LOL.. you're in good company. The real owner of that real Cardinal landed gear up the VERY first flight after buying it and giving it a brand new engine.. WITH his instructor onboard
It was never the same after that... I had to use the emergency pump to get the gear down over Indiana, in July, 2006...
LOLOLOL.
LOL, that is no fun ... I had to crank-down the gear on a Seneca once when I was on a flight with an instructor and his student. LMAO, I thought my arm was going to fall-off!
I have heard of guys landing gear-up somewhat often and even seen it happen a couple of times. Once here in El Paso while I was working at the flight school, some guy landed a twin (can't remember what it was) gear-up right on their newly re-paved 8R and tore the new runway to shreds. MAN, was he in a LOT of trouble!