What is your biggest Brainf@rt of the year, so far?

The post about the stolen motorcycle brought to mind a fiasco I self-created a month ago.

I was home alone one evening and gonna do some tinkering on a tractor. I went to grab some wrenches out of my service truck and it was gone, vanished into thin air. This truck is my at home, farm toolbox, not much of a truck but a lot of tools in it. It commonly sits right next to my machine shed unless it is in use.

Panic hit me as I realized we had just got back from being gone for the weekend, it could have been gone a few days and I wouldn't have noticed. My shop in town had some things stolen early this summer, so now my brain is in high gear thinking someone is casing me out.

I called a friend to see if he took it, nope. I called the neighbor, he hadn't seen it. My dad didn't take it. I hopped on the 4 wheeler and did a quick property search, nothing.

I went in the house and was on the phone with the sheriff when my cell phone buzzed, it was the neighbor I had called earlier. I told the dispatcher I would call her back. (for the record, I had used the non-emergency #)

He happened to be standing in another neighbors field talking to him. This guy owns land across the ditch from my 80. From where they were standing they thought they could make out a white truck behind a treeline along my field.

I thanked them and ran over there with the 4 wheeler. There it was, tucked in behind the trees, nothing missing. I was just left with trying to figure out why someone took it and left it there.

I was still pretty fired up about someone "stealing" my truck when my wife and boys got home.

I was telling them about it, and how mad it made me that someone had the gall to come into my yard and take my truck.

My 15 yr old had a worried look on his face and said "Dad, last Thursday I brought the truck out there and parked so it was there with a roll of netwrap in it in case you needed it." You brought me home in the tractor.

To this day, I can't remember doing that, but my whole family insists that is what happened.

So, by now I have the whole neighborhood stirred up, my family thinking I'm going senile, and a deputy standing at my door because I forgot to call the dispatcher back.

To top it off, guess what the hot topic was at our annual neighborhood get together a few days later.

Yeah, I'm a bonehead. BW
Anyone else pull any good ones this past year?
 
Yeah we needed a handcart a few weeks ago and tore the place apart hunting for it. That and a few other tools that had gone 'missing'. SIL finally remembered they were down in the cow barn where we had replaced a wall and door last summer....
 
I had a unthinking moment last month. Wife and I where in the TSC getting dog food. When we saw ab recliner chair, on sale no less. So I gravitated over to said chair for a closer look. First though was Why is TSC selling furniture? And who needs a Camouflage chair ? Well after sitting in it I decided "I" did. Wife sat on the matching couch and though it was much better than the well worn lumpy old sectional we have in the room with the wood stove were we like to linger this time of year.
We laughed about it , picked up our dog food and left. After 3 days of laughing about it , and hating the old lumpy couch , I went back to TSC and bought them.
Now you might think that was my silly move, perhaps. But it gets worse. I get the stuff home and find there is no way to get it in the house through a standard 2'6"x 6'6" door. Now what!!!
Out came the 4'x5' front window, and in went the couch. Who would of guessed that they would build furniture too big to go through a regular door. Never assume anything. Real comfy, and built in USA. Bruce
 
I hauled hay to an Amish fellow last fall and left the wagon for them to unload. This spring word came through my uncle if I was ever going to collect my wagon. I knew I was missing one just couldn't figure where it was.
 
the wife just said ,we are out of paper towells,I Said Ill go down to the basement shelf and get them. Always trying to save steps in my old ageand be more efficient,I took the trash can out to the street while I Was down stairs,,,came up ,,the wife said wheres the paper towells? Down the stairs I Went again.
 
I left some tools here on the farm when I went to Germany in 93. In 95 when I returned I couldn't find them to save my life. I was thinking that my mom had let my BIL farm the land and they had used them. Figured his boy, my nephews, had worked on equipment, used my tools and forgot to put em back. Talked to my BIL and he didn't know anything. So I left it be. The next summer while here on leave I cleaned out a shed for my mother. I'd already replaced the missing tools. About 300 dollars worth. In the shed I found one of my dads old tool boxes, opened it up and there were my tools. Mom had seen them in the basement, knew they were mine and put them in the box. Then she had one of the grandkids take it to the shed. I was really glad I didn't blow a gasket when I couldn't find them and mom had forgotten about them.

Rick
 
Just a couple nights ago, went to the refrigerator to grab a cold drink and my block of pepper jack cheese. Got my knife out of the utensil drawer, cut a few slices and headed to the tv room. About 10 minutes later headed back to the refrigerator to get a couple more slices of cheese, NO CHEESE! Not in the refrigerator or on the counters, even check the trash. After a few minutes of fussing around the kitchen and some choice words I found my cheese in the utensil drawer.
 
had freezing rain the other day and when I got out of work couldn't get any of the doors open. tried for 10 minutes pounding and prying on them. went back inside and got a bucket of warm water and as I was pouring it on the door and window seams I saw all of the lock buttons were down. Stuck the key in and turned it and low and behold they really weren't frozen just lockrf. Bill
 
You mean like going into the bathroom after just waking up and plugging the heater into my mouth and pouring the Listerine into the socket? Like when the wife asked, "Do you think I look fat?" and without thinking said "Sure" to let her think that I was listening when I really wasn't, but should have been that time? Can't think of any off the top of my head.

Mark
 
I went out to deliver liquid feed to a heard.Got to the feeder ran the hose out. Started the pump. Then it hit me. I forgot to fill the liquid feed tank before I left.Good thing cows can't talk.
 
I went looking for my cell phone a few weeks ago. I knew I had just had it, but it was nowhere to be found. The funny thing is the case often comes off my belt when I am wearing a coat, and the case was missing too. I walked around the house looking everywhere I had been, but nothing. My wife finally asked me what I was looking for, so, of course, I said my cell phone.

Now the really funny, brainf@rty part. Her response was , "Your talking on it". Yep, I had been talking to my Dad when I came in the door, and in our conversation realized I needed to call someone else before it got too late. So I had reached for my phone to call them, and realized it wasn't there. Even worse, the case was right where I had laid it when I took my jacket off and it came off my belt. What a DUH moment..........
 
I am always pulling stunts like that and can't remember how something got where it was saddled the horse today to go help the neighbors works some cows and Aldo sort some of mine out to sell couldn't find my dog anywhere wondered all day where he was got home and I had locked him in the cab of the truck when I went to get my saddle out this morning .
 
Late last spring I cashed a bunch of checks I'd accumulated for odds and ends shop/mechanic work I'd done. Came out of the bank with a twitch over $5,000 in an envelope. I put the envelope in the ash tray of the pickup since I had some stops to make in another town and I thought it would be out of sight in the ash tray. Went to the other town, made some stops and came home.

The next day I remembered the cash was still in the pickup but I had it in my head I had put it in the arm rest so I looked there and NO CASH! I scoured that pickup from head to toe, finding some ancient relics I'd long forgotten about but still no cash. I didn't think to look in the ash tray. Called the son, he scoured the pickup and found nothing, but he too forgot to check the ash tray. I was bummed! A couple of weeks later my son handed me the envelope and said "happy father's day". He was looking for something else in the pickup and finally opened the ash tray and found the cash.
 
I keep a tube of anti-seize with my gun stuff for the breech plugs on muzzleloaders. Some time ago I noticed it was missing. Asked the sons if they had seen it & nope neither had. Then I said you maybe put in some sparkplugs & left it in the shop. They said nope, didn't change any plugs. Youngest son picked up another tube but the old one never did show up. ????????????
 
Seeding cover crops is getting popular around here. So a good friend talked me into letting some of the Rye I seeded last fall mature for seed. So I combined the rye this summer. I have a real nice smaller Parker gravity box on a JD 740 gear. I wanted to put the rye in that wagon as it pulls like a trailer. I went to the shed where that wagon is always stored, no wagon. I could not find that wagon anywhere. I checked with my sons and my brother no body had seen that wagon.

I have several wagons stored at a rented farm. It is close to a road and the wagons can be seen in the three sided shed. So I thought some one had stolen that wagon. So I reported it stolen and turn the loss onto my insurance company.

About the first week of Sept. I come home and that wagon is setting in the driveway. What the heck???? My wife told me Charlie brought back my wagon and paid me for the use of it?????? I was drawing a total blank. Wham!!! I had combined his corn in the fall of 2013. The weather was great that day but they were calling for rain and snow the next day. We really wanted to get done that day/night. His bin was full and the trucks were full. So we gathered up all the wagons we could get under roof. HE was putting them away as I filed them. I totally forgot him getting that wagon to finish with his crop. HE kept the wagon at his place as the roads had salt on them by the time he got it empty. He stored it inside until he figured I needed it to use. He even washed it.

You could have put a gun to my head and I could not have told you where that wagon was. LOL You should have seen the look the insurance agent gave me when I went in and paid them back for the wagon claim. The county sheriff had a good laugh at me too. LOL
 
Yeah, the whole insurance thing was going thru my head too. I was trying to figure out how I could explain to my agent that I had thousands of dollars in tools stolen in a thousand dollar truck.

I'm lucky the neighbor stopped to bs with the other neighbor about the bean crop. Otherwise who knows how far down a rabbit trail I would've gotten before my kid figured out my mess up. BW
 
Can't think of one lately, but I installed a bathtub once with my tape measure under it. Had to go in the basement and cut a hole in the floor to get it out. I was only partly sure that's where I left it, but out came the Sawzmost. It was a really nice tape that my then fiance got me.
 
Oh yeah, one more. My sister in law helped us clean the house before our wedding. She took the knobs off the oven to clean them. I checked all the wiring and searched for another heating element before we realized the knob was on upside down. I don't know how long we went with no oven.
 
happens too many times amongst neighbors, family and friends,, we are the same here,, other day I was lookin for my bucket of wheel pullers ,,was not in usual spot , , called my neighbor? he had them in his shop ,,.we try to return stuff, and certainly don't try to confiscate one anothers stuff ,, one day I walked rite past the 430 case hooked to spray rig,thinkin I left it back of the barn ,,. least I have not sprayed roundup on 15 acres of non gmo corn like one of my BTO Neighbors did , YET ,,.,,,..best one I recall was a friends wife came in from work anxious and ready to rake hay ,, but could not find the rake,,, drove over to the crick field , back the lane , and up to the turtletop field ,, only to come back empty handed and disgusted wondering if I borrowed it? , only to find the rake behind the fuel tanks and grain bin , WHERE SHE LEFT it ... with all the juglin careers , compoit is unded responsibilities and many many needs ,, ,, no wonder that some things are forgot,,
 
It could've been worse than the tape. We put a shower unit in for some people while they were away on vacation. We were done the day before they got home. I guess we boarded their cat up behind the shower. Luckily they had a drop ceiling below the shower. The cat was glad they came home! We also put lattice around a porch once. Got done and were ready to leave and I couldn't find my dog. You guessed it, we boxed him in under the porch!
 
i left a ladder up at the holding tank when i first hooked it up. about every 6 mo's or so afterwards, when i wanted that ladder and couldn't find it. i would stomp around cussing and wondering who came on my property and stole my ladder. needless to say, i was left feeling stupid and guilty for the thoughts i had when i thought it was stolen. it did teach me to not be soo quick to start pointing fingers.
 
Went to load up my freshly restored Farmall H on my deck-over bumper pull trailer this August. I hooked up the trailer and pulled it to where I wanted it to be for loading. Got it all set and headed up the ramps. I load my tractors driving on the trailer forwards, and about the time the rear wheels got fully onto the beaver-tail, the trailer rose up and came off the ball. There I was balancing the trailer like a teeter totter with my H. I was lucky enough to have my son there to jump in the truck to move it forward, but not until the trailer tongue skipped a couple of times across the tailgate. I had to keep it balanced in mid-air until he got the front stand down a little so I could drive forward and get it on the ground. Dumb mistake not latching the hitch, and thankfully no one was hurt! I guess I must have restored the brakes and clutch very well! Funny thing, when it was all said and done, I did have it perfectly placed on the trailer!
 
Eastsider, we have a tractor teeter-totter at our local threshing show here in ND every October, sounds like you should come over for it. Not many guys can balance their tractor.....
 

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