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Acts of idiocy caused by sleep deprivation

26 replies

TartanShirtGreyCardigan · 13/06/2019 16:37

After a totally fucking hellish trip to Morrisons, I wrestled my three maniacs into my car, got into the front seat, looked at my petrol gauge and it was empty.

I cried. Literally big snotty tears, because it was just the last straw and I had filled up the tank last week.

And then I realised that I hadn't started the effing car, and that's why it was at zero Blush Blush

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Aroundtheworldin80moves · 13/06/2019 16:52

I was driving along once and realised I couldn't remember what I had done with the CAR keys and was worried I had left them at the supermarket. They were in the ignition, obviously.

Trenzalor · 13/06/2019 16:54

Yesterday, I couldn’t find my phone so I was using my watch to send a beep. I knew it was in the bedroom but one moment it sounded in one place and then another. It was in my back pocket and moving with me.

maslinpan · 13/06/2019 16:54

I was making a pot of tea one bleary-eyed morning, got distracted by the cats, and put cat food in the teapot. Luckily I didn't add any boiling water.

InsertFunnyUsername · 13/06/2019 17:00

😂😂 OP.

I rung my partner getting off the train after my first "big" day out just me and PF newborn, fighting my way back home through Victoria, getting squashed and panicking my baby was somehow going to get hurt, i thought i had lost...

My phone, and was worried how will i be able to get in contact with anyone🙈 My partner just said "Errrm how did you ring me" Star

Queenofmyownheart · 13/06/2019 17:11

Found my frozen chips in the saucepan cupboard and all of my mugs in the fridge 😂😂😂😂funny thing was I actually didn't realise for ages like mugs in the fridge was totally normal 😂

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TartanShirtGreyCardigan · 13/06/2019 17:13

I felt like such an idiot. Glad I'm in the company of friends Grin

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kidsmakesomuchwashing · 13/06/2019 17:18

I regularly find my milk in the cupboard and the cornflakes in the fridge :-/

Bluerussian · 13/06/2019 17:20

In the days when we used to have to show tickets to someone at the end of a station platform, one morning I showed him my front door keys.

Hedgehogblues · 13/06/2019 17:25

I forgot how to answer my phone

NavyBerry · 13/06/2019 18:30

I literally couldn't remember my direct manager's name when I went back to work after my maternity 😅

Lynca · 13/06/2019 18:37

Woke in the middle of the night thirsty and tried to eat my peppermint foot moisturiser instead of taking a drink from the glass of water next to it. Came to my senses just in time!

Vio112 · 13/06/2019 18:44

I put boxes of Christmas cards in the freezer because they were roughly the same shape and colours of the frozen pizza we'd bought in the same shopping trip.

TwinklyMummaLuvsHerBubba89 · 13/06/2019 18:52

Pregnant with PFB and exhausted through 24 hour sickness and general pregnancy tiredness, I attempted to leave the house.

I walked out of the inner-porch door, closing it behind me (which automatically locked it) and then tried to open the outside-porch door. Only it was locked and my keys were in the kitchen, behind the now locked inside-porch door.

I cried.

Luckily I had my phone with me.

I called my mum who was at work, when she'd stopped laughing she made her way home to rescue me. 45 minutes I stood there, needing a wee and crying.

(I've typed "porch" so many times now it looks like a pretend word!)

BringOnTheScience · 13/06/2019 19:16

DC1 was v prem and we were in NICU & SCBU for weeks & weeks & weeks. I'd carefully expressed a couple of precious ounces of milk then went to wash out the pump. Tipped the milk straight down the sink! Sad

Many tears.

Ward sister gave me strict instructions to go for a nap then have wine with dinner that night.

vampirethriller · 13/06/2019 19:21

This morning I put 7 scoops of coffee granules into the baby's bottle
Last week I put 20 teabags into the washing machine
I baked the oven gloves instead of the chicken

FurryGiraffe · 13/06/2019 19:23

In the depths of sleep deprivation with DS2 I randomly decided to descale the kettle. Put descaler in, then totally forgot. Hours later, boiled kettle up to cook some ravioli. Cooked ravioli, tasted it, thought it was disgusting and concluded it was 'off'. It was only after I had cooked a second packet of pasta with the descaler-filled water that I remembered putting the descaler in and concluded this might have something to do with the funny taste.

Grumpymug · 13/06/2019 19:26

Work nights so have done many a daft thing while knackered, not limited to when DD was little and never slept either.
I've put a 4 Pinter of milk in the oven and a chicken in a roasting tin ready to cook, in the fridge. Turned the oven on. That was fun. And I was hungry.
Put my glasses in the fridge at work several times for reasons I cannot fathom.
I suck mints on nights as I start to feel sick sometimes. Regularly unwrap the mint, throw the sweet away and try sucking the wrapper. Tasty.

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TartanShirtGreyCardigan · 13/06/2019 19:27

Last week I put 20 teabags into the washing machine

Shock

Did that end as badly as it sounds?!

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Seriously79 · 13/06/2019 19:54

I took my eye make up off with nail varnish remover! Couldn't figure out for weeks why my eye lids were so sore 🙄 it wasn't until I tried to remove my nail polish with eye makeup remover I finally realised what I'd done.

In my defence, both bottle were the same size and colour 🤭

vampirethriller · 13/06/2019 22:37

No it turned out fine! I use colour catchers. Annoying though because it was a terrible waste of tea.

Daffodil2018 · 13/06/2019 22:46

I put my baby's bottle on the wooden counter top in the kitchen and filled it up with formula. As I lifted it up I realised I hadn't put the base on so formula went all over the counter and the floor. This happened yesterday after 4 hours sleep Confused

harper30 · 13/06/2019 22:50

When DD was newborn I went through a phase of throwing dirty nappies in the wash basket and not realising for ages, it absolutely stank 😂😂😂

Bacardi101 · 13/06/2019 22:51

When my youngest DD was a baby she never slept more than 20 minutes at a time and I remember being in the kitchen half delirious with tiredness making up a bottle of formula and I shook the bottle but I’d not put the lid - cried for about 30 minutes afterwards.
This evening I was tearing of my ready meal sticker I know cook of the year coming straight at me I somehow managed to open it but upside down onto the kitchen floor Blush

MotherOfTheNoise · 14/06/2019 00:22

We have a car that has one of those 'in range' keys. Got in the car, it started, realised I'd left something in the house, ended up leaving the keys in the house. Drove about 4 hours away to our camp site. Realised as soon as I'd turned the car off the car keys were a 4 hour drive away 😂😭

Bellaposey · 14/06/2019 00:28

I went to work with one eye of full make up ... Just the one. Other eye - not a thing. Took me until mid afternoon to realise.