You know you're tired when...

[lucysmam]

The cheese goes on the pile of pots to be washed up, and the grater goes on the cheese shelf in the fridge

Forget to put the water in the steamer and don't notice until the burning smell gets really bad.

I'm going to bed shortly.

So many times I'm talking on my phone and panicking because I can't find my phone....[hmmm]

And you can't manage emojis
Could so easily go to sleep right now...

Mercedes I do that quite often. Or lose the house keys, that I have hold of ready to unlock the door

I got to Asda to do my shopping.
Peddles on the car felt... funny.
Got out of the car AND still had big fluffy pink slippers on.
Wasn’t particularly surprised but what did surprise me was that I wasn’t going to Asda, I was going to Tesco, couldn’t understand why I was at Asda and couldn’t remember the journey to get there.
Dark dark days back then.

Your face aches

Driving home from a night shift and couldn't remember any of the journey
Forget the words for things.

When you get in your car and can't work out where the steering wheel is and then eventually you realise you've got in the back seat.

Left my coat at work, was half way home (walking) when I realised, thought to myself its ok I'll walk home then nip back in the car to get it. Except my house keys and car keys are in my coat pocket. Locked out, had to walk back to work. I just need a quick nap 😂

Brushing my teeth with savalon instead of toothpaste . It tastes yuck btw!

When one of your three children goes missing and you can’t figure out which one it is. So you calm yourself down enough to work it out by process of elimination. DS1 present. DS2 present. So it’s not either of them. It’s the other one. But you can’t remeber the name of the other one. Or how they look. Or their age. Or even their sex. And then it saws on you. You only have two children.

You wash your hair three times cause you keep forgetting if you did it.

I've done that twice this week, nightowl!

Yes, or when you take the towel off to comb and dry your hair, and you realise that you didn't rinse the shampoo off.

You write a mark scheme with several (obvious to me when I found them) errors.
One glass of wine leaves you feeling knackered and ready for bed!

Yes, when you realise that you're not able to drink, because you feel quite drunk already, and it would only send you to sleep when you must stay awake. It's cheaper and possibly healthier, but a bit of a nuisance.

Walking to work and wondering why everything appears a little blurry. The glasses were still on the bedside cabinet!

I do that all the time too nightowl.

When you walk to the shop and cant work out why 1 foot is colder then the other. I had put on a shoe and a flip flop. My youngest at the time was 6 years old.

I lost my house keys recently, like i couldnt remeber what i had done with them. (Set rountine as they have lock keys for medicine cabinet on them) so... got everyone to look for them. They were found in the bin, still not convinced that was entirely me tbh.

Your trying to get the kids ready for school and put a load of washing on at the same time... fabric softener in the fridge where the milk goes and you can guess where the milk went

Making stock and draining the contents of the pan through a sieve and straight down the plughole

Wallet on car roof in petrol station

Leaving a rear door of the car wide open in car parks

Reading stories to toddlers and actually falling asleep for 5-10 seconds

I have fallen asleep at work, hallucinated as I was so tired, tried repeatedly to scan my hand over the door release wondering why my hand won't release the door. Dd1 did not sleep for 17 months. Dd2 sleeps pretty well but I am so often so tired and exhausted that I am not sure how my body in functioning.

...after finishing at my clients home yesterday (Im a housekeeper) I simply walked out, locked the door and posted the key through the letterbox. Its only as I went to get in my car I realised Id left everything inside - my products, my coat, my bag, my phone. Bag also containing my house keys and car keys.

And I'm not even supposed to post the key, it's mine to keep as it's a regular twice-a-week client!

I once walked round the office thinking I had a limp. I didn’t, in my sleep haze I’d put on two different boots. Both black but different styles and slightly different heels, hence the limp.

I only figured it out after lunch...

Keys in hand, banana skin in hand, toddler's beaker of milk in hand - Open manky recycling bin (full of minging 'juice' as just been emptied by bin men) .....

In go keys. Argh, fish them out. In goes the beaker, ffs fish them out. Keys in again. Finally the banana skin goes in with the beaker this time