Phew - that was a close shave!!

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I just mixed some stuffing (paxo - nothing fancy) for this evening's dinner, and then decided to make a cup of tea. While it was brewing, I picked up the spoon and was about to lick it... and then realised at the very last millisecond that I'd picked up the other spoon on the side. The one which I had used a few minutes earlier to dish up the cat food.😂

Please tell me I am not the only person who does this sort of thing!

🤣🤣🤣 thanks for the laugh!

An iced cofftea could become the drink craze of the summer maybe @CatamaranViper

My late MIL, washing her hair in the sink (like we used to do, back in the day!), reached for the tube of conditioner, with her eyes closed, but unfortunately managed to find the pile cream instead.

We have an old fork with one bent tine.
It's been a cat fork and a dog fork.
It's presently redundant.

We normally use the shitty utensil inherited from my ancient ancestors, however on this occasion I used a spoon, for reasons of sloppiness as described previously.

It was sitting on the side next to the sink waiting to be washed up, as was the spoon I had used for making the stuffing. I haven't got a dishwasher, I have an assistant. DH.

The cat wouldn't like the paxo so I would have used another spoon, and cat food spoon straight in the wash, not left on the work surface.

But I nearly put milk in a hot Lemsip the other day, not quite with it with 'the bug', it was too hot to drink and I intended to add a bit of cold water.

Also cat-related, I once reached into the cupboard under the sink for the flea spray in its red canister with one hand, whilst kneeling on the kitchen floor and holding a reluctant cat with the other. Sprayed said cat and then realised I had picked up the Mr Sheen.

The cat never had the paxo

Too many times 😅

I polished the TV with fly spray once. Tv still worked- result!

I made a sticky toffee pudding for a dinner party we were having. I was making the toffee sauce on the hob and stirred it with the wrong spoon ... the one I'd dished the dogs dinner out with.

I realised after about half a stir and kind of spooned off where the meat spoon had been but frankly I was stressed and out of ingredients for the sauce so I bunged it on top of the sponge and made sure it properly caramelised in the oven.

It was a triumph and no one suspected the meat dessert

No, he thought he'd bought pine nuts (seeds) but had bought nuts by mistake.

While ill with covid, I popped two paracetamol out to take. Had them in one hand when I realised my cat was staring at me so grabbed some dreamies for her.

Got distracted by the washer making a weird noise (it had a marble in the drum), popped the dreamies in my mouth and presented my cat the paracetamol.

Not my finest moment!

All I will say is this is why when I use an implement I definitely know would be a “danger” it goes into the washing pile or at least out of the way like in the sink so it’s not something I can reach for!

This happens all the time in our busy kitchens. We just have a few Pyrex jugs, with hot water in them, dotted about and chuck any dirty spoon in there for temporary storage. This includes the cat's spoon (we have a couple of cats in the kitchen to keep the rats at bay)
We only lick spoons to test if a dish needs another kilo of salt adding.
Interestingly the Pyrex jugs of hot water are put to good use at the end of the day and form the basis for next day's beef consomme.

Both spoons were side by side next to the sink. I didn't put either of them in the sink because I was multi-tasking, and soaking a houseplant in a bowl of cold water at the time.

Mistakes happen to the best of us.

I'm sure I've similars. I've definitely made coffee using gravy granules, and poured milk into the sugar container....

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It's such an odd phenomenon, when a perfectly innocuous thread attracts criticism.

Lucky escape OP! Our bin is in our pantry. It's not an uncommon experieince for me to stand there for a moment looking at what's in my hands to try to work out my intentions.

Yes. We know. But there's no need to keep going on about it on what is, at the end of the day (and considering also the pp's lucky escape for which we are all grateful), a lighthearted thread that I started.

So I can say what I like.🙂