Ever forget your luggage?.

[fastfredracing]

Damn. Heading to the indoor water park for the kids b day. I was supposed to take the whole day off, but i had to go into work for a few hours to tie up a few loose ends. I hustle and get it all done. Pack the truck and I am running late so figure ill change out of my work clothes when i get there.
Make the three hour journey and as im unloading our stuff, i realize, that i forgot my clothes. So here i am, 3 hours from home with no clean socks, no clean underwear, and only my dirty work clothes. Gonna be a long weekend.

[A930Rocket]

Make a quick trip to wallyworld, where you can get new stuff, that you can work in later?

[herr_oberst]

Buy some clothes. You can always use a new pair of jeans and a shirt, and civilized man is civilized because of clean drawers.

[fastfredracing]

I ran down to the gift shop and grabbed some swim trunks and a few t shirts and we'll do a clothes run in the am. A man can never have too many socks or undies.

[imcarthur]

We went camping - a 3 hour drive - and forgot the tent. We had the poles but no tent. We drove to the nearest town & bought one. And then it rained all weekend & everything broke. Lawn chairs collapsed. Propane stove melted. We dumped everything but the new tent in the dumpster on the way out & never went camping again.

Ian

[pete3799]

Just wear your swimming trunks to wally world..........no one will notice.

[Rusty Heap]

Originally Posted by fastfredracing

A man can never have too many socks or undies.

forgodsakespleaseturninyourmancardnow.

[Bill Douglas]

But... Anything made in China needs to be washed before it is worn. They contain formaldehyde and PCFs.

[aigel]

Originally Posted by imcarthur

We went camping - a 3 hour drive - and forgot the tent. We had the poles but no tent. We drove to the nearest town & bought one. And then it rained all weekend & everything broke. Lawn chairs collapsed. Propane stove melted. We dumped everything but the new tent in the dumpster on the way out & never went camping again.

Ian

It is apparent that you also forgot to bring alcohol and some good friends. Some of my best memories of camping are the ones in a rain or snowstorm. And yes, often it ends with everything thrown int he vehicle and bail in the morning.

I used to forget a lot of bags as a kid. It is much improved now. I don't think I had ADD, just more important things to worry about (i.e. which kids were ready to fight when I get off the bus). For camping I have a check list. Makes it easy and keeps your sanity. Improvising is key if you forget something. Worst I ever forgot was coffee on a wilderness trip. Not fun if you are addicted to caffeine.

G

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by imcarthur

We went camping - a 3 hour drive - and forgot the tent. We had the poles but no tent. We drove to the nearest town & bought one. And then it rained all weekend & everything broke. Lawn chairs collapsed. Propane stove melted. We dumped everything but the new tent in the dumpster on the way out & never went camping again.

Ian

Almost ruined a keyboard with coffee...LOL

[BeyGon]

I left the Airport in Mexico once without my fishing rod in the tube. Tough to get back into customs and pick it up. Even worse was the verbal abuse from my wife.

[imcarthur]

Originally Posted by aigel

It is apparent that you also forgot to bring alcohol

Never.

We had our 3 kids - 10-14. I lean-to'd a monster orange tarp between trees to create a dry area. The first night was windy & a tree crushed a camper in a nearby site. We gave up late on the 2nd day & went to dry out at our outlaws who lived an hour away. The kids still laugh about that weekend.

Ian

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by imcarthur

We went camping - a 3 hour drive - and forgot the tent. We had the poles but no tent. We drove to the nearest town & bought one. And then it rained all weekend & everything broke. Lawn chairs collapsed. Propane stove melted. We dumped everything but the new tent in the dumpster on the way out & never went camping again.

Ian

I had one of those happen. It also involved having to use tweezers to remove a lost piece of tooth from a botched wisdom tooth removal. I seem to remember ending up in a nice warm hotel room with wine...

[Hugh R]

Driving to LAX to go to London once, the wifey called me 10 minutes after I had left the house to let me know I'd left my suitcase in the front hall. Fortunately I'd left early, turned around and retrieved it.

[vash]

Never! My mind is like steel trap.

[red-beard]

Closed and rusty?

[74-911]

The above are all minor inconveniences....

A couple of years ago we drove 3 hours to the coast for a week long get together with the wifes siblings and all their kids. After unloading the car and carrying everything to our room in the condo, wife walks in and asks:

"where is my bag?"....

[fastfredracing]

Yeah, thank the big guy it was just my stuff. If I had forgotten her stuff, I would be in deep doo doo. We were hurried out the door, and she kept saying " it feels like we are forgetting something" I assured her we had everything.
It was just a weekend at the water park, so I have survived in swim shorts, and t shirts . And just so happens that I was spraying paint last weekend, and I remembered that I had left a clean change of clothes in my truck tool box, that I did not use, so I am good for the ride home.

[aigel]

I know a guy who drove out of state hunting. 10+ hours. When they got there a guy in the group asked "where are the rifles?".

G

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by aigel

I know a guy who drove out of state hunting. 10+ hours. When they got there a guy in the group asked "where are the rifles?".

G

LOL...not nearly as bad but I/we did go bass fishing once out in the boonies...no tackle box (where it belonged in the boat). So after we lost the lone plastic worms already tied on the rods....just sitting out there on the lake drinking beer with a bare hook in the water "fishing"