What's the most you've put yourself out to make it in to work?

[beanzontoast]

For me it would be driving through 2 floods (one of which cost me a new alternator - I was young and foolish: wouldn't do it now) on one occasion and walking 8 miles through snow on another.

 

[Speck]

Walking from Buxton to Chapel-en-le-Frith in very deep snow ( Eeee when i'were a lad)

 

[Wigsie]

Skipped a morning coffee as I was a few minutes late!

 

[John the Monkey]

Didn't go on the family holiday because my presence was "essential" to support a system upgrade.

That system upgrade was then cancelled less than a week before (so impossible to get a flight for reasonable cost &c).

 

[Happiness Stan]

Got out of bed.

 

[TheDoctor]

Cycled through snow for 7 miles.
Actually, that was quite fun!!!

 

[tordis]

Walking from my old place at New Cross Gate to Deptford Bridge DLR in the snow, only to find out I won't make it to work anyway because of trains/tubes/DLRs not working.
(Back in my country, people would just take the layer of snow off the windscreen and be on their way - but hey, snow's not something Londoners are used to seeing, right?)

 

[Corvette chic]

Got out of bed.

+1

 

[gbb]

To for me...

1st. I refer the honourable gentlemen to a previous post...the worst ride to work i ever had...and ironically, the most fun.

I looked the same as the bike

2nd. Going to work one morning....in Uruguay
|(All times approximate ) Up at 6am. Heathrow at 9am. Flight at11am. Land Madrid at 1pm. Wait for connecting flight till 4pm. Land Montevideo at 4am the following day. Picked up at 6am. Arrive hotel at 7am.

25 hours travelling On the plus side, rest of the day to relax, then a 3 hour drive up country to the next hotel...and onto work.

 

[accountantpete]

Snowing, 200 mile journey to get to a job, MGB. The wipers pack up after 10 miles so spend the rest of the journey with window down and shifting the snow on the windscreen with a rag/coathanger contraption.

 

[asterix]

Bike: black ice, looked exactly like a wet road, did about a 100 metres before having to turn and over I went. Bike took a scratch and me some bruises.

Motorbike: Snow. Used to ride 8 miles in on East Anglia's untreated roads back in the days when snow was normal. I must have been mad!

Car: also snow, except this time through snow drifts - I used to carry a shovel and sacking. Some of my colleagues walked 11 miles along the railway tracks from a different direction. The snow used to lie for days and even weeks, becoming hard packed ice with 'uge potholes. I'd a Renault five in those days and it was pretty useful in snow and ice.

 

[Fnaar]

Arrived at hotel in Damascus at 2.30 am, laborious check-in to hotel-procedure, met a 7am by my 'host'... had to ask him to give me time to have some breakfast... tour of bookshop and then Damascus traffic, to give presentation to 250 people at 2pm. Managed to get a beer that evening though!

 

[Campfire]

Having to get the tractor out to tow van up to the road when living in the Peak District (almost national park) & always having to carry sacks & shovels in the winter. One day had to go to Uttoxeter in deep snow and had about 8 attempts of a hill (see all other vehicles scattered about at the bottom) before finally making it at 9th attempt. That sort of thing was quite frequent in that area. I always made it to work though but I believe in the 60s, the snow reached the top of the telegraph poles on the A523. (whether those stories were fact I'm not sure)

 

[palinurus]

Cycling through snow on numerous occasions. That's hardly putting myself out though.

 

[Andy in Sig]

Missed the last bus back so walked from Nottingham to Loughborough to be back in time for work.