The bumper of my car looked convienant.

Years ago, I owned a hardtop sedan that you could pull the key out of the ignition and leave the engine running. I did this one time when I opened the trunk to get a bag of food. It was on Interstate 80 in the middle of nowhere. Setting my keys on top of the car, I passed the food to my girlfriend inside the car and jumped in. At about sixty MPH, I heard a metallic thud when the keys hit the trunk. "What was that noise?", I ask Debbie. "Oh, cr*p! That was our keys!" I did not even really give her a chance to respond.

I am not sure that I can describe how difficult it is to be on foot and find a set of keys on the Interstate right before sunset. I did find my keys, though. They were not in the best shape and I don't remember if a semi ran over them or not but, I know one came close.
 
Another - years ago - saw a bird fly into my grill coming home from water skiing. After about 48 minutes of varying road time and speed, arrived home, walked around the front of the car and had the bejesus scared out of me when that little bird kind of "exploded" off my grill and flew away. Wonder where it spent the night so far away from home o_O. Certainly was a survivor.

Not exactly to the question but still an interesting "on the car" story.

Ray
 
SoCalEDC said:
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?
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Never with a knife, .......instead it was my wedding ring! Putting up Christmas lights in the front tree I kept getting snagged, so I took it off for a bit, putting it on the car. But then I ran out of lights, so I hopped in the car and drove to the store, where I realized what I had done.

I took a high power flashlight and followed my tracks from my home to the road, finding it down the block.

That was the first time I lost it....second was in the rainforest in Belize, then my Wife told me I had no choice that I was sizing it to strangle my finger.
 
Two years ago I was using my BK9 to clear some right of ways for hunting season with the wife. We got everything finished up and headed toward town. It wasn't until we had gone 3 miles down a wash board dirt road and 7 more miles doing 60 on the highway before I realized the sheath was laying in the floorboard where I had put it when I pulled the knife out of it. Turns out when I had walked back to the truck to grab the pole chain saw I had laid the Becker on the back bumper. Amazingly it was still there.
 
Yo Mama said:
Never with a knife, .......instead it was my wedding ring! Putting up Christmas lights in the front tree I kept getting snagged, so I took it off for a bit, putting it on the car. But then I ran out of lights, so I hopped in the car and drove to the store, where I realized what I had done.

I took a high power flashlight and followed my tracks from my home to the road, finding it down the block.

That was the first time I lost it....second was in the rainforest in Belize, then my Wife told me I had no choice that I was sizing it to strangle my finger.
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I have been known to really get stressed when I can't find my ring. If I take my ring off and set it down, my wife will move it so that it is "protected" whatever that means. The problem is that she normally does not tell me when she moves it.
 
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