Tell me what stupid things you have done so I don't feel such an idiot!

Abbafan1972

aileth wrote: »

OH offers to pick me up from work, 20 minutes later he tells me he can't find the car keys so I get bus home. We then spend the next two hours hunting EVERYWHERE (There was a decent amount of snow and we actually scraped it all off the front of the house in case he dropped them in the snow), in bushes and everything, pulled the entire house apart.

We then think that maybe he dropped them and someone has picked them up (we live on a fairly rough estate) and we have the only car of that make on the estate so whoever has them will know exactly what car they're linked to, so then start calling up dealer garages and towing companies to get quotes for getting it there asap to get new keys. OH then walks 3 miles to halfords to pick up a steering-wheel lock just in case this guy who apparently nicked them comes for the car in the night.

We give up, start getting a bit depressed. I make dinner and OH takes rubbish out to the bin, which unfortunately hadn't been emptied that day (pick up day) as the binmen had refused to do our road as it's on a hill and too dangerous. The keys were sat on top of the last bin bag he had put in. He had put some rubbish on the counter in the kitchen, scooped it up in his arms and taken the keys with the scoop........

OH done that with the Sky remote years ago. He had scooped up loads of cardboard and put it in the bin, then when we couldn't find the remote anywhere we looked all over for it and then I spotted it in the bin.

last week I did an online Grocery order with Asda and I ordered what I thought was a bag of apples. When the shopping arrived it was 1 apple in a carrier bag. Note to self:- Don't do the shopping order after 9pm or when tired!

Abbafan1972

themull1 wrote: »

My granny once threw her leather gloves onto her coal fire, instead of the piece of scrap paper in her other hand......

This one and the post before, reminds me of a video I saw a couple of days ago where a wedding guest has a tub of confetti in one hand and a glass of Pimms in the other. Guess which one she throws over the bride?

aileth

Abbafan1972 wrote: »

last week I did an online Grocery order with Asda and I ordered what I thought was a bag of apples. When the shopping arrived it was 1 apple in a carrier bag. Note to self:- Don't do the shopping order after 9pm or when tired!

Lol I have done similar! I have ordered what I thought was a big jar of mayonnaise (just looked at the pictures and cost, NOT at weight) and this tiny little diddy thing comes which literally had about a small fistful of mayonnaise! I did think it was rather cheap for being so posh.

Also had a L'Occitane flash sale a few weeks ago and they had some solid perfume 'really cheap'. It looked like a big metal tin, maybe the same size as shoe polish....again didn't look at weight. It's about the same size as a 2p piece :eek:

Kaz2904

DH went out one night many years ago. I was up early with the littlies and put the washing on. Picked up his clothes from the night before, emptied his pocket, took all the money out of his pockets and wallet then, you guessed it, put his wallet and keys back in his pockets and put them in the washing machine . Oops! He was going mad looking for his wallet and keys, "well, I must have had them because I aid the driver and got in the house" and I was saying, well I know I've seen them because I emptied your pockets before I put your jeans in the wash.". Then it dawned on us and we knew it wasn't him going mad, just me!

tea_lover

I spent hours looking for my car keys one morning. Turned the house upside down but they were nowhere to be seen. Traced my steps back to the car in case I'd dropped them somewhere between there and the house (the car was parked much further down the street)... found the keys, in the ignition of the car, where they'd been all night.

aileth

tea_lover wrote: »

I spent hours looking for my car keys one morning. Turned the house upside down but they were nowhere to be seen. Traced my steps back to the car in case I'd dropped them somewhere between there and the house (the car was parked much further down the street)... found the keys, in the ignition of the car, where they'd been all night.

OMG! If we did that in our area, we'd have the local rozzers at our door as 'Gazza' would have taken it down the M1 and crashed it into a ditch!

tea_lover

aileth wrote: »

OMG! If we did that in our area, we'd have the local rozzers at our door as 'Gazza' would have taken it down the M1 and crashed it into a ditch!

I can't believe it was still there, it really wasn't the nicest area!

alleycat`

Wasn't me but i have read a post where a gentleman was going in for a "bottom" exam that required him to take some "picolax".
He misread the appointment date and had to ask for an extra two sachets as he took it too early...

Having to take 4 extra strength "cleaners" has to be the a much worse mistake than getting the date wrong on a present?

taurusgb

I once composed an email to my DH full of descriptive narrative about how much I loathed and detested one of the men he knew from a sports club.........then sent it to the man concerned instead of my DH. :eek:

lady1964

Years ago when my dd's were little - two at primary school and one at pre-school, I got their lunch boxes ready, got the 3 of them ready for school, uniforms on, hair brushed and pony-tailed, book bags all ready and headed off to school. As we got nearer to school, I began to wonder why there were no cars parked outside - it was an inset day and I'd forgotten, it felt like a proper walk of shame home again

We booked a day trip to France and the night before decided to check passports - this was in the days when your child/ren were on a parents' passport - youngest DD wasn't on mine or DH's passport! We had to get up two hours earlier than planned to drive miles out of our way to drop her at MIL's for the day and do the same when we came back - it was a very long day but DD had a lovely day at Nana & Grandad's

Decided to withdraw £50 cash from a self serve till in Asda - something I would never normally do. Fifteen minutes later whilst in M&S realised I hadn't taken the money from the dispenser. Went back to Asda really not expecting it to have been handed in and it had been!

Oh and when I was about 14, I took part in the school swimming gala doing the back-stroke. I pushed off and went hell for leather to the finish and wondered why people were laughing - when I looked down, my swimming costume had been pushed down - it had a middle halter neck with ruching on either side - and my little boobies had been exposed for the whole length of the pool - I nearly died of embarrassment :rotfl: