Feeling weird

[jepuskar]

Ok, this post probably falls under the TOO MUCH INFORMATION category, but I feel like sharing it anyway.

I just purchased a used dive computer as a backup to my primary one...well, it was in good shape, but looked like it could use a little cleaning.

I decided to bring it in the shower with me....now, since I only shower once a week, this is quite an event. So here I am in the shower with my dive computer when I thought of all of you. I thought...hmmm, I should post my experience. Ofcourse I thought of a couple of you in that process....how does that make you feel?

Also, do any of have any kind of weird diving related events like this......maybe not similiar, but I know plenty of you are pretty hard-core and probably have done stuff to make non-divers look at you funny...

:droplet: :droplet: :droplet:

 

[Mo2vation]

Walking from dive site, to hotel room, and showering in full kit before packing it away - not a great choice when you're trying to pull on a vacation with your non-diving "date"...

Reading the Fundys book in the gym as you're puffing on a bike getting in your Cardio... always gets stares

Working on your back kick and your mod frog on the bed... as wifie is trying to watch Westwing. Sorry hun, put some ice on that eye, it won't swell much...

Surfing Scubaboard from an airport Internet Station between flights...

Prancing around the house in my BP/W rig to get it sized, then the UPS guy comes over and I need to go to the porch to sign, as the mail comes, as the neighbors are walking their dog, etc, etc... Yeah - I'm the dork who lives here with the rocket pack.

Selling my drysuit box on eBay for $30. Then selling my wife's box for $35. That was both genius and really, really twisted...



Geeze - I need a life.

 

[jepuskar]

"Then selling my wife's box for $35"

:rofL:

 

[scuberd]

last year when living in the dorms on campus I'd wash my gear in the shower (big communal, co-ed bathrooms) and end by taking a shower surrounded by my gear that was hanging up drying.

I once came up on the wrong beach after a dive and got to walk down yuppified, ritzy, cannery row in Monterey with all of my wet gear.

thats about all for now, ask again in a couple of years and I will have better stories

 

[FallenMatt]

Got a new Backlpate and wings last week and decided to go and check trim/bouyancy. I don't have a pool but my boss does.. nice 10 feet deep one. So of course i ask, he agrees for me to come over. I get all suited up and float at the bottom of the pool while people topside are laughing and making jokes

I ended up having to clean up the pool while sitting at the bottom "as a favor" (vacuuming the bottom with a big hose

going to hardware store to get some nonstandard bolts that are missing from my backplate.. i ask the guy in there for help and he is looking at me funny (wierd, non-standard nuts) ... what do you need those for ? "diving.. err.. scuba diving"...

Trying my new 5 mm hood on with my full two piece 3 mm wetsuit, at home, alone... walking around with full gear and sweating mighty.. phone calls and i end up sittin on my poor chair (tank also attached!!!) and talking on the phone for 15 minutes before i had to say "sorry, can you call me in 10 minutes i am err.. i need to do something now"

this didn't happen to me but to one other guy i was diving with:

going for a dive in a rain, on a boat, pouring down wall of water.. the guy gets all his clothes soakign wet. Alll the divers decide to go for some food to the restaurant on the dockside. He ends up sitting at the table with us and eating food with farmer john 3mm wetsuit still on and booties .. the waiter didn't say anything about the wierd attire

and probably some more wierd stuff...

 

[scuberd]

FallenMatt once bubbled...
going for a dive in a rain, on a boat, pouring down wall of water.. the guy gets all his clothes soakign wet. Alll the divers decide to go for some food to the restaurant on the dockside. He ends up sitting at the table with us and eating food with farmer john 3mm wetsuit still on and booties .. the waiter didn't say anything about the wierd attire

and probably some more wierd stuff...

this made me think of another good one:
my friend and I had just finished a dive on the west shore of Lake Tahoe and were packing up talking about getting some food, when it suddenly dawns on us that we have no towels, swimsuits on underneath, nor private places to change. So we just walk into one of the overpriced breakfast joints in our wet wetsuits and have a meal. We got a few looks when we walked in, but it was worth it, we both had a good laugh about it.

 

[Jersey]

More then once, whilst patching up seams, leaks, tears in drysuit &/or wetsuits have left them sitting on the sofa or layed out on the bed. Then forget they are there & walk in & startle myself because I forgot about them. Even more fun when someone else (non-diver) walks in, usually in the evening hours! More then once friends have told me - The drysuit scared the s_ _ t out of me!

 

[Soggy]

Scared the hell out of my roommates when they walked to the basement and saw a "body" hanging from a hook in the ceiling.

Once, when testing my drysuit for leaks, I came real close to leaving the inflated suit on my roommate's bed. I would have done it if I wasn't worried about her stabbing it.

 

[cstreu1026]

A friend at a LDS ws telling me about another guy that left his glasses in a mask box on a bench at a local quarry while he went diving in his prescription mask. Someone decided that they liked te box and stole it with the glasses inside. He ended up having to drive nearly three hours home in his mask....I can imagine the stares he got on the road and even when he went to fill up before leaving.

 

[Aquabella]

LOL, you guys are killing me.

Oh man, I'm glad I didn't see that guy driving down the highway with his mask on. You know, with a straight, slightly red face and all. I would have had a windshield full of coke! Oo..ouch..the nose too