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So this morning I was chatting to the Headteacher...

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MutteringDarkly · 01/07/2021 09:02

...got home to realise there was a giant "XL" sticker running down the front of the new t-shirt I pulled on in a rush. Marvellous.

Anyone else nailing it this morning?

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TeenMinusTests · 01/07/2021 10:21

@Mumbletum

One morning I refused to let the head of school tailgate me in to the nursery behind the gate code because I didn't recognise her (school goes all the way to 18 and my son was only 3)

She did the 'do you know who I am?' thing then someone came along who did know her and I crawled away..

I think you were showing appropriate respect for safeguarding and security.
Mumbletum · 01/07/2021 10:23

@TeenMinusTests
I agree! But she gave me the cat's bum mouth about it Grin

SingingInTheShithouse · 01/07/2021 10:26

😂😂 at some of these

Mine...

Years back when DD was still a baby, I had an important business meeting at a local hotel. The usual running around like a blue arsed fly to organise, plus sore BF boobs meant I went to the meeting with a pair of cabbage leaves poking out of the neck of my scoop neck top.

I didn't realise until I took the opportunity after the meeting fir a few hours of freedom & met a couple of friends for a drink. They thought it hilarious not to mention it for an hour or so & then ask me about the unusual lace trim on my top - when I realised what I'd just done. I was far from flat chested, especially then, so I doubt very much my faux pas wasn't noticed Blush

Only yesterday I went out & put on my hurriedly fixed face mask for the shop. Took it off & went for a wander. Realised on getting home that somehow the quick fix, which was replacing a broken wire nose bar, with 2 stick on ones, was done the wrong way around & I now had 2 metal bars stuck across my nose & cheeks & was wandering around town looking like some sad old Adam Ant fan 😂

Retrievemysanity · 01/07/2021 10:26

I walked to school in a snowstorm once, had a chat with the head and a few parents, got home and realised my mascara had run all over my face. I looked horrendous!!!

Smudge77 · 01/07/2021 10:36

I answered the door to a woman delivery driver, after I had "home hair lightered" my hair in one of those caps , eg spikey hedgehog, as she walked back I heard her laughing back up the path!

spiderlight · 01/07/2021 10:37

I've posted before about the time the Hoover plug flew up and hit me edge-on in the face when I was rushing to go out and hit the cable return button a bit too enthusiastically. I thought 'thank goodness it didn't knock my teeth out' and forgot all about it. I took then-toddler DS up on the bus to visit my dad at his lovely nursing home, popped to the shops, stopped at the swings on the way home, and vaguely noticed that more people than usual had smiled at me. Got home, looked in the mirror and I had a dark black bruise above my lip in the exact shape and position of a Hitler moustache.

Calmyertits · 01/07/2021 10:38

Took DS to his early morning football class when he was a toddler, saw another mum looking at me funny. Top was inside out. School run not that long ago, my linen trousers were inside out but luckily my maternity top was long enough it covered my bum and the label! Regularly find ive gone to work with my pants inside out too...

Junipersky · 01/07/2021 10:39

The joys of being a busy Mum!
I've had so many mishaps in the past I've lost count - cardigan inside out is the one I'm best at.
The thing that stands out for me though happened several years ago when my youngest started at nursery. He was delayed in walking due to his disability so still in a pushchair (mainstream nursery).
Mornings were so hectic getting my other two ready for school and dealing with my youngest child's gastro tube (which he has at the time).
I thought I'd done well - until I arrived at nursery (having walked there with him in the pushchair) to notice that I'd forgotten to put his shoes on! I explained to the staff, and they looked at me as if to say "How on earth can you forget to put his shoes on?" Needless to say I felt like the worst Mum!
It was only when he finished nursery to transfer to a special school that they sent his files home with him (like a diary that his keyworker filled in each day). For that particular day (the only time it happened) they'd written "Arrived at nursery with no shoes!!! Mum said she forgot to put them on!!".
To say I felt "rubbish" was an under statement!

lljkk · 01/07/2021 10:39

walked around town doing lots of shopping then found a big patch of baby poo on my top right below my boobs (out of sight). Not a good moment.

GammyLeg · 01/07/2021 10:46

The manky slippers one 😂

I put chapstick on my way into supermarket - it was dark and I fumbled for it in the bottom of my handbag, I swiped it all around my lips and the skin around my lips.

It Wasn’t chapstick - it was a pink lipstick, a really lurid one from a child’s make up kit. I did the shop and when I walked in the door of the house DH pointed and laughed till he cried.

Wellwhatalovelyday · 01/07/2021 10:48

Dog walk yesterday, said hello to a few passing walkers before I noticed that my flies were very down and there was lovely pink wobbly flesh hanging out. Classy.

Mmmmdanone · 01/07/2021 10:49

When I was young and pretty(ish) I was in town doing a bit of shopping. I was getting quite a few admiring (so I thought!) glances, and people smiling at me. Thought I was the bees knees! When I got home I realised that I had a massive streak of black mascara right down my cheek 🙄

Badabingbadabum · 01/07/2021 10:53

I brushed my hair on the way out of work once and then had a twenty minute bus ride, went to Morrisons, and it was only when I was having a coffee after all that when I realised that I had a ball of Babybel wax in my hair. Must have been stuck to my hairbrush.

Needhelp101 · 01/07/2021 10:54

I was going to work and kept thinking, something's not right.

I'd forgotten to put my bra on. How?!

AND I was wearing a white shirt.

kurtney · 01/07/2021 11:06

I went on a date once and when I got home saw I had a NO VPL (visible panty line) sticker on my coat, where you'd wear a badge. It must have come off some knickers that had been on the boot of my car when I'd chucked my coat in with the shopping.

BearSoFair · 01/07/2021 11:10

Years ago I wore two different shoes to work...they were similar-ish and I hadn't been back to work long after maternity leave so was all over the place, that's always been my excuse anyway!

Once overheard two women meeting up outside a cafe, the first said "I love your dress!" and the second replied "thanks, it's backwards, I only realised on the bus". The way she just admitted and owned it was fabulous Grin

Alexdrake44 · 01/07/2021 11:20

Years ago I used to use a 2 step L’OReal mascara, you had to put the white base coat on first then put the normal black mascara on top, in a rush to get to work one morning I only applied the white coat, no one said anything 🙃

AutistGoth · 01/07/2021 11:22

I remember one rainy morning deciding to wear my wellington boots to walk to my workplace. Unfortunately, it was only when I had passed the point of no return and couldn't go back that I realised that I'd forgotten to put a pair of spare shoes in my backpack. Oops!

I had to walk around my workplace all day in my stocking feet.

SirGawain · 01/07/2021 11:31

I have a regular problem with shoes. I have awkward feet so when I find a style that fits I tend to stay with it but in different colours, hence not infrequently I’m wearing odd shoes.

romdowa · 01/07/2021 11:35

I went to work one day and came home and discovered I had a peg on the bottom of my tshirt all day 🤣🤣

Jowak1 · 01/07/2021 11:37

Years ago in the playground waiting for my son at primary school, it started to rain as I was chatting to other mums. I pulled the hood up on my coat and out popped my husbands boxer shorts and fell on my face!Grin all the mums laughed and asked what I had been doing lol 😂 I tried explain that I sometimes pop my coat on the maiden with drying clothes snd was in a rush and grabbed my coat with my hubby's underwear in the hood! Lol 😆

Original poster
MutteringDarkly · 01/07/2021 11:38

@kurtney

I went on a date once and when I got home saw I had a NO VPL (visible panty line) sticker on my coat, where you'd wear a badge. It must have come off some knickers that had been on the boot of my car when I'd chucked my coat in with the shopping.
This is excellent. "NO VPL" is clearly a political statement.

Also still snorting about @spiderlight and her bruise moustache.

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SlipperTripper · 01/07/2021 11:46

Went to a meeting recently, first time back in the office. Getting up early was a bit of a shock to the system so wasn't 100% firing on all cylinders. Showered, got dressed in the (darkish) room, back to the bathroom to put on some makeup.

All day I felt uncomfortable, tight chest and just wrong... got home in a right state convinced I had pissing covid.

No. Just had two fucking bras on all day.

One had nestled into the other one in my underwear drawer and in my darkish gloom I'd put one on with the other snuggled in for the ride (not done up, clearly, just sort of sat there). I blamed not being used to wearing a bra for a year and being ahem, lockdown fatter for the weird feeling. Turns out having tidy drawers is a mistake waiting to happen!

sotiredofthislonelylife · 01/07/2021 11:47

It couldn’t be seen, obviously, but I somehow managed to put a thong on sideways. I kept wondering why my undies felt so uncomfortable but it was ages until I could get to a loo to investigate.

Shergill15 · 01/07/2021 11:49

OP you are not alone, I do stuff like this all the time. Just on Monday realised I'd been in work for hours with my top on backwards.

A few years back I had to go and interview someone in the cells at Court for work. Got called back by the custody sergeant who pointed out my skirt was tucked in my pants - think he was more embarrassed than me.

Then on one occasion opened the door to receive a parcel. Thought the courier was looking at me a bit funny but thought nothing more of it until I saw myself in the mirror and realised I had a massive glob of white moisturiser on my forehead that I'd somehow missed. I suspect the poor delivery man thought it was something else Blush