:canadaflag:Bluenoser moment

[Leslie(nova scotia)]

Never affix your pinpoint holder to the shaft of your Pro.......did a time back and guess what....went a swimming and forgot to take the pinpointer off. Lord love a duck ! I'm thick at times. Not going to replace it!

 

[jim tn]

That kind of thing could be a anybodies moment. We all have been "thick" a time or two. Well, speaking for myself anyway. I couldn't hunt without my pin pointer, though. HH jim tn

 

[William-NM]

I've spent a couple of enjoyable hours trying to backtrack and locate my ProPointer. Been lucky so far, though it's spent a couple of nights in the woods. I keep threatening to tether it to my utility belt. I do keep a backup on hand, as I can't seem to do without it.

 

[upnorth]

Bummer Leslie. I find that whatever remnants of intelligence that I have left quickly dissipate at the end of a long detecting day. I normally put my car keys on a piece of parachute cord and hang them around my neck. I have done this for years as I am often farting around out in the bush. A few weeks ago I put the machine into the car while holding the headphones and keys in one hand. They both got tossed onto the back seat. Seeing that the car is always set up with child proof auto door locks, I found myself in a startling position. In another town with the keys locked inside. I went into the local Wally world and bummed a ratty aluminum coat hanger from customer service. It seems that coat hangars are near a thing of the past now and everything is plastic. No old fashioned tough wire hanger here, it was some semi flimsy aluminum Junker. But I was grateful to get the car open after about half an hour of tooth gnashing. I returned the junky hangar to customer service so that the next mental wizard has a fighting chance also.

 

[mudpuppy]

I lost a Pinpointer once, it was an Fpoint, so no biggie... Although that 9v battery could have come in handy to put in a smoke alarm...
Mud

 

[Robert2300]

I have learned the hard way...ALWAYS CARRY AN EXTRA set of keys to the car and the apartment.
Robt2300

 

[fongu]

After sticking my 2500 in the shower, I find I'm in good company. Lol I keep a spare car key in wallet and decided to take a walk a few years ago. Got my dogs leased up and threw the wallet in the car with the other keys just in case somebody decided to rob me on these old lonesome dirt roads I used to walk on. Got back from my walk and grabbed for my wallet and had the mental wizard moment that upnorth mentioned. I compounded my mistake by getting so upset that I forgot I had just signed up with AAA and called a locksmith from a town about 40 miles away and spent $110.00 getting the keys back. Kind of like the movie: Dumb and dumber.

 

[dgruff]

I've had so many of those moments, it would take me a day and a half just to write them down. So don't feel ashamed, or alone.

 

[togamac]

Here's one that happened to me in 1958 and I still think about it. ( Don't seem to have learned from it though!)
I was in munitions school at Lowrey AFB in Denver. We were learning about blasting caps. The instructor told us to lay our blasting cap on the ground, stretch the wires out, and under no circumstances step over those wires.
Well, within a few minutes I stepped over those wires and he saw me do it. He bellowed at me about being a stupid SOB and didn't I hear what he said, and what the hell was I thinking.
I corrected the situation: I stepped back over the wires. That shut him up - he was speechless!

 

[William-NM]

I keep a spare car key in my wallet, too. It has save my sorry arse on several occasions.