'What's the most scatty thing you've ever done? "

[mydrivingisterrible]

I once - on a very tired day admittedly - tried to put the kettle back into the fridge instead of the milk.

And once every few years I'll look for my sunglasses only to find them on my head.

But I think the most embarrassing was I'd just moved into an new apartment and there were a row of identical ones.

The doors all unlock with this automatic key thing, so it wasn't until I was standing in the middle of the hallway with a strange guy looking at me that I realised I was in the wrong apartment. He hadn't locked his door!

Sunglasses on the head is normal.
On a very bright day, trying to put on a pair of sunglasses whilst already wearing another pair otoh...

Looking for my phone under the bed using the flashlight on my phone!

Went out to a restaurant wearing 2 different shoes. Couldn't decide which ones to wear when the taxi turned up early so ran out wearing one pink court shoe and one gold court shoe. Didn't even realise until we were actually walking out of the restaurant later and SIL said 'are you wearing different shoes?'

I have done the thing of putting my purse and credit card wallet on my car roof while re-filling and then driving off with them still there.

I left my car keys in the ignition of my car and the car unlocked overnight. I live in SE London to put the risk of that in context.

In the morning I was scrambling around in the house trying to find my car keys and arguing with DH at the same time that it wasn't that unusual to misplace keys and things. Then I had to go out for the day anyway ... had an arrangement with friends.

I did feel a bit embarrassed when he texted me during the day to say he'd found my car keys and exactly where he'd found them!

Bought a takeaway cup of tea to take to watch my DD play hockey.Sat down with youngest DD for her to drink her hot chocolate. Stood up 20 minutes later leaving the lovingly prepared tea on the table in Costa. Noticed 10 mins later when finishing shopping. Went back at it was still on the table. That was a very scatty week. Several important things forgotten simply because I was carting a pair of gloves around and my brain just seemed to think I’d already picked up whatever it was I needed!

Turned the house upside down looking for my phone. Finally got DH to ring it. It was in the back pocket of my jeans. That I was wearing at the time.

Had a hormonal argument with DH about how inconsiderate he was for finishing the milk and not saying anything or replacing it when he knew I would be wanting a cup of tea. He was adamant he hadn't touched it and I was furious.
Found the milk in the cupboard 2 days later, behind the cereal that I'd had for breakfast the day of the row....

Went to work on a day off because I was driving in the direction of the office for something else and just switched to autopilot.
Didn't realise until I'd parked and realised I couldn't get in the building as I didn't have my pass.

Losing keys/phones/bags etc is a regular occurrence in this house (for me). It's very frustrating.

Turned up at Parents Evening s day early.

Organised childcare for an event a day early.

I was very stressed in work one day. Used my swipe to let myself in. Tried turning on the lights but wouldn't go on. Went to switch box to see if trip switch was gone off. All fine. Went back tried the lights again. It took me 4 tries to realise I was pressing the door release rather than the light switch.

When I had a newborn baby and was extremely sleep deprived I went and did a really huge supermarket shop, paid for it and then promptly left it all in the trolley near the exit (must have been distracted by something or other), and drove home.
It wasn't until I got back to my house that I realized I had forgotten the shopping (luckily I went back and the supermarket still had it!)

We have an electricity meter that goes from green to red when you do things like boil a kettle. This one morning it seemed to be stuck on red but I couldn't work out why so I had the brainwave to go around switching off all sockets that didn't need to be on. Days later my Dh went into the garage to get something out of the chest freezer and it was one of the sockets I had switched off. Everything had defrosted so we had to Chuck out hundreds of £££ of wasted food. My Dh likes to often remind me of the day I saved about 50p worth of electric.

Lost the TV remote. Turned the house upside down looking for it, to no avail. Found it in my handbag the next day when I was at work.

Yeah, panicking where my phone was when I'd just handed it to someone so my DH could speak to them.

Coming home from work. Long train journey and then stopped at the supermarket on the walk home

Walked up the driveway and wondered where the car was before remembering I had driven into work that morning...

Parked in a little retail park a few years ago, called at Asda and Poundland, then decided to go to Greggs and get a coffee and a sausage roll, but put my shopping in the car first. I was frantically pressing the unlock button and nothing was happening. Then I tried the key in the lock, again, nothing happening. I was stood there panicking, as I didn't have a clue what to do now. Then I glanced onto the passenger seat and honestly, my immediate thought was "Who the bloody hell has left a tartan blanket in my car... And those aren't my sunglasses either, cheeky sods!!!" There was a massive clang as the penny dropped and I realised that this actually wasn't my car! Same make, same model, same age, even the worn Ghia badge was the same!!! Looked round and there was my car, 4 rows back, sniggering quietly... I decided to leave the Greggs visit and just drive home in shame! 🤣🤣🤣

I've had many

One which stands out recently. Cooked some peas and put the full bag back in the freezer. I remeber carefully folding the top and I knew it wasn't an empty bag which was put in the bin

Few days later wants to cook some peas "where's the peas? " he asks "in the freezer", I used some the other day and I know we haven't run out" ok no issue we have sweetcorn instead and move on bit of a bugging mystery but ok.

3 days later I find the peas in the odd and sods kitchen drawer. Must have confused that drawer for the freezer drawer

Taken my children to school a day before the school opens and all the gates locked 😂

Turned up to harvest festival a week early

Meeting with the headmistress a week early

Been to the dentist on the wrong day

To be fair lots of children lots of schools so dates clash.

Never missed anything but I do get dates wrong 🤪

Left my car running in the supermarket with keys in for 30 minutes still there! That was a shock but I was under a lot of stress that day.

My mum did this. She was a single parent looking after me and she was like I do that so I don't look my 3yo in the house

Anyway she wasn't so lucky but instead of taking the car they opened the front door and took her handbag instead. Which was found about 6 months later in a ditch down the road

Posted a bunch of wedding invitations before writting the names and addresses on them..............they were eventually returned by the post office. There were about 10 of them mixed up with ones ready to post

Went on holiday, leaving the front door wide open, with the key in the lock

My neighbours saw, locked the door and locked after the keys until we got back.

Wow! Good the neighbours noticed

You must have really needed a holiday to be getting to that level of tiredness 🤣

I also did that the other day 🙊 is locked the door but ajar not closed iyswim

I was out for 24 hours

should add it was the back not front door but still accessible if someone tried hard enough had a while to figure it out

Threw my phone in a bin and put a bag of dog poo in my pocket 🙂🙂🙂 I meant to do it the other way round!

was sitting on the sofa watching tv with the cats lying beside me, with the bag of dreamies giving occasional treats and a bag of crisps and drink on the end table, i took a few "crisps" and popped them in my mouth, yuck. I ate the dreamies, I spat them out, knocking the drink over the sofa and one of the cats when he was jumping to the floor to retrieve my spat out treats

Cat tax paid with photo of cat who got the treats