
Freddie Woo tells us how he recently spent ages trying to open his front door with his Oyster Card before realising he actually needed things called "keys". Tell us of times you've done stupid things while on auto-pilot
( , Thu 21 Mar 2013, 12:20)
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I once had a motorcycle which, while it was a thing of beauty to look at, didn't handle that well. To be honest, it cornered about as well as a drunken puppy on an ice rink. But, at the time it was the most expensive vehicle I'd ever bought, so rather than do the sensible thing, which was to ditch it for something better, I decided to set myself the challenge of mastering the twitchy bitch.
So every day on my regular work commute, I'd practice the various corners. There was one in particular that I found difficult, and I could never seem to get it right.
Then one day, everything slotted into place, and I made the perfect turn. Mark Webber would have paused in his violent pummelling of Sebastian Vettel to applaud from the side-lines, as I powered past the apex in perfect balance, and smugly rode off down the road with that sense of mastery over a machine that comes all too rarely.
Then I remembered that it was Saturday, and I wasn't going to work, so I was now heading in entirely the wrong direction.
( , Tue 26 Mar 2013, 11:13, 4 replies)

Heading in the wrong direction riding a bike. Because it's always fun. Unless it's raining, And your waterproof's leak.
( , Tue 26 Mar 2013, 17:27, closed)
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