Waiting for towies - how you keep sane

[McWild]

So I just got home after a 2 and half hour wait for AA, and subsequently, a towie.

And I was bored.

Really bored.

I couldn't text anyone as I was saving my phone's battery for important bike related calls. I didn't have an ipod or any other gear to amuse me.
So what did I do?
I kept tallies of how many blue and non blue cars went through my particular section of road. Same for Suzuki and non Suzuki.
I flicked pebbles across the road. I took mental note of every single colour on my bike. I flicked pebbles at leaves, practicing my aim.
And I came very close to seeing how difficult walking along the white rails at the edges of the road would be.

What have you done to pass the time?

[LBD]

So I just got home after a 2 and half hour wait for AA, and subsequently, a towie.

And I was bored.

Really bored.

I couldn't text anyone as I was saving my phone's battery for important bike related calls. I didn't have an ipod or any other gear to amuse me.
So what did I do?
I kept tallies of how many blue and non blue cars went through my particular section of road. Same for Suzuki and non Suzuki.
I flicked pebbles across the road. I took mental note of every single colour on my bike. I flicked pebbles at leaves, practicing my aim.
And I came very close to seeing how difficult walking along the white rails at the edges of the road would be.

What have you done to pass the time?

After the anger at my stupidity :mad:had settled down and another vehical was sent for a truck...(No phone coverage) and I was at the crash site all alone, and I had read the Ford EA falcon owners manual 17 times, I gave in and got into several conversations...with the birds (theory of flight, meaning of life, joys of nest making), and with the trees (discusions around around termites and water table) then, with the other voices in my head:crazy:...the hours soon passed....24 hours in the aussie bush. no books, radio, game boys etc

[98tls]

Pretend its business time and get to it,fills in a couple of hours.:banana:

[vifferman]

I have spent 147 of the last 30 years waiting for my woman. I've learned to zone out. Kinda like your computer going into power-saving mode...

[madbikeboy]

I have spent 147 of the last 30 years waiting for my woman. I've learned to zone out. Kinda like your computer going into power-saving mode...

Viff, I tried blinging you, but I need to spread it around.

[awayatc]

Mc Wild...you forgot to mention the most important bit of info.......
Why did you need a towtruck...?

[CookMySock]

I have a snooze.

Steve

[slimjim]

well if it had been the bike broken down would have pushed it...lol..may have beaten the towie home... but a car...yup sleep time

[McWild]

Mc Wild...you forgot to mention the most important bit of info.......
Why did you need a towtruck...?

Pulled the clutch in to change gear and it didn't come back out. The cable had seized up. So I could rev it to hell and back, I could flick through the gears, I could coast, but I couldn't actually go anywhere. Has a new cable now though.

[slofox]

I have spent 147 of the last 30 years waiting for my woman. I've learned to zone out. Kinda like your computer going into power-saving mode...

I spent the first half of my life waiting for my mother. I spent the next half of my life waiting for my wife. I spent the next half waiting for my girlfriend. God alone knows what the next half will be spent waiting for but I WILL BE WAITING, I just bet!!!

[McJim]

...24 hours in the aussie bush. no books, radio, game boys etc
I knew a girl from Tasmania a bit like that....I eventually prevailed on her to shave her bush though :2thumbsup :rofl:

[beyond]

Good time to carry an old rag and give your bike a bit of a buff up mate :)

[owner]

I had a long wait on Sunday when I pancaked my CBR and I must say that's why you take a passenger!! prefferably a hot biker nympho:hug:

[LBD]

I knew a girl from Tasmania a bit like that....I eventually prevailed on her to shave her bush though :2thumbsup :rofl:

I was going to say Touché however after 24 hours I expect douche is more appropriate.

[Tank]

quick hand shandy in the bushes on the side of the road.

[McJim]

A friend of mine hit a cow on SH22. Loaded him into a vehicle and sent him to hospital. I then had to wait with the bike wreck in the baking hot sun (we had summers back in those days....it was 2006 :rofl:) for about 2 hours waiting for another friend to come and collect the bike after having searched for the cow for a wee while too (it ran off into the woods after it got a bike up the bum).

[kasper]

pull out the fiction book i always have. even have a second one ready on standby for if i suddenly finish the current one.

i learned a long time ago to never leave with out a book.


--kasper

[MarkH]

quick hand shandy in the bushes on the side of the road.

Great suggestion - unless the tow truck takes more than 2 minutes to arrive, then what do you do? :Pokey:

[Tank]

Great suggestion - unless the tow truck takes more than 2 minutes to arrive, then what do you do? :Pokey:

Well - it does make me sleepy - so a snooze could be in order.

[MsKABC]

I spent the first half of my life waiting for my mother. I spent the next half of my life waiting for my wife. I spent the next half waiting for my girlfriend. God alone knows what the next half will be spent waiting for but I WILL BE WAITING, I just bet!!!

Ummmm... 0.5 + 0.5 + 0.5 + 0.5 = 2.0 :scratch: You're not really a fox, but a cat, aren't you? :laugh:

[Badjelly]

Pulled the clutch in to change gear and it didn't come back out. The cable had seized up. So I could rev it to hell and back, I could flick through the gears, I could coast, but I couldn't actually go anywhere. Has a new cable now though.

Yah wuss. Cut the cable(*) and ride home without a clutch. Sorted.




(*) with your teeth.