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revjames

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Went out 20 miles to a remote village school today to fit a new hand drier. When I got there I realised I hadnt brought any flex with me!

Just got me thinking I wonder if anyone else has forgotten important stuff and wasted hours going back to the depot with an embarrassed look!

 
I went to fit an aerial about 15 miles away. Got to the job and decided I needed a cat ladder so went another 5 miles up the road to go and fetch one from a builder friend. Once I'd got the ladders up and the cat ladder on the roof and the co-ax out I realised the aerial was sat at home.

 
when i was apprentice i left my tools in a car my mate was driving at the time. it was his dads car. Next morning i rang his house at 7am after realizing i left my tools in there and was informed he left for the airport at 5am and would be out the country for a week!!

I had to borrow a few tools and go through my dads tools for anything relavent and carried them round in a sack for a week which everyone thought was funny to fill with rubbish when they got chance.

 
yeah yesterday. Finnished at a job 10miles from home, cleaned up, posted keys back through the letter box. Just as I'm pulling into the drive at home, realised I'd left the wad of cash in the customers kitchen. DOH!

 
yeah yesterday. Finnished at a job 10miles from home, cleaned up, posted keys back through the letter box. Just as I'm pulling into the drive at home, realised I'd left the wad of cash in the customers kitchen. DOH!
Ill go and fetch it back for you :^O :^O;)

 
What? never even forgot your sarnies? bad day explode
Sometimes I have realised that I require something that I have not brought with me. Not that I had forgotten it.

 
Went out 20 miles to a remote village school today to fit a new hand drier. When I got there I realised I hadnt brought any flex with me! Just got me thinking I wonder if anyone else has forgotten important stuff and wasted hours going back to the depot with an embarrassed look!
few month ago got a call at 2345 on a fri night. job 50 miles away. get there and realise i had forgot to put toolbag back in van....

fortunately, i have spare drivers/cutters etc in other toolboxes in the van.

 
Went out 20 miles to a remote village school today to fit a new hand drier. When I got there I realised I hadnt brought any flex with me! Just got me thinking I wonder if anyone else has forgotten important stuff and wasted hours going back to the depot with an embarrassed look!
The reason for my extension lead getting shorter is as above Blushing

 
Sometimes I have realised that I require something that I have not brought with me. Not that I had forgotten it.
Ok then today I went to a school with a hand dryer to install and realised I required some flex that I had not brought with me....

Thats the same as forgetting Wet Fish

 
had a guy working for us who had travelled 20 miles to a PAT testing job, only realised when he arrived that he had forgot the ruddy PAT tester!

 
I had one last week..

Went to wholesalers to get some bits to extend some SWA to connect a residential mobile home up,, must have only been 300yards from the job (which was about 10 miles from wholesaler) and I get a call saying I'd left the resin joint behind...DOH!!

Had everything else though!!

 
1000 years ago , as a 19 yr old apprentice ,I was one of the few who could drive. One of the bosses says " No one else available, take the new apprentice with you , get all these fluoro tubes in the van and do this lamp change at So and So,s . Take starters too , don,t forget steps........ do this.....do that... hurry up ... don't go to the cafe... fill this job sheet in when you get back....!!"

Gets their van out of the yard ,struggling somewhat because it has a column change gear shift I wasn't used to , however sets off, feeling quite proud to be trusted on my own and trying to appear the nonchalant , confident ,experienced apprentice in front of the new kid, drove about three miles towards the city centre and thought ." Where the *##* are we going !!!!! Had to find a phone box,ring in and ask the boss. :_|

Took a while to live that one down !!! :| :coat :coat

 
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