We are in a lovely holiday cottage and we keep breaking things. Is anyone else as clumsy as us?

[Mollythewally]

Day 1: Dog swished his tail and knocked a glass of red wine up the immaculate pastel coloured matt walls.

Day 2: I smashed a wine glass that can only be sourced in the states (I googled) to try to find a replacement myself.

Day 3: The swing bin lid is broken. I'm not entirely sure this was us but there is an inventory at change over and no mention of this so I assume it's our fault.

Day 4: Dog creates a 'viewing window' in one of those tow along bike trailer things. He hasn't chewed it, just rested his head as we were cycling and ripped a hole in the (fairly insubstantial) lining.

I have ADHD and am exceptionally clumsy and used to paying the ADHD tax for all the things I cock up but this holiday has been something else. We've got 5 more days, what will we break next?

@Lulu1919 do you also not have dyspraxia either because that's what this thread is about?

[quote Bakewellisntjustacake]@Lulu1919 do you also not have dyspraxia either because that's what this thread is about? [/quote]
Is it !
No I don't

[quote MaitlandGirl]@Mollythewally not a holiday let story but this might cheer you up.

DD2 is blind in one eye, has no depth perception and can fall over fresh air. Options evening at high school one year had a music meeting in the computer suite (no idea why!).

DD2 tripped over herself, bounced off a chair and landed on one of the wall mounted desks. She’s a tiny thing but the impact broke the desk and started a sort of domino effect. 6 Apple desktop computers, 3 laptops, 5 desks and 4 chairs were destroyed.

The teacher just sat there and sobbed. The next day DD2 was greeted by her year advisor and a very large roll of bubble wrap![/quote]
and thank you, your DD sounds amazing!

@alloalloallo

My daughter has Tourette’s and when we walk into holiday cottages it’s like her tics go

woohoo, BREAKABLES!!!!

I put as much away as I can, but it’s inevitable that her dinner will be flung, or a drink will be tipped over. She had a karate chopping tic for a while which was fun when we stayed in an Air B&B at Alton Towers. Fortunately the placed seemed to be furnished from the local ASDA

I have tics too. Can 100% relate. I bet your daughter is wonderful and I'm so glad you don't keep her locked in a crate like some of the disablist people on this thread would clearly prefer to happen

@Lulu1919

Not broken anything in 20 years of self catering....but we don't have a dog !!!!

Sorry, you've totally failed in the test as stated in the OP.

@Snooptheboot

Oh Jesus you’re me. 🙈

I’ve only realised very recently that it’s not normal for adult women to have legs that would rival a small child for number of bruises. Dh frequently asks how I got a certain bruise to receive the reply ‘oh I didn’t know I had a bruise there…’

My most recent and most annoying thing is forgetting I’m holding a cup (why is it always fucking coffee?!) and twice very recently I’ve leave over to put something down with a full fucking cup in my fucking hand. Coffee everywhere. The first time all over my legs, shoes and my bosses paperwork. Thankfully I have a very understanding boss…

Dh is always bemoaning my ‘balancing’ things which then inevitably fall but I honestly don’t realise until it’s too late…

And yes I’m like this everywhere, not just when it’s someone else’s stuff that might get broken/covered in the contents of my Klean Kanteen…

Ouch!

Yes, I'm terrible at risk assessment, too, I can't work out the angle at which something might tip, it's like a delayed reaction or something - I can see that there is risk there but not until it's too late. It's weird. Spatial awareness has always been an issue for me but I think angles are a struggle also.

@Bakewellisntjustacake

I have dyspraxia and it's a mess! Constantly knocking shit over, banging into basically everything. Took me until I was 11 to learn to tie shoelaces

Just recently I had my phone in 1 hand and a cup of tea in another went to throw my phone on the bed and threw the tea everywhere

Welcome, sister :)

I have dyslexia, ds has ADHD.
I remove all small objects in a holiday rental and place out of reach.

One of DH's favorite holiday memories was when I sat on bed and it collapsed. I'm still sure that bed wasn't actually screwed together!

We were once waiting for DS to have his first assessment for dyspraxia with his physiotherapist. While we were waiting I nipped to the loo, thought it felt a bit wobbly, but went ahead and flushed anyway. ‘Oh my God’ shouted DH, as water flooded into the waiting room. We found a couple of towels and tried to mop up, but on standing up banged against a radiator which fell off the wall. It was absolute bloody carnage by the time the poor woman came to find us, and she knew then that there was no real hope for DS.

@adeleh

We were once waiting for DS to have his first assessment for dyspraxia with his physiotherapist. While we were waiting I nipped to the loo, thought it felt a bit wobbly, but went ahead and flushed anyway. ‘Oh my God’ shouted DH, as water flooded into the waiting room. We found a couple of towels and tried to mop up, but on standing up banged against a radiator which fell off the wall. It was absolute bloody carnage by the time the poor woman came to find us, and she knew then that there was no real hope for DS.

Yikes Adeleh! Sympathies!

@longerevenings

I have dyslexia, ds has ADHD. I remove all small objects in a holiday rental and place out of reach.

One of DH's favorite holiday memories was when I sat on bed and it collapsed. I'm still sure that bed wasn't actually screwed together!

Final scores on the doors for this holiday

The replacement glasses arrived yesterday (expressed via AMAZON USA, gulp) so we'll put one back and take the remaining 11 we've bought back to ours to smash at our leisure

The new bin arrived today. £14 from Wickes. I needed a bin anyway for recycling at home so figured the holiday let could have the paintsakingly identically sourced lid. When it arrived it turned out Wickes had inexplicably sent us 3 lids plus one bin...so now I have several spares....

We settled up with the bike hire place.

The wine came out of the walls with a combindation of hand gel and bleach. It looks spotless now.

We haven't broken anything since although did get a flat tyre on the way to our day out yesterday so ended up replacing both of our rear tyres (which needed doing anyway) in some out of the way rural tyre place that was far cheaper than home. WINNING!

Tomorrow is our final day.

Wish us luck....

My dyspraxic DH once put a full glass of chocolate milkshake down on thin air 🙃 we also break around one cafietere a year as our draining board is over the washing machine and we don't always get round to putting it away before the spin cycle starts!

This thread is relatable. We were in a holiday cottage last week and I had a moment of horror when I turned up and realised it was posher than thought. So a lot of time has been spent running round hiding things from the kids and dogs, and carefully choosing the least fancy items so they’re safe from my clumsy hands.

I’m also a habitual leg bruiser, but I found out that’s because I have lipodema. So those years of mystery bruises finally make sense.