[Trombone-l] OhMyGawd!

[Lisa & Patrick Bates]

Left my wallet and keys sitting on top of the Jetta on the way into a gig
last fall, walked out into the parking lot at the first chance (couldn't
find my wallet when I went for refreshments at the first break) and found
them right where I put them!
Patrick
Bass bone
Primitive Roots Jazz band

From: <mpurdy at jwpepper.com>

Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] OhMyGawd!


> Once when I owned a Volkswagen beetle I had to change from suit to tux in
> a parking lot.  I sat the horn outside to get some room to juggle and
> drove off without the horn.  About an hour later I blasted back into the
> parking lot and there it was - sitting on the bell end of the case like a
> pylon in the middle of the parking lot.  To this day I am amazed that is
> wasn't stolen or that some car hadn't knocked it down and ran over it.
>
> Another time I was working the Cornell University Culinary Arts
> dinner/senior graduation kick off.  There was open bar for the band and I
> left the gig all fat and happy.  On the way out of town I picked up a
> hitch hiker who had a back pack.  I told him to throw his back pack in the
> back seat w/ my horn and he said what horn?  I told him if he could get me
> back to the particular parking lot asap I'd drive him anywhere in NY state
> he was going.  He got me back there in pretty short order and there was my
> axe sitting right next to my former parking spot.  Fortunately he wasn't
> going significantly out of my way and I arrived home at about dawn but I
> truly was ready to take him where ever he was going if he got me back to
> recover my horn.
>
> Mike
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> "Bill Dinwiddie" <billdin at comcast.net>
> Sent by: trombone-l-bounces at maillists.samford.edu
> 06/11/2006 11:54 AM
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> Possible new thread:
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> Many of us have found ourselves in an unenviable position when we have
> left
> key pieces of our equipment at home and only discovered the omission when
> we
> arrived at the gig. I will never forget one specific instance when I got
> to
> the gig, reached into the back seat of the car, only to grasp the handle
> of
> my.....WHAT?...where the hell is my horn case!!!  OhMyGawd. Knowing full
> well that I was working that night for one of Chicago's least sympathetic
> band leaders, I mentally replayed the last 45 minutes, and realized that a
>
> habit I had developed had finally backfired on me. When I used to live in
> Rogers Park (extreme northern edge of Chicago), I rented a garage in the
> alley behind my apartment house, and when I would go to the garage to get
> my
> car out, I would leave my horn case on a conveniently placed garbage can,
> so
> that I could use both hands to open the garage door (you needed two hands
> because the door was old and heavy). Ignoring the wisdom over leaving
> one's
> case atop something as unsanitary as a garbage can, I can only say that
> the
> technique worked very well for me up until the night in question.
>
> Realizing that the only solution to my problem was to roar back up Lake
> Shore Drive to my apartment to retrieve the horn, my heart sank as I
> realized that the quest would very likely end badly. By this time, someone
>
> had probably seen the case and decided that it would fetch a nice price at
> a
> local pawn shop. By the time that I arrived back at the garage (after
> setting speed records on the 40 minute drive), I turned the corner on two
> wheels, and, lo and behold, there it was...still perched on the trash can.
>
> At this point, I can assure you that, unlike the joke, I did not find two
> trombone cases. After uttering a prayer of thanks, I was very happy just
> to
> retrieve one case and do another mad dash downtown to the gig, where I was
>
> amazed that I was only about 15 minutes late. I wasn't much good the rest
> of
> the night as I was mentally exhausted.
>
> Do any other members have horrifying stories of a similar nature? Maybe
> now
> is the time to get them off your chest.
>
> Bill Dinwiddie
> billdin at comcast.net
>
>
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