Epic fail

Had to look it up, never heard them called Garry's before. Live and learn!!

Got to rotate my footwear at least

Ha ha

I flew home from Berlin absolutely battered on acid once. A truly harrowing experience. I missed the train I'd booked home from the airport and didn't have enough money for a new ticket. Jumping ticket barriers and hiding in train toilets on acid wasn't much fun either.
Beats the time I fell asleep at the airport in Milan after playing a late night gig and missed my early morning flight to my Gran's funeral though. I was pretty much sober for that as well.
What happened to me? I used to be so fun.

Now we all just need to agree on the plural form

Yea, because one is never enough!!

Has to be Garries or Garys. I have written it with an apostrophe which is incorrect. I think I favour the former for some reason.

Moorish little sods

The older I get the clearer it is that youth is indeed wasted on the young. Myself included.

These missed flight tales are brilliant. I’ve clearly led a sheltered life, arriving at the airport 2 hours before departure.

Yeah just the idea of sessioning it the night before flying is giving me anxiety

I've used that term before without knowing why.

So I looked it up:
Liverpool defender Gary Ablett (Gary Ablett = Tablet)

Remember being on the dance floor battered at Tom&Jerry's in Kathmandu and glancing at my watch thinking five hours until my flight lets crack on, at some point someone handed me a bloody mary which I downed despite hating the taste of raw tomato, got a memory of dashing to a toilet to vomit and my next memory was being woken up by a flight attendant stroking my forehead, I might as well of been in a straight jacket how tightly I had been tucked in with blankets and they informed we were approaching Abu Dhabi where I had to make my connection. Got off the plane and put my hand in my pocket to be greeted by a very melted snickers with no wrapper, lovely.

Hadn't even packed before headed out on the booze but somehow I had nothing missing when I got my bag off the plane.

my next memory was being woken up by a flight attendant stroking my forehead

In my teens, on the way back from a family holiday spent mostly getting hammered with other teens, and barely making it to bed before we had to get up to go to the airport.

So I passed out on the flight.

Where a flight attendant thought it would be - I dunno, cute? amusing? in some way not creepy? - to kiss me on the cheek to wake me for descent.

She was not banking on me being a bit of a fitful waker.

I bolted awake, jerked upright, and my head twatted her in the face. It didn't quite break her nose, but definitely spread it about a bit, judging by the volume of blood.

I’m fairness the sesh wasn’t planned. We went to the Gabba to watch cricket for the day and it just so happened our guy lived on the opposite side of the road and was at home when we text him during the innings break.

I feel like you lot all need to go and update the hangovers thread.

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/170840/

It's not a hangover when you're still absolutely hammered, like I was when I had to ring my (now ex) wife from Dublin, at lunchtime, to explain that I might be a little late home from a couple of beers with some Irish mates in West London the previous evening. There was a party going on, you see, and Ryan Air seemed like a good idea.....

Ryan Air seemed like a good idea

Correct thread

I nearly missed a flight connection through Hong Kong just because the first flight was a little delayed. We got to the desk and there was a little crowd waiting for us. Bit stressful but we got to go through the staff security bit.

I missed a flight to Thailand by convincing myself we were actually flying 2 days later. Got a text whilst at my desk at work, ‘congrats you are landing in Dubai in 1 hr’, which was a surprise to say the least.
Did not tell Mrs Hammer until we were in the airport Wetherspoons, where it was too late to get upset about £1600 wasted.

This is a good story.

deleted as it didnt seem as funny on a reread as it did while typing.

Actual lol!

Had to look it up, never heard them called Garry's before. Live and learn!!

Pub like spoons?

Not sure if this is epic but it was certainly a fail. I was teaching a basic maintenance class - really basic stuff like knowing what a barrel adjuster is for, how to check the bike for simple safety issues, how to repair a puncture, how to get the wheels on and off. Having demonstrated, on my own wheel, how to get the tyre off and the inner tube in and out, I pumped it up and we carried on. Until I put it back in the frame and something was knocking loudly with each revolution. I'd done something I'd have thought impossible - I'd refitted and re-inflated the tyre with a a tyre lever inside it.
Now I know how surgeons feel when they have to go back in to retrieve a wrist watch.

Storage hack tho

So much this. patent it and do a kickstarter for they tyre lever that you need a tyre lever to access.