O/S disasters.... let us share...

Maysie

There are so many things in this thread i have done too.

I am easily distracted .....

Eggs ....when pan is dried out and smoking to not put pan on the worktop.... i have a nice burnt ring shape on mine now down to the chipboard below. The kitchen was only 6months old at the time. I looked round all the diy places looking for the same peice of worktop to replace it but no one does this particular vile shade of green and peachy tones. If anyone needs to see my kitchen i have a cunning diguise with a chopping board for it.


I don't like food mixers ..... i dunno what happened but i lifted the base off to tip filling into a bowl and the damm lot fell out the bottom straight over the floor.

Last night i thought i would be good and turn all the plugs off in the kitchen save a bit of electric. Glanced back after turning the lights out to realise i had missed one for the microwave. Went back in the dark and smashed a glass all over the floor that was in the way.

hazzie123

One christmas I decided to do roast pork instead of turkey,it had been in the oven for over an hour so I decided to take it out and baste it.Dragged the tin out then dropped it on the floor.Quick rinse under the tap and it was fine!

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When I was 26 the landing light bulb blew so I thought rather than wait for hubby to come home from work I`ll change the bulb myself.I had never changed a lightbulb before,so I got on my chair and managed to unscrew the old bulb.I thought I had done a good job so went off to make a cup of tea,had my cup of tea and decided it was time to put the new bulb in.Automatically I turned the landing light on and of course no light came on,so I stood there flicking the switch on and off as I couldn`t remember if it stook out at the top it was on or off.Didn`t think to look in another room to see which way the switch was.

So I got back on my chair armed with my new bulb but couldn`t remember how I took the old one out.After about 5 minutes of turning the bulb in the socket I decided to stick my finger in the light socket to see why the bulb wasn`t going in,thought it must have some sort of blockage.I didn`t realise you had to push the bulb up and turn,I was just turning it.
Luckly the light switch was turn off or I probably wouldn`t be here today.

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Yet another lightbulb issuse.

About 3 weeks ago I decided to clean my 2 uplighters in the front room,never cleaned them before always got the husband to do it.But now I`m seperated I thought I`m an independent woman I dont need a man around the house,so I had a bash myself.

Got my chair and had a look,had no idea how you get lampshades off so I had to text a friend of mine to ask her.About 5 mins later she text back and said you just unscrew the shade like any normal lampshade.

So After about 10 minutes of huffing and puffing and working up quite a sweat I had unscrewed the shade but I couldn`t work out why it was still stuck up there.She never told me I had to take the bulb out first.
In all it took me about half an hour to take down 2 uplighters.It`ll be 5 years till I attempt to clean those !!!!!!s again.

squeaky

katieowl wrote: »

LOL LOL Me too.....'cept I did it to OH!!!! ROFLMBO.....:rotfl:

I did that to myself once. Half an hour before a job interview!

A reverse mohican!

I had to shave right down. I look like old pictures of Art Garfunkle on bad hair day when my hair is more than an inch long... and a right thug when it's less than half an inch.

Some days you just can't win!

Hardup_Hester

I now need shares in Tena lady after reading that thread.
I also cut hubby's hair for him & once managed a reverse mohican for him, an hour before we were due at a christening.
The first time I cooked Christmas Dinner I left the giblets in, ex oh developed kidney stones later that day & ex mil convinced me it was my fault because of the giblets.
My dd, just after she was married phoned me to say she wanted to make Stoup & what else did she need to put in the pan besides the chicken carcass a carrot & an onion, I told her I couldn't think of anything else she needed, as soon as I'd put the phone down, I realised which dd it was I'd been speaking to & phoned back to check she'd added water, she hadn't!!!
I have 2 dd's & one is a full time ditz, she once phoned me in tears as she was driving home from college & the M4 was closed, so she'd followed a lorry which looked like it knew where it was going & was now lost, could I come & find her!!
She is an army wife & during her hubbys first tour of duty in Iraq, he didn't phone her at the arranged time, convinced he had been killed she phoned an 'emergency only' number she'd been given, and sobbed down the phone. Fortunately the guy on the other end knew her & her hubby & was able to explain that there had been a power cut & that her hubby was still alive!
She is a bit more blase now when he goes away.
Hester

Gingernutmeg

Not something I've done recently, but I did this when I was younger ... I'd bought a bottle of rather expensive still lemonade and it was foul - really bitter and nasty, so, in my wisdom, I decided that I'd turn it into fizzy lemonade by adding a couple of spoonfuls of citric acid and bicarbonate of soda. I tipped them in, tasted it and it was still awful, so I decided to add a bit more and give the bottle a really good shake ...

I'm not entirely sure what happened next but there was an almighty bang and I opened my eyes to find myself and the kitchen covered in a sticky, salty mess, and when I looked up there was a rather large dent in the ceiling tile from where the the lid of the bottle had hit it. Hugely embarrassed, I tried my best to clean myself up before my mum got home, thinking that I'd be able to hide the evidence (nobody really looks at the ceiling anyway ...). All went well until my mum turned the kitchen lights on that evening and all of the cupboards started sparkling - the stuff had dried on and formed little tiny crystals everywhere that took a heck of a lot of scrubbing to get off!

My brother also once had my mum and I in hysterics when he rang up from uni to ask 'how do you know when toast is done?' ...

bexbex

When I was younger I was making a Chilken Tikka for DH. I wanted it coloured red like you get from a takeaway so went to the cupboard and pulled out a bottle of dye.. couldn't see what he was complaining about when he was eating it until I looked at the food dye bottle.. yes.. it was strawberry flavouring...

helenhugs

oh suddenly i dont feel so silly lol. i've done many of these aswell. especially the nappy over hubby, whoops, how was i to know the tabs wouldnt hold it closed properly.
Put the joint in the oven checked on it & pulled it up onto the gas ring, yep pyrex dish shattered all over me. thankfully i was wearing a long top which protected my arms.
hubbys done a fair few, the usual things like forgetting to turn the oven on.

I once lost my keys for 2 weeks. It was a really hot summer so i had been opening the patio doors loads, then the weather turned & it was chilly. for 2 weeks i hunted high & low for those keys & it was only when the weather brightened up & hubby went to opent he patio doors with his set of keys that we found mine. He regularly reminds me of that.
Thanks for sharing all your disasters.
hugs
Helen

stefejb

Years ago my mum was cooking in the kitchen and we heard the sound of the liquidiser, big bang, and shriek from mum. went rushing in and there she was with her head over the liquidiser and red stuff all over everywhere - we thought she had liquidised her face somehow but she had been liquidising some tomatoes, left a spoon in the goblet which had cracked the goblet and was bent over laughing at her own stupidity. She was always mistrustful of the microwave and used to clear us out of the kitchen, turn the microwave on and run for the hills until she heard the beep - worried about radiation i think

competitionscafe

When I was a teenager I attempted to make homemade sparkling ginger beer - put it into glass bottles in the fridge and a few hours later heard a very loud bang as one of the bottles exploded in the fridge!

Couple of years ago I was stirring my morning coffee in the cafetierre with a metal spoon, stirred a bit too vigourously and made a hole in the glass the size of a 1p coin - which instantly caused a stream of hot coffee to pour out aimed straight at my groin area - that woke me up a lot more quickly than drinking my coffee usually does! (luckily I was wearing thick trousers!!) I now always stir my cafetierre coffee gently with a wooden spoon.

Needed breadcrumbs the other week and remembered reading about a short cut where you stick bread in the microwave to dry it out and can then blitz it with a handblender to make breadcrumbs. I had a breadroll left, so broke it into bits and put in microwave for 30 seconds - result slightly warm but still soft bread. Put it in for another 2 and a half minutes - came back to kitchen where there was a VERY strong burn toast smell, completely carbonated bread in the microwave (just black lumps!) and inside of microwave was stained a yellowish colour (still is! tried bicarb of soda and also tried lemon -any other ideas?)

littlepinky84

katieowl wrote: »

LOL LOL Me too.....'cept I did it to OH!!!! ROFLMBO.....:rotfl:

yip me too, luckly we were going to Gran Canaria the next day, but still cant bear to look at the pics lol