It's like having tin cans and no can opener lol...
I was going to say I haven't forgotten anything important yet...but I just remembered I did once. Les took me away for a weekend on a romantic trip. All great until I remembered I forgot my insulin...I spent 2 hours in the local hospital until I could get some. I only did that once...lol
Lynn
Duh said
11:27 PM Jun 26, 2013
Happens to all of us sooner or later Neil, goes with the ageing process they tell me....
Onedodger said
12:02 AM Jun 27, 2013
Took the family away on a camping/fishing trip had a great time until dark then realised I had forgotten the Versa Light.
Had to pull parking light out and with a bit of McGyvering used it as a light. Now one lives in the vehicle.
GaryKelly said
12:11 AM Jun 27, 2013
Pays to have a checklist - and a notepad and pencil always in the glove box. However, forgetting things not only happens on arrival, it also happens on departure - like the GN the other day who said he'd left 2 solar waterbags hanging on a tree somewhere years ago. Hehe.
Gerty Dancer said
12:12 AM Jun 27, 2013
Its easy to do... Years ago when we had the tent I remember arriving, then we unpacked all the camping gear and carried it to our chosen site, put the gas bottle and stove together to make a cuppa and got ready to cook dinner later, then,... started putting the tent up to discover we were 1 rod less! Had to lug it all back the vehicle, stayed in a cabin that night.
2foot6 said
12:42 AM Jun 27, 2013
We went on a six week holiday in the motor home,all packed to go ,departed,arrived at the first destination,turned on the inverter,went to turn on tivo,wheres the controls,wheres the b***y controls.Oh bugga, there at home.Any one who has tivo knows you need the controls to do any thing with it.
chaslib said
02:07 AM Jun 27, 2013
OMG ...... you are pretending to be me!!!! I have all these stupid lists so I can be super organised and prepared, then forget where I put the bloody things! Thank heaven I am a master at the art of improvisation and flying by the seat of my pants .... most times!!!!
lol
Libby
Bent Axle Bob said
04:36 AM Jun 27, 2013
First ever shake down trip, 200kms to Alexander Bridge, Blackwood River, WA , just on dark, time to light the campfire and discovered I had no matches or lighter. ( non smoker0
Mark said
04:44 AM Jun 27, 2013
LOL............... Bent axle Bob, I did a very similar thing, got the BBQ, snags, buns, beer and everything else needed for a relaxing romantic sunset!! No Friggin matches or a lighter. I had given up smoking quite soon prior to this and decided that I didn't need a lighter anymore!!
Now keep two lighters and one of those clicker lighter things in a "BBQ" pack in the back of the tug.
Cupie said
08:58 AM Jun 27, 2013
Whilst it's rare for me to forget to pack things, largely due to my extensive check lists, what I do forget is all the things required before leaving a site. Yes I have a checklist for that too but am usually too impatient to check it.
Things that I have forgotten to do (almost everything)
- Left one corner steady down (blamed a neighbor who wanted to talk as I was packing up. Don't they all)
- Forgot to lock down the hitch onto the tow ball. A passing council worker alerted me to it. This is where a very heavy ball weight is an advantage.
- Left the gas HWS on. Do that a lot.
- Left various hatches up and windows open. A window blew off coming across the Barkly once. Temp repairs with duct tape & later a few pop rivets fixed that.
- Left the front window cover up. It finally fell off just as I came into Warwick from Stanthorpe. A couple more pop rivets fixed that too.
- left one spring bar attached as I set up & tried to drive the 4WD away
- Not connected the break free wire.
- Left a door mat in the main street of Rathdowney.
- Drove off from home with the power still connected.
Proud to say that I have resisted the temptation & have never left SWMBO behind.
-- Edited by Cupie on Thursday 27th of June 2013 09:03:31 AM
Aus-Kiwi said
02:02 AM Jun 28, 2013
Left the other half behind after a fuel stop.. Was a sleep in rear bed.. didn't check before driving off.. Went to toilet while I was paying for fuel..Thank goodness for mobile phones.. Thought it was too good ..
Hylda&Jon said
04:33 PM Jun 30, 2013
Still need to get $400 together to replace a 4way hatch from the top of the van which went missing from, presumably, forgetting to wind it down before leaving a spot. I used black builders plastic and duct tape for the rest of the trip.
Left a set of steps at Kimba SA Apex Park.
Chain still attached to van when driving off after unhitching.
The odd window left open.
Left plenty of hose connecters on taps.
And last of all, forgot to hand in the security card used to get through the boom gates of a caravan park,...twice. Had to post them back.
And that's my litany of forgetfullness
Cheers
Jon
-- Edited by Hylda&Jon on Monday 1st of July 2013 09:58:03 AM
vics306 said
10:05 PM Jun 30, 2013
a few years ago we took a tv with us to adalaide forgot the remote which this tv needed to start it was a lovely ornament
Delta18 said
06:58 PM Jul 5, 2013
On the way to Adelaide, several years ago, we forgot to hand back and claim the small deposit for the shower block key at the Madura Pass caravan park (Nullarbor). Then forgot again that we still had the key in our possession on the way back to our former home in Bunbury. Finally managed to remember we had the key (we have the memory span of a gnat) and handed it in on another trip back to Adelaide the following year (even got our deposit back ).
Ontos45 said
07:43 PM Jul 5, 2013
Cupie .......Left a door mat in the main street of Rathdowney....
Was that outside the pub or the shop?...........lol
peter
Cupie said
09:38 PM Jul 5, 2013
Ontos45 wrote:
Cupie .......Left a door mat in the main street of Rathdowney....
Was that outside the pub or the shop?...........lol
peter
The shop of course of course ...
Sounds like you found it .
Is that what retired Rathdowney Rangers get up to ... pinching door mats?
I'd come & claim it back but you are too far away from me at the moment.
The dog lady said
01:56 AM Jul 8, 2013
I bought a new can opener when I forgot mine. But the medication was a little more difficult. 150 km and overnight away and found no pills packed! A very helpful pharmacist phoned my doctor and arranged to have prescriptions faxed through so I could get what I needed, privately he may have thought I'd lost my marbles, but he was very helpful and pleasant.
The dog lady said
02:01 AM Jul 8, 2013
Duh wrote:
Happens to all of us sooner or later Neil, goes with the ageing process they tell me....
Used to happen to me on camping trips in the seventies too, so I can't even blame getting older
First trip in this van & I forgot the tripod. Not much fun trying to prop up the dish on a post & rail fence & make it work.
This first trip was a shakedown to discover what we forgot to pack. The first thing (no second actually) missing was notebook & pen!
I was going to say I haven't forgotten anything important yet...but I just remembered I did once. Les took me away for a weekend on a romantic trip. All great until I remembered I forgot my insulin...I spent 2 hours in the local hospital until I could get some. I only did that once...lol
Lynn
Happens to all of us sooner or later Neil, goes with the ageing process they tell me....
Took the family away on a camping/fishing trip had a great time until dark then realised I had forgotten the Versa Light.
Had to pull parking light out and with a bit of McGyvering used it as a light. Now one lives in the vehicle.
Years ago when we had the tent I remember arriving, then we unpacked all the camping gear and carried it to our chosen site, put the gas bottle and stove together to make a cuppa and got ready to cook dinner later, then,... started putting the tent up to discover we were 1 rod less!
Had to lug it all back the vehicle, stayed in a cabin that night.
We went on a six week holiday in the motor home,all packed to go ,departed,arrived at the first destination,turned on the inverter,went to turn on tivo,wheres the controls,wheres the b***y controls.Oh bugga, there at home.Any one who has tivo knows you need the controls to do any thing with it.
OMG ...... you are pretending to be me!!!! I have all these stupid lists so I can be super organised and prepared, then forget where I put the bloody things! Thank heaven I am a master at the art of improvisation and flying by the seat of my pants .... most times!!!!
lol
Libby
LOL...............
Bent axle Bob, I did a very similar thing, got the BBQ, snags, buns, beer and everything else needed for a relaxing romantic sunset!! No Friggin matches or a lighter.
I had given up smoking quite soon prior to this and decided that I didn't need a lighter anymore!!
Now keep two lighters and one of those clicker lighter things in a "BBQ" pack in the back of the tug.
Whilst it's rare for me to forget to pack things, largely due to my extensive check lists, what I do forget is all the things required before leaving a site. Yes I have a checklist for that too but am usually too impatient to check it.
Things that I have forgotten to do (almost everything)
- Left one corner steady down (blamed a neighbor who wanted to talk as I was packing up. Don't they all)
- Forgot to lock down the hitch onto the tow ball. A passing council worker alerted me to it. This is where a very heavy ball weight is an advantage.
- Left the gas HWS on. Do that a lot.
- Left various hatches up and windows open. A window blew off coming across the Barkly once. Temp repairs with duct tape & later a few pop rivets fixed that.
- Left the front window cover up. It finally fell off just as I came into Warwick from Stanthorpe. A couple more pop rivets fixed that too.
- left one spring bar attached as I set up & tried to drive the 4WD away
- Not connected the break free wire.
- Left a door mat in the main street of Rathdowney.
- Drove off from home with the power still connected.
Proud to say that I have resisted the temptation & have never left SWMBO behind.
-- Edited by Cupie on Thursday 27th of June 2013 09:03:31 AM
Still need to get $400 together to replace a 4way hatch from the top of the van which went missing from, presumably, forgetting to wind it down before leaving a spot. I used black builders plastic and duct tape for the rest of the trip.
Left a set of steps at Kimba SA Apex Park.
Chain still attached to van when driving off after unhitching.
The odd window left open.
Left plenty of hose connecters on taps.
And last of all, forgot to hand in the security card used to get through the boom gates of a caravan park,...twice. Had to post them back.
And that's my litany of forgetfullness
Cheers
Jon
-- Edited by Hylda&Jon on Monday 1st of July 2013 09:58:03 AM
On the way to Adelaide, several years ago, we forgot to hand back and claim the small deposit for the shower block key at the Madura Pass caravan park (Nullarbor). Then forgot again that we still had the key in our possession on the way back to our former home in Bunbury. Finally managed to remember we had the key (we have the memory span of a gnat) and handed it in on another trip back to Adelaide the following year (even got our deposit back
).
Was that outside the pub or the shop?...........lol
peter
The shop of course of course ...
Sounds like you found it .
Is that what retired Rathdowney Rangers get up to ... pinching door mats?
I'd come & claim it back but you are too far away from me at the moment.
Used to happen to me on camping trips in the seventies too, so I can't even blame getting older