'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!

took DCat to the vets for his jabs a day early. Unfortunately they were really busy so couldn't squeeze him in. Had a great time trying to get him into his cat jail 2 days in a row

I have also left my keys in the door .
More times than I'm going to admit I have boiled chicken bones to make soup stock and strained the bones over the sink instead of into another pan or container. Lots of lovely stock straight down the plug hole.

🤣🤣🤣

I once released a new mare into the wrong firld (full of established mares) as a novice on a stud farm. I stood at the gate absolutely panic stricken once I realised what I’d done - she was chased round the field with the herd thundering after her and she tailed it back to me fortunately where I caught her and brought her out. All the horses were purebred with their ancestry known for generations and one bad kick could have ruined her showing career! Never fessed up to the owner either.

6 months pregnant and I went to the next big town to meet an old friend and get some maternity trousers. Got back to the car park and couldn't find my car. Went to the security booth nearly in tears...... turned out I was in the wrong car park 😱😭😂😂

Went to work in a school wearing smart blouse, pencil skirt and flip flops that I'd been wearing around the house sorting kids etc until it was time to get in the car. Just forgot to switch them for proper shoes at the door and had to flip around like a Wally all day with kids asking what I was WEARING, Miss?!?

I’m naturally scatty and always have been much to the amusement and annoyance of my family.

My eldest son aged 13 is a chip off the old block and very much like me , possibly worse , in terms of scattiness.

One of my favourite most recent memories of his scattiness is that he left one morning to go to school on his bike and always leaves through the back door of the house and exits through our garage where his bike is. We said our goodbyes etc and that was that..

Ten minutes later I heard hammering on the front door. I opened the door and to my surprise there he was , standing there with just his cycle helmet on and was very stressed… apparently he’d walked half way to school but then realised he “ had forgotten his bike “…..

Still makes me chuckle now 😂

Chatting too much as I drained the pasta, poured the boiling water all over my forearm.
Twice arrived at work with my blouse on inside out. On one of these occasions, the person who pointed out my error was wearing a new jumper with fluorescent orange ' 50% off, final clearance ' label hanging out of the back of her jumper!

Aaah forgot my most recent one…

Popped to the shops one morning and put on my freshly tumble dried navy Mac with Velcro fastening.

Did the shopping in town, came home and as I hung my coat up, I noticed that there was a pink pair of my knickers attached onto my coat and were strewn sideways all down the Velcro at the neck part of my coat ..
Clearly it was from where I had used the tumble drier that morning to dry my coat and a few other laundry items at the same time ..

How the fuck I hadn’t seen this I don’t know ( and why on earth didn’t anyone stop to tell me) 🤣

I got in the shower still wearing my bra. Took me a bit to realise what was wrong. I've also turned up on the wrong day for a class assembly (managed to cover that up - I hoped - as my friend's child was in that class whose assembly it was, and friend had said previously she was struggling to get time off work to go so thinking on my feet I pretended I was there on purpose so there was someone to watch her dd do her bit) This was about 30 years ago and I still feel the embarrassment!

I've done the purse in fridge, grabbing work keys instead of house keys and realise as door slams shut, poured boiling water into coffee jar scenarios so many times I'm almost glad I'm getting menopausal memory lapses! 😂

I try to put hand soap on my toothbrush instead of toothpaste and stop myself when I realise what I’m doing, embarrassingly often. Tired toddler mum here 🤣

I once put a jug of milk on the ground outside the back door and it was only when the cat protested as I tried to put him in the fridge that I twigged…

I once left a London library where I’d been working very concentratedly, hopped on the tube at Kings Cross and went home on automatic pilot ‘still focused on work” mode. It was only after I got off at my stop that I remembered that not only did I not live there any more, I no longer even lived in London., I’d got married, had a baby and moved away.

I've done similar. Left the front door on the latch, gone out the back door, securely locked it and went away. The wind blew the front door open, blew everything off shelves etc, my neighbour sawthd mess called the police thinking I got burgled !

Then there's the making coffee before you've had your first coffee of the day fails. Not putting the filter in the Aeropress is more regular than it should be.

Putting my shower cap on to wash my hair and wasting a blob of shampoo in the process.

Shower cap was nice and clean though 😂

When ds was about 6 weeks old I put him back in his car seat after a walk and left his buggy outside a pub.
I realised the next day and drove back thinking it would have gone, to find someone had helpfully pushed it under the overhang of the roof so it wouldn't get wet, and covered it in a sheet of plastic 😀

Pre-HRT I popped out to get a couple of trial pairs of contact lenses for the patient in my consulting room, someone asked me a question, I got a little distracted and went back into my consulting room about 20 minutes later to find a really pissed off patient.

Lots of things like randomly putting things in wrong places. And also when my brain will suddenly decide to freak out about “OMG WHERE IS YOUR BAG?????” or something and I’ll jump up frantically, only to realise bag is completely fine and next to me.

Two memorable ones though are:

Just had DC1 and I went to the supermarket with him in a buggy, first trip to the shops. I had this sudden moment of doubt about whether buggies were allowed in shops, and stood outside for 20 minutes or so waiting to see if anyone else with a buggy came in or out.

And this one was when I was really young, just moved out of home and living in a rented flat. My landlady called me early in the morning and woke me up. She called on the landline and said “Morning GorgeousLadyofWrestling” and I told her this wasn’t me, that GorgeousLadyofWrestling was out at the shop and I was a friend and could I take a message. It was very clearly me but my brain shorted a fuse or something and once I said it, I couldn’t backtrack. I called her later in the day pretending it had been my “friend” and she was very bemused.

I was once making a coffee in a hotel room. Poured the sachets directly into the bin. Went downstairs to get a coffee off the breakfast buffet instead. Got it, went to the lift, instead of using my key card I tried to use the coffee and pouted it all over the floor.

Instead of a morning coffee, I ended up mopping the floor of the hotel.

I also once drove back to work as I couldn't find my car keys so must have left them there. I was actively looking for them and my colleague was utterly bemused saying... "But you drove here?" I could not conprehend what that meant 😂

Recently I left my phone at home. A bit scatty.

My 12yo found my phone at home. So sent me a WhatsApp to let me know. It was only when it beeped in her hand that it occurred to her I wouldn't get the message.

Had one this morning! My back is bad at the moment, so DH was loading the shopping into the car, as I was trying to get comfy in the passenger seat. He took the trolley back, opened the drivers door and said -
"Daft question, have you got the car keys?"
"No, you had them in the supermarket, because she scanned the key ring loyalty card".
"Oh, yes I remember that... I wonder if I left them at the checkout?"
"Are they in your pocket?"
Feels around... "Ah yes! Hiding behind my phone".
We then both realised that he'd unlocked the car to let me in and load the shopping, so wouldn't have left them at the checkout!!! I honestly don't know who was dafter this morning!!! 🤣🤣🤣

Funny I should read this just now. Not long had a cup of tea so was in the kitchen doing some cleaning and nearly put the bleach in the fridge!!

Twice left front door keys in the front door of the house on my way out, onky noticed when I returned 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ ! Left gas ring on whilst I went to a gig one evening! Tried to call chiropractor using sky remote! I’m sure there’s more….

I had to use a bit of new software for work and there were some functions I didn't understand. I googled and came across a really helpful post on a forum which explained everything. I looked and ... it was me. Five years previously when I still had a functional brain. 😜