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

MrsAtobe

Too many to mention, sadly . This one is a prime example though - turning up on a Thursday for a dental appointment that should have been on the Tuesday, even though the dental practice had rung me on the Monday to remind me:o

olibrofiz

I was stripping some paint off a door frame with a hot air gun, and wondered if the inside of the gun glowed orange.

I felt my contact lens melting in the nano second I peered down it from a full arms length away. Until I changed the lens (monthly disposable) it was always identifiable because it was slightly bigger than the other one

And not me but.... I caught a train and sat down next to a guy who was obviously dozing. As we pulled into the station he awoke and said 'ah, Birmingham New Street, I need to change trains' - it was London Euston :rotfl:

lizziebabe

When I worked in London my sister asked me to go to a big record store in Oxford Street and ask for an album by a new band she had just heard.

So I went into the store and found an assistant who was very good looking and I went up to him and said
'Have you got Throbbing Gristle'. He gave me a very funny look and I turned bright red. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

They are actually a real band.

NervousHomeowner

The stupidest mistake I've made was in my last job. I worked as the graphic designer for a confectionery company and was tasked with creating the flyers to hand out to the sales reps whenever we started stocking a new product.

One time, we started selling a tonne of new items at the same time, including a new brand of pork scratchings. Anyway, because of all the new items, I was really rushed in putting together all of the flyers for the sales reps. In my haste to get everything typed up, I managed to make a typo on one of the flyers and ended up calling the pork scratchings !!!!!! Cratchings :rotfl: Thankfully someone noticed my typo before they went out to the sales reps but I got made fun of a lot!

I also once fell asleep on my way to uni and ended up 2 hours away in London Euston Thankfully the ticket guard was very nice and plonked me back on the train, allowing me to travel back to uni with no ticket! I got laughed at a lot when I got back to uni

teabag29

haha yeh that reminds me of the tme my dear mother sent me to the shop for a tin of elbow grease..... thought after that I woulda learnt my lesson but no a year later I was stood in B&Q asking for a long weight!!

olibrofiz

teabag29 wrote: »

haha yeh that reminds me of the tme my dear mother sent me to the shop for a tin of elbow grease..... thought after that I woulda learnt my lesson but no a year later I was stood in B&Q asking for a long weight!!

haha, that reminds me of where I worked as a teen, they sent the apprentice to get a pump to pump up the shopping trolley tyres.....he went off to get one :rotfl::rotfl:

teabag29

olibrofiz wrote: »

haha, that reminds me of where I worked as a teen, they sent the apprentice to get a pump to pump up the shopping trolley tyres.....he went off to get one :rotfl::rotfl:

I have to confess, when my husband sent my son to the shop for a glass hammer I did not intervene

Kynthia

Toto wrote: »

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.

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

ellay864

My mum had an optician's appointment recently, went in and nobody was around so she browsed the frames for a while then when one of the staff appeared, mum said she had an apoointment at 10. The girl couldn't find my mum's appointment so asked if she was sure it was that day. My mum was adamant it was. The girl asked my mum for her details to check in case they'd put her on another date...no trace of my mum in the system. At which point it dawned on mum that she was in Specsavers and not next door in Boot's Opticians. Should've gone to....!

vesper

We went camping this weekend and typically hubby left all the packing to me to do. Fair enough, all I asked was for him to pack his clothes.
So sure enough after a day of walking in the heat after it had been raining all morning, so getting muddy then sweaty, we turned up at campsite and unpacked. Sure enough Hubby hadn't packed any clothes at all! He was quickly shoved in the car and sent to the nearest supermarket.

This is a week after having gone camping again and he only had to pack his pillow, which again he forgot.