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Obviously stupid.

109 replies

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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OhGiveUp · 06/08/2021 16:53

@Serenissima22 See, another reason to put my readers on 😳
@Atlastifoundit Come on, we need to know. Did it involve a trip to the dentist for shattered teeth? 😂

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PainterInPeril · 06/08/2021 17:17

@HerRoyalRisesAgain Oh no! That must have been awkward! Did you have to wait very long to be rescued? A friend of mine had a mobility scooter but it couldn't cope with hills. It would always get stuck halfway up.Grin Unfortunately she lives in a hilly area....

PastMyBestBeforeDate · 06/08/2021 17:25

I was horrified when I got back to the car park to find a huge dent in the side of my car. The woman parked near me sympathised. It was slowly dawning on me that the car really didn't look as good under the harsh car park lights as it did in daylight when my teenager pointed out that it wasn't my car. My slightly different coloured (and better condition) car of the same model was parked 2 spaces away. And undented. Blush but Smile

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iklboo · 06/08/2021 17:31

DH on holiday at the buffet poured gravy all over the cherry strudel. He thought it was beef Wellington.

MissCruellaDeVil · 06/08/2021 17:33

Calling breakdown as couldn't get my keyless car to start (I never lock my car so starting was the only issue) I was using the wrong bloody key.

NorthernDramaLlama · 06/08/2021 17:37

I'm guilty of pouring away my home made stock so many times! Forgetting where I parked. Now take a photo to remind me. Wondering why the clothes aren't losing their creases. Iron plugged in but socket switched off....

HerRoyalRisesAgain · 06/08/2021 18:25

@PainterInPeril luckily only had to wait 20 minutes or so, im just glad I wasn't picking the kids up from school or I'd have been extremely late Blush

PainterInPeril · 06/08/2021 18:48

@HerRoyalRisesAgain By the way, has the night owl thread stopped now? I started lurking on it from about 6 years ago and loved reading that thread while I couldn't sleep at night. I joined MN a few months ago and went to find the owls...and you've all disappeared!Sad

HerRoyalRisesAgain · 06/08/2021 18:53

@PainterInPeril I've been awake for a while and recently back, but I've not been able to find it myself Sad
Maybe we could start a new one?

HerRoyalRisesAgain · 06/08/2021 18:54

Away*
Although awake works too Grin

AlCalavicci · 06/08/2021 19:00

@Knittedfairies & @WhatIsThisPlease oh god yes I have done this too .
I also did it when making blackberry wine a few years ago , very Sad

PainterInPeril · 06/08/2021 19:37

@HerRoyalRisesAgain Yes. I'll go and start one now. Come and join me when you're ready.

PhoboPhobia · 06/08/2021 19:41

I have this faffy thing where if I need to print something I have to take my laptop into DHs home office and plug into his printer. EVERY TIME I start using his mouse that’s on his desk and wonder why it isn’t moving the cursor on my screen!

Ilovetoddlerssaidnooneever · 06/08/2021 19:53

I have forgotten that I am wearing my glasses when in the shower more than once.

When DH and I had been to NYC he noticed I'd put the orange squash in the fridge and was poking fun at me, only to then put it back in the fridgeGrin

I'm sure I have more...

Topseyt · 07/08/2021 00:30

@CarpeVitam

I sometimes look for my glasses.....when I'm already wearing them! 😳
I do that too.
Haggisfish3 · 07/08/2021 00:37

I made lemon pudding once but forgot to put the lemon in. It was minging.

TenPenceMix · 07/08/2021 00:39

I recently ran a bath in a premier inn bathroom, laid on the bed waiting for it to fill up and fell asleep. Flooded the place 😮

Anordinarymum · 07/08/2021 00:55

I am that person who tried to drive off with the petrol tube in the car. I still can't believe I did it. The garage man came running out to stop me. I damaged the petrol cap and we had to get one from a scrap yard.

NanaPorsche · 07/08/2021 01:14

I dropped my son off at school and went to the supermarket up the road.

Got a good amount of shopping which was heavy and was really struggling to carry it.

I had walked halfway home before I realised that I'd left my two daughters in their double pushchair outside my son's class.

I'd forgotten that I didn't usually carry shopping as the double pushchair had a massive basket underneath.

When I struggled back to the school there were two little girls looking lost and bewildered in the pushchair in the playground.

No one had noticed that I'd left them there.

Not sure that could happen nowadays - there's increased security around schools and gates are kept locked. Back then you could just walk into the playground - the gates were left unlocked all day.

NanaPorsche · 07/08/2021 01:28

Went to a fish and chip shop in the car every week with mum and dad (fish and chip Friday).

Dad and I would go in the shop and I would carry the bag of fish and chips out to mum in the front passenger seat.

One winter evening I opened my mum's car door and put the bag in her lap. Dad got in the other side and closed his door. I closed mum's door.

I had hold of the back door handle when the car set off.

They got all the way home before they noticed I was missing.

My mum said she thought I was being quiet on the return journey.

I was stood for 40 mins at the side of the road, in the rain, no coat and worst of all - in my slippers.

I was also quiet on the way home that time as I was so embarrassed and angry.

Can laugh about it now. 🙄

IrishCharm · 07/08/2021 02:00

Too many to mention but ….. hubby rang me asking if he’d left his phone at h home once - from his phone, in his hand 🥴

IrishCharm · 07/08/2021 02:03

Another classic - years ago when we were first starting out we had an electric key meter you topped up (pay as you go). Sitting watching TV one evening and telly suddenly goes off! Hubby turned to me and immediately blamed me for not topping the electric up - he wasn’t happy, but even more unhappy with himself when I pointed out that actually I had and the lights were still on! Tv had gone kaput!

Torvean · 07/08/2021 02:07

I've tried to change the TV channel with my phone.

They are the same colour Blush

IrishCharm · 07/08/2021 02:07

Oh and Popped out to the bank in my fluffy slippers once!

atlastifoundit · 07/08/2021 10:50

[quote OhGiveUp]@Serenissima22 See, another reason to put my readers on 😳
@Atlastifoundit Come on, we need to know. Did it involve a trip to the dentist for shattered teeth? 😂[/quote]
Ah well. The sponge cake made with icing sugar. It was like this.

You see, it was in a school cookery class and DM had kindly provided me with the ingredients already measured out. It so happens that a clear plastic bag bag with icing sugar in it looks identical to flour. It was when everyone's cakes were cooking and the teacher told us to make a start with preparing the icing sugar that I realised what I'd done. (We were icing the mini Christmas cakes we'd made the week before, not the sponges that were cooking).

My teacher was not impressed.

When we finally opened the oven, there it was. A flat black frisbee, welded to the cake tin. Grin