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heavy5 - Posted - 09/25/2024: 02:39:29
Yesterday I went to the pole barn to get the Camry & momentarily set my cell on the roof to unplug A charger on a vehicle .
Well u can see this coming as I drove to the highway I heard a clatter & gradually realized it was my cell winging off the roof in a sharp corner possibly into some tall grass . We looked & looked but ?
So I called the cell provider & temporarily canceled the service in hopes it might be found as someone behind me could have grabbed it as I had to go a distance to return to the area .
Bet I won't do that again right away !
Edited by - heavy5 on 09/25/2024 02:44:30
AndrewD - Posted - 09/25/2024: 03:35:40
Walking home last night I came across a man congratulating his partner on her great driving. She's just pulled up with an un-spilt open can of paint on the roof of the car. I regret that I didn't ask how far they'd driven.
STUD figmo Al - Posted - 09/25/2024: 03:45:50
Bidness check book... :0/ n...
I left me wallet on the tailgate of me truck...
Edited by - STUD figmo Al on 09/25/2024 03:47:27
rinemb - Posted - 09/25/2024: 05:11:06
Yep, I did. I was tying down a trailer load, and set my phone on the wheel fender. Realized what I did a block later, so I circled around only to find it was too late. Smashed! Brad
wrench13 - Posted - 09/25/2024: 05:41:29
Not a wallet or cellphone, but I did drive off from a gig with all 5 of my Shure SM-57's on the roof of the car. 3 blocks later I remembered them. 40 some odd years later, they all still work just fine. Can't imagine a cell phone would fare as well.
Buddur - Posted - 09/25/2024: 06:04:56
Well, I lost a breaker bar once. Looked high and low in the garage for it and just couldn't figure out how something so big could just walk away. Till it dawned on me that I may have set it in the engine bay as I worked on my truck, then left it there, and it fell out somewhere afterward as I drove. It's the only plausible explanation I can think of.
Edited by - Buddur on 09/25/2024 06:05:21
reubenstump - Posted - 09/25/2024: 06:24:10
I had a wonderful cousin named Sam. When he was young and probably still living with family, he would work on his car and theirs - he was a budding engineer and they didn't have much money, either.
He would routinely leave tools in various places under the hood, and they'd fall out as he drove down the road. Easier to spot than bread crumbs, I suppose.
stanley_ - Posted - 09/25/2024: 07:14:00
I have a buddy who sold massive amounts of trading cards online. One time, he accidentally left a box of some of his best cards on the roof of his car. Those cards in the box were valued just shy of $6,000 at that time. He found out the cards were there when he made a turn at a busy intersection and the box flew off into the road. He tried to pick up what he could, but most of the cards were scattered and destroyed.
raybob - Posted - 09/25/2024: 08:02:17
Once when I was camping in Virginia I set my coffee cup on the step bumper of the truck just before I got in and drove to town. It was probably a few miles on paved roads. I remembered the coffee cup when I got to town and was hoping I’d find it on the way back. When I got out of the truck and walked around to the back I saw the cup was still there. Couldn’t believe it didn’t bounce off.
chuckv97 - Posted - 09/25/2024: 08:11:50
Did that with an iPad about 7 years ago
Owen - Posted - 09/25/2024: 20:17:44
30+ years back, on the trip back from Winnipeg, we stopped at a small town* [washroom break for the kiddos??]. Anyhoo our tenish year old son took a couple of pictures. We were probably 30 miles further along when our son announced that he didn't have his glasses; he remembered setting them on a certain rock beside a certain flowerbed, etc., etc. We pulled into the next town and in the diner-style restaurant I asked if anybody was headed toward Winnipeg and would mind checking into it when they got to the town and offered something to cover postage and the bother ... don't recall now whether it was $5 or $10. One guy "stepped up" so I gave him the specifics and the doh-rey-me and a week later the glasses arrived in the mail. 
.... I did [only once] hitch our SurfSide to our daughter's vehicle and "forgot" to latch the ball. She got as far as the first sizable bump on our street ..... and then phoned me .... took a couple of floor jacks down and relatively easily got things back on track. No damage other than to my ego.
BUT, I'll have y'all know that I've never driven off without unplugging the block heater. 
* - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Rock
Edited by - Owen on 09/25/2024 20:19:17
5B-Ranch - Posted - 09/25/2024: 21:22:40
Tried that with my wife but she wasn’t having none of it.
