[Magseal]

Ok, let me segaway into this by saying I had a 500 mile round trip planned for this weekend. My wife had left wed. and I was to follow friday on the bike.
Since I was nearing oil change time, I decided to do it beforehand. I got home from work thursday night and proceeded to drain the oil. As it was draining, I tended to the laundry list of things I had to get done before I left. I came back to the bike after a half hour, tried to take out the filter and wouldn't you know it, it wouldn't budge. I took a screw driver to it to loosen it. I then went into the shed to get my spare...only to find the box null of a filter inside....guess i used it up last time.
Anyway, I'm now under the gun to get everything done in time, and I call a friend to take me out to get another filter. Since the FZ is my only form of transport when the wifes away, I had no choice. he gets to me in about 30 minutes.
Get the filter fine, install it fine, and fill it with oil just fine. Run it up for a leak check and alls good so I push it into the shed for the night and finish my laundry list.
Next morning, off to work for a half day, give it a once over when i arrive and all is good, no leaks, everything checks out good, so by 11am I blast off.
About an hour and a half later....I'm see smoke in my rear view mirror....a check up front there is none, so wow...must be from me....this is not good.
I proceed to cut across three very full and busy lanes of traffic heading for the shoulder, stop the bike, kickstand down, and lo and behold, the oil is just flowing from the bottom of the bike, well the last litre and a half at least.....took a quick look and the culprit is obvious...a missing drain plug.
It dawned on me then, like a brick up side the head, that yeah....i did only put it in finger tight when I ran to buy another filter so I wouldn't be dripping oil on the shed floor....never did tighten it.
The look of the back end of the bike said it all.....ever seen oil dripping off every part of the back end? Not a sight you really want to see.
So, the fun begins, trying to get a tow truck. No-one wants to haul a bike. One guy who will, is going to be an hour and a half. The OPP show up, and thankfully his call gets me priority and a tow truck is there in minutes (its good when a cop rides too).
One tow truck to show up $65, flatbed to boot another $100 and then $3 per km.....added up to $280 and he dropped me off at St Onges cycle in Barrie. The guys there were great help to me, even though they had no stock on what I needed. They found me a plug, from a kawasaki that fit and a crush washer from a suzuki and sold me some kawasaki oil and i was off again, short another $35......they washed the bike for nothing, citing my safety as a concern.
All in all the first leg of the trip should have taken me a few hours, but it ended up being 6....but at least I got there in once piece....it could have been a whole lot worse.

so to all you guys out there who continually assume I'm a know it all....I'm not. I make mistakes too.

lesson learned- (and I should know this from my job) is to go back a step or two when you come back to a partially finished job. And proven point....finger tight drain plugs don't leak either. But when they vibrate loose, you know it in a hurry.