Very near miss this morning - anyone had similar?!

[Grabbner]

I’m not sure how I’ve avoided this hazard so far!

Shocking eyesight, so blindly reached for the toothpaste. Fortunately for me, Deep Heat may be in a tube very like a toothpaste tube, and it may be white like toothpaste, but it smells to buggery!

Most exciting thing that’s (nearly) happened to me this week :)

Any other near misses?

[QuestionableMouse]

Oh and last summer at work I grabbed what I thought was a roll on deo. Got to work and felt really clammy and sticky so went to put some more on. Realised just a bit too late id picked up roll on sun block instead.

[QuestionableMouse]

I was once taking some paracetamol while giving the cat some treats. Chucked the dreamies in my mouth and offered the tablets to the cat.

They don't taste as bad as you'd think. 🤢

I also was heading up yo bed one night. Clean white bedding on. Had my phone in one hand and my very big 1L travel mug in the other. Absently chucked my phone on the bed... Nope. Travel mug full of blackcurrant squash. Luckily it only leaked a tiny bit and didn't stain but for a second I wanted to cry.

[LookToTreblesGoingTreblesGone]

My mother grabbed the hair spray and gave her hair a good spraying. Too late she realised it was Mr Sheen. It took a lot of washing out!

[jackparlabane]

Went to descale the kettle last week - we have a lovely glass kettle but very hard water, so need to do it once a fortnight.

Picked up the 5 litre jug of white vinegar. Only it went gloop.

Turned out we have a 5l jug of concentrated hand sanitiser in the kitchen too! DH apparently got it cheap with a Toolstation order a year ago.

Took hours to rinse the kettle well enough that it didn't taste horrible...

[lazarusb]

@MrsSnitchnose I don't remember to be honest - I followed it up with a good mouthful of water and then cough syrup. I won't make the same mistake again though!

[Timmytoo]

I put exfoliating face wash all over my body instead of moisturizer. Last night DP squirted oral thrush treatment up his nose instead of nasal spray 🤣🤣🤣

[Mydogsnotfat]

Well I once mistook the deep heat for canesten! Smarter a bit - should have put my lenses in first but it made my sister laugh!

[ALongHardWinter]

And another one. I used anti-fungal canesten cream that was for athlete's foot for thrush 'down there'. I'd used it twice when my Dd asked why I'd left a tube of athlete's foot cream on the toilet windowsill. The penny dropped. That's what happens when I pick up things in shops without putting my glasses on. It even had a picture of a foot on the bloody tube! No long term damage was done,thankfully.

[ALongHardWinter]

snog OMG that has made me laugh so much! Your mum using Pritt Stick for lipstick!

[ALongHardWinter]

Just remembered a few that my dim witted ex did during the 4 years we were together. He put nasal spray in his ears thinking it was ear drops. He tipped dried rice into the cat's litter tray. And the one which I thought was really stupid,poured my expensive mouthwash all over his hands,thinking it was handcream!

[Whitelisbon]

Putting eye drops in for an eye infection just before bed one night, and discovered, too late, that dd had left a bottle of nail glue on the bathroom side next to the eye drops.
Had to drive one eyed to a&e to have my eye flushed, and had a fetching eye patch for a few days.
Dd still feels guilty about it, and it was about 5 years ago. might go remind her of the day she nearly blinded me and then mention I fancy a cup of tea

[Thewheelsarefallingoff]

Brushed my teeth with Savlon, right to the end. Was staying at my mum and dad's. Dad used Sensodyne and I thought, " I knew it was disgusting, but don't remember it being this bad". Then had a "eww, Savlon" moment a la Harry Hill afterwards.

[RideaCockHorseOfCourse]

Oh no bananaskins how was the cat? Jux - have done that before, too! Picking up 'chocolate' flakes from the worktop and popping them in my mouth - eew - no, cat food!!!

[MrsSnitchnose]

@lazarusb Did it stop you coughing though?

[UnagiSalmonSkinRoll]

I once had no conditioner and read egg whites were a good alternative, let me tell you...DO NOT TRY THIS AT ALL. scrambled hair

[sueelleker]

*@ellanwood they'd have had a job to cling on, he was rather slippery *
That made me giggle-visions of fleas hanging on for dear life.

[ALongHardWinter]

A few years ago,I nearly drank a jar of olives in brine,thinking it was my can of drink. My Dd also took a anti-diarrhoea tablet that she had intended to give to her DH. She popped it out of the packet and without thinking,put it in her mouth! Luckily she realised and spat it out then gave it to her Dh

[lazarusb]

I have also polished wood with hairspray - after dd and her friend got ready in the lounge and she left the can on the coffee table. I wondered why the polish had been left out but I didn't glance at the tin before using it.

[lazarusb]

I had an awful cough a while ago (years - don't panic!) and got up at about 3am to get some cough medicine. I walked into the kitchen, opened the cupboard and took a teaspoon full straight into my mouth - and then I realised that it was TCP! I have never moved across my kitchen to the sink so quickly in my life. Bleurgh!!!

[OldQueen1969]

@Grabbner - brilliant! I have this fabulous vision of a lone forlorn inanimate T-Rex longing to come in for dinner....

My much missed Nana came flying down the stairs in an absolute panic when I was a teenager coming in from school and nearly flattened me - she lived with us - she had started cooking a corned beef pie - one of her specialities - and half way through cooking time had realised she had put no corned beef in it! She had to carefully lift the half cooked crust and pop it in, all the while worrying she had lost her marbles.... bless her, it became family lore and never fails to raise a smile......

[Jux]

DH scrapes the cat plates on the table where I generally sit. One day, dd and I were at the table and I saw what I thought was a little crumb of chocolate........

Not a near miss

My family still tease me about eating cat food

[JemimaPuddleCat]

I sprayed my seedlings with zoflora instead of water a couple of weeks ago.
Smelled nice, but killed them all

[zukiecat]

I once brushed my teeth with my daughter's Aqueos Cream instead of the toothpaste.

One funny one involved XMIL, at Christmas at XH's grandma's house. XH, BIL and their uncle were all sitting on the sofa, one of them passed wind and started laughing and giggling like naughty schoolboys.

XMIL took offence at this, and stomped off to the kitchen to get air freshener, saying how disgusting, immature and uncouth they all were.

Only, she grabbed the first can that came to hand which was furniture polish, stomped back through and sprayed them all with the polish

When we all laughed at this, she stormed out of the house and back to her home which was just across the road

[Perch]

I brushed my son’s teeth with bepanthen a few night ago 🙈

[Lobsterquadrille2]

I've often crossly told my black, fake fur hat to get off my bed.