Ok, Time to Come Clean and Admit Our Screw-Ups

You could have purchased a thread chaser made for that task but I know that some folks like to go it alone...
On the way to Florida one December evening I went over an old narrow rusted metal bridge, got too close to the right edge and wiped out my awning plus some cosmetic damage to the tune of $3000 that my insurance company thankfully paid for.
There are others but this was the most expensive one.
P.S. no raise in rate after `accident'.

Dick_B wrote:
You could have purchased a thread chaser made for that task but I know that some folks like to go it alone...
On the way to Florida one December evening I went over an old narrow rusted metal bridge, got too close to the right edge and wiped out my awning plus some cosmetic damage to the tune of $3000 that my insurance company thankfully paid for.
There are others but this was the most expensive one.

Yeah, but this one only cost $2.

Did your insurance rates go up at all? Just wondering.......

Dropped the fiver on my truck bed. Of course the other guy said it was hitched. Does that count. :) While driving on the road to the sun after dropping the 5th wheel I got to close to the mountain and hit my mirror. Just minor damage shattering just the mirror because it did fold in. But my pride was bruised!

Well, I just don't understand how rain water could get into your water tank when it's raining.

MM.

This reminds me of a joke. Someone once wrote, "We should all be humble enough to admit our faults. I'd certainly admit mine, if I had any." :)

I could write a short novel on some of the bonehead blunders I've done in my years of RVing.......

Things like the time I backed my truck into my fully open awning and tore an arm off..

Many times forgetting to remove the chocks and yanking my TT over them.

Blindsiding the TT into a narrow driveway in the pouring rain and a stupid ignorant power pole leapt out from the side and viciously attacked the back corner of my TT, leaving a big crunch in the side.

Jackknifing the rig too far backing up and poking a ladder on top of my truck rack right through the front of the TT at the top.

A full pound of butter down the heat duct once earned me the nickname here of butterboy...:B That was a classic... some of you here may remember my story on that one.

Forgot to latch the hitch on my TT once. Left the site in Fort Saint John BC and hit a big heave in an intersection, bucked the trailer off the ball and it did a nosedive into the pavement right in the middle of the intersection. There I was with a piddly little bottle jack and a few blocks if wood trying to put it back on the ball. Made it as far as Cache Creek on the way back to Surrey when the TT looked funny in the mirror. Pulled over and one side of the hitch frame was broken nearly right through. Good thing for a truck full of cordless tools to do a makeshift repair to get it to a welding shop for repairs. Yeah the was a monumental blunder on my part....

Not realizing my bathroom sink drained into the black tank not the grey, I kept pouring water down the drain into a full black tank, wondering why it was getting fuller and fuller. Stepped on the flush pedal to have a look down the hole, only to be greeted by a geyser of "soup" erupting like a volcano out of the toilet. Yeah that was a (unprintable) mess all over the bathroom to clean up.... ewwwwwww! :E:E Gag me with a spoon...

Left the awning too level once and had it fill up with water from a sudden rain storm. In a desperate attempt to empty it with a broom the scissor arm cylinder did its job and collapsed, emptying the contents of the awning inside the TT door, flooding the place.

I could go on!!!

Life with Bob in the RV is NEVER boring!!! :B

Wow Bob, I'm speechless! If there was a prize to give well, so far you take the cake!

rexlion wrote:
This reminds me of a joke. Someone once wrote, "We should all be humble enough to admit our faults. I'd certainly admit mine, if I had any." :)

I'd needlepoint that and hang it in the kitchen but but it might give the man ideas outside his pay grade...

Thanks Bob for making me feel better about myself! I forgot to chock my TT and it rolled into the back of my truck. Ack!

Ok
had just put on my new JT strongs and tightened the wing nut
later went out to hook up and forgot to loosen them.
Bad

just came home from camping. Have my 14 ft boat on top of truck. Untied it, but started to rain so went inside. After it stopped, went outside and pulled truck forward. When I stopped the boat started sliding off front. scratched tbe hood.
lesson learned

got packed and hooked up with grandkids in back seat playing.
started down street, wife smiles and said you left your daughter.

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