Fonz moments

leespoons

I wandered down to Tesco earlier, a gang of teenagers were hanging around outside, their football comes sailing towards me and I booted it straight back to them without so much as breaking my stride. For a couple of seconds I felt like The Fonz.

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Have you ever had a Fonz moment? Like when something falls off a desk and you manage to catch it effortlessly, or fix a broken computer just by tapping it?

R-Tape

Unfortunately not. In fact I flinch about 8 times a day when I recall doing something quite the opposite.

Last time some fellas shouted at me to kick their ball back I unconvincingly pretended not to hear them :-)

def chris

remember once I bought a pint, put my hand in my pocket to get some coins out and somehow a 50p mustve caught on the edge of my pocket and finger and sort of flipped up through the air and into the barmaid's hand. (Ayyyy!)

Bermondsey Bob

I tend to have more "Mr Bean" moments myself :))

Take last year for example. Walking along by the beach and a beachball floats over a small fence and onto the pavement in front of me. My quick thinking saw me give the ball a light touch. I watched in slow motion as it bounced up into the air the wrong way, over a waist high wall on my right and into a road full of traffic. BANG! And I was down the cost of a new ball :))

leespoons

R-Tape wrote: »

Unfortunately not. In fact I flinch about 8 times a day when I recall doing something quite the opposite.

Last time some fellas shouted at me to kick their ball back I unconvincingly pretended not to hear them :-)

I was utterly crap at football as a kid, but my ball skills (f'nar) seem to be a lot better now I've got older.

def chris wrote: »

remember once I bought a pint, put my hand in my pocket to get some coins out and somehow a 50p mustve caught on the edge of my pocket and finger and sort of flipped up through the air and into the barmaid's hand. (Ayyyy!)

Bonus Fonz points for having an Ayyyyyyy! moment in the pub. All I ever seem to do is spill pints and upset big burly blokes by looking at their "birds".

Bermondsey Bob wrote: »

I tend to have more "Mr Bean" moments myself :))

Take last year for example. Walking along by the beach and a beachball floats over a small fence and onto the pavement in front of me. My quick thinking saw me give the ball a light touch. I watched in slow motion as it bounced up into the air the wrong way, over a waist high wall on my right and into a road full of traffic. BANG! And I was down the cost of a new ball :))

And then you got into your mini and drove away muttering to yourself :))

Maroc's Other Projection

Heh, good idea for a thread :)

I've probably had more 'Bean' moments than 'Fonz', but one 'good' moment was back in secondary school when I was I was about 12 and me and some mates were playing football on the grass at break time. Another lad came along from another group and started trying to stop our game. I complained and, because he fancied himself as a bit of a martial arts guy, he came up to me and started doing all these moves (complete with Bruce Lee squawks!) right in my face. He lunged at me and, without thinking (I had no fighting skillz), I crouched down and did a perfect leg sweep, landed him on his back, winding him badly. We got on with the game as he tried to get his breath (and dignity) back. I felt a million bucks for the rest of the day. I still replay it back in my mind sometimes. It gets better every time :))

joefish

Funny - it must have been watching too much Way of the Exploding Fist but a couple of times I've done a perfect leg-sweep - though it only seems to work on angry raving nutters. Sadly anyone with their wits about them sees it coming a mile off.

I can be quite clumsy, particularly when tired or after a few drinks. Yet my reactions sometimes still amaze me. A couple of times I've gestured with my right hand and swept a glass off a table only to catch it (without spilling any) half-way to the ground.

I once flipped a sausage off a huge half-oildrum barbecue I was manning and caught that too, but still have the scar on my thumb from hitting the end of the welded angle-iron frame the drum was resting on...

Vampyre

I'll have to think of some but one I can't lay claim to was done by a mate when we were about 14.

We were walking home from school after it had been snowing and about 20 feet in front of us was a lad who thought it would be a good idea to spin around and hurl a snowball at us, which I think he must have been compacting for the previous five minutes. Sweet as a nut my mate caught it perfectly in one hand and in one beautiful motion hurled it straight back at it him. A perfect shot smack-bang in the middle of the face with such force it took his feet from under him. His groans as we walked past him as he lay there still tickles me today.

R-Tape

I put some clothes in to wash on Sunday, left them out to dry for 3 days in dry weather, risking it even when not in the house. I put my finger in the air, and take them in early on Thursday morning, seconds later it starts raining*. Oh yes (Eyyyy).

*not really, I came down to wet clothes this morning after a lie in, but I can dream.

dm_boozefreek

I have Fonz moments all the time, infact I had at least 2 at work last night...

Infact Arthur Fonzerelli may actually be able to learn a thing or 2 about cool from Boozy "Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" :-bd

beanz

Yes I've had many fonz moments...

...hitting on women half my age thinking I still have it.

mel the bell

my fonz moments actually managing to put mi legs in the correct holes in mi trousers without having to hop around before falling over

dm_boozefreek

Get rid of those drainpipes then! It's not 1985 anymore :p

Scottie_uk

beanz wrote: »

Yes I've had many fonz moments...

...hitting on women half my age thinking I still have it.

I spot the operative word there!! :P

Great thread by the way has made me laugh out loud.

SnazzyParrot

I was in a theatre changing room with some Can Can girls and I knocked over the pretty ones pint. What made it worse was I looked too young to buy her another so never went back.

Lee Fogarty

I've had a few. A good one was when I was at school. Some kid was on a table jumping around and trying to kick other kids in the face. He dived off the table, aiming for me. At the same time, I bent down to tie a shoelace so he totally missed and landed on his face.

mel the bell

fogartylee wrote: »

I've had a few. A good one was when I was at school. Some kid was on a table jumping around and trying to kick other kids in the face. He dived off the table, aiming for me. At the same time, I bent down to tie a shoelace so he totally missed and landed on his face.

lol, bet that was a picture :D

GreenCard

I was in a bar once with a few mates, just prior to the smoking ban. One of my mates gestured for a cigarette (there were a few people between us and it was too loud in there to hear him), so I got one out of the packet and threw it gently in the air over the people in front of me, and my mate managed to catch it perfectly in his lips, without having to move or do very much. Ayyyyy! We had tried it before, but it would usually either fail completely or he would catch over half the cigarette in his mouth.