We did loads of these odd errands with newbies;
Brakes for jet-skis was one, another was sending the YTS guy into the Chemist next door and asking the polite old woman for the really large suppositories, really good for a hangover apparently. All she said back to back was "Awwww bless." He went purple when he found out what they were.
( Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Sat 10 Jul 2010, 8:14, 2 replies)

i'll take a left handed turkey baster
and keep my own right handed turkey baster - twice the gravy in half the time!
(goorf, Sat 10 Jul 2010, 10:03, closed)

There are some excellent ones
like tartan paint, skirting board ladders, glass hammers, skyhooks, buckets of compressed air... :D
(Beelzebub's Ball Bag is pleasuring your wife on, Mon 12 Jul 2010, 13:10, closed)