" I can't believe I did that!"

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\" I can\'t believe I did that!\"

Ever do something you were a loss as to why you did it?

Recently whilst crewing, I was tasked with cleaning up the Automatic Life Jackets, as the plastic outside covers were a bit yucky from wearing them for weeks on an Atlantic crossing.

I dualy got a bucket of warm soapy water and a sponge to do the job.

"Yep, you guessed correctly." I dipped the jacket into the bucket to help things along! The outcome was inevitable!

Don't ask me why I did it! I can give you NO answer!
 
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Quality control at the Irish match factory -

"That one works,
that one works,
that one works,
that one ....."
 
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There was the time the engine started overheating, so off with the cooling stopcock, clean out the strainer and replace, start the engine, which promptly started over heating again.

"Did you turn the seacock back on?" asked Madame.
 
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Well the relief from the fact that they worked, bet you felt a bit of a muppet though

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"They worked"? He didn't do it on more than one did he! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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My son received an urgent phone call from a client, to get an A/C unit started on a super-yacht. He was in Palma Mallorca, the boat was in Genoa. He took the ferry to Barcelona and drove non-stop to Genoa. Starting the unit he realised that there was no coolant flow, so he asked the engineer if any work had been carried out on the unit. 'Yes' was the reply 'we changed a circulating pump last week'.

'And did you open the isolating valves afterwards?'
 
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Not quite the same thing but -

This season we had a very hard sail across from Ithaka to Cephalonia in about a force 7, almost close-hauled. The sea was quite choppy and we took lots of water on deck. Once in Fiskhardo it became relatively quiet and we enjoyed an evening in town.

Next morning I opened one of the hanging lockers, to find that a lifejacket had inflated inside due to a leak through a deck fitting. It took about a quarter of an hour to get it out without damage.
 
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I also cleaned a grubby lifejacket a few years ago and hung it on the line to dry, and as we were having lunch outside it went off with a BANG!
I also carefully packed away a pair of junior lifejackets as they had been outgrown into a box in my shed, ready for the next grandchild, and a week later I noticed the box had exploded as one had inflated!
 
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Many moons ago we were on a channel crossing and one of the crew was doing the washing up down in the galley. A hand appeared out of the companionway holding a coffee mug with all of the dregs from all the other mugs in it. A voice from belows instructs "throw this overboard - and make sure you do it downwind". A crew member in the cockpit does as instructed. The hand re-appears in the companionway and the voice commands "mug!". The crew on deck responds "you told me to throw it overboard, so I did! ".

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What a shame you think it's acceptable to denigrate another nationality... /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif
 
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I was charged with making the toast on board one morning, after completing this task I emptied the crumbs into the river, unfortunately it had one of those grippy handles that don't work upside down.
The grill pan landed the right way up and floated, that was lucky I thought as I went to grab it with a boat hook and promptly sunk it.
 
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What do you mean another? He only denigrated the one, as far as I can tell.
Might even have been his own one, given he is called Pads.....

Heres one from me home town....

A man walked into the produce section of Liverpool Nettos and asked to buy half a head of lettuce. The boy working in that department told him that they only sold whole heads of lettuce. The man was insistent that the boy ask his manager about the matter.

Walking into the back room, the boy said to his manager, "Some tosser wants to buy a half a head of lettuce." As he finished his sentence, he turned to find the man standing right behind him, so he added, "and this gentleman kindly offered to buy the other half."
The manager approved the deal and the man went on his way.

Later the manager found the boy and said "I was impressed with the way you got yourself out of that situation earlier. We like people who think on their feet here. Where are you from, son?"
"Essex, sir," the boy replied.
"Well, why did you leave Essex," the manager asked.
The boy said, "Sir, there's nothing but whores and footballers there."
"Really?" said the manager, "My wife's from Essex!"
The boy replied, "No sh*t!? Who did she play for?"
 
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once rowed 2 miles in a cuddy boat against the tide because when the engine stopped in all my checks i failed to notice I had put the metal fuels tank on the line when moving it around to ''check the fuel''

then again at least i had remembered the oars
 
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Sorry Dyflin, I missed out the word mean, which robbed the sentence of its meaning, if you know what I mean.
I have edited it back in, which makes it mean what I meant it to mean, rather than it having no meaning, which is not what I meant.
 
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had a jacket go off accidentally once...
so deflated it to rearm it, careflly squeezed out all the air, to prevent over inflation in the future, wiped down the surfaces so it was gleaming. Took off the old used cylinder and wound on the new cylinder.......... bang .... the jacket reinflates.

forgot it was an auto jacket and I should have replaced the auto bit BEFORE the gas cylinder..... oops ! .. My mama always says Stupid is .. as stupid does

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