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.
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
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.
You skipped at least two steps in the situation
Yeah.
They are dangerous anyway. Get a regular leash to replace it.