Following in a similar vein the awesome 'dodgy going's on' thread...
Whats been your best cock up of the year?
Late entry by me, today in fact.
Went for a quick mile swim at lunch. In the men open shower cubicles, hung my towel up, quick hose down, grabbed my towel and gave myself a good drying, starting with chest, legs and the under-carrage area.
All good except it wasnt my towel. It was the guy standing beside me. Who was looking for his towel. So I handed it to him.
And left quickly after a mumbled apology.
Yours??
Drove all the way up to Derbyshire on a glorious Sunday morning looking forward to the demo ride on a Cotic Rocket with the Cotic team and other demoers.
All goes well, I arrive in plenty of time, including stopping off on my way up to pick up an ebay bike for the missus (a bargain, seeing as I was driving up the M1, 2 mins from the guy's house anyway, so I've used no extra fuel to get it).
Drive round trying to find the industrial unit where they're based. Go into a shop to ask, get directed to it. Still in plenty of time.
"Hmmmm, it looks a bit quiet". Go to the unit number that was on the email. No signs, no people, no nothing. Knock on the door. Nothing.
Look at my watch, it's the right time, there's already been one ride, so there should be people here.
Get the email out. "Demo ride. Saturday 13th of October"
Look back at my watch "14-10-12"
13th.
14.
.......
😐
😯
👿
😥
What a twit!
Storing a shipping container for someone at the moment. I have to opening and check the contents from time to time and have a heater and dehumidifier in there to check and empty regularly.
It has several locks on the door including one that is protected by steel cowl, you have to reach up inside it blind with the key to release it.
Open the container - check everything, good
Replace the lock in the cowl - upside down, the the keyhole facing upwards and completely inaccessible.
From earlier this year -
Got up a 6am.
6am!!!!! - Even the sun isn't stupid enough to be up then.
Got my kit ready for the Ealing half marathon, got myself ready, porridge, coffee, poo.
Drove into London.
Parked up.
Got my kit out of the boot.
Remembered kit was still on kitchen table at home.
Drove home.
Replace the lock in the cowl - upside down, the the keyhole facing upwards and completely inaccessible.
That sounds like a great FFS! moment 😀
"Southern Trains"
"Vision Express"
Went into Manchester with my wife for dinner and a show last month. Had a great dinner, but time was getting on, so had rush the waiter with the bill before running across town to the MEN arena. We get there and it's very quiet. 😕 Oh dear, they've gone in already, quick come on, lets run some more.....hang on, there's no lights on. Wtf, we've got the wrong place, must be at one of the other theatres. Don't tell me we've got to run back across town.. Get the tickets out. Wife's getting pretty flustered a this point. Tickets say MEN Arena, right day, right month...
Wrong year. Nov 2013. 😆 I wouldn't mind, we got them six months earlier. Who sells tickets 18months before a gig? Went to the pub instead and had a good laugh about it.
Not so much 'cock up' as 'doh' moment but,
Lunchtime at work a little while ago, I went to warm up a pie in the microwave.
Stuck it in for a minute and a half then thought, "actually, I don't want to do that, I want to do it for two minutes."
Hit Cancel, and it didn't, the display still showed a minute and a half Pressed cancel a few more times, opened and closed the door, but it just wouldn't reset.
I was just about to pull the plug out of the wall when the clock ticked over to 1:31.
Tickets for a gig, hotel booked, 2 days off work - one on the day and one the following day. Hanging round town all day, enjoying the city, dinner and a drink in local pub to the venue, wander down to the O2 Academy, looks shut, and the advertising says the gig is on a different day .... I'm sure I have the right day, oh I do, but the tickets say 02 Academy Birmingham, not bloody Brixton f**************************.
2 days early and several hundred quid out of pocket.
Gutting, had a great couple of days in London with my wife though and luckily she found it funny, I was just stunned at my own stupidity!
toby1 - MemberTickets for a gig, hotel booked, 2 days off work - one on the day and one the following day. Hanging round town all day, enjoying the city, dinner and a drink in local pub to the venue, wander down to the O2 Academy, looks shut, and the advertising says the gig is on a different day .... I'm sure I have the right day, oh I do, but the tickets say 02 Academy Birmingham, not bloody Brixton f**************************.
2 days early and several hundred quid out of pocket.
Gutting, had a great couple of days in London with my wife though and luckily she found it funny, I was just stunned at my own stupidity!
Awesome!
Back in May I went to collect the missus from the airport, she was arriving at Newcastle so I went to Manchester.
That's only 150 miles out 😐
I wouldn't care [& would have steadfastly blamed her] but I'd booked her tickets
My dad/step mum drove 150 miles in his old van to sell pots at a festival. Stressed out all week due to time constraints, firing the kiln through the night to get the stock. Turned up on site to an empty field. 2 weeks early, much to the amusement of the site crew.
IanMunro - MemberDrove home.
This gets my vote for understated punchline of the year 😀
been farting in my chair all afternoon, thinking it was alright as they didn't smell.
stood up and released a fog from hell.
bloody spongy seats.
bloody open plan offices.
My dad/step mum drove 150 miles in his old van to sell pot at a festival
Umm...
I managed to drive under a low building with my bike mounted on a roof carrier. £2600 damage done to the car, mangled thule carrier, and trashed roof bars. Scratched fork brace and dent in Klein downtube.
Cock.
Many years ago, Colonoscopy booked for a Sat AM.
Three days of Picolax. I'm clean as a whistle.
Wrong Saturday. 😳
not a 2012 one, but a classic all the same.
got a mate (a sweary northerner) who like to be hip and get down with the kids.
he bought some tickets to see The Arctic Monkeys at Sheffield arena.
turned up at the Arena, to find it empty.
he was a week late.
Working on something involving a tub of Evostick in the hut.
Concentrating very hard on the part in my hand and really not concentrating on the fact that i am tipping the tub of Evostick ever so slowly into the road bike bits box !
On the plus side, it stops things rusting till you peel it off !
Storing a shipping container for someone at the moment. I have to opening and check the contents from time to time and have a heater and dehumidifier in there to check and empty regularly.It has several locks on the door including one that is protected by steel cowl, you have to reach up inside it blind with the key to release it.
Open the container - check everything, good
Replace the lock in the cowl - upside down, the the keyhole facing upwards and completely inaccessible.
Would it surprise anyone if said I've just done this again?
It wasn't me but I know of somebody who worked as a windsurf board repairer in Vassiliki. He had a little hut to work in and the first time he mixed the 2 part expanding foam he didn't read the instructions properly and ended up having to cut his way back into the hut.