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Obviously stupid.

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OhGiveUp · 06/08/2021 11:58

I have a cordless electric carpet sweeper, which is great for a quick tidy up. However after around 4 years, the battery went into a huff and refused to charge up.
I ordered a new battery which is due to arrive today, so I plugged the sweeper in to charge so it would be ready to go once my DH had put the new battery in.
Some thirty minutes later, I realised that actually I was charging the dud battery, not the actual sweeper! 😳
Obviously stupid.
Please tell me your obviously stupid moments to make me feel, well, less obviously stupid.

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BluebellsGreenbells · 06/08/2021 13:37

Extension fee through a window by someone else that I was attempting put back inside

I could get this enormous thing through the small gap and decided if they got it out it must go back!!

Then I realized they fed the plug through and not the box!! FFS moment!

Magpiecomplex · 06/08/2021 13:38

I can categorically state that I have never ever, under any circumstances, been driving somewhere while simultaneously panicking that I'd left the car keys at home...

BingBongToTheMoon · 06/08/2021 13:39

I once looked for my phone under the couch….using the torch on my phone to see better.

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Howmanysleepsnow · 06/08/2021 13:41

Me and my friend once spent 30 minutes checking the vegetables in her steamer at a dinner party and convincing each other they were close to being done before we realised it wasn’t turned on at the wall.

Sidge · 06/08/2021 13:43

I wiped the kitchen sides with a chicken breast once.

In my defence it was the same sort of colour as my kitchen cloth and I was very, very tired.

Serenissima21 · 06/08/2021 13:43

When my twins were toddlers we were at the park and dh was playing with dd. I suddenly panicked that I couldn't find ds and shouted to him "help me find ds!". To which he replied "you're holding his hand". Blush Took me a long time to live that down. In my defence, I was very sleep-deprived.

PainterInPeril · 06/08/2021 13:44

Yes, I've done the whole "looking for my phone while holding it in my hand" thing too.
Nearly put instant coffee in my dinner instead of gravy recently too....that would not have gone well!Grin

StepAwayFromTheEcclesCakes · 06/08/2021 13:48

@TobyLicious

DH left his phone at home, he uses it when out and about working, so I was the dutiful wife and rang him to tell him he'd left his phone behind I was surprised when I heard his phone ringing on the kitchen worktop 🙈
Oh i regularly go to text DH to tell him he has left his phone at home 😂
MrsHound · 06/08/2021 13:49

I called the police once to report my car stolen. I was all over the multi story looking for a Blue Metro. Only when the police arrived did I remember I had bought a red Fiesta the day before and it was parked right where I left it ... Blush

DifficultPifcultLemonDifficult · 06/08/2021 13:53

Just this morning, I looked at a video on the doorbell cam as it went off at stupid o'clock I the morning, I was really freaked out as there was a weird looking animal moving about on the grass.

After I sent the video to everyone, genuinely scared that some weird animal was wandering about the garden at night and asking what it could be, I looked in the garden.

It was a little flag that had blown off a garden ornament and was laid on the grass, the wind had been catching a corner and blowing which looked like a head moving about, and the flagpole bit looked like a tail.

🤣🤣 I laughed myself into tears when I realised.

Staffy1 · 06/08/2021 14:22

I’ve panicked that my bank card wasn’t in my purse, while I was standing waiting for cash to come out of the atm machine I had just put it in.

HopingForOurRainbowBaby · 06/08/2021 14:30

@CarpeVitam

I sometimes look for my glasses.....when I'm already wearing them! 😳
I've just done that. Got in my car to drive home and went to reach for my glasses but couldn't find them under all my PPE home was literally just down the road so probably not even 200 yards so I decided to just set off. Btw I am able to see without them on to drive short distances. Sets off driving and I couldn't work out why everything was magnetised. Yep I was already Wearing them. Even worse I don't actually remember putting them on. Another one was when I wore a retainer brace. I'd taken it out to clean it before going to my orthodontist appointment and when I came to putting it back in my mouth to go out I couldn't find it anywhere. Looked everywhere I could possibly think off. Decided to just go and tell them I'd forgotten it and hope for the best. Went to say something and felt my tongue brush against something hard. Yep brace has been in my mouth all along
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OhGiveUp · 06/08/2021 14:34

I recently got angry with the TV remote when it wouldn't turn the TV on.
Hardly surprising considering the TV was unplugged 😳

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Jericha · 06/08/2021 15:03

My son is at preschool today. I made myself a squash in his dinosaur straw cup thing instead of my glass.

atlastifoundit · 06/08/2021 15:14

I once made a sponge cake with icing sugar instead of flour.

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OhGiveUp · 06/08/2021 15:16

Putting a white load on a 60deg wash then going to the supermarket while it did it's thing.
Came home, took laundry out, pegged it all out and wondered why it didn't look clean.
It didn't occur to me that it was still dry either.
Well obviously stupid.....it won't when you don't add detergent and switch it on!!

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longtompot · 06/08/2021 15:33

I have just discovered there is a setting in my oven which means I don't need to have the fan on when I have the light on when I am cleaning it! Only been using the thing for 5 years, though admittedly it was here when we moved in.

Knittedfairies · 06/08/2021 15:37

I can't be the only person to strain lovingly-made chicken stock (from the carcass) to end up with a colander of bones and vegetables while the liquid goes down the plug hole...

WhatIsThisPlease · 06/08/2021 15:43

For about 3 or 4 consecutive Christmas Days, I spent two hours boiling up giblets and veg for gravy stock, then strained it using a sieve. I kept the veg and poured the stock down the sink Grin

Serenissima21 · 06/08/2021 15:44

I once made a sponge cake with icing sugar instead of flour.
How was it??!

savagebaggagemaster · 06/08/2021 15:50

"Once shouted the dog frantically thinking I'd lost her, couldn't see her, start panicking, started to turn to retrace my steps and almost stood on her.
She'd been behind me waiting patiently the entire time 🤦"

I've done this with my child Grin

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OhGiveUp · 06/08/2021 16:18

@Serenissima21 Did you just pass it off as a rock cake?

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OhGiveUp · 06/08/2021 16:19

I have to say, these are hilarious 🤣

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Serenissima21 · 06/08/2021 16:22

Did you just pass it off as a rock cake?
Not me but @atlastifoundit I want to know too!!

HerRoyalRisesAgain · 06/08/2021 16:24

I plugged my mobility scooter in to charge but forgot to flick the switch on the socket. So when I went to use my scooter it died on me halfway to where I was going... luckily I have insurance which covers idiocy like this and the lovely men came to rescue me and take me home Grin