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Old 20-01-2009, 09:20 AM   #1
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Ever had one of those days?

This morning I woke up…peeing down rain. No worries. Shower, brekky, same old same old. Walking out to my car, I get drenched only to realise I left my phone indoors, walk back in and repeat. Get drenched again.

Driving into work, my windscreen wiper blade comes loose and the wiper arm scratches the poop out of my windscreen. I pull over, get drenched fixing it and then get in and drive off.
Get to my work carpark, and cause it’s a fairly steep ramp, I go in on an angle. Today, I went in on too much of an angle and the left rear wheel was floating in the air. No traction, meant no getting up the ramp. Get drenched looking at it, and then manage to reverse up and fang it up the ramp.

Get into the carpark, still peeing down rain, I didn’t see a kerb divider in the carpark, straight up over it. BANG. Smashed underneath the sideskirt and pushed it back a good 2 inches. Got drenched seeing if there was anymore damage. But couldn’t see anyway. SO have to leave that one till I get home.

Get into the office, realise I left my phone (yet again) in the car. So a nice walk in a winter wonderland back to get it.

All this between 7-8am.

Hope the rest of my day is better.

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Old 20-01-2009, 09:37 AM   #2
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You should live in Victoria, it's blue skies and warm here!! LOL
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Old 20-01-2009, 09:48 AM   #3
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Yes, one of those days, I had to get up before 10AM!
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Old 20-01-2009, 10:46 AM   #4
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Driving home last night - realised that the brake lights weren't working on the EL. OK, no worries. Go and get a new brake switch in the morning and all will be good and you should still be able to get off to work, albeit a little late.

Wake up this morning and get ready. Head out down to the local auto parts store which I thought opened at 7am. Nope, turns out it's 8:30am. OK, I'll try the mechanic, they open at 7am. Drive there...
Nope, since they've changed hands, they have revised their times and now open at 8am.

Bugger. Now I have to take an annual leave day to do a 10 minute job changing out the brake switch as by the time the stores open and I have the job done, I would get to work too late and there isn't any point in turning up then. Doesn't help that it takes 1.5 hours to get to work either.

I probably should get off the computer and go and do that brake switch now...
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Old 20-01-2009, 11:11 AM   #5
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I do remember a family vacation we took one down to victoria for one of the harness racing carnivals and had the old toyota camery station wagon.

The first mishap occurred when the dash lit up with warning signs galore and we were in the middle of nowhere. Eventually made it to a roadhouse where we rang NRMA and they diagnosed the alternator being on the way out.

So we kept going and came upon an accident scene (somewhere near cobram i think) where a car had rolled and caught alight, burning a few square mtres of a paddock. There were police and fire trucks attending to the fireball while traffic was backed up a few cars. Didn't look to be any victims luckily.

So we eventually got going again...only to come across a sheep truck that had rolled over and there were a few wandering sheep around. Luckily driver was ok.

Was a very eventful trip. Almost as someone or something was trying to throw a hint that we should turn around and go home. Pleased to say we made it in one piece.
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Old 21-01-2009, 10:19 PM   #6
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Ever had one of those days?

This morning I woke up…peeing down rain. No worries. Shower, brekky, same old same old. Walking out to my car, I get drenched only to realise I left my phone indoors, walk back in and repeat. Get drenched again.

Driving into work, my windscreen wiper blade comes loose and the wiper arm scratches the poop out of my windscreen. I pull over, get drenched fixing it and then get in and drive off.
Get to my work carpark, and cause it’s a fairly steep ramp, I go in on an angle. Today, I went in on too much of an angle and the left rear wheel was floating in the air. No traction, meant no getting up the ramp. Get drenched looking at it, and then manage to reverse up and fang it up the ramp.

Get into the carpark, still peeing down rain, I didn’t see a kerb divider in the carpark, straight up over it. BANG. Smashed underneath the sideskirt and pushed it back a good 2 inches. Got drenched seeing if there was anymore damage. But couldn’t see anyway. SO have to leave that one till I get home.

Get into the office, realise I left my phone (yet again) in the car. So a nice walk in a winter wonderland back to get it.

All this between 7-8am.

Hope the rest of my day is better.

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i laughed (sorry!)
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Old 21-01-2009, 10:31 PM   #7
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Had one a few months ago... Woke up late, went to get into the Foc but it was low of fuel so it wouldn't start, so I grabbed the EF, bad traffic to the station made a 5 min trip to a 25 min, 2 mins from the station I turn off the main road toward the station and hit the accelerator... *bang* goes the side of the radiator end tank, and in a big cloud of steam and a river of green following the Falcon, I park at the station.

Jump on the train which starts to depart. And soon stopped. "The train in front of us has caught fire, we're being diverted onto the Granville line instead of East Hills line". Ended up arriving over an hour late.
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Old 23-01-2009, 10:54 AM   #8
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Had one a few months ago... Woke up late, went to get into the Foc but it was low of fuel so it wouldn't start, so I grabbed the EF, bad traffic to the station made a 5 min trip to a 25 min, 2 mins from the station I turn off the main road toward the station and hit the accelerator... *bang* goes the side of the radiator end tank, and in a big cloud of steam and a river of green following the Falcon, I park at the station.

Jump on the train which starts to depart. And soon stopped. "The train in front of us has caught fire, we're being diverted onto the Granville line instead of East Hills line". Ended up arriving over an hour late.
now that is unlucky!!
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Old 21-01-2009, 10:36 PM   #9
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For starters keep your phone in your pocket ;)
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Old 22-01-2009, 09:18 PM   #10
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Thats funny mate have to laugh, your no one if you cant laugh
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Old 23-01-2009, 11:10 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by XR6_661
Ever had one of those days?

This morning I woke up…peeing down rain. No worries. Shower, brekky, same old same old. Walking out to my car, I get drenched only to realise I left my phone indoors, walk back in and repeat. Get drenched again.

Driving into work, my windscreen wiper blade comes loose and the wiper arm scratches the poop out of my windscreen. I pull over, get drenched fixing it and then get in and drive off.
Get to my work carpark, and cause it’s a fairly steep ramp, I go in on an angle. Today, I went in on too much of an angle and the left rear wheel was floating in the air. No traction, meant no getting up the ramp. Get drenched looking at it, and then manage to reverse up and fang it up the ramp.

Get into the carpark, still peeing down rain, I didn’t see a kerb divider in the carpark, straight up over it. BANG. Smashed underneath the sideskirt and pushed it back a good 2 inches. Got drenched seeing if there was anymore damage. But couldn’t see anyway. SO have to leave that one till I get home.

Get into the office, realise I left my phone (yet again) in the car. So a nice walk in a winter wonderland back to get it.

All this between 7-8am.

Hope the rest of my day is better.

Share your “Must be one of those day” stories!

Think you should give up, go back home, glass of scotch on the rocks and reminise on the good times :P
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