Wheelie Bin Surfing.
About twa summers ago I had spent a delightful afternoon trimming the hedges around my garden and was at that stage of the job where I now had to pack all the cuttings etc into the brown wheelie bin.

At first all went well until basically I started to run out of bin.........

Now to make more I climbed in beside the cuttings and jumped up and down on the contents compressing them in a downward manner thus allowing more space for the decapitated greenery.

No problems it will all fit........

Nope it wont, so in a go again slowly but surely running out of bin as I stomp and jump up and down in an effort to get every little last bit in.....

Finally I realise as I sit the bin across the hill outside my house that this will be the last one, even jumping up and down like a demented, tantrum throwing five year old isn't going to get much more in.

What I didn't bother about at the time was that now I'm probably over three feet up in a bin with wheels.

Last load goes in and I climb on once again jumping up and down like a loon.

This gets the attention of my daughter who comes out to see what kind of fun I'm having.

Up and down jumps I a little more not realising that as I'm doing so the bin is staring to turn under me, into a down hill direction.

The first I really caught on was when the tree in my garden gently passed by in what to me seemed like an uphill direction...

Now not being a complete retard I twigged fairly sharpish what was happening as the bin picked up speed with me on top.

However on seeing the daughter I struck the classic surfers pose as I rolled by thinking this will give her a bit of a laugh...

Seconds before I realised that my next stop would be the "busy" main road at the bottom of the hill.......

Well rather than just jumping off I decide to grab some fence on the way by as it will stop me quicker,

Which it did as it also carved a six inch gouge up the length of my arm.......

The bairn turned and wandered of shouting to her mum as she went, "mum get the first aid box again dad's still not grown up"..........

I still have the scar as proof (one of the better ones).......
(Dark Matter All The Wonders In The World & We Invent Boredom, Mon 16 Feb 2009, 14:56, 5 replies)

Wheelie Good
Classic! Have a click!
( Vambo, Mon 16 Feb 2009, 15:36, closed)

Click
mainly for your daughter's reaction. Plus the punnage: "I twigged fairly sharpish" - was that intentional?
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 16 Feb 2009, 17:05, closed)

Me intentional?
Nope; add that to the darwin entry........ :-)
(Dark Matter All The Wonders In The World & We Invent Boredom, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 10:40, closed)

Your daughters reaction
is ace. Click for that.
(Ghost Atreides enjoying incontestable health benefits on, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 1:15, closed)

advice: never read QOTW in an office
Just had to fake a coughing fit to disguise the giggles.

Thank you for the hilarity :)
( admiral crunch holds the newsreader's nose squarely, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 13:52, closed)