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Odd thing you've done, and then thought 'WTF did I do that?!'

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ChickensHaveNoEyebrows · 15/08/2011 21:34

I once found a white disc in the washing machine after a load had finished. Couldn't for the life of me work out what it was. So I licked it. Turns out it was a lemon scented bleach block for the toilet cistern. I'd scooped up the packet with the dirty washing. I don't usually lick random objects. It tasted a bit lemony, and not particularly fatal in case you were wondering.

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ginmakesitallok · 15/08/2011 21:38

Years ago I was having coffee with a very senior colleague - I calmly opened a sachet of sugar and poured it into the ashtray instead of into my cup......tit

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DraculasMum · 15/08/2011 21:39

ROFL Grin

My dd had something in her hand and i couldnt work out what it was so licked it.. POO! Real actual POO!

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bibbitybobbityhat · 15/08/2011 21:40

Grin at op.

Will come back after searching through the old archives.

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LynetteScavo · 15/08/2011 21:41

Last week I dropped some clothes at the charity shop and saw a yellow dice ashtray for £2, and bought it.

I have no fecking idea why.

I then told myself I would sell it on ebay and make a profit. Except someone is already selling them in any colour you want for £2.99.

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ChickensHaveNoEyebrows · 15/08/2011 21:42

Dracula, bahahahahahahaha! Do you want a lick of my cistern cleaner?

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5inthebed · 15/08/2011 21:44

Poo!!!!

I once had an interview for a telephone based ob, it was going really well, passed al the hard computer tests, manual test etc, then one of the interviewer asked "so how are you on the telephone" and I answered "Oh I hate taling on telephones, I get all flabbergasted"

Such a self sabotager

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DraculasMum · 15/08/2011 21:45


mmm lemon fresh!
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ChickensHaveNoEyebrows · 15/08/2011 21:46

Grin

When I was in college, I spent fifteen minutes poking the girl in front of me with a protractor. I thought it was my friend. It wasn't. When she turned around to ask wtf I was doing, I made out I meant to do it the whole time and it was a reasonable way of attracting someone's attention.

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ChickensHaveNoEyebrows · 15/08/2011 21:47

Who is the MNer who introduced herself as her husband's name at some important do? Because that story made me howl.

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MrsWifty · 15/08/2011 21:50

No licking in this one, but I once found myself rooting furiously through my handbag to find a file I wanted to attach to an email.

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TrillianAstra · 15/08/2011 21:50


Licking unidentified objects is not a good way to find out what they are.
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PotteringAlong · 15/08/2011 21:50

At uni I went upto someone at a cash point I thought was my best friend and threw my arms around her. I have no idea why as I'm not a massively tactile person.

It wasn't her, and the person getting cash out thought it was dome weird ploy to steal their money and got quote angry Blush

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ALovelyBunchOfCoconuts · 15/08/2011 21:51

ginmakesitallok are you my mum?? She did that once!

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CarrieOakey · 15/08/2011 21:51

DH left his mobile at home one day so I text him to ask him if he wanted me to drop it off Blush

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FruStefanLindman · 15/08/2011 21:52

Well...it wouldn't have been fatal, OP, otherwise you wouldn't be posting here, would you Grin

One of those Heinz Baked Beans big fridge jars, which we'd only eaten a bit from, had been left it in the fridge for days on end. I knew it had gone off so decided to throw it away. Did I chuck the remaining beans (about 2/3rd of the jar) in the rubbish before putting the jar in the recycling? Did I hell.

I decided to put all the remaining baked beans down the kitchen sink. We don't have a waste disposal unit - I thought they'd just...well...go down (actually, I knew they wouldn't the minute I did it). Did they go down? Did they hell. Well, they went down the plughole - but then blocked it up. You should've seen me. I was running around like a headless chicken, pouring boiling water from the kettle, then sink cleaner, then more boiling water in (just made matters worse, I ended up with a sink full of scuzzy water). Fortunately I found a sink-plunger-jobby in the shed before DP came home. Blush Grin

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cjbartlett · 15/08/2011 21:55

When I was 11 I locked up my parents house, put the house key under the mat and attached a note to the door 'mum, gone out, key under the mat' Blush

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ChickensHaveNoEyebrows · 15/08/2011 21:55

Love looking for a file in your handbag Grin

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LawrieMarlow · 15/08/2011 21:56

Was it Pagwatch who introduced herself as her DH? Either she did or I just think she might do that Grin.

She does throw glasses at people at MN meetups.

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FruStefanLindman · 15/08/2011 21:59

That's brilliant cjbartlett

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superjobee · 15/08/2011 21:59

i lick stuff Blush i also sniff but mainly lick .. im like a curious 2 yr old Grin

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ChickensHaveNoEyebrows · 15/08/2011 22:00

I think I thought it was some kind of giant mint. I have no defence as to why I thought that.

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5inthebed · 15/08/2011 22:02

I once took the tv remote control to school instead of my calculator, made maths a bit more fun.

Then I did it again a few years later, leaving my mobile at home and took the cable remote control, DH was not impresed.

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CarrieOakey · 15/08/2011 22:02

Dh one day decided to find out if she had pooed her nappy by poking his finger in there - she had, this was me ---->Grin

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CarrieOakey · 15/08/2011 22:04

She being DD of course!

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LawrieMarlow · 15/08/2011 22:04

Yes I was right Grin

Was indeed Pagwatch who introduced herself as Pagman.

Not sure if that will link to her post but it is on that thread.

Why do I remember things like that and not other more useful things?

My WTF moment was when I (wearing cleaning the house type clothes), opened the front door, threw rubbish out and slammed the door behind me. Sadly it was a yale lock, I didn't have the key, DH was at work and it was between Christmas and New Year and there was snow on the ground. Don't think I even had a mobile phone then. So I walked down the hill, reversed the charges, got him to come back from London and went and walked round the shops of Hertford looking a mess and feeling cold. Obviously no purse with me either.

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