Noooo. Weather was horrid. Shitty end of town. Sat in the hotel for 3 nights drinking .
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Noooo. Weather was horrid. Shitty end of town. Sat in the hotel for 3 nights drinking .
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
My phone threw a wobbly!^^^^^^^
That's odd the way the quote has been corrupted.
I thought it might be related to the Swiftkey/Chrome/XenForo(?) problems experienced recently but it also happened with different keyboard apps/browsers/websites. I rebooted the phone and it started working properly again.
lazyfatgit
Guest
- Location
- Lawrence, NSW
Once flew Glasgow to Amsterdam changing at Birmingham. On a Tuesday. Late arriving back in Brum for the connection. They held the plane until I got to the gate to be told I wasn’t on the passenger list. I had booked the return for Monday.
I let HR book all subsequent trips.
I let HR book all subsequent trips.
Racing a 500cc BSA for a very good sponsor at Cadwell Park in 1997.
We had finished our events for the day, we were all gagging for a beer and the team was relaxing in the bar when my missus said - "They've just called out your number for the main championship race!"
I hadn't been following the qualifying races and not realised I'd qualified for the final.
Missus hurriedly finished off my pint, whilst my sponsor dashed back to get the bike out of the van and fuelled up and I slung my leathers back on.
We got onto the track just as the marshals were closing the access gate.
Two seconds later and we would have been denied our place on the grid.
The ten lap race started and after an epic nip and tuck battle for 8 laps with a 500 Norton............ I won it by a bikes length!
Needless to say, I was always early on the grid after that.
We had finished our events for the day, we were all gagging for a beer and the team was relaxing in the bar when my missus said - "They've just called out your number for the main championship race!"
I hadn't been following the qualifying races and not realised I'd qualified for the final.
Missus hurriedly finished off my pint, whilst my sponsor dashed back to get the bike out of the van and fuelled up and I slung my leathers back on.
We got onto the track just as the marshals were closing the access gate.
Two seconds later and we would have been denied our place on the grid.
The ten lap race started and after an epic nip and tuck battle for 8 laps with a 500 Norton............ I won it by a bikes length!
Needless to say, I was always early on the grid after that.
ZIZAG
Veteran
- Location
- NW . Cheshire
I turned up a week early for a 10K race in Sale Gtr M/C 
So ran the race on my own in 42mins .
No prize 
Zizag
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
Turned up at Manchester airport for a flight to China. Arriving next day, hit the ground running, loads of meetings booked
Turned out I was on the following day flight. Asked how much to get on the flight that day and it was a zillion pounds. Sneaked off home, never told work and tried to reschedule all my meetings on my "day off"
Turned out I was on the following day flight. Asked how much to get on the flight that day and it was a zillion pounds. Sneaked off home, never told work and tried to reschedule all my meetings on my "day off"
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
A few months ago I was in London on business for a few days. Travelled by train.
When I arrived I dropped the small suitcase off at the hotel and went for meetings. Got back late at night, a little worse for wear. Decided to unpack the suitcase. Opened it up and it's full of someone else's clothes
I've taken an almost identical suitcase belonging to a complete stranger...who has no means of id in the suitcase
Planned to take it to lost property at Euston the next day. Checked twitter in the morning for work stuff and there's a DM from a guy....the guy whose suitcase I have. Turns out he took my suitcase to Euston lost property and they opened it. Fired up the laptop and it comes up with my name which is unusual. He then searched twitter and found me
Long and short...I took his suitcase to Euston lost property having DM him to let him know what I was doing. Picked mine up. Problem solved (I have been more careful to check luggage recently, this isn't the first time I've taken someone else's)
When I arrived I dropped the small suitcase off at the hotel and went for meetings. Got back late at night, a little worse for wear. Decided to unpack the suitcase. Opened it up and it's full of someone else's clothes
I've taken an almost identical suitcase belonging to a complete stranger...who has no means of id in the suitcase
Planned to take it to lost property at Euston the next day. Checked twitter in the morning for work stuff and there's a DM from a guy....the guy whose suitcase I have. Turns out he took my suitcase to Euston lost property and they opened it. Fired up the laptop and it comes up with my name which is unusual. He then searched twitter and found me
Long and short...I took his suitcase to Euston lost property having DM him to let him know what I was doing. Picked mine up. Problem solved (I have been more careful to check luggage recently, this isn't the first time I've taken someone else's)
I booked flights for myself and 2 others (Including the boss) for a week long work jolly to Cannes in France.
At the end of the week we got to the airport to find the tickets I had bought had the return for the same day as we flew out.
The boss wasn't happy.
At the end of the week we got to the airport to find the tickets I had bought had the return for the same day as we flew out.
The boss wasn't happy.
Amanda P
Legendary Member
- Location
- York. Well, York-ish...
I once drove from Yorkshire to Lancashire to do a week's fieldwork. When I went to buy a sandwich for lunch, I found I'd left my purse at home and had no money, no cards, no means of support whatsoever.
There was no option but to turn around and go straight home again. I just made it back home on the smell of diesel...
There was no option but to turn around and go straight home again. I just made it back home on the smell of diesel...
Just this morning, get to work, start up the laptop and it wont connect to the wired network, look at the docking station, no lights in the ethernet socket, so ask the IT guy if there is a problem with the ethernet, he comes round and points out that I haven't plugged the docking station to the laptop
Just this morning, get to work, start up the laptop and it wont connect to the wired network, look at the docking station, no lights in the ethernet socket, so ask the IT guy if there is a problem with the ethernet, he comes round and points out that I haven't plugged the docking station to the laptop
Similarly, the boss at another company I worked for said his computer wasn't working.
I found out the reason quite quickly. He hadn't turned it on.
What makes things worse is that I have done this kind of "troubleshooting" for other people before, and I am supposed to be a techie, I don't think I have ever done anything so embarrassing in all my professional life.
Fnaar
Smutmaster General
- Location
- Thumberland
Work trip to China, some years ago ... after an internal flight to Xi'an, I was knackered. It was about 6pm. There was a message for me at reception from my Chinese hosts, saying that they'd meet me at 9. I presumed this meant 9am. They'd put me up in the posh bit of the hotel, which, I discovered to my joy had a free buffet, bar (pour your own drinks), and communal film room. I ate my fill, and poured myself the biggest whisky known to mankind. Well on the way to oblivion, and enjoying a film with some other guests, I was given another message ... my hosts were waiting for me in reception. I managed to blag my way through the evening, (dinner, polite chat, arrangements for the next day, etc) hiding my 3/4 pissed state, but it was a close-run thing.
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