'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!

I started to ring my husband on his mobile phone to tell him he'd forgotten his mobile phone.

That reminds me of the thread on here where a Mumsnetter replied to her own question of a couple of years later about the merits of a buggy she was thinking of buying.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/752184-hauck-stroller-pound-25-Asda

When my twins were little I found myself with ds in my arms running around the park asking people if they'd seen dd. One woman helpfully pointed out that she was holding my hand.

Another time I was standing on my own at a reception desk filling out a form when I heard a toddler grizzling nearby. I picked him up and rested him on my hip and carried on. His dad asked me to give him back. 😳 I was so sleep-deprived and used to picking up my kids all the time, I did it automatically!

Too many to count. Left the house keys in the front door (multiple times); arrived for a flight that had departed twelve hours before; almost missed my last flight because I had misplaced my passport in between passport control and the gate (was in my back pocket). Sometimes I have to wonder how I’ve got this far in life.

Fed my baby in the passenger seat, popped him in car seat, got out slammed the door to walk around to drivers seat and accidentally locked keys inside🤯 had to flag down a driver who kindly called the AA for me with screaming baby inside😭

A particular low was when, after having driven for two days from Italy to the UK, I lost the car keys at a service station. Luckily, because I was doubly incompetent, I’d also forgotten to lock the car so we could get in and retrieve the spare key 🫠

🤣🤣🤣

Ive been a software developer for over 35 years and frequently find something like this, things I've worked on and totally forgotten about.

On the surface I'm very high functioning- single mum to two, have a full time responsible stressful job I perform well in, maintain a full social life, survived a close death and divorce in the past two years but I'm always doing or saying daft silly things. Lose my glasses, leave stuff in the car, call my kids/cat the wrong names etc, grill pizzas etc 😂

Also can't park to save my life and have the sense of direction of a gnat!

I'd just given birth to ds

I'd found out I was pregnant on the Monday and given birth on the Saturday

Baby brain really kicked in(with a healthy dollop of pnd)

i once got to the bus stop,waited over 15 minutes for the bus before the penny dropped I'd left him at home

Mad dash back-he was happily watching the tweenies in his bouncy chair

I left him at the shop-got all the way home before I twigged-twice

Ditto the park,nursery,school,a car park and at my parents

Frankly,I'm amazed he survived the first year of his life with me as his mother

(The guilt is real-i keep telling myself I was very ill and had no support)

I've dressed, full make up and gone to a party only to look down and realise I still have my slippers (unflattering sheepskin) on. Luckily it was a very crowded party and I don't think there was room to look down at feet.

Took the kids to the seaside along with my mum who was in a wheelchair, youngest son had a diagnosis of severe autism. 3 kids, one nanna on a day trip. Managed to park the car on the pier, went off and had a lovely day at the seaside. Upon my return to the car I couldn't find the car keys.... emptied every single bag (and there were many) no keys!
Nightmare! I managed to find a phone box (along with 3 kids and a nanna) called the police to ask for help... They said oh yes, the car you left running with the doors open on the pier!!! Yes we have the keys! 🤪
I asked if they would drop them off to me, they said no! I had to walk miles pushing a wheelchair with 3 kids to get my keys back!

Also left my baby in the airport as I was so excited to see my mum, I realised I'd left her when we got to the carpark 😨
This was the Channel Islands

Turned up at the airport for a check in that was in fact the time for take off.

Clean forgot a meeting 150 miles away, until the colleague rang to ask where I was. Just the once!

Cuppa in one hand, mobile phone in the other hand. Went to throw the phone onto the bed. Yep you've guessed it out flew the cup of coffee in my hand. Whilst the phone stayed firmly in the other

Went to the shop the other week. Got back home to find I hadn't even closed the door let alone locked it. Actually I've done that twice now although not in the same home.

Once left a bag in the Airport. Just after going through security, except I didn't realise until we'd gotten the monorail over to the departure lounge. Que a mad dash to catch the monorail back, a mad dash back to security to explain what had happened. Bag still sat where I'd left it, then a mad a dash back to the monorail which seemed to take ages to turn up. Ran like mad to the gate and managed to get on for final boarding.

When we were young 20 somethings, my sister and I both worked multiple jobs to make ends meet, some of which were night shifts. We were running on fumes a lot of the time. She text me one day to say she thought she had left the iron on when she left for work and could I please go round with the spare key and check.

Walked the 20 mins, let myself in. I headed straight to work from her place and on the way I text her saying not only did she leave the iron on but her balcony door was wide open but not to worry, I had shut it. She text me after her shift thanking me for closing the door but letting me know I had forgotten to turn the iron off😓😂🙈

Today - walked to the petrol station to fill my car up..

I must be just as scatty because I read that and thought you’d missed out the rest of your post…🫣

😆

Went to visit my aunts, walked into her house and sat down in the living room, aunt not there so called upstairs "aunt Sue, are you there it's me?" Down comes her neighbour -also my aunts friend - so I just thought she was visiting my aunt

It took me a while to realise I'd gone into the wrong house, her neighbours two door up. We all had a good laugh about it afterwards