Son of a gun...

[ctgoldwing]

This is a funny thread - guess I have to add my tale of dumbness. . .

I was out doing some box blade work to clean up a wooded area last year. When I got back to the house I discovered no ringy dingy in my pocket

Somehow it fell out of my pants pocket - still don't know how. Well back out into the woods to search. No luck at all. I was pretty sure I must have run it over in one of the many passes I made but being the eternal optimist I had my wife call the cell # a few times while I searched. Still no luck. As I went through the garage to get into the house I heard my favorite ring tone, "warning, warning its the wife, its the wife". The darn phone had fallen to the side of the tractor seat & gotten wedged there

 

[jake98]

I was going to call him and tell him not to hurt it, but he did it anyway.

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I don't care WHO you are, that's funny! :laughing:

 

[Jbrink64]

I never use an iPod, it drowns out the voices in my head and they don't like it

 

[Soundguy]

ran over one of my ratchet strap handles this week when unloading to put out hay...

oh well.. beat and bent it back out.. ugly but works..


soundguy

 

[kub32guy]

Four years ago I was working in a quarry pushing shot rock from the blast off the quarry road with a D9. Back then I use to hang my Nextel off my front pocket. I stopped and hopped out on the track to talk to the guy on the other dozer for a minute, jumped in, backed up, dropped the blade, and started pushing. About five minutes went by before I realized it was gone. I asked the other guy to call my phone and he got the message "the Nextel subscriber you are trying to reach is not available".......oops

I feel your pain

 

[TripleR]

I still wonder where that Kubota key is...

I am beginning to think after a while, they just dissolve, we cannot keep track of those darned things. We have had to buy new keys for every Kubota we have.

 

[CompactTractorFan]

I am beginning to think after a while, they just dissolve

I do think so...:thumbsup:

 

[MikeA57]

Not tractor related but a couple of years ago my son-in-law killed a deer and he and my son went out to retrieve it on the 4 wheeler. It was just about dark and they took one of our walkie talkies with them. It took them forever to get back because it was so dark and they just about got lost weaving around trying to get through the trees. When they made it back they had the deer but not the talkie. Of course it HAD to be CAMO! Still haven't found it...

Then another time I was fishing a farm pond in a little john boat and my wife called. Then she called again. I figured she'd do it again before I got finished so I just set my Blackberry on the bench seat well out of the way so nothing would happen to it. But in all of my bumping around in the boat, it slid off into the gas tank and battery area. It wasn't a terribly dry boat and it laid in the water that had accumulated back there for a good couple of hours before I realized it. I tried drying it and it worked for a day then gave up the ghost for good.

Then there was the time...

You are NOT ALONE my friend.


Mike

 

[two_bit_score]

Well today I was mixing corn silage up for the cattle and I decided I would listen to some music so I put in my earphones and turned on my iPod and after 15 minutes I was tired of listening to music and turned it off and stuck it in my pocket


I finished mixing silage and decided it was time to feed it so stopped the tractor and checked my pocket for my knife and thought I would get my iPod just to make sure it was still there and no iPod

Needless to say : It fell out of my pocket and got ranover

There goes $150

At least it was an ipod and not a $600 iphone. Trying to look on the bright side for ou. It could always be worse.

 

[bigbull338]

my nephews have lost them fancy $1000 cell phones.just the other day my nephew lost his phone.

 

[LongDistanceRider]

my nephews have lost them fancy $1000 cell phones.just the other day my nephew lost his phone.

That's why I am a real big believer in making younger people purchase their own toys. The sense of ownership is stronger when one is spending their own money. My friends kids were losing phones every few months. I told him they weren't losing them, they simply wanted the latest and greatest. Since he had been buying them (they are 25 and 28 yrs old) they could care less.

He stopped buying them and they haven't lost a phone in almost 2 years. He pays the service bill so he knows when they make changes, etc. and he insists they still have the same phones.

One month, the two of them sent over 6,400 text messages combined. That's over 210 messages per day.............I can't imagine.......

 

[bigbull338]

That's why I am a real big believer in making younger people purchase their own toys. The sense of ownership is stronger when one is spending their own money. My friends kids were losing phones every few months. I told him they weren't losing them, they simply wanted the latest and greatest. Since he had been buying them (they are 25 and 28 yrs old) they could care less.

He stopped buying them and they haven't lost a phone in almost 2 years. He pays the service bill so he knows when they make changes, etc. and he insists they still have the same phones.

One month, the two of them sent over 6,400 text messages combined. That's over 210 messages per day.............I can't imagine.......

if they loose them they replace emm,with their own money.