Today, I bought $300 worth of climbing equipment because I had lost mine six months ago, I hadn't gone to the climbing gym since I'd lost it. I went today because I was so excited to go climbing again. However, it turns out that I'd left my gear there, and it had been in the Lost and Found for the past six months. FML
MitchellSully tells us more.
You can't return allot of climbing equipment, it's against safety regulations because the gear is so fine tuned to make sure that it can hold even 8000lbs. The only gear that I had bought that I could return was the shoes and the chalk bag, but I still couldn't do that because I filled the bag with chalk and wore the shoes already. I didn't find my gear until I was done climbing for the night.
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xMrAndyTranx 4
Return the new equipment you bought?
aback 5
Carry oxygen next time you climb. You can't afford to lose the braincells.
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Comments (48)
ultraslick 0
How is the climbing gym not the first place you would have looked?
Ketchup_Castle 30
Yeah, seriously. He could have at least called the place.
mizu22 0
why didn't you look there FIRST????
heartlessagony 0
look on the bright side, you have two sets of equipment. one can be used for backup
cpt0bvi0u5 0
how on earth do you spend $300 on gym gear? man up buy a rack and do some real climbing
MitchellSully 0
I'm sorry but your a ******* dumbass, that's not gym gear that simple climbing gear that every climber needs, and second off a full rack of trad gear can cost up to $4000. Harness, shoes, chalk bag, ATC and carabiners aren't gym gear, they're needed even if you are climbing natural pro.
MeMyselfAndI123 0
Oh My ;o
x_biffness_x 0
$300 is deffo not much for climbing gear. well in New Zealand... dunno bout where you lot are all from and agreed you shouldve looked there first
Aha09 1
You sir, are a winner.
Yaj_fml 0
the good news is that you now have a great set of back up gear! a pair of nice new shoes for when your old ones start to wear thin, and an extra harness/chalkbag/atc so conscript a non climber friend and get some climbing in!
illy88 0
another useless fml..go return it damn
xyz22 0
meh not a big deal, just use the new shoes when you wear through the old one. can never have too many biners suck up the loss on your second chalkbag/atc/harness. teach a friend to climb and pawn them off to him.