So, if anyone happens to see a pair of shiny expensive glasses in the canal around about SRD's place, they're mine.
Also: next time, just push the bike home from the pub, you idiot.
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Uberuce Down. In, Technically.
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Posted 11 years ago #
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"in the canal" - ?
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Yes. I'm off out to have a hopeless look for them, but that's purely because I shouldn't *not* have a look for them rather than any expectation of finding the spot I veered off the path, let alone getting them back.
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The spot I remember looking around at after pulling self and bike out of canal, thinking "this is where I need to look for my glasses tomorrow" is right after the chicane by Harrison Park east, which I imagine is the cause of my failure to remain on the dry part.
Couple of scabs on my forehead to show for it, too. Wouldn't have happened if I was wearing hi-viz.
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Couldn't you see the nice 'runway lights'??
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So, are you organising a nice search party - with refreshments?
There are at least two people on here who go diving.
Posted 11 years ago # -
I'm happy to help with refreshments....
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Already been for the aforementioned hopeless look and saw naaathing. Canal expert Steve at Zazou, during my recovery spicy chai coffee, sadly informed me that the silt I disturbed in the course of falling in would have covered them within seconds, so it's now a matter of working out whether it's cheaper to buy replacements or lose the no-claims.
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... and thanking your lucky stars its just the glasses and not you!
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Perhaps thee is a lesson there, to NOT take your bike to the pub in the first place...
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Sorry to hear about uberuce in the drink.
Sounds like uberuce was trying to be sensible by taking the canal after a pint or two instead of the road?
I have done this, ,e.g. ,from Golden Rule last time I was there briefly with Steveo, Uberuce, SRD and Clive Dunn ( not real name). This was summer and still light so maybe less risky?
What about an elasticky band for joining the specs at the back so that if they fall off they are still attached to your person? A bit late for this suggestion granted.
Posted 11 years ago # -
This is another reason to get a Brompton (as I was told when I got mine): not only can you bring it into the pub with you, but if at the end of the night you can't manage to unfold it, you're too drunk to ride AND it's easy to get it in a taxi.
There's quite a few folk round here tell me they have folding bikes in the boot of the car for getting home from the pub on when they're too drunk to drive. It's lucky our roads are quiet!
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I was trying to drop number one son off at Glasgow Central for the train to London this morning. At 1000 hrs the nearest space I could find was just off Blytheswood Sq. There weren't many people about so I assume many of the cars were left from Saturday night. Parking is free from 1800 hrs on Saturday till 0800 hrs on Monday.
Yes, I know he could have just got the train from Airdrie but then his mum would have had an hour less with her wee lamb and couldn't check he got on the big train safely.
I sometimes carry a Brompton to let us park far away from busy areas. That's why I occasionally have one at Edinburgh castle or the NMS.
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Baldcyclist's disapproval was already on the cards, and entirely justified.
I suspect I was trying to give my awesomesauce new light a spin, since the flat the post-pub party was at isn't actually on that route.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Oh Bruce did you actually end up in the canal ? Dear oh dear oh dear. Hope you had a helmet on......
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No helmet; proper heid-to-toe drookit dunking in the canal.
Can't work out what I hit my head on; I've got a glasses-lens imprint on my right cheek and scabs on the left side of my forehead, but I dunno what could have belted me aside from the bed of the canal.
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... and a lifejacket
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....Davy McJones's locker
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Sympathy.
Done that in Linlithgow, you can spice it up by waiting for a thin cover of ice, I found.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Just give the Polis a call from a phone box saying you saw someone through a gun in the canal. Then just casually pass by when they are searching and mention you once lost a pair of glasses there.
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"dunno what could have belted me"
Maybe you were mugged.
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"
Sadly, Kemp drowned in the Union Canal before the monument’s completion."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:George_Meikle_Kemp_by_William_Bonnar.jpg
Posted 11 years ago # -
Dear oh dear, Bruce, I commiserate heartily. Fortunately in my student days I wasn't a cyclist but I did lose many a pair of glasses on the beach or in bushes or up trees attempting to take "shortcuts" home in the dark. I once got stuck on a wire fence I was climbing over as I got across the top and tried to get down the other side but my wooly jumper got so caught in the wires that to escape I had to leave it up there.
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"up trees attempting to take "shortcuts" "
Was that after you lost the glasses??
And you expect students to behave 'properly' these days...
Posted 11 years ago # -
It just makes me happy there's a big wall between the pavement I cycle back from the pub on and the Forth.
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Ahhhh this is reminiscent of my (second because the first one actually worked) "I bet I can cycle with my eyes closed for 10 seconds" incident.
I just remember being on my back on the grass.
Posted 11 years ago # -
@Kaputnic that's the plot of the tale of peter rabbit ....minus the drink
Posted 11 years ago # -
I'm trying to remember whether Ratty wore glasses in Wind in the Willows. I would certainly have strong words with any suspicious looking rodents in the vicinity...
Posted 11 years ago # -
In fact, maybe it was a gang mugging. Do you smell of badger, at all?
Posted 11 years ago # -
See big B, yer much better off on the piss with me, at least I make ya walk home.
Seriously tho, leave it locked up an stagger guys, its no the taxi driver that'll get hurt...
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