Son of a gun, I'm an idiot.

[alexkerhead]

OK, I was going a remote country area 60 miles from my house to avoid lots of telephone poles and too many trees to get some good shots of some landscapes. I drove the nice 60 miles and had a great time doing it. Got there, and went to unload the camera gear I had packed; and behold! It wasn't there, I had left it back at the house in a lawn chair. So, I drove 60miles out and left my gear out for any jerk to steal. So, I went to call my mother to put it in the house, and behold! No signal.....errrrr.

So, I went back, speeding a little to get there. Luckily, all of it was still there.

Bummer is, my vehicle gets all of 15mpg, so it costs me 8(x$3/gal = $24.00) gallons of gas for the whole trip.

Anyway, maybe next week I won't goof up when I goto take some exquisite pictures. Just wanted to get that goof off my chest.

Edited for: Typos

[mickeyobe]

Alex,

I would loan you my shoulder to cry on but the cost of gas from Toronto to somewhere in Alabama would probably buy me another old camera.

Mickey

[vintageslrs]

Alex

I'm sure we all have done something similar to that.... at point or another. So, don't feel bad.
Next time put the gear in first...this way if you forget to put yourself in the vehicle........you won't waste any fuel. ;D

be well
Bob

[Randy]

Here in Ohio that trip would be called "goin out to get the stink blowed offin ya", eh?

[Just Plain Curt]

Three for the "I wish I hadn't done that" files: 1. a friend I used to shoot with found a Nikon FM2 on a stump in a provincial park and kept it. Wouldn't you like to have forgotten that?
2. The same fella several years later was shooting snow scenes and left his best zoom (Nikon again, not sure if it was 70-210 or 80-200, not up on my Nikons) on the roof of his car as he drove off. The snowplow had gone by when he came back to search so it's in a ditch somewhere. And of course #3 Last year I carried a bag with 6 lenses and three zooms plus three SLR bodies for about a mile and a half to my favourite waterfall. When I got there I realised most of the lenses including all the zooms were T mount (no problem there since I knew that) but I brought Pentax bodies and the only T mounts I brought (on the lenses but with caps on) were Minolta bayonet. A few feeble 50mm shots and 30 lbs. or so of pack mule for nothing.

[olroy2044]

:-[Shoot, I might as well chime in too. Last year I started out to an airshow in another city about a hundred miles away. Started out bright and early--got half way there and the alternator went out--turned around and limped home--changed alternator--started out again--got to same spot and realized camera bag was on kitchen table!! Gave it up and went fishing! Roy

[davesworld]

So glad I'm not the only one that does things like that! It's just a sharper learning curve for me considering that the same trip would have cost me about $60.00 US.

[nikonbob]

You are in good company and I am guessing from the replies there are a lot of us.

Bob

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Shot pictures of the birth of our second daughter with no film in the camera.

[renaldo]

I have never taken off and left my camera gear behind but...

A number of years ago, while on the Ohio turnpike, I had gone to the restroom and, as was my practice, I took off my wedding ring before washing my hands. Several times prior, I had had my ring slip off from the soap.

Well...I was 60 miles on down the turnpike when I noticed I did not have the ring on my finger. Big panic time. I got off the next exit and headed the opposite direction to go back to that reststop. Then I had to go beyond it's exit to head the other way again.

Never expected the ring to be found...but...whew!...there it was right on the sink where I placed it.

Extra driving and $$ spent on gas but well worth it. And had it been some piece of camera gear you bet I would have done the same.

[PeterW]

I think I mentioned some time ago that I took my humble 2 megapixel Epson out for an airing only to discover when I got where I was going that I'd left the memory card plugged in to the front of my computer. The spare memory card was in its plastic box back home in a drawer of my desk.

To save weight I'd taken my Canon T70, Canon A1 and several lenses out of my camera bag. I had though, from force of habit, dropped a couple of spare rolls of film in the bag. Only trouble was, they wouldn't fit.

PeterW

[mickeyobe]

Fifty and a half years ago my very pregnant wife calmly advised me that "It's time, Mickey."
I very calmy mopped the floor and rushed around our tiny apartment to make sure all the windows were closed, all the lights and the stove were off and and everything was shipshape.

I glanced around and satisfied that all was well grabbed the bag that had been sitting beside the door for almost a week, gently took my wife's arm and we proceeded to the car.

We were almost half way to the hospital when my wife noticed that I had taken my gadget bag but not her little suitcase.

Mickey

[alexkerhead]

Thanks for the cool stories everyone, nice to know I am not the only person who has CRS(Can't remember S***) syndrome.