Ipods are great

[Rhythm Thief]

When I got to work tonight, I walked into the yard and put my bag - containing books, Ipod, FM transmitter and Bluetooth device - down next to the front wheel of my tractor unit. Then I went into the office, got my keys and paperwork, made myself a coffee and went off to find my trailer and get settled in the cab. I climbed in, filled in my tachograph and all my paperwork, fired it up and drove off ...

... only to remember just slightly too late that I'd left my bag next to the front wheel. By the time I realised I'd driven over it with the back wheels of the tractor unit. The bad news is that my FM transmitter was completely marmalised, but the good news is that everything else was completely undamaged, including the ipod.

Has anyone else ever got away with doing something really silly?

 

[gavintc]

When I got to work tonight, I walked into the yard and put my bag - containing books, Ipod, FM transmitter and Bluetooth device - down next to the front wheel of my tractor unit. Then I went into the office, got my keys and paperwork, made myself a coffee and went off to find my trailer and get settled in the cab. I climbed in, filled in my tachograph and all my paperwork, fired it up and drove off ...

... only to remember just slightly too late that I'd left my bag next to the front wheel. By the time I realised I'd driven over it with the back wheels of the tractor unit. The bad news is that my FM transmitter was completely marmalised, but the good news is that everything else was completely undamaged, including the ipod.

Has anyone else ever got away with doing something really silly?

My wife got back from a run and threw her running kit into the washing machine, forgetting that her ipod was in the top pocket of her jacket. We were amazed that after drying it on a radiator and then recharging it - that it worked.

 

[dan_bo]

In a bit of a rush to a job a few years ago, I put two 3 grand PCBs on the to of the car whilst I organised myself. Didn't realise until I'd driven the 170 miles to site that I hadn't put 'em in the car.



(Very) luckily, they still worked after my good lady picked em up in the street.

 

[trekboi1989]

Ever had that urge to jump off a tall building? Well on this particular occasion I didn't but instead wanted to see what it felt like to dangle my ipod over the edge by holding onto the headphone wire. I wasn't disappointed and experienced a very liberating and trippy feeling like a relieved hostage on the day of release. So I thought I'd then up the ante by swinging it gently to and fro to tempt the wire to gently slide out of the socket, but only slightly. Well this was the closest I ever got to spiritual enlightenment and felt I was about to enter some nirvana for the newly unfetterred gadget freak. But, dare I continue? Yes I thought I'd then give it a few tugs with the same reckless abandon of betting my millstone of a mortgaged house on number 23 at Monte Carlo. The wire pinged out of the socket and while paused on some tiresomely overplayed chune, it fell, and the exorcism was over. I then had a snack.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I put my satnav on the edge of the boot of my estate car while I loaded it up - when I finished I forgot it was there and shut the boot lid on it.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

i found a nintendo ds game that had obviously been through the wash in my son's trouser pocket. still works.

 

[taxing]

Not massively relevant, but this week I've been teaching Robinson Crusoe to undergrad English students. When they complained about how boring it was I tried to set the scene a bit, explain how for a very early novel it was very exciting, compared the experience of reading a novel in 1719 to getting a new eReader and reading a book on that now, etc. etc. I was a bit disappointed when one of my students piped up with "yeah, they didn't have TV, iPods, the internet... how BORING their lives must have been!"

Not really what I was hoping for.

 

[dodgy]

Years ago when the Garmin Edge 305 had just been released (checks Sporttracks logs - Nov 2005), I was prepping for a ride and put the Edge on the roof of my car for it to get a satellite fix while I oiled the chain, pumped the tyres etc. Wife comes out of the house "just nipping to the shops, need anything?" I answer "no thanks" and carry on, then 3 seconds later it dawned on me. The 305 was found in pieces on the road between house and shops.

I abandoned the ride out of sheer annoyance at my stupidity and ordered a new on there and then. One gadget I can't be without!