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

tea_lover

marisco wrote: »

Walking down the hall at my old house, which was partly lit by the street light outside, I clock what I think is an intruder, jump out of my skin and start shouting. Only to suddenly realise I am having a row with my own shadow

This reminds me.... spent an hour the other week getting up the courage to move a huge furry caterpillar that had appeared on my bedroom wall. Decided I couldn't face it and called OH to see when he'd be home from work. He came back and looked at the massive caterpillar only to discover it was a piece of fluff

19lottie82

My friend and I turned up at Bangkok airport to fly back to Glasgow, a day late once.

I thought I was going to have to phone my Dad in the middle of the night GMT, to get him to pay for a last minute flight from Bangkok, but luckily Emirates only charged us £70 each and put us on an alternative flight :j

Gigervamp

marisco wrote: »

Walking down the hall at my old house, which was partly lit by the street light outside, I clock what I think is an intruder, jump out of my skin and start shouting. Only to suddenly realise I am having a row with my own shadow

I did something similar once. It was really late one night and I couldn't remember if I'd locked the chickens up, so I went out with a torch, checked that I had locked them up, then started walking down from the field to the house.

Looming in front of me was a dark figure, about 6 feet tall. I nearly wet myself, until I realised it was my own shadow cast by the street light in the lane behind the field!

I remember when I was a kid, I went on a school trip to Germany. We got back to the school at around 2am. The other kids all went home, but no-one had come to pick me up. The teacher rang my home and my mum hurried to get me, still in her rollers and nightclothes. She'd got the dates mixed up and thought I wasn't due back for another day. :rotfl:

InsideInsurance

teabag29 wrote: »

Ha ive done this aswell only wasn't Portsmouth, I was coming back from a funeral and catching the train home to Nottingham, didn't realise it was the London train waiting at the platform I just assumed it was my train coming in early....luckily I was able to get off at next stop :rotfl:

Ohh, I didnt just get on the wrong train (though have done that too) no I had a complete mess up. I got a rail warrant to go to Portsmouth, booked the train for Portsmouth, got on the train to Portsmouth. Was only when I got to Portsmouth I realised the course was in Plymouth.

anarchied

I sent an.. intimate text to the wrong person.

tea_lover

I sent an email explaining how to use parts of a reporting system we had called Open Accounts to about 30 people. Only I spelt accounts wrong... missed the 'o'.

picklekin

tea_lover wrote: »

I sent an email explaining how to use parts of a reporting system we had called Open Accounts to about 30 people. Only I spelt accounts wrong... missed the 'o'.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

DS4215

DKLS wrote: »

I attended a company wide week long meeting in London, as was the case back then it was an incredibly boozy week and the last day we had spent all afternoon in the pub, I caught my train home, I was woken up by the guard in Glasgow.

Which would have been fine but I lived on the outskirts of Leeds , £45 in taxi fares and £79 for a flight saw me home 4 hrs later

After a student night out in Sheffield I caught the last train home and was pleased when the guard woke me up at the station. Unfortunately it was Leeds station (I lived near a village about half-way between the two) and I ended up spending one cold November night in the outside waiting rooms on Leeds station with some rather interesting (and scary) characters until I could catch the first train back home...

shortdog

Had a very stressful morning, racing around like an idiot trying to get to the hospital for my sons 9.15am appointment - put my daughter out to school (in the rain) a little early, took all the back roads to the hospital so I didn't get caught in traffic, found parking, and dragged my son through the car park to make it on time.
It's a shame the appointment wasn't until 10.15.

lostinrates

anarchied wrote: »

I sent an.. intimate text to the wrong person.

I am a hopeless texter (well, some of my posts here are well known). Needless to say, I do this all the time.