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Evidence you have finally lost the plot

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FunTimes2020 · 20/06/2020 14:20

I was looking out of the lounge window and thought I recognised someone going past. From the comfort of my sofa, I picked up the remote to rewind... Blush Grin

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Supermarketworker06 · 20/06/2020 22:29

I've got a motion activated bin indoors. Wheelie bins outside are not motion activated. Hasn't stopped me standing there furiously waving my arms about by the bin shouting "open, bastard!"

DuckonaBike · 20/06/2020 23:01

Today I couldn’t find the cheese grater. Looked everywhere, all the cupboards, dishwasher, asked DH and DCs.
Then DH noticed it on the worktop. I’d already got it out.

This thread has made me feel much, much better.

JaneJeffer · 20/06/2020 23:23

I opened a bag of dog mixer and put the scissors back up on the shelf except when I went to pick up the tin of dog food I was going to mix it with I found the scissors in its place and the tin on the shelf.

Impatientwino · 20/06/2020 23:57

Years ago I was over at my aunts when her sink was blocked so my uncle unscrewed all the pipe work to sort it. He put a washing up bowl under the sink cupboard to catch the water whilst he did this.

After it was all unblocked and water had drained into the bowl underneath he went out to the garage to fetch another tool. My aunt seized the opportunity to clear away the water so picked up the bowl and calmly threw the water into the sink!

Cue water everywhere, me laughing and my aunt looking confused and then it dawned on her. We then both cleaned all the water up using cloths and kept wringing them out into the washing up bowl.

When we had finished my aunt poured the bowl back down the sink Grin Will never let her forget it. She is a very intelligent calm lady and she still wonders what the hell she was thinking!

FunTimes2020 · 21/06/2020 00:02

Wino, that's a classic! Grin

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Impatientwino · 21/06/2020 00:03

I also will admit to trying to zoom in to physical pictures frequently, trying to open my front door with my car key fob and most recently trying to lock my car by nodding my head at it like I was some sort of telepathist with special powers!

Impatientwino · 21/06/2020 00:06

Funtimes, honestly she has 3 adult children and between them she is reminded probably monthly of the time she threw the water down the open sink... twice

Me and my brother remind her a couple of times a year too!

She hates us all...

FunTimes2020 · 21/06/2020 00:20

@Impatientwino

Funtimes, honestly she has 3 adult children and between them she is reminded probably monthly of the time she threw the water down the open sink... twice

Me and my brother remind her a couple of times a year too!

She hates us all...

Ah bless her. Now you can tell her she has featured on an online forum! 😊😂😊
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managedmis · 21/06/2020 01:40

Tried to scroll down on a freaking window

I. E. Real, glass window

managedmis · 21/06/2020 01:43

I emptied the freshly boiled kettle into the tea caddy instead of my mug. Ruined 80 tea bags!

^

I did this but with coffee

CrowCat · 21/06/2020 01:55

It's so long since I've had a takeaway coffee that when I got one last week I tore the top off the sugar sachet, tipped the sugar into the bin and dropped the sachet in my coffee. My DD watched me do this without saying a word then wee'd herself laughing. I'm a constant source of hilarity with my DC 😂

Lotsalotsagiggles · 21/06/2020 03:16

A few month ago I lost my
Keys and couldn't find them anywhere

Nearly had to change locks and the car key. Then one night I fancied some crisps and was eating a share bag and I picked to get another crisp and they were there!

They must've been left open on the table and I threw keys down and got stuck in them! And then I tidied them away to the cupboard lols

40somethingJBJ · 21/06/2020 03:34

I’ve also emptied the kettle into the tea caddy. Lost the house phone the other week, Hunted everywhere for it, and eventually had to give up as I needed to fetch the shopping. Walk outside to find the wheelie bin ringing! Yep, I’d put it in the bin!

Finfintytint · 21/06/2020 04:30

I frequently dial 9 to get an outside line. At home.

GreenTeaMug · 21/06/2020 07:48

MrsPinkCock. Grin

On the downside I had a fairly extensive call on one of my pro bono cases last week that when I hung up I saw lasted just over 24 minutes. I was Grin then Sad

Minai · 21/06/2020 08:08

I regularly say thank you to cash machines

Trumpton · 21/06/2020 08:43

Threw my underwear down the toilet instead of the washing basket !

Luckily a clean toilet . But I had to lift the seat in order to throw them in so you would have thought that I would have realised .

ThatsNotMyPuma · 21/06/2020 08:43

@MrsPinkCock @GreenTeaMug

Grin
weepingwillow22 · 21/06/2020 08:51

Glad it is not just me. I am blaming sleep deprivation. I was on a walk in the woods yesterday and asked alexa to tell me if it was going to rain despite the nearest alexa being at home. I also discovered I had put a bag of salad in the pan drawer instead of the fridge.

I always remember when I was at primary school my mum meeting me at school then walking home with me. When we got home she got in a panic because she thought the car had been stolen and phoned the police to report it. The next day she thought about it and realised she had left it in the car park near the school. That was an embarrassing call with the police.

Passthecake30 · 21/06/2020 08:55

Went to the canteen at work, picked up a takeaway bowl and lid, filled it up with soup, and added black pepper.

Walked up 2 flights back to my office, took dipped in my bread.... mmm custard!!!Blush

JellyfishandShells · 21/06/2020 09:28

I make my coffee in a small Moka espresso hob top pot ( try saying that in a hurry) It has a lower chamber for water, a basket for the scoops of ground coffee and then an upper chamber that screws on tight that the coffee is forced up into.

Poured a very sorry looking cup of coffee last week and unscrewed the pot to discover no coffee grounds but a single hot, wet, tea bag in the basket.

jamandtonic · 21/06/2020 11:25

I can't even spell my own name right this morning. It only has three letters in it.

PogoBob · 21/06/2020 11:52

A couple of days back I tried to click the undo button after moving furniture around in the dining room (had been playing Sims and momentarily forgot the real life doesn't have an undo button when designing rooms!)

BobbyTheVetIsMyHero · 21/06/2020 11:54

I keep trying to open the front door by pushing the unlock button on my car keys

Vebrithien · 21/06/2020 12:06

Sprayed deodorant on my toothbrush, rather than toothpaste Envy