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Last evening dropped the li'l guy for his cricket practice at DoK School and pedaled up Pitch Hill (SH) for a quick few runs.
Midway through the ride checked the time on my phone and realized my jacket pockets were open and the car keys had gone walkabout. Much panic, much cursing, much despair(also bcos the one spare key we have has recently stopped working) called the missus and told her she needs to pick the li'l fella up whilst I try and retrace all the runs....pealing like fury on the uphills slowing on the downhill bits carefully scanning all the jumps...no luck get back to the car, wife arrives with spare key and as guessed as much no luck with that key.
No phone signal so I tell her I'm going to cycle over to the Hurtwood Inn... called RAC outside the pub and they they tell me 3 hrs till someone can get to me/the car. Go in and the bartender says how am I doing? I say pretty crap, she asks why, I say cos I've lost my car keys. She looks at me with a twinkle in her eye and says which car? I say VW shes says come with me and smiles!! Some good Samaritan had found the keys up on Pitch and dropped them off at the pub. heavens to betsy! I was grinning like a possum eating a sweet potato.
I was grinning like a possum eating a sweet potato.
Your Davy Crockett and I claim my £5.00 .
That is a cool story. 🙂
Excellent.
phew!!
nice one 😀
Could have been more suspense and action sequences. 6/10
yeah really lucky, have reached out on the FoTH site with a msg of thanks to the person who found them.
sounded like a porno screenplay, until the words 'Some good Samaritan...'
At a race a few years back, I found some car keys. Told a marshall, took them around with me (fastest way to get them down, marshalls are stuck on the hill all day). In the car park, spotted a frantic dude trying to find his keys. Walked up, "Hey, lost your keys? Guess what I've got?". Hand them over, he says, these are for a Saab. Look at his car, it's a BMW. No Saabs in the car park at all. CRUSHED.
😆 @ NW, you can add [i]Dreamcrusher[/i] to your list of titles
Glad you got your keys back, it's quite the sinking feeling in your stomach when that sort of thing happens isn't it?
@JT yeah it was like looking for a needle in a haystack
Well congratulations. Your story is the first thing to have made me smile today. 8)
I lost my wedding ring whilst setting the course at the first HTN. Many hours later I got a phone call from Terrahawk (of this parish) saying that he had found it in the mud at around the halfway point. I guess it had come off when I’d stopped to re-do my boot laces. The course was 8 miles long.
I too would have been grinning like a sweet potato equipped possum if I hadn’t already confessed to the missus about losing it.
Terrahawk... found it
Is there nothing that man can't do?