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! 🤦‍♀️😳 😅😅

Thanks for the cheap laugh! 🤣 👍

What was your second thought after not reading the OPs subsequent posts?

You can only pay 1000 in most banks on the app. A family member gave me a cheque for 1100 for a holiday balance which I had booked and I had to go to branch.

Yes, my thought was not "they are boasting about how much money they have" but more "the limit isn't that high, it's a bit of a pain especially if someone is paying you back for something you've paid for".

I wish the cheque were to pay for a holiday! I've mentioned before on this thread that it's for a platform and ramp outside our door, which will enable me to leave the house much more easily in my wheelchair. Anyway, we've already booked and paid for our summer hol - 10 nights in a Travelodge in sunny I hope Scarborough in July. Go me and my jet setting lifestyle! 😎 ☀️ 🛩️ 😅

Thanks, I have a sock buddy to enable me to get sock, and leg of pants and leggings onto my bad leg. Balancing on my good leg while holding on to something with my right hand to stop myself toppling over, while simultaneously yanking up pants and leggings with my left hand, is the bind, I'm sure you'll know what I mean.

After I once slipped down the gap between car seat and wheelchair and had to be hauled back up by DH, I bought another transfer board (I already had one in the house), which I use to slide along from seat to chair and vice versa - much easier and safer. We've also fitted wrist straps to the grab handle above the door and the headrest stem to make it easier for me to pull myself up. We've a Sportage, which has a built in handle on the passenger side in the central bit (where the gear stick and handbrake are), which is also very useful to hold onto.

A lot of finding what works for me has been trial and error, but we're getting there. 🙂

Nope, I was able to access the garden and the house without a key.

That’s why it was a stupid thing for me to ask…

Not me, but my mum, back in the day when people routinely paid with cheques…

At the vet, studying a poster of dog breeds, before merrily signing the cheque [firstname] Labrador. Our surname didn’t even begin with L 😂

Is this another humble brag? You couldn’t even wait for someone to ask where you’re going on your holidays! <Hoiks bosom up into cat’s bum face.>

I was trying to put a baking sheet in our open fronted cupboard and it kept falling out. DH took it from me, studied it seriously and said "Well of course it won't stay put - it's non stick!" He was teasing me but I seriously looked at it and said "Oh no! Where can I put it then!"

Sometime last year I turned up a day early for my therapist appointment. Wouldn’t be noteworthy except that he works from home. It was about 10 in the morning and his wife answered the door in her bathrobe and with wet hair. I was horribly embarrassed but I thought later well, if you work from home and don’t send appointment confirmations etc, that sort of thing will happen occasionally. I can’t have been the first. Right?

(I did write down the appointment but I use Google calendar and must have somehow clicked on the wrong day.)

Yeah, you're right, it was. I'm the Grand Duchess of Humble Brags, me. Got Humble Brags coming out of my Humble Arse. Got a problem with that? 🤷‍♀️

Sadly not satire. I’ve seen roughly the same thing said several times online from people who didn’t have much sense of humour, much less satire. They dwell amongst us. 👽

Me neither, @UnctuousUnicorns. Nor have I tapped the corner of the page to make it turn over.

My friend was very drunk getting a cab with another drunk friend. At her stop friend shuffled out, leaving her bag behind. Other friend said 'wait, you forgot your bag!' and she replied 'it's fine I'll get it in the morning'. Other drunk friend accepted this answer and went on home leaving the bag on the seat. Friend immediately realised she had no key and flatmates were away, she obviously had no phone and was alone. She sat around for a while and when she realised what was going on and sobered a bit she walked about 40 mins to a police station. She spent the night asleep on a chair until they dropped her home in the morning when a flatmate or neighbour let her in, I can't remember specifics. We still joke about her night in the drunk tank.

😂
That reminded me of a time I went shopping and nearly lost the use of my arms, they were killing me when I finally got home and dropped the 2 heavy bags and the even heavier car seat with 5 week old DS1 after walking the 20 mins back to the house.
DH arrived in about 5 mins later and said
Oh, didn't think you were here, where's your car?😳

Another thing OP you probably know, but you don't need to pay VAT on any equipment. If you have I think you can claim it back.

My 35 year old niece couldn’t tell me how long her rug was because…..” the tape measure ran out at 6ft and it’s much longer than that”!

Oh this is cute.

This is so stupid that I don’t know if it even makes sense, but I had a similar brain malfunction a while back.

I was helping 15yo DS rearrange his room. He has a divan bed with no headboard, ie both the head and foot of the bed are exactly the same.

He had the head of the bed against one wall and wanted to put it against the opposite wall. I said well we could do that but he’d just have to sleep with his pillow at the foot end (ie not against the wall but in the middle of the room) because I didn’t have the energy to spin the bed around right then.

He looked at me a bit strangely and said, “No mummy, I can just put my pillow at the other end of the bed.”

I collapsed in laughter at my idiocy and he has, quite rightly, never let me forget it.

Dh once fell asleep on the sofa with his right hand underneath him. He woke up and tried to scratch his nose but his hand had gone numb, instead of using his left hand to scratch his nose, he used his left hand to pick up his right hand and scratched his nose with it like some kind of inanimate implement. It still makes me laugh every time I think about it

I suppose that might make sense if he was a guitar or violin player with very short nails on his left hand 😂

This made me laugh out loud 😆

I really hope the medics find the cause of your medical issues and you can be treated accordingly. All the very best🙏

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