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AIBU?

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AIBU to feel like an utter numpty because when the ticket collection on the train asked

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apostrophethesnowman · 21/12/2012 21:58

...me for my weekly ticket I went into my purse and handed him my debit card instead! He and his colleague (and half the carriage!) thought it was very funny.

They reckoned that I've perhaps been doing too much Christmas shopping so my hand was in auto pilot.

Oh well at least it kept my fellow-commuters entertained on a cold dark winter morning!

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LostInWales · 22/12/2012 08:25

I am both relieved and worried that there are so many people like me out there .

acceptableinthe80s · 22/12/2012 08:42

I stood like a total numpty trying to figure out how to open the train door to get off yesterday. Luckily someone came up and opened it from the outside. Wasn't until I was walking home I remembered you have to open the window and turn the handle on the outside, doh!

chrome100 · 22/12/2012 09:09

I was making a cup of tea at work and couldn't find a tea spoon. Wondering how I was going to remove the tea bag without burning myself, I had the genius idea of simply not putting it in. I got as far as adding the milk to the water before realizing why that wasn't going to work....

Moominlandmidwinter · 22/12/2012 09:13

The other day, I was fishing around in my bag for my front door key, and starting to panic because I couldn't find it. I then realised it was already in the other hand .

teamboleyn · 22/12/2012 09:21

I've taken the car to work then walked home leaving the car in the carpark. I've also had call from DP asking where the hell the TV remote is only to find I've shoved it in my handband when scooping up phone, keys, work pass etc in the morning when leaving for work.

WhenSantaGotStuckUpACunnyFunt · 22/12/2012 09:34

I heard a brilliant story on the radio a few years ago about a woman who drove to get petrol, she put the petrol in the car, paid, then went home. When she got home her car wasn't there so obviously she panicked and called the police. Police turned up, and asked her to go through what she'd done that day, so she told them she took her car to get petrol then walked home . . .

OlaRapaceFru · 22/12/2012 09:37

As a lapsed Catholic I snorted, a la Mutley, at genuflecting in the cinema

Some years ago collecting my car from the dealership where it had been serviced was told it was in the yard, accompanied by a vague wave from the service receptionist. Bear in mind the yard was full of virtually identical cars, I got into 'my' car and was horrified to find a pair of sweaty sports socks and a load of MacDonalds wrappers. I was just about to storm back into the reception and give them a bollocking for taking my car out on their lunch break when I realised that my car was the one next to the 'dustbin' car.

I've also tried to set my work burglar alarm with my bank PIN.

Anifrangapani · 22/12/2012 09:50

Both my son and boss are called Tom. Many a round of gossip has started by me refering to boss Tom as Bobbles.

Bumply · 22/12/2012 10:04

Kitchen at work had two kettles.
Colleague put one on to boil and patiently waited for it to finish. Then poured from the other kettle full of cold water...

Ilovewaleswhenitrains · 22/12/2012 10:22

Was on a train and asked for a return ticket, the conductor asked where, I replied " back to here" not the answer I wanted. When driving I have tried to turn down the sound of my kids using the volume control.

OrangeLily · 22/12/2012 10:22

I drove past my own house the other day whilst coming home and neither me or my sister noticed

BionicEmu · 22/12/2012 10:29

About 2 weeks after I changed jobs, I parked in the carpark of Derby hospital, started walking into the hospital before suddenly thinking "what the hell am I doing?"

I didn't work there any more, I changed to work at Nottingham hospital So not just the wrong workplace, the wrong bloody city!

whathasthecatdonenow · 22/12/2012 11:10

I was driving to work and suddenly thought that I'd left my keys at home. Turned around to get them and only realized when I got all the way back home that they'd been in the ignition - otherwise I'd have been driving nowhere!

NettoHoHoHoSuperstar · 22/12/2012 11:18

I lost my glasses recently, couldn't find them so went to get my spare pair.
Couldn't find them either so gave up and squinted at the telly.

An hour later DD got up and asked why I was wearing two pairs of glasses.

Also got into my car, sat for ages wondering what was wrong, only to realise I was in the passenger seat [flush]

SantaJaxx · 22/12/2012 11:31

When I'm in the cinema I have on several occasions over the past few years leaned over to DH (or whoever I'm with) and said, "Quick turn the volume down it'll wake the kids." I have also been known to look for the remote control on the floor of the cinema in order to turn the volume down.

judefawley · 22/12/2012 11:35

Stuck in stationery traffic outside school, I put the handbrake on and got out of my car, opened the back door for ds and saw him across the road to go into school.

I got back into the car, traffic still at a standstill.

I then realised I was sitting in the back seat!

Horsemad · 22/12/2012 11:56

I've jumped into an identical car to mine in the sipermarket... was very embarrassing having to apologise to the man in the driving seat who was NOT my boyfriend!!
Real boyfriend saw it happen and couldn't move for laughing.

Sanjifair · 22/12/2012 12:02

I went to DS's nursery this week and took MY coat off and hung it on the peg!

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apostrophethesnowman · 22/12/2012 12:21

I'm beginning to feel a bit normal now!

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ImperialSantaKnickers · 22/12/2012 12:32

Needed a good giggle before restarting the shopping frenzy, thanks everyone! I think I've done a fair few of these, except I'm not catholic so haven't genuflected to a cinema screen. I did say, very loudly and clearly 'and also with you' halfway through the school Nine Lessons And Carols service, vaguely thinking someone had said 'Peace be with you'.

somedayma · 22/12/2012 12:38

These are brilliant . Especially the poster trying to shout 'next stop please' but shouting 'can I help you' haha and the one where the poster asked for 2 ten pound notes

WinklyVersusTheZombies · 22/12/2012 12:43

Yesterday I tried to return a missed call but redialled my last called number instead. I Could Not work out why my Irish aunt suddenly had an English accent and was denying phoning me.

DoIgetastickerforthat · 22/12/2012 13:02

I had a call from DS's school last week saying that one of my son's had handed my purse in as I had left it in a plastic bag that I had given DS to take his costume in.

I told them I'd be in in 20 mins as I needed to do some PTA admin anyway and I would pick it up then. It was actually nearly an hour before I got there because I spent 15/20 mins looking for my purse .

SouthernComforts · 22/12/2012 13:18

I called my boss 'mum' last night. She's 4 years older than me.

Last week I arrived at work, said hi to my boss, served a few drinks, including hers, before we realised I wasn't working that day and was actually supposed to be meeting her for a drink!

SouthernComforts · 22/12/2012 13:21

Oh, and when my dp is irritating me I always call him exdp's name by accident it does not go down well..

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