TIFU by taking the dog out for a walk on a retracting lead.

It snapped and wound itself back inside the mechanism inaccessibly, and I became the freak wandering round with a belt attached to his dog, trying to make it home before his trousers fell down.

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BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social · 17 pts · 177d

My backup leads for when I forget the real one include

A cat6 cable

A cloverleaf laptop power cable

A figure8 power cable

A tie down strap

magnetosphere@fedia.io · 7 pts · 177d

Hey, the important thing is that you made it home without dropping trou. Did you have to pass, say, a school at any point? Now THAT’S a story… and possibly an arrest.

Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 177d

Yeah.

aaaa@piefed.world · 3 pts · 177d

You skipped at least two steps in the situation

stoly@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 177d

They are dangerous anyway. Get a regular leash to replace it.