double bubble screen,doh

Oops!! Err well I did once take off a sink u-bend and emptied it into a bucket. Shortly afterwards I needed the bucket for something else so I emptied it into the sink - as you do. It was such a shame that I hadn't replaced the u-bend. Sadly SWMBO witnessed the whole thing and, needless to say, will not let me forget it!!!!

 

Stevethegoolie - that was a corker !!!!!!

 

I bought a set of 1,000 screws, all different sizes neatly sorted into different compartments.... Was doing some work in the living room in front of SWMBO, picked the box up by the handle without closing the lid........screws everywhere, sadly no longer sorted!!!!

 

Whoops !!!!!!

Been there, done that.

 

might not feel it but don't half look it!"! Ha! Ha! I'm too embarrassed to put up my endless list

 

We all have to be good at something!!

 

I've done the emptying bucket back in the sink thing.
I've also scrabbled about under a MkII Cortina trying to put the sump plug back in before the new oil I just filled up with ran out again!

 

Suddenly I feel soooooo much better!

 

My bit of class,in front of a mate was some years ago. Mk 3 Astra , I was told it needed a cambelt due to mileage.
Went to my local car spares which had a large car park the rear where you could get dirty. Anyone remember Fletchers in Birmingham???
The haynes manual said to drop bottom hose from rad to drain it ( there was no tap) . I had a container with me for the coolant and it drained into that. I was under the car when my mate appeared and asked if he could help. With him watching but not much else, I undid the water pump which tightened the belt and took the pressure off the belt, having already lined the index points on the gears, I removed the belt, refitted the new one and tightened it all up. All was good, my mate was impressed, I felt good . All I had to do now was refill the rad with the coolant and all was well.
I poured the coolant into the top of the rad and whoosh,it all ran out of the bottom of the rad as I hadnt reconnected the bottom hose. My mate pissed himself as he went into the shop to ask for some water.

 

A.B Fletcher, thats the one. All gone now, was taken over by an asian company. Lasted a short while then closed down. It is a safety work wear place now. Happy days going thru the bins in there looking for bargains. Rewired my first bike, a Starfire using a couple of car harnesses i picked up for a quid each from there in 75 or 76.

 

I had a good mate in the army, he was always doing stuff the wrong way. Once he did a major service on an International 6 wheel drive truck ( all oils and filters ) . he forgot to put the sump plug in the rear axles differential housing, so consequently the diff blew up on the test drive, when he walked into the workshop with the diff in a 150 Ltr garbage bin no one said boo ! Simply because Dave was 6'10" and weighed 16 stone. All muscles , but in the bar that night we all had a real ROFL session. And if if you think that story funny. You should see Dave on a motorcycle ! He makes any bike look like an over size skate board ! His knee's stick out further than the widest handle bars available!!!!