Dumb mistakes

New tow bar with jeep wrangler toad. Unhooked at campground, (was so easy, told DW I got this), ended up chasing the jeep down the hill, DW used to back up the toad with the old rigid tow bar.

Drove 700+ miles thru west and north Texas and got home and realized that I forgot to put the airbags in automatic. Drove all the way on the rails and shocks. Still not a bad ride.

First outing of each year I re-fill the FW tank from the CG site. Well it holds 100gals which takes awhile. So I usually finish the outside setup tasks and move inside. After the tank is full, it overflows. Head outside to start dinner to hear running water and see a lake forming around the coach. Oh yeah, just turning off the water isnt enough. I need to wait until the tank depressurizes. Done this two years in a row so I moved to Fl so I wont have to empty the FW tank during winterizing process.

What is it about that power cord?!?! We must have drove 3 miles before we realized we were dragging it behind us. Also turned switch to tank fill instead of city water when we did NOT want our fresh tank full. Wondered what the neighbor was so excited about, running at us waving her arms, until we saw the water gushing out underneath our RV. We just try to look at these things as learning experiences:W

Jabrad's Papa wrote:
My brother and I where at Canaveral jinxing another shuttle launch. When we where driving away I heard this noise coming from the dash board area. Sounded like static on an old transistor radio. Seems it was louder when I slowed down and stopped. My brother was crawling on the floor and under the dash trying to figure it out.
Who knew those dang back up cameras had microphones on them. Every time we slowed down the vehicle behind us got close enough that we could hear their engine.
Duh !

This happened to me too. I tried out the intercom then forgot to turn the volume back down. Then I drove 200 miles trying to figure out the new noise I was hearing. I couldn't figure out how I could hear the engine in the front of a diesel pusher coach.

Left 19 year old daughter in a BBQ restaurant thought she was in the rig after twenty miles down the road she calls using a restaurant workers phone I hung up didn't recognize number she called back i answered she said you left me i then turned around and picked her up we still tell that story at family functions.

First time I parked my trailer in the driveway, I forgot that the second floor of our house overhangs the first by 3'...(we had just moved here a few years prior) only a minor ding and broken clearance light.. and some embarrassment...

nma33 wrote:
When we got our new TT back in 2005, First one with a slide, I was retracting the slide, maybe 3rd or 4th time, I heard a crunch, Seems I left a stool in front of the slide where it squeezes in real tight, I damaged the wall access door the stool crushed up against. Pilgrim, sent me a new access door, never done that again, To this day, even with our new MH with 3 slides, I check and double check the slide paths before retracting them.

The ex was banned from operating the slide controls after two accidents in a row. She ripped the cabinet doors off and crushed a chair on two subsequent attempts to operate them.

When we got our new TT back in 2005, First one with a slide, I was retracting the slide, maybe 3rd or 4th time, I heard a crunch, Seems I left a stool in front of the slide where it squeezes in real tight, I damaged the wall access door the stool crushed up against. Pilgrim, sent me a new access door, never done that again, To this day, even with our new MH with 3 slides, I check and double check the slide paths before retracting them.

Our motorhome was home in the garage when I decided to grease the front kingpins and steering joints. In order to fit under it I raised the front with the leveling jacks. As the coach went up I heard a crunch, stopped raising and wondered what had hit. Suddenly realized that when installing a new DVD on the TV I had wound up the antenna to check TV sound outputs several days before. The antenna had hit a stiffener at the crown of the garage roof. No damage but sure felt stupid, no one was there but me and I haven't told the DW.