warning LONG POST! trailered home but fixed

Well guys I havent been posting for a while so here is the first of several just to get caught up.

I was riding with my wife out to visit the toecutter at our official gang hangout. its actually pretty lavish what with all the vfrs in the garage and the fridge full of beer. oh and my favourite girl, Tahoe. Riding along, split lanes at a stop light, and pulled up in between two HD's riding passengers as well.I went quick enuff to get out of the way and made room for the other bikes to also get out of the way. The Harleys saw what I was doing, they took the right lane and I took the left lane and we were both 50 or so feet ahead of traffic in a safe and timely manner. sounds good so far right? Well as I came up to the next light, a car was getting ready to turn out into traffic. The harleys took off quick to beat the car and me being a little cautious I went to slow down as I had plenty of distance no matter what that car decided to to. I had no 3rd gear tho? I pulled into the extremly wide center lane ( this is a residantal area with a highway running through it so the center lanes are quite wide ) I tried shifting up and down and revving. Nothing. All like being in nuetral. Great I just lost my clutch. or my tranny. god knows what. Here I am in the center lane no where close to home on a bike that I can barely afford. luckily I had coasted us up to a street we could push the bike down on the left. As we pulled into the nieghborhood, a car behind us pulled up and let us know that our chain was laying in the road some 100 feet back. LOL. Ok so now I am calming a little at least it wasnt the transmission.
I waited with the bike as my wife walked out to get the chain. I would have walked to get the chain, but had to try and make some calls to get us rescued. NEVER LEAVE HOME WITHOUT YOUR CELL!
I called the toecutter to let him know we werent gona make it to his casa. He came to the rescue and trailered us back to our jeep and took my bike back to his house.
Ready for the fix?
Whatever jackass put my older crimp style o-ring chain on, didnt crimp it!!!??
I was pretty damn broke at the time so toe suggested I go buy a masterlink since the chain was fine. Here is the kicker, the original masterlink was clinging to some sludge in my chain gaurd! Total cost to me was 0$ TOE put the masterlink back on and crimped it using his "battruck". Seriously that truck is like the batmobile of work trucks, compresser and everything.

Moral of the story, if you got an older bike go look at your master link and make sure the tubes are crimped, because simply snapping the master on isnt the final install, that is just seating them in place to get crimped.Mine wasnt crimped so fter my first chain lube ( as supertex pointed out ) my master slid off and it could have been very ugly for me and my beloved passenger ( also as tex pointed out ).
Thanks to anyone that read this "epic saga" of my chain.. I know it was long, but I havent posted in a month LOL.
Also thanks to TOE, Supertex and Drewl for coming to rescue me and my wife. And of course rescuing my bike.
Phew, I havent typed this much in ages... must be the beer kicking in