Things you should not do...

GreyQueen

Gingernutty wrote: »

I used to work in central London and passed a Pret a Manger every morning.

Some days I walked in, grabbed a bottle of orange (coloured) juice, and, without checking the label, pay for it, walk out and start swigging as I'm walking briskly between the two bus stops.

I eventually acquired a taste for carrot juice.

LOL!

Don't shop for oranges without due care and attention and end up with pink grapefruit instead.

Don't buy most of your canned goods from the same supermarket's basics range, open tins of sweetcorn and wonder why they're round and green.................

VJsmum

Don't trust the labelling on your home made freezer goods and then find you have a nice tub of rhubarb or chicken stock for lunch at work instead of your planned soup.

Or trust your teenager to get up after you go in to wake him....... :mad: Scuse me, gotta go........

gallygirl

GreyQueen wrote: »

Don't drive your car to town, something you seldom do, and then forget that you didn't walk down as normal, walk a mile home and have heart failure when coming around the corner towards the house and finding your car isn't outside............... it was several seconds of OMG before the penny dropped............:rotfl:

In a similar vein...... don't get home to discover the dog is missing...... then remember you walked up the town with her and left her outside a shop..... tied up to the pram containing your week old baby :eek::eek::eek:. Not me I hasten to add :rotfl: and all was well.

lynsayjane

PenguinOfDeath wrote: »

Don't retype a fairly substantial shopping list from your old phone to your brand new one that you're not too sure how to work yet, accidentally press a random button whilst just starting your shop, panic when it asks you if you want to delete the note and for some reason press ok, swear a bit too loudly for the middle of a supermarket then spend the next ten minutes frantically trying to remember what you went in for...

In a similar vein, watching Jeremy Clarkson's ice bucket challenge with sound in Asda was never going to be a wise idea. I believe the word shouted out from my phone was along the lines of m*****f***** :eek:

Primrose

sillyvixen wrote: »

The car dealership moved to 10 mins walk away from my house, so i dropped my car off for MOT and service, walking home calling in at shops i would normally walk to (unless i was buying a big item or passing by on my way home in the car). as i walked round the corner i panicked as my car was not on the drive!! of course it was not on the drive - i had left it at the garage for MOT, it took a few mins for the penny to drop!!

I'd similarly taken my car in for service and when the time came leave the house to collect it, I turned the place upside down in a complete panic hunting for the car keys. It was half an hour before it suddenly dawned on me that of course the car keys were still with the car, by which time I'd turned out every handbag and every coat and jacket pocket looking for the darned things.

VJsmum

Don't lock your car keys in the car with the baby still inside it... Twice :eek:

sillyvixen

VJsmum wrote: »

Don't trust the labelling on your home made freezer goods and then find you have a nice tub of rhubarb or chicken stock for lunch at work instead of your planned soup.

i a couple of see through containers of stewed apple defrosting while i went to work - with the idea of making an apple crumble when i got home, thankfully i realized before chucking it all in the same dish that one container was home made leek and potato soup. could have been an interesting pudding!!

Primrose

sillyvixen wrote: »

i a couple of see through containers of stewed apple defrosting while i went to work - with the idea of making an apple crumble when i got home, thankfully i realized before chucking it all in the same dish that one container was home made leek and potato soup. could have been an interesting pudding!!

Totally agree about good labelling. You think you'll remember but months later you won't! . I once threw a block of frozen gooseberry purree into a soup mixture to defrost thinking it was chicken stock. Had pour the lot down the loo !

babyshoes

Don't try to wax your legs at home (by sitting on the sofa and propping your feet on the coffee table with newspaper spread around underneath) without making sure your pets can't get into the room - they will walk under your legs just as you drip hot wax! My mom once had the joy of trying to get drops of set beeswax off the cat... I think she clipped the fur and the poor cat looked bedraggled for weeks!

Flat_Eric

Heated up a jam tart in the microwave for so long it welded itself to the dish. Exploded a chocolate pudding in the microwave on another occasion. Almost set fire to the house after leaving the new toaster unattended while faffing with the DVD player!