I also suffer immensely from 'have I shut/locked/turned off etc'. So now whenever I go away for more than a week I video the house from top to bottom, with narration, showing windows closed and locked, sockets off, lights off, doors locked etc. This will invariably be checked on the train to wherever for reassurance. The other half is now understanding of an irrational fear - I've never left anything on or open before but for some reason now I think I will. Have I tempted fate ....
I did leave the oven on once, over night.
Realised when I went into the kitchen the next morning and thought.. it’s unseasonaly warm in here!
Forgot I’d done this when typing earlier. Oh that feels warm!! Left it on for about three days whilst I’d gone over to my parents for Chris at a few years ago.
Glad it was when electricity was cheaper. If I did that now I’d sound like tiger king “I’ll never financially recover from this”
My worst one was getting halfway to Heathrow and realising I'd left all my meds on the kitchen table. Briefly thought about what would be involved in convincing a US pharmacy to replace them once we got there. Decided prob better to turn around and get them. Was glad of the 3 hours grace we'd left for the airport, as we used up an hour of that going home again and then getting stuck in the rush hour.
A few years back we had a week biking in southern Spain. Getting dropped off at the airport managed to leave my hand luggage in the taxi, which drove off. Fortunately my passport was in my pocket. Tried to contact where we had stayed to see if they could contact the taxi firm. No answer as they were out biking. Had to choose; take the flight or stay and find the bag (wallet, keys, ipod, etc). Took the flight.
Hours later the biking outfit we'd stayed with rang to say the taxi driver had dropped my bag back with them, and a friend of theirs was bringing it back with him on a later flight.
And that's how I met Guy Kesteven, having driven from Manchester airport (after a cab home and back for the spare keys) to where he lived and met him as he got home. Top bloke, although the question 'did you pack your bags yourself sir?' mustn't have come up 😀
I once got up in the middle of the night for reasons I couldn't fathom, and went downstairs to a horribly strong smell of gas and the cooker merrily hissing away to itself.
I turned it off immediately and VERY CAREFULLY opened all the doors and windows, then spent the next half an hour or so shivering while waiting for the gas to disperse.
We've since replaced the cooker with one that turns off if there's no flame burning(!).
I think we're all quite lucky that (a) I woke up and, (b) I didn't try to turn any lights on when I came downstairs. Come to think of it, this could/should be in the "bullets dodged" thread.
Surely you can take all the pictures you like but you could still have knocked the cooker back right after taking it. Full video of the entire house and subsequently leaving the house is surely the only way
So many posts and still no mention of the passport check?
When I was travelling all the time for work I'd check it in front of the driver as I put my bag in the car and ask them to confirm they'd see me check it.
She did all the checks we all do when tidying up, checking plugs are off, bins are put out and everything is off. She did this several times like most of us do.
errr…… nope. One relatively half arsed check that things are switched off here. I’ve gone away for days and forgotten to lock the door!
I managed to leave my gas hob on when away for a fortnight. Turned down low mind you . Stll burning when i got home.
We arrived at a holiday house in the dark and pissing rain. Chucked the kids and bags into the house, made the beds and all went to sleep.
When I woke up the next morning I looked out of the kitchen window to see the rear door of the van still open. It was facing the road and had 4 mountain bikes in it!
The walk outside to see if the van still had anything in it was nerve wracking but amazingly everything was still there. I guess the rain had kept any light fingered people indoors that night…a very luck escape!
Show her this when she gets back.
Lolz. Brilliant.
She'll love that 😂
able to watch coming from his apartment block live on the TV ,
This is doing my head in. Burglars, smoke?
This thread is great .. for the things I've actually done, house/ car keys in front door overnight, gas hob on whilst out all day ... to name but a few. And I'm much happier knowing that my 'shit I forgot to do' paranoia when leaving the house to go on holiday is happening everywhere else as well ... although I'm not sure I'm at the 'videoing every room' stage yet ...!!!! Lols
I managed to leave my gas hob on when away for a fortnight. Turned down low mind you . Stll burning when i got home.
Nice to come home to a lovely warm house.
I left the side door of my van fully open while I went for an MNPR ride once. 2+ hours right by The Church in one of Manchester's suburbs. Big bag of tools and one of my other bikes inside, still there when I came back.
This also reminds me, About 10 years ago I was staying at my folks’ house for the weekend. It was a nice day so I opened the patio door from the lounge into the garden – a thing my parents never done.
“Where did you find the key?” asks my mum.
“I never says I, it was unlocked” and it had been – for we think the previous 6 years since they moved in.
I left the work shop door unlocked for a month...
So many posts and still no mention of the passport check?
Drove my mum to the airport, and she'd left it in a "safe place" at my house.
When I go away I turn water and gas off at mains, used to work for an energy company the engineers used to. Always concerned I ve left something on, one less thing to worry about.
