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To ask for your funny tiredness stories?

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GiraffeObsessedBaby · 26/09/2018 13:33

So my ds is 10 months old and I'm a month back at work after mat leave and surgery. I'm literally exhausted which has had some amusing and some not so amusing consequences. Such as having to get changed 4 times whilst rushing out the door late this morning after being repeatedly puked on. Also wearing totally mismatching clothes on more than one occasion as I got dressed in the dark for fear of light waking up the clingon that is my ds. This may not seem that bad until I mention that I work in a college dealing with students and standing in front of classes all day.

So anyway today! This morning was a nightmare I didn't even have chance to pick up my breakfast or dinner never mind make sure I'm presentable. A colleague who obviously saw my frazzled exhausted state decide to compliment me on my new "smokey eye eyeshadow"... I'm not wearing makeup... she complimented me on my tiredness induced bags Blush

Tell me I'm not alone at being completely unable to manage back to work and a baby and being a presentable adult at the same time?!

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RedFin · 27/09/2018 22:17

I had jet lag after coming home from Australia. I spilled water on a chair in the dining room. Walked 5 steps to the kitchen to get a towel. Walked 5 steps back to the chair and (with the towel in my hand) said "hey there's water all over the chair - what happened?!"

thepurpleline · 27/09/2018 22:22

I gave my medication to the cat and took his by mistake. I was v tired!

ZoeLa · 27/09/2018 23:25

Celebrated my sons birthday a whole day early. Gave him his presents, special birthday brekkie... then my dad phoned and asked if he was excited for tomorrow. I said «What’s happening tomorrow?» and then suddenly realised. Total shame. ( I blame moving house and also having a 3 year old )

blackvelvetband · 27/09/2018 23:39

Oh I've got loads...
I asked DH at 3am whether he gave consent for me to complete a credit search on him (I work in a bank!)
I poured Diet Coke into my cereal once
When I worked in a jewellers I told a customer that their guarantee was repaired for a year
Put 2 nappies on my baby once
Started 'rocking' my baby to sleep... only I was in work and my baby was at home
Stood up in my own living room and asked for a lift home

blackvelvetband · 27/09/2018 23:40

Took the remote control to work once instead of my mobile

Leighhalfpennysthigh · 27/09/2018 23:42

After several months of crippling insomnia I went to my old workplace instead of my new one. Then, after eventually making it to the right workplace, I went home to my old house rather than my new one (where I'd lived for 2 years by then)

agirlhasnousername · 28/09/2018 00:01

I have not been well and have an infection in my gum which has been keeping me awake, today at work in my sleep deprived state, I got all the paperwork ready for client to sign but instead of giving it to them I shredded it

Bouledeneige · 28/09/2018 00:06

Fell asleep whilst having my colour done at the hairdressers and woke up with a start when I did an enormous snore!

Took my DS to a primary school party a week early....

Left a plate of unfinished breakfast - toast and bacon on the roof of the car when taking the DC to nursery and saw it fly off with a huge clatter when we drove round the corner....

Woke up at work with my head face down on my keyboard. When I went to the loo I was alarmed to see the imprint of the keys on my forehead.

kateandme · 28/09/2018 00:21

taking the nappy bag to work instead of workbag.
bringing formula bottle instead of bottle of water out.
too tired and busy to shop so fed family pureed meals and toddler ready meals from freezer!
too tired dropping at grans for childcare so went up to old room and just slept through to pick up time.and then cared for like a child by mum :)

cantfindname · 28/09/2018 06:39

DD2 was born a week before Christmas so when I was discharged from hospital I had to do a Christmas food shop (long before the days of internet and deliveries)

I loaded the wheels of her pram into the car boot and put baby and rest of pram on back seat. It was icy and slippery on roads so OH added a big bag of sand to help stabilise the back of our front wheel drive car.

Managed the shopping and managed to find car in huge multi-story carpark. Put baby in car and wheels in boot. Realised there was no way I could fit in all my shopping even if utilising the front footwell so I pulled out the bag of sand and put it neatly in the corner of the car park. Loaded up an started to drive home. Left my purse on top of car roof and it fell off at a roundabout... very kind drivers stopped and helped me retrieve everything that fell out of it. Drove on and DD started whinging so put radio on. Local station and there was an announcement " We interrupt this record to make drivers aware of a bomb scare in **. The multi storey car park is closed due to a suspicious package and the area is currently cordoned off"

Hmmm... wonder what 'package that might have been?

Debated confessing and decided it was all a bit too late so carried on driving and worrying. Karma got me! A stone broke the car windscreen and I had a five day old baby in a freezing car with 25 miles yet to drive.

I think that was the most eventful shopping trip ever and all due to lack of brain power and sleep deprivation. 40 years later I still feel very guilty about that bag of sand...

GoldenPlatitudes · 28/09/2018 07:30

Cantfindname I can't stop laughing GrinGrinGrin

M0reGinPlease · 28/09/2018 07:36

I vividly remember when DD was tiny sitting down on a the sofa for a quiet five minutes while she was asleep. I popped the telly on, sat back, then looked down to realise I had a carton of milk in my hand. After a bit of confusion and some searching, I found my cup of tea in the fridge...

KaosReigns · 28/09/2018 09:02

Got to the supermarket and DD wanted a feed so awkwardly fed her in the car. Got her in the pram, was super proud of myself for remembering my bag for life, especially considering the weird looks I was getting. I figured I just look a complete mess.

Until I realised the looks were all directed at my chest and I still had a boob hanging out on full display. I don't go to that supermarket anymore.

Also once cried and accused husband of trying to gaslight me because he boiled the jug and didn't make a cuppa. He kept trying to tell me that I did it, but I was convinced that DH had suddenly taken up psychological warfare rather than I had boiled it and forgotten about it.

Efferlunt · 28/09/2018 09:06

I unlocked the side gate and went into the garden. locked it again put keys in the peg bag. Then tried to unlock back door but couldn’t find keys. I was trapped in my own garden and it look me an hour of searching to work out what I’d done.

Dontfuckingsaycheese · 28/09/2018 11:32

My jet-lagged sister handed over a beautifully wrapped Christmas present - it was a book I'd lent her a couple of weeks ago I thought she's like Grin

AuntyJackiesBrothersSistersBoy · 28/09/2018 11:32

I used to work nights, 12 hr shifts. My one yr old DS would go to nursery but need picking up at 1pm. So, on around 4 hrs sleep one day, I collected him and went to Sainsburys. A week or so passed and the smell in the car was wicked. I couldn’t work it out. It got worse and worse until I eventually sussed it. I’d left a bag of goods in the back of the car. They’d slowly gone off and in my befuddled state, I’d no idea WHAT it was. It got so bad that one of the girls I’d drop off at the bus stop after our shift said “something bad happened in this car” and joked that she’d rather walk to the bus stop 😐

AuntyJackiesBrothersSistersBoy · 28/09/2018 11:38

Efferlunt....😄. I once did something similar. I’d put the bins out the night before and on my way out on the walk to school, I picked up a bag of rubbish and dropped it in said bin. What I didn’t realise till much later was that, I’d also dropping my key fob. So, £180 for an Audi key and replacement door keys approx £60 (we’d just had a posh new set of secure double lock doors fitted, all around the house). That wasn’t “work” fatigue but rather “life, kids, stress” tiredness.

Hoppinggreen · 28/09/2018 11:43

I saw Elvis, seriously
I was sat up in bed trying to get my baby the fuck to sleep and out of the corner of my eye I saw him walk through the door
When I turned to look properly he wasn’t there (obvs)

FizzyWizzyFlash · 28/09/2018 11:53

This thread is funny.

When I'm exhausted I have weird dreams.and last night I was exhausted (OH is unwell so I've had both kids for two weeks without any help)

I woke up crying because a tin of chickpeas had rolled off our bed. My partner had to hug me and stop me from crying and then I fell asleep pretty much straight away without any explanation.

The reality is that a tin of chickpeas hadn't rolled off my bed.

I used chickpeas earlier in the week from a tin to make falafel (it was disgusting).
I thought my DS was in bed with us and had fallen off (he wasn't , he was sleeping soundly in his cot).

It was very confusing.

GreenPillow · 28/09/2018 14:23

I shush patted my husband when he stirred in his sleep recently- didn't know anything about it until he told me in the morning. Also grabbed said husband a few times in the night thinking he was the baby falling out of bed... the baby was in his cot!

pxfirst · 28/09/2018 14:24

someone asked what my newborn daughter name was when she about 4 weeks old, for the life of me I couldn't think what it was! I waffles on about something else whilst trying to remember and I just couldn't and cried about it afterwards.

MrsVoleTheVet · 28/09/2018 15:38

I was feeling a bit broody earlier, but this thread has cured me Wink

TakeAChanseyOnMe · 28/09/2018 16:11

My favourite one from a previous thread was a mother who couldn’t figure out why one of her twins wouldn’t stop crying. She’d fed one twin twice and the other not at all. Grin

Tomselleckhaskindeyes · 28/09/2018 16:35

I was working and left my husband at home with the children. He was in our bed with my eldest who is nine. I walked in to find nine year old awake and husband asleep. Nine year old was watching telly. I asked what are you watching? Oh i’m Watching naked attraction...... husband jumped out if bed quickly to turn the telly off. Me very angry.... nine year old grinning

Cottongusset · 28/09/2018 16:47

After a day at work that started at 5:30 am and getting back at about 8:00 pm after doing shopping on the way home panicking because I though I had lost my handbag. I found it in the fridge.

Have also thrown dirty laundry into the dish washer when in a zombie like state due to lack of sleep.

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