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Whilst on holiday on one occasion in Matts Grandparent's mobile home, in Hythe, we found a large inflatable dinghy. We also found a car cigarette-lighter powered pump for it, and a hand pump.
We decided that it would be a good laugh to take the boat to the sea side and have a muck about.
There was only one problem.....
Matts car (a MK1 Fiesta in a sexy shade of, well, Peanut butter) didn't have the optional Cigarette lighter fitted. We tried the hand pump, but soon realised that it would take approx 6 years to fill the boat, and decided there needed to be a way of filling it using the electric pump.
Somehow we managed to bodge the pump to the car's battery, and filled the boat up quite quickly.
Next problem. It would now NO WAY fit into the car. DAMN.
solution.... we let out some of the air, and rammed it into the car through the boot. The car was totally full of boat and us two, but we only needed to top up the air with the hand pump when we got there now! result!

We arrived at Dymchurch, parked the car, and Prised ourselves, and the boat from the crammed Fiesta.
Next we topped up the air in the boat, and fitted the stopper.
WAHEY!!!
The boat was thrown into the sea, and we both eagerly jumped in, and paddled for all we were worth out to sea. Surely France couldn't be THAT far????
About 15 mins or so into our sailing holiday, we noticed the boat was , well, SINKING!!!! it turns out we were sinking very rapidly, in fact. There was one very good reason for this. There wasn't a stopper in the boat any more!

It very quickly became apparent that we had no choice but to abandon ship!

Both of us abandoned ship, fully clothed in denim jackets, jeans and tee-shirts! we swam back towards the coastline as best we could (IN JEANS!).

As i approached the shore, i found one of those wooden posts. I believe they are called "Groins". When i say "Found" i mean i kicked it with my bare foot!!! OUCH!!!!

We eventually got back on the beach, and decided that it would be a good idea if we went into town for a bit to dry off before we got back into the car. There was one problem in this. I had a blue denim jacket and black jeans, and matt had a Black denim jacket and Blue jeans! SHOCK HORROR! never mind the fact we were soaked! no matter, we swapped jackets!

We spent the next hour or so in town, then went back to the caravan for dinner!

Tim

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During the school summer holidays one year Tim and I camped out in a friends garden (the friend with the motorbikes).

We pitched out tents at the bottom of their big garden and built ourselves a large camp fire. We decided that we would cook all of our food on the fire as well as using it to keep warm through the night.

As the night was clear and dry we decided to sleep next to the fire rather than in the tents. After the customary sitting around until the early hours of the morning the three of us finally fell asleep.

I had probably been a sleep for a few hours when I was woken by this shouting (more like screaming!). As I came out of my deep sleep and sat up all I could see was two balls of fire bouncing down the garden and I could hear someone in pain. As I went to investigate the next thing I heard was a splash.

Turns out that Tim had fallen asleep with his feet so close to the camp fire that his boot eventually caught light! As he got up and danced around the garden in pain he did the sensible thing and jumped in the pond!

Another classic!!!

Matt

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Another particularly stupid holiday event:

Tim and I went on holiday just after Christmas one year and stayed in a hotel in somewhere on the south coast. We thought that staying in a big hotel for New Year would be fun and that there would be a lively atmosphere. We were really wrong!

As is the way when you get bored you start to find ways to amuse yourself. We were staying in a newly refurbished room in the hotel that had lots of new lighting and suspended ceilings.

We thought that it would be really funny to rewire the lights in the room. Tim, being a qualified electrician, spent the best part of a day altering the wiring so that once he was finished the light switches functioned rather differently!

Switching the bathroom light on turned on the bedside lights, the bedside light switched on the TV and the bathroom light. The main room light switch turned on the light in the bathroom, etc.

We thought this was very funny, and thought that the next guests would be very confused, and the hotel would blame the people that just refurbished the room.

It was a pretty stupid idea, but at the time we figured it was the hotels fault for being so dull around Christmas. Looking back I’m so glad that the hotel didn’t come after us! The hotel isn’t there any more.

Matt

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