Isles of Scilly.

(For those who don't know, they were a type of frisbee that went amazing long distances, recall one was thrown over 400m).

My dad got it out of it's box, proclaimed that "this doesn't look like it'll go that far", and chucked it as hard as he could. Sadly, he was facing out to sea and I just watched as it disappeared and become one with the horizon.

Never even got to touch it!!

[595Heaven]

Metro GTi - Picked it up at about 3pm, drove home and it got stolen that evening

The joys of living near Blackbird Leys (Oxford) at the height of the joy riding epidemic in the 90s.

[Jasandjules]

I was told by a chap at a motorbike shop (not verified sadly) that a bloke picked up his brand new bike, floored it out of the dealership, straight across the road and down the ditch the other side, the bike was written off. No idea if it was true or he was winding me up, but it wouldn't surprise me if true.

[bobtail4x4]

lad at work picked up his new metro on 1st august, early morning, driving to work proud as punch at 50mph a truck ran over the back end, as the driver was asleep.
he owned it 30 mins.

[tim0409]

I was excited to receive a £1 coin as part of my paper round wages not long after they were introduced; 20 minutes later I lost it whilst playing football. This still causes me distress.

[Mr-B]

Jasandjules said:

I was told by a chap at a motorbike shop (not verified sadly) that a bloke picked up his brand new bike, floored it out of the dealership, straight across the road and down the ditch the other side, the bike was written off. No idea if it was true or he was winding me up, but it wouldn't surprise me if true.

It was true, it was pciked up on CCTV too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66rv2yXVHhc

[poing]

Wasn't it someone on here that waited all night for the latest iPhone, bought it, opened the box and it fell out and smashed on the floor before they even managed to touch it?

[Amirhussain]

Mr-B said:

Jasandjules said:

I was told by a chap at a motorbike shop (not verified sadly) that a bloke picked up his brand new bike, floored it out of the dealership, straight across the road and down the ditch the other side, the bike was written off. No idea if it was true or he was winding me up, but it wouldn't surprise me if true.

It was true, it was pciked up on CCTV too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66rv2yXVHhc

Was just going to post that

[Bibbs]

poing said:

Wasn't it someone on here that waited all night for the latest iPhone, bought it, opened the box and it fell out and smashed on the floor before they even managed to touch it?

Don't think they are a PH'er, but is my local store so was on the news.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bPwfLe13Uo

[Shakermaker]

bobtail4x4 said:

lad at work picked up his new metro on 1st august, early morning, driving to work proud as punch at 50mph a truck ran over the back end, as the driver was asleep.
he owned it 30 mins.

I recall seeing an X-reg Mercedes on 1st September 2000, first day they were launched, on the back of a recovery lorry. Seeing it from behind we expected it was being delivered but as my dad overtook it, we then saw that the front end was completely smashed in. Whoever had that can't have owned it for more than about 3 hours

[Roofless Toothless]

My dad once owned an Austin Allegro for a VERY short time.

He drove it home from the dealer, parked it up on the drive and called us all out to see our new car. When he went to open it up, the doorhandle came off in his hand.

I don't remember ever seeing it again after that.

[S11Steve]

PositronicRay said:

Jasandjules said:

My son had a mini-drone, it went up, hit the ceiling, charged off to the side then shattered a prop.... Lasted a few seconds....

You still owned it though, just broken.

About 4 years ago on holiday, our 8 year old at the time bought a drone for about 80 euros of his holiday money. It was a fairly big thing with a camera and although we suggested a cheaper one, it was his money and he "needed" that very one.
It was late in the evening when we bought it so it was left to charge overnight and said we would show him how it works in the morning.

At about 5am we heard a howling and wailing and the youngest having a meltdown.
He couldn't wait for us to show him how it worked, so switched it on gave it full throttle and that was the last it was ever seen

[Smitters]

GetCarter said:

Ha... I'm certainly not rising to this tripe. As a matter of interest, I walked straight out of that 'job' into being a delivery driver in London. 50 hour week for £26.00 - Luxury

Spoil sport. I assumed you were tired from building a house, or haranguing a major car manufacturer or something...

[toasty]

I bought a nice pair of ski gloves at La Plagne first thing in the morning, caught the cable car, left the gloves in the car, skied back down following the car with frozen hands. No sign of gloves at the bottom, bought another pair of the same gloves 30 mins after the first. D'oh!

[NotBenny]

ambuletz said:

PositronicRay said:

ambuletz said:

125cc motorbike

was my first purchase. owned for 1-2 months. engine went pop. has been a non-runner for about 10years now.

Do still own it?

yes.
this wasn't bought brand new mind.. used.

so the shortest time you've owned something, is 10 years?

[designforlife]

OzzyR1 said:

Zero seconds

Age of 10 or so, I had pestered my folks for an Aerobie for ages and my dad finally agreed to get me one when we were on holiday on the Isles of Scilly.

(For those who don't know, they were a type of frisbee that went amazing long distances, recall one was thrown over 400m).

My dad got it out of it's box, proclaimed that "this doesn't look like it'll go that far", and chucked it as hard as he could. Sadly, he was facing out to sea and I just watched as it disappeared and become one with the horizon.

Never even got to touch it!!

The wife and I bought one a few weeks back, as I had fond memories of chucking them absolutely miles.

We went to the park and within 10 minutes, she had launched it 20ft up into an oak tree.

Cue around 45 mins of throwing sizeable sticks to get it down... we managed it eventually but I was pretty ready to walk away after about 30 minutes in!!

We have since used it again without incident in a much larger and tree free area, great bit of simple engineering!