benjenbav
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Not fastening the pocket of a fleece into which I had placed my car, boat and house keys as I was stepping off the boat onto the pontoon. Cue an hour's worth of magnet fishing before I found them. The car key still worked!
Then there was the day when I was doing a little bit of sailboat racing. It had been a while since I'd last ventured over to the dark side and this time I forgot to secure my specs by one of those bits of string and, of course, a rather fine pair of varifocals straightaway went to join Neptune.
Not a problem as I had a spare pair in my jacket.
Not a problem at least until the yacht gave an unseemly lurch and I crushed those spare specs against a sticky out object, breaking the frame.
As I was going to have to drive home at the end of the day I thought it best after that second blow to at least keep the lenses safe and mostly squint at things on the water.
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It would be fair to say that, had I been stopped on the M3 that night the first observation the police officer would have made would have been, "Sir, I may be mistaken, but you appear to have two bits of glass attached to your face by means of sellotape wound round and round your head."
Then there was the day when I was doing a little bit of sailboat racing. It had been a while since I'd last ventured over to the dark side and this time I forgot to secure my specs by one of those bits of string and, of course, a rather fine pair of varifocals straightaway went to join Neptune.
Not a problem as I had a spare pair in my jacket.
Not a problem at least until the yacht gave an unseemly lurch and I crushed those spare specs against a sticky out object, breaking the frame.
As I was going to have to drive home at the end of the day I thought it best after that second blow to at least keep the lenses safe and mostly squint at things on the water.
...
It would be fair to say that, had I been stopped on the M3 that night the first observation the police officer would have made would have been, "Sir, I may be mistaken, but you appear to have two bits of glass attached to your face by means of sellotape wound round and round your head."