I did the oil thing like you guise not long ago.
My worst was after I had a new engine put in my old truck back in the late 90s, I was cruising around with a friend who wanted to stop for a haircut. I checked the oil & I couldn't see anything on the dipstick. I walked into the grocery store in the strip mall we stopped at & got a quart of oil. Still nothing. Got 2 quarts - still nothing. My friend walked out & he said "dude! It's all the way up the dipstick!. So we drove it to his apartment a few blocks away, we cut the bottom off a couple gallon jugs and a bucket. I got down & removed the plug & it was HOT! Oil went everywhere. A few of us stayed back & tried to sop it up, & my bro took off to find some dirt. He came back with several buckets of sand.........he poured it out in the parking spaces & a few of us hung out and played hacky sack & drank. They still give me sh*t about that 20 years later.
Last night, another something stupid: I've had my "new" bike apart - new tires, brakes, chain/sprockets, air filters, etc. It's been raining every day so I've only ridden it around the block. Last night I reinstalled the right parts, re-torqued some things and still need to re-check others. I wasn't all that confident but I wanted to take it out for a few. I called a friend - got my destination. Rolled it out: starts raining. NBD, have a jacket & gloves, planning to just go on 45-55mph roads. 20 miles later, I'm on the freeway going 75 (crappy section that has bumps----and I'd just had my forks apart). Later that night a car got closer to me than I liked (avoid motorcycles people), next thing I know I hit 95 (still climbing rapidly) thinking "those tires sure felt hard from the shop & I didn't check the PSI", the front & rear axles weren't torqued but I tightened w/ my breaker bar.... the chain was only roughly adjusted, not actually measured slack. so Too fast on an old moto. It felt good though.
