Sshh: My special blonde moment ....

[Flyingpony]

After hard day at office and study, it was time to ride home.

Standing beside bike while it was warming up, needed to gain access to under the locked seat.

Remove key collection from right pocket but only find house keys, very strange must've put in other pocket.
Remove key collection from left pocket only to find the usual suspects, work and university keys, MMmm.
Look around my feet and inside helmet, no bike keys :no:
Walk over to right side of bike and check if it's over there on the ground because disk lock had just been removed, MMmm, still no bike keys :oi-grr:

Well before I start double checking or panicking, there's only one other logical place I haven't checked and that was the ignition. And there it was :whistle: With the idiot green dash light shining brightly away (indicates bike's in neutral) yelling told you so, and the now very audible purr of its single cylinder engine.

So, that was my special blonde moment yesterday evening at 7:05pm in car park outside work.

[White trash]

Oyh my fuck that's funny.

Well done.

[Odin]

Think you had an other blonde momment this morning at about 9:08AM.... :rofl:

[zadok]

Wait 'til you get older! And I ain't got any hair! :motu:

[pyrocam]

oh well done.

ive done worse.
the morning of a big 45 bike HW22 ride a while ago. I was running around the house screaming where the fuck are my keys I checked every pocket.
I was getting late so I grabbed my backup keys and off I went.
bought a moro bar from the BP for breakie. when it was time to leave, I got on my bike and put my hand in my 'keys pocket' to find not only the keys that I lost but my emergency keys.

[feistyredhead]

oh well done.

ive done worse.
the morning of a big 45 bike HW22 ride a while ago. I was running around the house screaming where the fuck are my keys I checked every pocket.
I was getting late so I grabbed my backup keys and off I went.
bought a moro bar from the BP for breakie. when it was time to leave, I got on my bike and put my hand in my 'keys pocket' to find not only the keys that I lost but my emergency keys.

dang and i thought i was the only one that did that kind of thing..and ow i know i am not alone....a male has done the same stupid thing! :Punk: :clap:

[bugjuice]

and you're all admitting this in public..?? not sure what's worse!

[mikey]

you seen this one weasel, might need to add yous from palmy :AJFBJFJFA )))

[unhingedlizard]

got a worse one. i spent 20mins walking round and round the garage going "where the fucks my crimmper" until i reliased in was in my left hand. Decided that was enough work for the night.

[Waylander]

Spent half a day looking for my sunglasses. Walked by the hallway mirror and had a glance in it and saw them on my head.:weird:

[Eurygnomes]

The glasses-on-head thing happens regularly in our family (for those who need them to 'read' only, as opposed to needing them always). I seldom lose anything, so when I do, it's panic stations all over. Worst arguments I've had are when I'm in the middle of a 'where the hell are my keys' rant, and someone tells me to 'chill out, they'll turn up'. ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :poke:

[pyrocam]

here is a recent one:
Just bought a new tank bag at lunch (colemans $60) went home and got the cam and put it in. worked a treat. did my thing on the way back, nearly had it come out 4 or so times but survived it. got to work and was gonna show the boss (usr: hondaboy I think) and found out I recorded 15minutes of max zoom (990x)

sigh

next time

[thehollowmen]

We saw a brand new BMW with keys in it and all the lights on at late saterday night inner city sydney.

Couldn't help but take the keys out and give them to the shop where it was parked outside, that wouldn't have lasted long otherwise.

[mikey]

We saw a brand new BMW with keys in it and all the lights on at late saterday night inner city sydney.

Couldn't help but take the keys out and give them to the shop where it was parked outside, that wouldn't have lasted long otherwise.


what a koon.l it was left there to be stolen an an insurance check, jeeeeez people like you. now who wants to steal my bike, i need a good aliby see.

[Toast]

We saw a brand new BMW with keys in it and all the lights on at late saterday night inner city sydney.

Couldn't help but take the keys out and give them to the shop where it was parked outside, that wouldn't have lasted long otherwise.

Man I used to leave my keys in my old CBR250 all the time when it was parked at Uni. I'd come back at 6pm at night after it had been there since 8am, and there they were, sitting in the ignition still. Ok, not all the time, it may not have survived that, but I did it about 4 or 5 times. :blink: :o I was busy and stressed, ok...*sob*

[Toast]

what a koon.l it was left there to be stolen an an insurance check, jeeeeez people like you. now who wants to steal my bike, i need a good aliby see.

Now that I think about it, I really wanted that thing to get stolen, as it was insured at $5k and was smashed to hell from my learner days...maybe it was a subconcious thing to leave the keys in...hmm...

[Sniper]

Hahaha, takes a brave individual to admit that. Thanks and well done

[inlinefour]

Well, if everyone was really honest, they'd all say that they have done it also. :whistle:

[parsley]

Reminds me of a friend of mine in Sydney who got out of the cage one night, walked up to her front door, pointed the cage alarm control at it and pressed the button. Took her a couple of attempts before she realised what the problem was! :weird:

[Slim]

I hate when you put your keys in your inside jacket pocket, then when you go to leave, you get all dressed up, scarf round neck, zip up leathers, helmet on, gloves on, hop on bike ....... no keys in ignition! D'oh! :weird:

[Toast]

Hahaha, takes a brave individual to admit that. Thanks and well done

If my idiocy can bring smiles to a sometimes sullen world...then I might just be saved from hell for all the other shit :devil2:

[SuperDave]

The worst I've done pretty much tops everyone elses.

I usually leave my bike in neutral when parked at all times, but for some reason I decided to leave it in 1st one day. Came out after school and was talking to some mates whilst putting the keys in the ignition, hit the started and "HOLY SHIT WHAT IS HAPPENING!"

The bike lurged forward and stalled and fell over, but my leg held it up with the only damage the ball snapping off the end of my already damaged clutch lever.

Went and blamed it on the 'loser scooter' riders who must have been tampering with my bike who obviously put my bike into first as I always leave it in neutral.

[james89000]

Hahaha oh damn !!!
I had a bad one, and near dropped my bike when getting off it,
Forgot the kickstand xD

[disenfranchised]

Reminds me of a time when I was young, and was going to the movies with some mates (in a car).
After I parked it and got out I shut the door locking it, only to realise that I'd left the keys inside....in the ignition....with the engine still running.

Had to call my folks to drive all the way into town to let me back in with the spare set.

[mbazza]

Last weekend, always put keys inside zipped inner pocket of bike jacket. All zips done up AND the wet gear over the top spaceman like.
Brain thinks . . . . "where' the keys?" . . . . . Four zips and three velcro closures later get the keys and now I have to close all valcro and zips.
Oh! Getting old is hard work! Cheers .:pinch:

[sunhuntin]

i think mine tops the lot!

took a weekend trip to taupo. all ready and set to go. sneakers in the top box, cos screw walking around in steel cap cowboy boots all day!
get to national park and have a break. continue on to taupo, book room, and unload back pack and saddle bags from bike. go to get sneakers to go into town. pat my jean pockets. check jacket. look in backpack, saddlebags, camera bags, and then back to the jeans.
now, these keys are very important: house key, work key, spare key for mums car, top box key. i think, when did i last use it? putting my sneakers in. where did i put them? pat jeans again while thinking. hmm... i dont remember doing anything with them!!
hurry back to bike, and sure enough, my lil keys are sitting happily in the top box lock!! all the way from wanganui to taupo, up the paraparas, and through some wicked fog from national park to taupo.
no wonder the tourists at nat. park were looking at me funny!! how they didnt fall out, ill never know.

i have also done the old lose the glasses that are on the head and lose the keys/pencil/eraser that is in my hand/mouth/etc.

[mattimeo]

If I had a dollar for the number of times I've parked up then accidentally left my key in the ignition... Whoops :gob:

Guess I'm lucky!

[Delphinus]

Number of years ago I went into town (60km) in mums car, filled it up with fuel on the way home, pulled into garage all sweet. Was walking round car and saw the fuel cap still sitting on the boot.... Wowzers/phew I'm telling myself... it managed to wedge it self somehow into the crack of the boot and back window and stay there through 60kms of twisty roads... how - I have NFI to this day...

[roadracingoldfart]

One thing i reeeeallly hate is , when you do loose something and some good samaratin comes to help you they ask , "where did you loose them".
Hello thats why im looking for them and they are classed as lost you plank.
I really hate when that happens.

[Chickadee]

Yep, we all have these moments of brain vacation!

I turned up on a ride in the early days of my riding. Left the key in and on. Yep battery was on the way out but this was all it needed to go completely flat. Managed to push start her just before we left (mad panic with everyone else around waiting to go). Really makes you feel 10cms tall!

Haven't made that mistake again

[janno]

Well I'm all cheered up, it's not just me!

I've got increasingly vague and forgetful over the years even though I'm only36. I put it down to having quite a spectacular medical history and all the drugs it has entailed.

But I was told by Someone Who Knows These Things that Alzheimers is not forgetting where the keys are, but forgetting what a key is for.

So hooray for me - my brain is not rotting from the inside out after all . . .

I have really annoying memory blanks, such as putting wallet and house keys in my pillion bag on the bike, then spending TWENTY MINUTES looking for said wallet and keys. Bloody frustrating when you're in a hurry, and mildly unsettling when you have absolutely no memory of putting them there.

[Animal]

You've lost your keys... I've lost an entire bike!

It happened a long time ago, but I still cringe at my own stupidity when I remember the event. I had an XR500R at the time (Pro-link version) which was about the most spartan bike I'd owned. It didn't need a key, I just had to overcome the knee-shattering compression to start it, and shut it off on the kill switch. One sunny Saturday afternoon I managed to disprove the notion that those engines were bulletproof. Falling off a cliff into a stream might've had somehing to do with the disproving part. However, my best mate very kindly lent me his CB750F because I was meeting my new girlfriend at one of Jo'burg's nightclubs.

Usual thing, danced the night away, got pissed off my nut and told to go home by the bouncers because closing time had arrived. Staggered out to where a few dozen bikes were parked up along the kerb and realised my bike was missing. I assumed it was stolen and started the long walk home. About twenty blocks along, I realised I had keys jingling in my pocket, which made no sense because I never needed to carry any keys. The penny dropped with a huge crash, and I walked back to find the 750F exactly where I'd left it several hours earlier. By the strangest coincidence, the key went straight into the ignition and the bike started in an instant. It took the girlfriend a little longer to stop laughing at me!

[Aitch]

Once spent about 15 minutes looking for my 18 month old son at Playcentre only to realise that I was holding him on my hip the whole time....funny thing was, no-one pointed that fact out to me at the time!!!!

[Animal]

Far canal, Aitch! We have a winner!

[obstacle]

i remember driving home from a mates place and then having the sudden realisation that i wouldn't be able to get into my house because i'd left my keys on his coffee table... the same ones that start my car... glad there was nobody else in the car at the time.

[janno]

Hmmmm. Should anyone of us be on the road? Considering we all seem to be so non compos mentis . . .