YOU STUPID LUCKY BASTARD

[dawnrazor]

Right let this be a lesson to you all.
I consider myself to be a pretty on the ball kinda guy. I have the odd moment of selective amnesia, particularly in connection with my other-half, but in general i'm reasonably clued in and careful.

So for no particular reason what so ever, I did the most stupid assinine thing today.
Parked the bike down in the civic carpark (less prying eyes underground) popped my gloves under the pillion hump, slotted the D-ring of the helmet on its hook and replaced the seat hump. Went off for about a half hour, came back reached for my keys------no keys. Oh crap, oh crap.
Standing beside the bike, thinking how did i loose my keys when, i spot them hanging out of the pillion helmet lock key slot!!!!!!!

So I had left my pride and joy unattended for 30 mins, with the keys, and helmet, in plain sight for anyone to pinch. What a complete and utter tool.

Said a little thank you to the bike gods/demons? and went on my way, swearing I'll never do that again.

So the whole thing must have unsettled me a little, 'cus the first set of lights i reach and stop at, I feel something hit my back - seems I hadn't replaced the seat hump, on the pillion properly and its completely loose and about to hit the deck! D'oh.

The only positive thing to say, is I was parked beside an absolute mint red TL1000S, if it belongs to someone here, nice one its a bueat.

Right I'm off to give myself a good kick up the arse now and possibly develop some obsessive compulsive behavior towards my keys and their general well being.

Hey it could happen to you

[Cibby]

thats some funny shit bro.. good effort.

i personally, have never done anything stupid.. *cough* yeah right!

[carver]

i have done the same thing
its easy to do!

[ducatilover]

man even i dont do that........

[bugjuice]

I see your 30 mins, and I raise you 12 hours..

When my bro was in Auckland hospital last year with his broken leg, I was pretty much in there from opening till long gone chuckin out time. I rocked up on the bike (as I normally do), and parked up by the doors into the lower part of the hospital by the car park. Got my jeans out of the boot (it's hot to sit in gear all day), dropped them and my gloves, picked them back up, put the boot on, doors opened at 10 and I was in.. Getting changed at 9.30 that evening, couldn't find my key, so just thought I'd look on the way down to the bike. Got to the bike, still no key, and forgot to look. Bugger, have to go back up. Thought I'd just quickly chuck my stuff by the bike and run back up. Swa the kickstand had sunk into the concrete, then saw my key by the seat for the boot!! In full view of everyone! so 'kin lucky..

[Sniper]

Bugger mate, I have had that happen to me and it truley is a chilling experience

[vifferman]

You eejit!
I've never done anything so silly.

Although there was this one time when I parked my bike in Highbury, went off shopping, and when I returned, the keys had magically transported themselves from my pocket into the ignition...

[Matt Bleck]

yip I've done that too.

And I feel strangly better having heard I'm not the only one.

[parsley]

Never done it with my bike, but I came home from work a few months back to find the door of my flat wide open. There's a catch behind the door so if you push it against the wall it locks in place. I must have pushed it as I walked out and not noticed that it hadn't shut behind me...

[Xtat1k]

cant say ive ever done that one, but my day will come, i have a bad habit of leaving my helmet on one of the mirrors tho.

[HenryDorsetCase]

cant say ive ever done that one, but my day will come, i have a bad habit of leaving my helmet on one of the mirrors tho.

safer there than on the road beside your bike... someone might run over it.

[Colapop]

Youse fellers are funny...
Although I've passed a car (not a bike) with the keys left in the door and thought what do I do here? Do ya leave them in the door? Do you put them on the drivers seat and lock the door? Do you just walk on thinking it's not your business? I'd hate to think I could have stopped someones pride and joy from getting swiped and did nothing.

[v.ros`]

I once parked ma bike inside the AUT staff carpark.. and thes massive bike.. (think it was a kawasaki 1000 something) had a key in the ignition...

Not sure whether he forgot the keys there but i was soooo tempted to do something.. until i saw the alarm light flashin...yikes !

[Nitzer]

My brother did a similar thing a few years back, unfortunately someone did take his pride and joy, never to be seen again. He was absolutely gutted.

His excuse was that he was totally stressed at the time as he was considering a marriage proposal which involved moving to Canada and he didn't know what to do, he was so pre-occupied that he left the keys in the ignition.

Glad you still have your bike anyway!

[DemonWolf]

I've actually done something very similiar twice..

One: Parked the bike, did the steering lock (couldn't be bothered putting the bike in the shed)... get up to go to work.. where's the keys.. I knew I had put the steering lock on... remembered that.. but not where I put the keys... yeah ya guessed it.. still in the bike! overnight! (dumbarse!)

two: Got camera out of the boot of the bike.. with the spare key! took a few shots of the nice bikes =) put camera back in the boot.. took off.. stopped down the road (40km's or later) go to get camera out to take another pretty shot of the bikes and.. yeah the spare key was still there (phew! - dumbarse2!)

haven't done that since!