That horrible moment when you look in your pannier and...

[punkedmonkey]

Fortunately my work place is so relaxed I can sit around in my cycling gear all day - fortunately I wear MTB shorts over my lycra so look marginally normal...

Also... collar stiffeners?!

 

[Glow worm]

A couple of weeks or so ago someone at work brought me back a bottle of cider from Herefordshire and I keep forgetting it and leaving it in my desk each day- thanks to this thread, I have now placed it safely in my pannier to be enjoyed tonight!

I have got to work once and found I only had one of my two panniers still attached to the bike. It must have dropped off somehwere en-route but I never did find it. Luckily it only had shoes and jeans/ shirt in it, my wallet/ keys/ repair kit and pump were in the other one.

 

[shunter]

>What's the worst thing you've forgotten?

My pannier. Got to the office, dismounted, looked at my bike: Something's missing. Cue that sinking feeling...

Same here - got out of car to get on bicycle. Wife asks where my pannier was . Doh!

 

[Spinney]

Not commuting, but a cycle ride around Arran.

Forgot my purse with money in for the tea shop!

 

[Inertia]

For me worst thing Ive forgotten cycling is underwear and socks, had to walk around with black shoes, black pants and white socks, it got a few snigger's.

I'm more likely to forget stuff while driving, Ive forgotten my briefcase a few times with my lunch in it, this never happens with the bike as if I forget a pannier, its bloody obvious

 

[MrHappyCyclist]

Got quite used to going commando.

You have to be careful to do your flies up properly, though. Can't help thinking about the consequences of that Soviet nuclear power station accident all those years ago,

 

[Bicycle]

I've forgotten many things when commuting into work:

Cufflinks

I once knotted short treasury tags and fed them through as cufflinks - not because I'd forgotten mine but because I'd taken double-cuff shirts to the office by mistake.

I got countless compliments for the knotted treasury tags.

Nobody even notices the most gorgeous cufflinks.

There's a lesson for me there, but I'm not sure what it is...

A further thought on cufflinks... If you have a teenage son and are stumbling around before going out one evening, saying "Where did I just put my links?", don't be surprised if your son hands you a black can of some ghastly cologne that smells like a whorehouse and says "Use mine, Dad". Apparently, it will get me laid. Why would I want to bother with all that sweating and groaning at my age? Preposterous!

 

[lejogger]

Also... collar stiffeners?!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collar_stays

No one likes a floppy collar

 

[lejogger]

I once knotted short treasury tags and fed them through as cufflinks - not because I'd forgotten mine but because I'd taken double-cuff shirts to the office by mistake.

I got countless compliments for the knotted treasury tags.

I got quite good at fashioning paperclips into a temporary cufflink solution, however I now keep a spare pair in my drawer.

 

[jefmcg]

A couple of weeks or so ago someone at work brought me back a bottle of cider from Herefordshire and I keep forgetting it and leaving it in my desk each day- thanks to this thread, I have now placed it safely in my pannier to be enjoyed tonight!

I have got to work once and found I only had one of my two panniers still attached to the bike. It must have dropped off somehwere en-route but I never did find it. Luckily it only had shoes and jeans/ shirt in it, my wallet/ keys/ repair kit and pump were in the other one.

Wasn't on Blackfriars Bridge was it? I once found a pannier with a pair of jeans and moccasins in it at the south end of the bridge.

 

[pshore]

What's the worst thing you've forgotten?

The wife's birthday.

 

[fossyant]

Done the cuflink one - don't wear that sort of shirt now.

Oh - here is one, thinking that pair of boxers you grabbed on the way out were yours - only realise when they are very tight that they are your 10 year old sons.

 

[benb]

I once knotted short treasury tags and fed them through as cufflinks - not because I'd forgotten mine but because I'd taken double-cuff shirts to the office by mistake.

I got countless compliments for the knotted treasury tags.

Nobody even notices the most gorgeous cufflinks.

I like silk knots for cufflinks. I much prefer them to metal ones.

 

[gambatte]

not exactly forgotten. Got to work to find I'd picked the wrong plastic tub out of the fridge. Instead of my sandwiches and the rest of my snap, all I had was one very large block of cheese....

 

[Glow worm]

Wasn't on Blackfriars Bridge was it? I once found a pannier with a pair of jeans and moccasins in it at the south end of the bridge.

Sadly not - this was in Cambridge, somewhere along Newmarket Road I suspect. Sigh....

I have much better panniers now and it would be almost impossible for them to simply fall off - but I still look back and check every couple of miles or so just to make sure!