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

Errata

That's reminded me. I pushed my 4 week old niece in her pram to the corner shop, arrived back at my SIL's to be greeted by the words "Where's the baby!"

kitrat

Treevo wrote: »

I had a meeting with my old employer and took along my eldest, just a few months after he was born. Left him with a friend in the office because everyone wanted to see him while I went into see the director. Finished the meeting and I left. Alone.

I bet they'll never let you live that down!

Toto

I once had a job in an office (a loooong time ago) anyway, this job involved the wearing of a suit and very early get ups. One morning in the depths of winter I bunged my skirt in the tumble dryer to knock the creases out while I drank my coffee. Fast forward 20 mins and I put on my thick wooly tights and off I went to work. I got in, put my coat on the hanger and walked the full length of a very long and busy office before someone pointed out I'd forgotten to get dressed. Yep the stupid skirt was still in the dryer at home and there I was in a rather fetching suit jacket/tights combo.

Treevo

kitrat wrote: »

I bet they'll never let you live that down!

I wouldn't know. After that meeting I think all the employees were forbidden from speaking to me because I turned the director down. :rotfl:

gunsandbanjos

My brother turned up at the airport a day early for his flight to Australia, unfortunately he was in a city where he had no family so had to try and get some last minute accommodation in a hotel.

His girlfriend was unamused as they were also travelling with their 6 month old son so it was a stressful enough trip.

miss_independent

My Dad asked me to find him a bargain apartment to stay in in New York, with great views etc and gave me his card to book it. I used an MSE discount code and found a luxury absolutely gorgeous 2 bedroomed apartment for only £376. Only catch was once booked it was non refundable. I called Dad, he looked at the apartment, thought it was outstanding and he told me to go ahead and book it, saying "Now its non-refundable, so don't get the dates muddled up."

I carefully checked the dates, pressed confirm. The next page said "Thank you for your order, your stay is from date a to date b, various other details and total price - £2632."

Yep it was PER NIGHT.

I called straight away and told the person at customer service, I had made a terrible mistake only to get, "It's non refundable." Which of course, I already knew. I told her I definitely saw £376 on the right hand corner and never saw the real total until after I'd booked. She said, "It's bottom left. Price per night is on the top right. Total on bottom left. Confirm button on right." I said to her, "But I didn't see it!" and she said... "You didn't look hard enough."

I then had a very awkward conversation with my Dad and I ended up in tears. I have never felt like more of an idiot in my entire life.

On the plus side, once they accepted that it couldn't be changed, they had an amazing time and said it was the best place they had ever stayed.

*max*

I was booking one of our maintenance guys to go and fix something in this old lady's house. I had a bit of a crush on the guy at the time...
So when she asked "So, what does he look like?", I replied "Oh, he's really cute!".

She only wanted a description so she knew who to open the door to.

Counting_Pennies_2

Ordered my DD Christening cake from Waitrose over the phone to save dragging two under 5s to town.

Turned up on the morning of the Christening to collect the cake and it wasn't there. The member of staff checked the system and it was 100 miles away in a different town that sounded similar to our own.

I hadn't got a confirmation piece of paper to confirm the order as I had called not gone in.

They very kindly got someone to drive the cake to us. It was touch and go though.

Another reason I still go to Waitrose!

Jinx

My daughter calls me and tells me to cancel the hotel I've booked for our upcoming trip RIGHT NOW!! Em why? 'Cos you've booked Manhattan, Kansas not Manhattan, New York! You know where Dorothy and Toto live?!' Ooops......... :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

LittleMrsThrifty

One Monday afternoon I drove 20 miles to a meeting, got here and looked at my papers only to find it had been rescheduled to the Friday. I was due at another meeting on the Monday afternoon but had sent apologies to attend the meeting that wasn't and by the time I realised it was too late to go. I had a team meeting for the Friday when the first meeting had been rescheduled so cancelled the team meeting so I could go. Only as it wasn't in my diary for the Friday because I thought it was on the Monday) I forgot to go. So basically I missed three meetings in one week when I could have been at the all.