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FFS just poured coffee into my porridge.

57 replies

KingKhazi · 23/07/2023 07:07

So tired. I have fibromyalgia and arthritis in my hips. Not slept well for a few days. Was woken at 3am by my mum ringing me (has dementia).
I've just made a coffee and about to put porridge in microwave (the oat sachet type). Except I've somehow picked up my coffee and poured it into the porridge!!
I used the last of my milk for porridge.. now i have no coffee and no porridge.

What have you managed to do whilst tired?

OP posts:
SnowyMouse · 23/07/2023 11:11

I tipped my porridge oats onto the scales without a bowl this morning!

Luckydog7 · 23/07/2023 11:18

During the first few weeks after ds was born. I opened the fridge one morning to find my keys on one of the shelves. Baffled I took them back to the hall where my bag was hung up, found a 2 pint bottle of milk in my bag. My bag was quite small so i must have worked quite hard to get it in there, moving stuff around to wedge it in.

No memory of doing either of these things at all.

Labtastic · 23/07/2023 11:23

Put colander in sink, sieved out the stock bones from massive stock pan into it. 8 hours of slow cooked stock straight down the drain. I just stood and stared at the bones in the colander for about a minute before I could really process what I'd just done.

Moonshine5 · 23/07/2023 11:31

@luckylavender that's really interesting

Surely2023IsTheYearForMyRainbowBaby · 23/07/2023 11:34

Threw my mobile phone on the bed. Only it wasn't the phone I threw on the bed it was the mug of coffee I had in the other hand

TroysMammy · 23/07/2023 11:39

Many times I've nearly poured boiling water from the kettle in my tea caddy instead of in the mug. I've put a box of eggs in the freezer.

aintnospringchicken · 23/07/2023 12:21

Carried items for the recycle bin downstairs and put them in the laundry basket,put dirty laundry in the bin,put the milk back in a cupboard with the sugar. The list goes on .......

MayIDestroyYou · 23/07/2023 12:27

Labtastic · 23/07/2023 11:23

Put colander in sink, sieved out the stock bones from massive stock pan into it. 8 hours of slow cooked stock straight down the drain. I just stood and stared at the bones in the colander for about a minute before I could really process what I'd just done.

I too have suffered this horror.

I don’t eat meat any more …

Ostrichbraid · 23/07/2023 12:27

On holiday recently went to make a coffee and a tea for self and DH at buffet breakfast. Did not realise till after I'd added the water that I'd put teabag and instant coffee into the same mug

AgentProvocateur · 23/07/2023 12:27

inappropriateraspberry · 23/07/2023 07:36

I poured orange juice on my cereal once. A waste of good juice and good cereal!

I always have orange juice on my cereal - I don’t like milk.

ThunderclapCloud · 23/07/2023 12:28

Labtastic · 23/07/2023 11:23

Put colander in sink, sieved out the stock bones from massive stock pan into it. 8 hours of slow cooked stock straight down the drain. I just stood and stared at the bones in the colander for about a minute before I could really process what I'd just done.

Have also done this!

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 23/07/2023 12:32

Surely2023IsTheYearForMyRainbowBaby · 23/07/2023 11:34

Threw my mobile phone on the bed. Only it wasn't the phone I threw on the bed it was the mug of coffee I had in the other hand

Scraped leftovers into washing up bowl. Threw plate in rubbish bin.

notprincehamlet · 23/07/2023 12:35

... and so Poffee (trademark pending) was born!
I went for a run early this morning trying to swerve the worst of the weather. Got back, took off my hoodie and there's a pair of pants in the hood (they were in the same laundry pile as said hoodie). Sigh.

Glemarand · 23/07/2023 14:17

inappropriateraspberry · 23/07/2023 07:36

I poured orange juice on my cereal once. A waste of good juice and good cereal!

I'd definitely drain the OJ off and rinse the cereal 😂

BlackForestCake · 23/07/2023 14:27

Poured cold water into the cafetiere having forgotten to actually boil the kettle.

Made coffee and/or sandwiches and gone out to work leaving them on the counter.

decaffonlypls · 23/07/2023 14:28

I'd eat the porridge and have a black coffee.

I once left my car keys in the ignition with radio/lights still on. Returned to a flat battery had to call rac and get it replaced £200.

On my way to work there's a mile of road that's 40,30,60,30, in short succession . I saw the national speed limit sign and put my foot down got clocked doing 36 while still in the 30. Crap but my fault. But unbeknownst to me a few days earlier I got clocked doing 34 , I must have gone slightly over and not known. I got the tickets with in days of each other. One speed awareness £80, one fine and 3 points £100. Needless to say I am extremely careful on that road now.

WhatsWrongWithMe1234 · 23/07/2023 14:36

Pressed start on the washing machine with just the powder and no clothes. Got annoyed with myself and then straight away did it again 😬

SinnerBoy · 23/07/2023 14:48

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · Today 12:32

Scraped leftovers into washing up bowl. Threw plate in rubbish bin.

Ha ha! Me too....

On the sink-soup front, I've done similar, but in defence, I was booby trapped. I'd put the sieve into a bowl in the sink, got the kazan (big metal cooking pot from Central Asia) with a tea towel, glasses steamed up and poured it into what I thought was my intended target.

My wife asked what the Hell I was doing, at which point, I realised that she'd replaced the sieve and bowl with some dirty crockery and put sieve and bowl on the table.

The strangest part is that she almost never puts dirty dishes in the sink.

Unicorn2022 · 23/07/2023 15:41

I went upstairs for a lie down with a cup of tea one afternoon. Meant to throw my phone on the bed but ended up throwing the tea all over the bed and kept the phone in my hand.

Deathraystare · 26/07/2023 17:13

I sometimes copy my mum's habit of making coffee/tea. (That's both in same mug!) She often used to do it for me!

Where I lived before I had a habit of putting all the tea bags in my teapot and wondering whether there would be enough room for the water!

I would also try to fit the kettle in the fridge!

SugarMiceInTheRain · 26/07/2023 17:21

I put a load of dirty clothes and detergent in my washer dryer the other day then set it to dry instead of wash, so basically just baked a load of detergent and dirt into the clothes 🤦‍♀️ Have also tried to put dirty plate in the fridge and the milk in the dishwasher...

Deathraystare · 26/07/2023 17:24

@Unicorn2022 ·
I went upstairs for a lie down with a cup of tea one afternoon. Meant to throw my phone on the bed but ended up throwing the tea all over the bed and kept the phone in my hand.

Oh God the number of times I nearly do this! I come in, make a drink, pick up some Amazon parcels, go to throw them on the bed but remember just in time to put my mug down. One of these days!!!!!

mightymam · 26/07/2023 18:21

Put a boiling kettle of water all over my hand (I was watching calmly as it was happening) instead of in the hot water bottle. Haven't known pain like it.

LuluGuinea · 26/07/2023 19:23

I bet mine tops most of yours for stupidity: I was unwell and hadn't taken my meds. I was holding one of my guinea pigs and went to get her some lettuce. I found that I had put the piggy in the fridge and was about to put lettuce in the cage! Fortunately I realised just in time before I shut the fridge door! Poor piggie.

onwardsup4 · 26/07/2023 19:50

Spoon fulls of coffee into baby bottle instead of scoops of formula 🤪