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AIBU?

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AIBU to have laughed when my sister phone me to say

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RunawayPumpkin · 27/10/2010 19:53

She had taken our mum out today,(mum is wheelchair dependent) she parked mum in Costa and went to get her nails done, comes out of the nail bar sees the bus coming, gets on the bus and is half way home before she thinks where is my coat?

She then realized she had left her coat with mum in the coffee shop.......... silly cow had to jump off the bus and head back to get mother.

AIBU to have laughed when she phoned me to tell me

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SecretNutellaFix · 27/10/2010 19:55

Nope- I would also not let her forget that one for a very long time!

borderslass · 27/10/2010 19:57

oops

harpsichordcarrier · 27/10/2010 19:59

ooooops
hope your mum had a sense of humour about it too... I know this is the kind of thing that could so easily happen to me

TotorosOcarina · 27/10/2010 19:59

oops!!

my gran once left her BABY BROTHER at the shops for about 2 hours!

Luckily he was still sat there when she went back!

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RunawayPumpkin · 27/10/2010 20:02

Mum thought it was funny, she was granny dumped!!!!

It is pay back as when I was born she left me outside the co-op and went home, and when she was ask "where is the baby"? she said "what baby, oh no the baby" and her brother ran all the way back to the co-op to get me!!!!

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MrsGhoulOfGhostbourne · 27/10/2010 20:06

Loving this!!!!! [hgrin] [hgrin] [hgrin]Get your sister on here - we need people like her...

giraffesCantDookForApples · 27/10/2010 20:06

[hgrin]

Suda · 27/10/2010 20:17

I used to take my dogs to obedience classes - two very boistrous labs so bit of a military operation.

I used to put the dogs in the car last to cut down on excitability and was once about half a mile down road when I thought 'dogs are quiet - usually trying to garrott each other with their respective harnesses or sticking a wet nose in my ear while I'm driving by now.'

Yes youve guessed it - but in my defence had remembered -
subs in exact change.
doggie drop bribes in pockets.
harnesses clipped onto seatbelts.
carrier bags pooper scoopers.
hand wipes - for after use of above.
2 leads.
two retrieve toys.
house keys.
mobile phone.

MilkNoSugarPlease · 27/10/2010 20:29

Oh god I've got coke coming out my nose now! And I'm on the bus....tad embarrassing!

That's fantastic :o not for your mum mind :o

I'm sure you'll never mention this to your sister again will you

theywillgrowup · 27/10/2010 20:43

milk - coke coming out your nose,i do mean the fizzy drink right lol

rainbowdreamer · 27/10/2010 20:48

Someone once told me hubby took DC in childseat to the gym. Had a shower, DC in car seat, went to gym cafe, DC in car seat. Then went home. DC still at gym cafe. What would YOU say????

Al1son · 27/10/2010 20:52

I could never laugh at anyone doing that because I can guarantee that I'll do it one day and I will want them to be kind when I do!

JaxTellersOldLady · 27/10/2010 20:56

I would have laughed so much too. That is a classic and you can dine out on this for months! [hgrin]

mablitz · 27/10/2010 21:04

I once left my neice in a buggy in a shopping centre! My mum and I had gone shopping with her, mum was going back to the car to put shopping in the boot, I was going to look at perfume, I thought she was taking her with her. An hour later I met her and she was on her own!! I asked her where D was? She said she thought I had her!!! We were frantic, she was with a Security gaurd at the entrance to a Tesco store! We didn't tell my sister for a good few years though, she's 14 now but I will never forget that day.

teafortwo · 27/10/2010 21:08

Priceless!!!

Suda - I am trying very hard to push out the memory of leaving the supermarket and thinking "aaawww what a cute lil' dog" tied up by the door. I then carried on walking down the street before I (very red faced) had to turn back to the dog post because, of course, the 'cute dog' was infact my dog!

Dartsonwednesdays · 27/10/2010 21:10

Runaway pumpkin, I had something similar! Mum left me outside Woolies as a baby in the pram, caught the bus and went home and then remembered she'd left me in town. [hshock]

Mum still has a problem with her memory..... [hgrin]

borderslass · 27/10/2010 21:12

I've lost DS on occasion but never forgotten him, I did forget to pick DD2 up from guides once got a phone call 25 minutes after they'd finished

MilkNoSugarPlease · 27/10/2010 21:16

Nope just the carbonated beverage :o

went downhill after that...I started choking

Am home...and alive now :o

KT1324 · 27/10/2010 21:18

this made me laugh... I agreed to pick friends child up from school and then forgot.. was sat at home with my kids when friend phoned (she was sick in bed) to say school had phoned and asked if someone was coming to get her DS.. I felt so bad.. had to rush back to school and get him.

Psychommead · 27/10/2010 21:19

My in-laws moved house and left their newborn first born in the old one.

I can just imagine how it went:

Did you turn off tbe gas?
Yes. Did you cancel the milk?
Yup. You had a last check to see all the lights were off?
Yeah. You picked up your coat from the hallway?
Yes. Great! I think we've got the lot.

OH SHIT!!

EricNorthmansMistress · 27/10/2010 22:27

I forgot about DS while having a pub lunch 2 weeks post birth. Thankfully he had just gone off for a cuddle with a friend half an hour before so I could eat - but I literally forgot I had him.

Suda · 28/10/2010 08:29

TEAFORTWO - Oh I've done similiar to that back in days when had 2 black labs - as theyre very common - one growled at me when trying to untie his lead outside Tesco as if to say 'I dont think so' then I looked round to see my black lab sat a few feet away doing that cute head to one side thing they do - as if to say 'eh'.

Oh and when my DD was born I was staying at my mum and dads and when I got there from hospital I put her 'safely' on top of their double bed in the middle - while I went to the loo. Came out of loo couple of minutes later to find mums big coat thrown on bed where dd had been. I thought ffs sake - cant go for a pee without mum nabbing her.
Went downstairs to remonstrate with mum and retrieve dd but mum was in kitchen alone.

Ran back upstairs to retrieve dd from under mums coat - she'd not seen her and just thrown her coat on bed as usual. Wound mum up for years about that when dd was little - 'this is your nana dd - she tried to smother you first time you stayed here'.

QuintessentialShadows · 28/10/2010 08:42

splutter at these!

Dh forgot to pick ds2 from the baby room at the nursery. He picked up ds1, the staff saw him arrive at the nursery, and were wondering what was happening, until they realized that all the other children and parents were gone, and they were sitting there on a friday night with ONE remaining baby. Mine.
Dh came home, ds1 skipping merrily along, and I ask, so I enquire about ds2. He goes "what baby? OH MY GOD. The baby. and he runs back to the car and drives back to the nursery". He was very embarassed.

I love the tale of the cute dog outside the supermarket. I was sitting in the car outside a supermarket eating icecream with a friend in a blizzard. Friend noticed the cute little dog standing shivering in the wind and snow, and she handed me her ice cream and said "wait, I need to help the dog", and she bolts out of the car, unties the dog, and moves him to around the corner closer to the supermarket entrance. She came back to the car, and an elderly couple comes out, surprised to see their dog in a different place, scratching their heads, looking around,... until. until some youth pointed at my car.... It was my first and only time skidding out of a carpark at great speed, revving the engines gangsterstyle.....

MumBarTheDoorZombiesAreComing · 28/10/2010 08:45

ROFL

Very funny and I'm sure it will make a great xmas and special birthday party story for years to come.

Suda · 28/10/2010 08:59

QUINTESSENYIAL - you should change your name to ECCENTRICENTIAL ! Thought I was barking - but have never cruised a supermarket car park eating ice cream in a blizzard looking for dogs to untie and relocate to a better place and then done a wheel spin out of car park when owners returned.

I hate shopping , hate it , hate it - but with a lune friend like you I could adopt a completely different take on it.

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