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Default What's your most stupid DIY cockup?

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Theo Markettos writes:
Mentalguy2k8 wrote:
Mine has to be taking the waste pipe off the sink and cleaning it under
running water in the same sink without a plug in. Every single time.


Parked car in the 'short stay' bays at the station to drop somebody off.
Come back to the car and the key got stuck in the lock and it wouldn't turn.
Pulled out the Haynes manual and proceeded to try to hotwire the car (in
full view of passers by). Eventually gave up and called the RAC. RAC man
took off the steering wheel lock (which I'd never heard of before) and it
worked fine.


A friend did something similar with a rental car. At end of a
holiday, they were driving one of the people to a railway station
in Spain IIRC, who was going home to Germany by train, before
dropping the car back at the airport and catching a plane home.

When they dropped off the friend at the station, unload his lugguage,
and waved him off, they realised the rental car keys were on the train,
heading off to Germany, and the car was stopped in a no stopping place
outside the station...

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