The bumper of my car looked convienant.

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SW-EDC

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This one wasn't too bad considering the knife.
So yesterday, I was applying lawn food via a broadcaster and used my S&W (one I keep in garage) to cut open the corner of the bag. It was getting late in the day and realized I needed one more bag. After cutting open the first bag, I placed the knife on my cars front bumper..seemed convienant at the time.
I jumped in the car and hauled down to HD for one more bag totally forgetting about the knife on the bumper as the daylight was starting to go away.
Well, I found the knife down my street on the way back with road rash on it. Functioned fine though. I'm just glad it was not one of my good knives. I think I would have cried!
Anything like this ever happen to you?
 
Driven with plenty of things on a roof or bumper but never a knife, not yet at least, sounds like you each had a bit of luck with the end result.
 
Yeah, I live on a quiet street at the base of the mountains. It could probably have been where it was for a couple days before someone noticed it. It was also in the open position. Funny, it was either bumper or garage table 2 more feet away! I chose unwisely.
 
I've done it with a bag of hamburgers (on the roof), a can of soda (more than once so take your pick - roof, hood, turtle, bumper), hitch pin for a receiver hitch that I removed to loan it out, but never a knife or knife-like object.
 
drove to the city with someones phone on the roof of the car. surprised it stayed up there. we even called it and didnt hear it. got to our destination and found it on the roof later. hella surprised. in real life that would have flown off and have been lost forever.
 
IMG_2479.JPG Been there and done that, this time, creatively!!
Ripping out an old outdoor AC unit. I pull them apart, easier to load and scrap.
Stuck my Manix with Putnam scales, great work knife, into the coil for a second.......I thought!!!
Load all the scrap and head to the recycle center.
The sorter at the scrap yard asked me if the knife was mine!! Really glad he was an honest guy.......I threw him $10!!!
Would've been sick if I lost it!! Love the knife!
SoCal.......you are NOT alone brother!!
Joe
 
Most amazing thing for me was driving 70 miles down MT highway and finding the EMPTY Styrofoam cup I left on the rear bumper.
I worked with a lady who was a white water canoe guide for 18 years. She gave me valuable advice that I now follow very strictly. Her advice was that if you must leave something on the vehicle, then put it on the hood. That way you will see it when you start to drive off.
 
The turtle of a car is the trunk lid. Term from the 30s and 40s. Which is when my father grew up. He called trunk lids turtles and that's what I learned. I persist in using it to remind me of my father AND, more perversely, to befuddle people

The term derived from the extremely humped appearance of the trunk lids that resembled turtle shells, hence "turtle".

So, a turtle is the lid of a trunk. The trunk is the space inside the turtle.

And why some may ask "Why is the trunk called a trunk?"

That's because in the early days of automobile travel, people put their stuff in large suitcases called "steamer trunks". These trunks were either strapped onto the back of the vehicle, or later onto a small platform at the back of the vehicle that some enterprising soul mounted on the back of his vehicle.

When manufacturers started enclosing an area, marketing chose to call the enclosed area "a trunk space", later shortened to just "trunk".

And to continue down the etymological rat hole, some may ask why they were called "steamer trunks". That's because when people took voyages on steam ships, the ships were slow and the wealthy passengers brought lots of clothes and stuff on board, so trunks suitable for ship voyages were marketed as "steam ship trunks", later shortened (as people will do) to just "steamer".

And there you have your obscure terminology etymological lesson for the day.

Enjoy. :D
 
I used a dragonfly to cut open the seal on some windsheild wiper fluid and sat it by my windsheild. 20 miles later while i was driving i saw the handle of it sticking up out of a vent(defroster vent). Luckily it was open because the blade worked its way into one of the vents keeping it in place.
 
zzyzzogeton said:
The turtle of a car is the trunk lid. Term from the 30s and 40s. Which is when my father grew up. He called trunk lids turtles and that's what I learned. I persist in using it to remind me of my father AND, more perversely, to befuddle people

The term derived from the extremely humped appearance of the trunk lids that resembled turtle shells, hence "turtle".

So, a turtle is the lid of a trunk. The trunk is the space inside the turtle.

And why some may ask "Why is the trunk called a trunk?"

That's because in the early days of automobile travel, people put their stuff in large suitcases called "steamer trunks". These trunks were either strapped onto the back of the vehicle, or later onto a small platform at the back of the vehicle that some enterprising soul mounted on the back of his vehicle.

When manufacturers started enclosing an area, marketing chose to call the enclosed area "a trunk space", later shortened to just "trunk".

And to continue down the etymological rat hole, some may ask why they were called "steamer trunks". That's because when people took voyages on steam ships, the ships were slow and the wealthy passengers brought lots of clothes and stuff on board, so trunks suitable for ship voyages were marketed as "steam ship trunks", later shortened (as people will do) to just "steamer".

And there you have your obscure terminology etymological lesson for the day.

Enjoy. :D
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Thanks for all that I figured was just a random throw in for humor which is where I ran with it but good to know the fun history of the english language.
 
Over the years I've left a few things on bumpers, hood, top, in the engine compartment, pretty much everywhere. Mostly tools, and most of those I've recovered. No knives though.

The worst episode was when I left daycare with my son, and left his daypack on top of the car with an outfit in it that was my wife's favorite. It was the next day before we realized it. When she found out... [...shudder...] :mad:

~Chris
 
mbkryan said:
I worked with a lady who was a white water canoe guide for 18 years. She gave me valuable advice that I now follow very strictly. Her advice was that if you must leave something on the vehicle, then put it on the hood. That way you will see it when you start to drive off.
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Yup. That's exactly what I do. It's a great trick.

One time my dad left his iPhone on the roof. He didn't realize (and had actually made a call using the bluetooth in the car because the phone could connect while on the roof) until he hit highway speed. he heard the phone bounce off the roof, and saw it land on the road where it was promptly run over by an 18 wheeler. Apparently Otterbox Defender, as tough as it is, is not meant to defend against an 18 wheeler running it over. Who'da thunk.
 
Perfect timing with your post. Are company shuttles people from the hotels to the airport, 150 km away.
Yesterday one of the new drivers was using the provided ipad to check the passengers in from the different hotels.
Luggage is loaded via the back door on these busses,as you may well guess he sat the ipad on the bumper while loading the luggage.
The miracle of this mistake was, the said ipad rode all the way to the park gates 130 km where he had to slow down to go over the rumble strips. Thats where it was bounced off, a tourist following the bus stopped and chased down the driver.
All was well with the ipad other than the cover was scraped up. The driver now knows he is to leave the ipad in the bus,and print a list instead. :rolleyes:
 
Did it to a fully loaded Pmag. At 60 mph I happened to look in my rear view mirror and saw something bouncing down the road behind me. Turned around, picked it up and took it home. It had only dumped two rounds in the middle of the road. Next time at the range it functioned flawlessly.
 
Thanks zzyzz - I've obviously never heard turtle used that way. I am familiar with the trunk/steamer trunk thing, I've been thinking about getting one for my Miata.
 
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