D'oh! Stupid PV tricks...

[lizziebith]

Okay -- how many of you have taken user error to an embarrassing level? This morning, I couldn't for the life of me figure out why so many of my cartos had stopped working. I was certain my newbishness had just killed them somehow, so I was tossing one after another into my desk trash can.

THEN, I noticed that I'd never plugged in my pass-through today.


Um, good thing I was able to pick the trashed cartos out of the can easily!

Let's hear your funny stories!

 

[KPKicker]

I just did this a few minutes ago.

I am sucking and puffing and huffing away on my 902 and getting nothing. No light, no vapor, zilch. It just came out of the PCC so I know there is a charge on it.

So what's the problem?

I start to panic. I huff and puff harder. Nic-fit builds. I pull the cart, check the juice level, check the blue foam, put it back together. Huff and puff and suck and puff and still nothing!

Panic level off the scale. Nic-fit past the red line. Explosion imminent. They are going to be picking up little pieces of me all over the county! RED ALERT! RED ALERT!

I take the 902 out of my mouth, preparing to fling it across the room when my palm touches an odd protrusion about mid way down the PV.

Yep. It was my manual 902. They don't work so good if you don't push the button.
8-o

 

[lizziebith]

GREAT story!!

 

[maxx]

I have done both the USB PT and manual/auto errors....

Other than those, I guess trying to write with an XL is about the stupidest thing I have done. V4L shoudl design a pop-on ink pen attachment for the "ash" end.

 

[ImYourSalt]

i had a good laugh with this thread.

 

[Trish342]

I have done the auto/manual thing.

 

[Skyler]

I have a real problem with putting the wrong end in my mouth. The LED is cold.

 

[Mary Kay]

Yes to all of the above! Add..
Trying to screw the carto onto the ash end.
Dripping into the batt instead of the carto (thank goodness I use manuals!)
And most embarassing to date: Putting my VK in my bra on a walk and then when it slid a bit farher then I wanted it too..digging for it. meanwhile a car was passing and slowed down to watch my antics!

 

[bornagainst]

I was a wee bit drunk (theres a shock) and lit my shortie with a lighter.

I was a tad confused.

 

[JenJen]

My favorite was when someone (not me of course!) who was still smoking a few cigs a day, but vaping mostly and set a lit cigarette down on a coffee table and walked off letting it sit there and burn a while. What about taking the VaporKing and trying to snuff it out in an ashtray? Or in the car tapping the VK's "ashes" out the window? I still find myself tapping my VK to lose the ashes from time to time - that seems to be my hardest habit to break lol.

 

[lizziebith]

Ha! These stories are giving me genuine laugh-out-louds!

Speaking of imbibing situations, on St. Patrick's Day I'd had a few... and at one point spent a good few minutes with a PV in one hand, digging through my purse for a lighter with the other!

Old habits die hard heh.

 

[dracis]

I think I've done most of these, and I've only started since Wednesday.

Just recently, I was using my USB PT and out of habit, just picked the thing up and started vaping. Wha... no cloud? HNNNNNNNNNNN. A mouthful of juice later, I'm sitting at my desk with the USB PT in my mouth and the end of the USB plug in the other. With a look on my face.

I'm still not used the heaviness of the PT, so I usually just palm it when I'm doing stuff. Had to dump some plastic water bottles and do my part for recycling. So I grab as much as I can and head out. Next thing you know, I drop an armful of empty bottles and my brand new Vapor King went along with it. "Nooooooooooo~!" Fast forward about 10 minutes later and my wife comes out to check up on me. "What are you doi...?" She starts laughing. I'm hanging from my waist in the recycle bin looking for my new toy. The funniest thing wasn't me hanging from my waist in the recycle bin, but me taking a vape and exhaling before I even got out.

Yes, I love it that much. There's no such thing as the "5 Second Rule" with my Vapor King. If it drops in a steaming turd, so be it.

 

[Martiandrummer]

As a software developer I often sit at my PC and vape away on my USB passthrough. No need to get up, find my analogs, go outside, waste 5 minutes of my life, come back in, and then try to figure out where I was before I went out.

Here is an honest pitfall to that...
While working on my laptop on a TV tray table,I was happily enjoying my Rootbeer-11 on my USB passthrough when I got up to get the phone, AND forgot to let go of the pass through... All I can say is thank goodness I had it connected to a powered USB hub, as the hub crashed to the ground my heart stopped... Needless to say the laptop didn't bite the dust, as the hub provided a weak link. I now love that lil 30 dollar beauty, and I can see the headlines now...
USB Hub saves laptop from doom, while keeping a fat guy from rage... Film at 11!

 

[jdvorr]

Early on i dropped a shorty I was vaping in the Jeep and freaked out like it was going to burn something! Needless to say I feel like an absolute idiot.

 

[StaceyM]

And most embarassing to date: Putting my VK in my bra on a walk and then when it slid a bit farher then I wanted it too..digging for it. meanwhile a car was passing and slowed down to watch my antics!

ahahaha

I put mine there too. Then I forget that it's there, and go all over the house looking for my e-ciggie. I usually find it in my shirt or in my waistband.

Yes for me my biggest DUH moments with my pv are when I misplace it. I still think the washer ate one.

 

[dracis]

Early on i dropped a shorty I was vaping in the Jeep and freaked out like it was going to burn something! Needless to say I feel like an absolute idiot.

Nothing like remembering the days and driving around in a friend's convertible along the coast in California. Those analog days are pretty funny when you realize an eye full of hot ash is the best feeling in the world. 8-o

 

[schaedj]

As a software developer I often sit at my PC and vape away on my USB passthrough. No need to get up, find my analogs, go outside, waste 5 minutes of my life, come back in, and then try to figure out where I was before I went out.

Here is an honest pitfall to that...
While working on my laptop on a TV tray table,I was happily enjoying my Rootbeer-11 on my USB passthrough when I got up to get the phone, AND forgot to let go of the pass through... All I can say is thank goodness I had it connected to a powered USB hub, as the hub crashed to the ground my heart stopped... Needless to say the laptop didn't bite the dust, as the hub provided a weak link. I now love that lil 30 dollar beauty, and I can see the headlines now...
USB Hub saves laptop from doom, while keeping a fat guy from rage... Film at 11!

LOL... Pulled one of these with it plugged into my laptop. Fortunately, I was docked, so my head bent back like the dog in the old Foghorn Leghorn cartoons, but the pc was okay.

 

[Parmacrafter]

Funny I didn't see anyone mention my stupid move. I KNOW I am NOT the only one who has done it. So you get yourself totally off the analogs. You are a few days into vaping full time. Great new habit. You are all proud of yourself and loving how you and your stuff doesn't stink anymore. Then you are driving down the road happily vaping away. Suddenly you realize that you have just flicked your brand new ecig out the car window!!!! On the bright side, I learned my lesson fast. I only did that one time. FOr the next 3 months I drove with all my car windows up just in case. It wasn't long after that my best friend did the exact same thing. So, I know I'm not the only one. I also did a few if the other things as well. The first couple days of vaping I can't tell you how many times I picked up my lighter and tried to "Light" my ecig. Throwing away every lighter and matchbook in the house solved that problem. Almost a year later and I have found that no matter how hard I try, I simply cannot light a candle with my ecig. Needless to say, I had to go out and buy a couple lighters for such things. To this day I still find myself doing the "Panic Grab" when I drop my ecig. My brain is convinced that darn thing is gonna light the house on fire.

 

[Darrigaaz]

Just recently, I was using my USB PT and out of habit, just picked the thing up and started vaping. Wha... no cloud? HNNNNNNNNNNN. A mouthful of juice later, I'm sitting at my desk with the USB PT in my mouth and the end of the USB plug in the other. With a look on my face.

In the other what? Mouth?

 

[Mary Kay]

Parma! I too tried to light my candle with an E-cig! For the first few months of vaping I drove myself crazy looking for my cigarette case! That thing has been right next to me for 37 years! So for a while I just put my E-cigs in it and gave myself a break...don't know where it is anymore. (don't care!)