Posted on 02/28/2009 9:42:45 AM PST by Sarisky
(Note: I wrote this myself, so there are no copywriter restrictions – Actually, if you want, feel free to copy and reuse. My only restriction is that you don't take it as you own and stop others from copying it.)
Listen up people, there's lots of deep water and mountainous cliffs out there, so let's all be careful out there. Think of this as a warning as to all the places that people could inadvertently lose those long and short metal objects.
Worn holsters, carrying cases with faulty latches, backpacks full of holes. Not to mention tripping over roots and rocks, slippery hands and just general clumsiness.
Sometime people lose everything in a small forest fire or an overturned canoe. Sometimes things are lost to inaccessible places like off steep cliffs or dark ravines. Occasionally it's an innocent trip near a deep still lake in the mountains, and the last thing you see is that shiny metal splashing into the murky green water. There are those rare times were one might carry along their hardware to more exotic places. Geysers and hot springs, volcanoes and old mine shafts.
One can imagine an almost magnetic pull on the metal into the bottomless reaches of a unexplored cave or unfathomable sinkhole. Even quicksand and gravel pits out yonder in remote places can swallow up even long pieces, that no matter how long and hard your search, the cold darkness forces you to retreat back to civilization. And who can remember where something small enough to fit into the of palm of your hand was lost, upon returning for another search, weeks or months later?
All of this could mean that you have your hardware one minute and it's GONE FOREVER The next.
These are probably the top 50 + ways one could Lose all or some of their hardware(In No real order of importance):
1. Dropped off a cliff, Biff
2. Fell in a lake, Jake
3. Thrown at a bear, Clare
4. Buried in sand, Jan
5. Missing in mud,Jud
6. Fell down a crack, Jack
7. Lost the parts, Bart
8. Fell in a hole, Joel
9. Jogging Jostle, Justine
10. Lost in the tall grass, Cass
11. Deep in snow, Joe
12. Thrown out in the trash, Nash
13. Tripped into a well, Mel
14. Forgot in the can, Stan
15. Whitewater wipe out, Walt
16. Lost in cave, Dave
17. Left on top of the truck, Chuck
18. Holster fail, Dale
19. Hole in pocket, Crockett
20. Mountain hike, Spike
21. Buried in crete, Pete
22. Lost in a stable, Mable
23. Deep water splash, Nash
24. Stolen by thug, Doug
25. Misplaced moving crate, Nate
26. Quicksand, man
27. Spelunking mud, Bud
28. Lost at camp, Champ
29. Fell in some dirt, Burt
30. Deep ravine, Jean
31. Buried at sea, Bea
32. Deep water mishap, Chap
33. Overturned canoe, Drew
34. Garage sale last fall, Paul
35. Flipped over boat, that's all she wrote.
36. Storage shed fire, sire
37. Ice too thin, it fell in
38. Missing in a messy home, Jerome
39. Outhouse mishap, Oh Cr.....
40. Stolen from a shed, Ned
41. Sulfur springs are hot and corrosive, Joseph
42. Avalanche,Blanch
43. Lave flow, Joe
44. klutzy man, Stan
45. Deep abyss, Chris
46. Sinkhole slip, Trip
47. Metal don't float, Choate
48. Fell off a Jetty, Betty
49. Inadvertent misplace, Ace
50. Dropped on a high bridge, Midge
51. Rock climbing loss, Hoss
(Dis)Honorable mention:
Reached over on a boat, out it splashed from my coat.
Tripped on a root and it slid down a slope, tried to find it but have no hope
Took a tumble on glacier, now it's part of mother nature
Accidentally dropped into a vat of hot cosmoline.
(for the US taxpayer)
Bookmark for later use.
Several of these may actually come in handy.
Allowed government to take it away, unconstitutionally.
I wanted to throw out a few ideas, and get people to think on the subject.
Gave it to a cop for a drop, Pop.
Ping foir later read... too funny!
Buried it my back yard, Pard’.
Over my dead body, Roddy...
Amusing ping
LOL!
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