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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

to ask you to help me compile a list of impossibilities?

52 replies

ChaosTrulyReigns · 06/05/2011 10:48

Along the lines of:

smile during a smear.

keep your eyes open when sneezing.

smudge a tattoo.

nail jelly to the ceiling.

Thanks.

Smile
OP posts:
florencedougal · 06/05/2011 10:51

get a consensus of opinion on MN

JeremyKylesPetProject · 06/05/2011 10:54

Being able to smile at my dh without being asked in a suspicious tone "What do you want?"

Chil1234 · 06/05/2011 10:56

Knit fog

justkeepingheadabovewater · 06/05/2011 10:56

have a bath/wash your hair/ have a shower/ go to the loo without DH/ DC needing you at that precise second... Grin

GrimmaTheNome · 06/05/2011 10:57

Herd cats

ChaosTrulyReigns · 06/05/2011 10:59

Good good.

Keep going.

Grin
OP posts:
JeremyKylesPetProject · 06/05/2011 11:00

Procur Tartan paint.

LadyThumb · 06/05/2011 11:03

Watch Eastenders (or any TV really) without my son shouting "Muuuuuuuuum" !!

Chil1234 · 06/05/2011 11:14

Empty out a washing-up bowl and not find a teaspoon still there at the bottom

JeremyKylesPetProject · 06/05/2011 11:15

To not get angry when my newspaper/magazine gets read before I read it.

MalkieFraser · 06/05/2011 11:29

Workmen arriving on time

Second cup of tea tasting as good as the first

kreecherlivesupstairs · 06/05/2011 12:05

DD getting out of bed without moaning.
Juggle gekkos (an actual Thai saying)

RollingScones · 06/05/2011 12:11

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NoWayNoHow · 06/05/2011 12:12

Remain calm and sensible whenever Jeremy Vile Kyle opens his mouth.

ChaosTrulyReigns · 06/05/2011 12:14

Are gekkos slippery little creatures then?

I thought they'd be frictionful.

Confused
OP posts:
Suncottage · 06/05/2011 12:15

Lick your elbow

SoMuchToBits · 06/05/2011 12:16

The weather actually being hot and sunny in the school summer holidays....

spiderlight · 06/05/2011 12:16

Push water up-hill.
Lick your own elbow.
Go to the toilet undistirbed in a house containing a toddler.
Let a springer spaniel off-lead without her finding a muddy puddle. Even in the Sahara.

ChaosTrulyReigns · 06/05/2011 12:35

Good good.

Grin
OP posts:
SarkyLady · 06/05/2011 12:38

"Colourless green ideas sleep furiously"

BrokenBananaTantrum · 06/05/2011 12:39

open the packet of biscuits. eat ONE and then leave the rest until another day

boilingpoint · 06/05/2011 12:42

stick to a diet.

Housemum · 06/05/2011 13:28

Just go on Mumsnet for 5 minutes

Honeydragon · 06/05/2011 13:32

I dispute

smiling during a smear
smudged tattoos
and
smile during a smear

but concur to the others

and will submit

You can't be everything to all men - especially Mnetters.

Honeydragon · 06/05/2011 13:33

gosh I felt so strongly about the smear I wrote it twice Blush