I've just been a monumental b**lend. Please hold my hand.

[Melsuleenia]

Need kind words. I'm such a wanker at times.

Moved into new flat in March. Just got broadband. All good. It goes offline.

Spend 30 mins on the phone to the provider. Hilarity endues as he goes through the diagnostics.

Very kind man gets me to check the socket. I'd had an EPIC row with my parents the night before. I thought I had unplugged the phone. Oh no, I'd unplugged the router and forgotten.

I'm a post grad physicist. And I can't even work out how to remove the landlines and keep the router plugged in.

I'm actually cringing writing this.

Can you share your epic fail moments so I don't feel quite as much of a tosser?

Thank you and please.

I pray this makes Mumsnet classics. Let us all pray...

**First week of new job and my video wasn’t working for Teams. Sound was fine but no image. Asked a few people (working remotely) and no one could figure it out. Took tech support five minutes burrowing around in my system before they said - ‘is the camera cover on’? Yes, yes it was. 😳

Oh I’ve done that! It made me feel better that someone in the SMT did it too this week in a meeting.

Got another work laptop and the reason I couldn’t access everything was because I hadn’t connected my router. At all.

I never lived down when we first moved in together and I said to my now dh ‘What are we going to do about getting a number for the phone. Who do we ring?’ (Long before mobile phones)

I also had to rethink which side to put curtains up at a window because I’d never done it before. I actually had to go through it in my mind.

Had this happen to me too. Multiple people on the call when my colleague asked me that