Anyone after a cheap laugh at my expense?

[UnctuousUnicorns]

My parents sent us a cheque in the post, just arrived today.
DH said, "I can't pay this in via the banking app; it's too big."
I said, "But it's just a normal sized cheque, surely?"
DH: "No, the amount of money it's for is too high - you cant pay that much in online!"

D'oh! 🤦‍♀️😳 😅😅

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My partner left his phone at home once, and I texted him to tell him. My daughter will never let me forget.

Is this a humble brag about you being given such a large sum of money and it’s so large you can’t pay it in online?! 🤦‍♀️

👊🏽

Over £50?

Requires you to go to the branch. Put my name on it and I'll take it and pay it in

Well, if you really want the truth...

I now need to use a wheelchair following an accident in February '25. I can't straighten my leg, and get regular spasms in my leg, hip and lower back and pelvic area. I'm currently awaiting an appointment at Orthopaedics and possibly Neurology. I've an appointment in May at Orthotics for some sort of splint.

We have currently spent £15+k on equipment and adapting our house to enable me to get about - wheelchairs (one upstairs, one downstairs), stair lift, walk in bath, ramp up the four steps to pavement level. This stuff doesn't come cheap. We've almost wiped out our entire savings on it.

The latest expense is a platform and ramp to enable me to get outside without my DH's help. Currently, because there is a step outside our front door, for me to get outside, DH has to bring the upstairs wheelchair downstairs, put it on the ground outside the front door, I wheel myself to the door way in the downstairs wheelchair, use a transfer board to move into the outside wheelchair, and repeat the process in reverse on arrival back home, with DH having to half lift me back up into the downstairs wheelchair.

So until we get the platform and ramp installed, I can't leave the house without that rigmarole. So I'm currently sitting on my arse at home while DH drives to the bank to pay in the cheque that my oh so selfish boomer parents have sent to help us out with all this expense.

So there you have it. 🤷‍♀️

Sorry, folks, this was intended to be a light-hearted thread, but, yunno...

Nice try! 😁

That's the sort of thing I would do... 🤦‍♀️

Oh dear, I now have a picture in my mind of a postie struggling down the street with one of those giant lottery cheques for publicity photos.

I know, that's what DH said! 😅

I woke up one morning and searched for my glasses for about 5 minutes before my son pointed out I was actually wearing them and I realised I must have fell asleep with them on.

I can't see without them and hadn't even questioned the fact I'd woken up miraculously cured of my terrible eyesight and that I was even able to see to look for my glasses!

Dp was desperately looking for his reading glasses, he's fine with distance. I let him do it for about 5 minutes, including in the fridge, before posting out they were tucked into the neck of his t shirt.

Many years ago when working overseas my sister sent me a long letter on some very nice notepaper in an airmail envelope. I wrote back she should buy airmail paper to reduce postage. Her response "don't be daft, how would they know what was in the envelope"!

Gawd this thread has attracted some seriously miserable fuckers 🫪

Sorry OP! I laughed at your seemingly A3 sized cheque!

Just a bit of advice from a longtermer; you don't ever need to explain your disabling health issues to people like these... They are the same freaks who claim "millions" are abusing the PIP system etc, when by the government's own publicly available figures and data, it's actually a fractionally tiny amount who are dishonest.

You probably know all that though ❤️❤️ Laughter is a good medicine indeed, I hope your situation mproves soon ❤️

I've worn glasses since I was seven. My mum didn't , or at least didn't until recently when she was much older. In previous years, if I mislaid my specs and were looking for them, Mum would point over to a corner of the room and say, "There, they're there !" while I looked on myopically. I was tempted to say, "Mother, if I could see them from this distance, I wouldn't need the bloody things!"
Honestly. 😅

Young lady on fb arguing that diesel hadn't gone up at her usual garage, she knew this because she always puts in £20 and it was still costing her £20, so there was no price rise.

I bought a new phone today - went into Apple to get help transferring everything over from my old one (it was a VERY old one). Nice assistant sat me down with new phone and said “you get started, shout if you get stuck, it’s very straightforward”. I couldn’t even work out how to open the frigging box to get the new phone out for an embarrassing few minutes!

I was bringing DS to open day at his new primary school, while heavily pg. I got chatting in the classroom to a couple, the woman was also heavily pg and we chatted about that. I then asked her if it was her first baby. There was a bit of a silence until she explained that she and her partner were with their DS at the school open day too....

That's superb!

I made tea this morning and then had a sudden thought that I hadn't boiled the kettle before making it. Obvious solution was to check to see of the kettle had actually boiled (it has a temperature gauge thingy on the outside). Did I do that? No - I stuck my finger into the tea. I definitely had boiled the kettle.

I actually rang my husband ON MY PHONE to ask him if he'd seen my phone.
And I've done that where are my sunglasses, I had them a minute ago, and I'm either wearing them or they are on my head.
I'd say it was due to the menopause but I've always been scatty and forgetful.😅

DH had used my phone earlier in the week to pop a note in of an address. He called me yesterday and asked if I could forward the address to him. I was going around looking for my phone for a few seconds until he said “are you really looking for your phone that’s attached to your ear?’ 🙈.

I hope you don’t need to wait too long to have your ramp installed OP!

Ouch!
My mum is a bit fanatical about switching sockets off for safety. My dad once switched the kettle on, then nipped to the loo while it boiled. Came back to the kettle and poured the water on the teabag in the mug. Yes - Mum had switched the socket off and my dad had poured cold water on his teabag. Drives him crackers sometimes, she does. 😅

See, I would read that as satire, but I could be wrong...

I was out with friends when one panicked that he couldn't find his glasses. I, the one with shit eyesight, pointed out they were on his head!