Carmenlu15 From Guatemala, joined Dec 2004, 4679 posts, RR: 35 Posted (6 years 9 months 2 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 1468 times:
The other day I had to meet with a friend for a college project. I had been at her house once before, so I knew the way there: two blocks from the bus stop, then three blocks to the right, and bingo! I arrived at the street where she lives. However, while I knew it was a corner house, I forgot on which side of the street! So, I looked for the paper where I had written her address... just to find I had lost it.
Instead of making a fool of myself by knocking at the wrong door, I tried to remember some more details about the house. "Let me see... I think it was a pink house..."
Oh surprise, both houses were pink.
"Ok then... the door! It had a wooden door!"
Uh-huh... both houses had wooden doors.
"Damn! But there was something about the house... That's it! The house number! It had something to do with airplanes!"
After congratulating myself for being so smart, I went checked the house numbers... Guess what?
One house was numbered 7-37, and the other was numbered 7-47. D'oh!
I had to admit defeat, and phone my friend to check her address (it turned out to be 7-47).
So, that's my Homer Simpson moment of the week. Any good stories you want to share?
AeroWesty From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 18806 posts, RR: 64 Reply 2, posted (6 years 9 months 2 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 1458 times:
There was this time I posted some pic from the internet on a.net.
Gunsontheroof From United States of America, joined Jan 2006, 3460 posts, RR: 11 Reply 3, posted (6 years 9 months 2 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 1442 times:
Just a minute ago I hit my head on the refrigerator when I leaned in to get a drink...
Frontiercpt From Australia, joined Jun 2004, 973 posts, RR: 9 Reply 4, posted (6 years 9 months 2 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 1412 times:
Last night, one side of our kitchen sinks plugged when my mom left bok choy all over it. It was sooooo growse, the ENTIRE sink was covered in shredded bok choy mixed with water. We woke up, and all the water was gone, and so she told me to turn on some water and turn the garbage disposal on, so I did, and washed a bit of the bok choy down the sink. I was standing over the sink, watching it all go down, when suddenly the disposal made a weird sound, and from the hole in the other sink, all the bok choy that went DOWN the sink, came blasting UP. I was covered in green slime, as were all the clean dishes, and most of the kitchen. This beat when I turned an egg beater on high, and then poured loose flour in. Being coverd in white powder is better than green slime.
I mean, the whole situation was slightly hilarious, and definitely seemed like a scene from a cartoon, but uck, I was thinking "Damn, why me."
Seeing our gazebo fly across the garden and hit the fence and kinda bend and smash up because of the very high winds. I was asked to put a few new spikes into its feet a few day's before but i didnt because i was fairly sure it was going to be nice for the rest of the week, Oops lol
Rgds --James--
You cant have your cake and eat it... What the hells the point in having it then!!!
ThePRGuy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 11, posted (6 years 9 months 2 weeks 2 hours ago) and read 1302 times:
I poured a pint of magners onto my brand new 17" MacBook Pro, that was a sickening sound. Just flickered, smoked and died.
Thank god for personal item insurance
Last year I managed to drop a acer tablet off a building, 5 stories up, don't ask me how...
SlamClick From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 10062 posts, RR: 71 Reply 12, posted (6 years 9 months 2 weeks 2 hours ago) and read 1293 times:
Quoting Carmenlu15 (Thread starter): However, while I knew it was a corner house, I forgot on which side of the street!
Quoting Carmenlu15 (Thread starter): One house was numbered 7-37, and the other was numbered 7-47. D'oh!
Where did this happen? Every country I've been to, 737 and 747 both being odd numbers would be on the same side of the street - not opposite sides.
Maybe same side, opposite ends of the block, cornering different cross streets?
Happiness is not seeing another trite Ste. Maarten photo all week long.
KaiGywer From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 12022 posts, RR: 43 Reply 13, posted (6 years 9 months 2 weeks 2 hours ago) and read 1287 times:
Quoting Ajd1992 (Reply 9): Probably jumping into a pool in Majorca, complete with £220 iPod in pocket. D'oh... Anybody want a busted iPod, waterdamaged?
I don't know if it'll work, but I've read threads here where somebody did the same, and Apple actually replaced the iPod. Try it.
ThePRGuy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 14, posted (6 years 9 months 2 weeks 2 hours ago) and read 1283 times:
Quoting KaiGywer (Reply 13): I don't know if it'll work, but I've read threads here where somebody did the same, and Apple actually replaced the iPod. Try it.
*embarrassed* - happened to me
Got my video pod replaced for that exact same thing.
More often than note Apple will replace instead of inspecting
AirbusA346 From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2004, 7434 posts, RR: 2 Reply 16, posted (6 years 9 months 2 weeks 1 hour ago) and read 1265 times:
Quoting ThePRGuy (Reply 11): I poured a pint of magners onto my brand new 17" MacBook Pro, that was a sickening sound. Just flickered, smoked and died.
Tom.
Tom Walker '086' First Officer of a A318/A319 for Air Lambert - Hours Flown: 17 hour 05 minutes (last updated 24/12/05).
Cadet57 From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 9081 posts, RR: 34 Reply 17, posted (6 years 9 months 2 weeks 1 hour ago) and read 1251 times:
Quoting ThePRGuy (Reply 11): I poured a pint of magners onto my brand new 17" MacBook Pro, that was a sickening sound. Just flickered, smoked and died.
Quoting ThePRGuy (Reply 11): ast year I managed to drop a acer tablet off a building, 5 stories up, don't ask me how...
Quoting ThePRGuy (Reply 14): Quoting KaiGywer (Reply 13):I don't know if it'll work, but I've read threads here where somebody did the same, and Apple actually replaced the iPod. Try it.
*embarrassed* - happened to me
Got my video pod replaced for that exact same thing.
You really dont have good luck with electronics, huh?
Doors open, right hand side, next stop is Springfield.
Jetmatt777 From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 2660 posts, RR: 37 Reply 19, posted (6 years 9 months 2 weeks ago) and read 1230 times:
Quoting Ajd1992 (Reply 18): Believe me, they will not replace it after what i did to it Do the maths for this (Angry owner)+knive X Screwdriver=My iPod....
Tell them the girlfriend was mad and ran over your iPod with her car. They'll understand.
ThePRGuy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 20, posted (6 years 9 months 2 weeks ago) and read 1230 times:
Quoting Cadet57 (Reply 17): You really dont have good luck with electronics, huh?
No
You should have seen my last cellphone. Now that was not a pretty sight....
Out of all the electronics, the acer behaved best in the accident. It still booted but the screen was smashed, as it was in tablet mode.
I dropped it off one of those buildings with a swimming pool in the roof. A few cocktails might not have helped either....
Alex
Srbmod From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 16888 posts, RR: 51 Reply 21, posted (6 years 9 months 1 week 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 1205 times:
I had a doozy of one today. Our sales manager was riding along on the route with me today (If I take some time off, he'll be the one to run my route) and we were trying to get some clips for some retail signs and I put the route book for my Thursday routes on the roof of the van. We leave the account and not too far down the street a guy tells me that something dropped off the roof a few miles back. I had forgotten to retrieve the notebook from on top of the roof. We backtrack and find the route book. Most of the pages were scattered about on the side of the road and the notebook was flattened. They're going to have to replace the notebook and all of the route cards in the book because the only way to get the ones that are still in the notebook would be to tear them out. The worst part of the whole thing was that I lost one of my good pens.
LOT767-300ER From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 22, posted (6 years 9 months 1 week 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 1201 times:
Quoting ThePRGuy (Reply 20): No
You should have seen my last cellphone. Now that was not a pretty sight....
Out of all the electronics, the acer behaved best in the accident. It still booted but the screen was smashed, as it was in tablet mode.
I dropped it off one of those buildings with a swimming pool in the roof. A few cocktails might not have helped either....
Alex
27 S12PPL: Well, mine may not be a biggie to any of you, but in terms of what I do for fun, it was a big one. As I said earlier this year, I was selected to umpi
28 Saxdiva: My Principles of Management class was scheduled to take an exam a few weeks ago. This is a survey course for new business students, and I have to give
29 VC10BOAC: How about same side, both at the corner and on opposite sides of the same cross street? That makes the story more believable! You need to learn how t
30 Ajd1992: Hey Matt, It would be nice to have a girlfriend, but it would be a bit weird if she could drive! I'm 14, and i'm probably gunna suck it up and buy a
31 Jetmatt777: Ohhh. What about your 18 year old girlfriend?
32 Ajd1992: I wish Until then i have to console myself with... nothing. I could sell it on eBay
33 Jetmatt777: Well, this morning when I woke up, I was dizzy and I ran into a wall, then trying to walk down the stairs fell down them half way. The when I made it
34 Carmenlu15: Thanks for the tip, but I think learning how to translate my thoughts at 1 in the morning would be more helpful at the moment.
35 M180up: Tell me about it, that used to happen a lot to me before, but then my english teacher told me to start thinking everything in english instead of tran
36 Pawsleykat: My latest "D'Oh!"; was last night after I came out of the shower. I was combing my hair and my dad asked me for the days Scotsman newspaper. I went an
37 VC10BOAC: Oh, I was just messing with you. You write English very well for someone whose first language is not English, even better than many native English sp
38 LTU932: I noticed I was using two AFCADs for the same airport and they were conflicting when I flew in FS to LPB. D'OH! How the hell could this happen to me?
39 Carmenlu15: Key word here, thinking. I do the same, and think in English when I want to talk in English; however, after getting only 3.5 hours of sleep every nig
40 L-188: I put a quarter in a parking meter yesterday, before I realized it was after 6 and parking wasn't enforced....I miss that quarter.
41 Falstaff: I was working on my boat yesterday and after working for a while I lost my screwdriver. I went in the garage to get another and when I came out I saw
42 Malmoaviation: Yesterday I was at an airshow in Northern Sweden. Me and my mother were going there by car, and it was a long trip. Later at the evening, when we were
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