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To ask what the stupidest thing you’ve ever done is?

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Wineandpyjamas · 17/10/2018 14:24

I’m sure there have been threads like this before but here goes.

A few days ago me and DH took our DCs swimming. DCs are 3 and 5 months.

Get changed, get in pool, everything fine. We get out and DH takes charge of the baby while I get toddler dressed. All going well until I realise I haven’t picked our shoes up from the locker. I go to get them and lo and behold - no shoes! I stood there for a good few seconds just staring. It was definitely our locker but completely empty. I check the neighbouring ones just in case, but no.

DH comes out and I tell him what’s happened. He can’t believe it. I can’t either. Toddler is starting to cry as she thinks someone’s stolen her shoes. Cue me starting to think the same and saying in a bewildered tone over and over again: “but who would steal shoes?”

Several kindly other people commiserate whilst also looking a little baffled. I got the attention of a member of staff, lovely guy who looked in his late teens. He looks astonished but very kindly offers to get a master key and check a few of the locked ones near to mine.

DH is triple checking the changing room we were in, toddler and baby now both crying (they were toddler’s fave paw patrol trainers). I’m wondering how on Earth we’re going to get home as we don’t drive.

Staff member opens a few neighbouring lockers but no joy. Shoes have vanished. We go up into the canteen area barefoot and DH starts getting ready to run the half hour walk home and back with spare shoes for us. I keep saying to the poor staff member that I can’t believe someone stole shoes (getting angry). It’s around this point that I have an awful, dawning realisation.

I’d actually put all our stuff in a different locker right down the other end at first but then realised it didn’t lock. So I’d obviously moved all our stuff to a different one and just left the shoes there. Very quietly and shamefaced I went back to check and yup! There they were.

I blame it all on the baby brain but I felt so incredibly stupid. I just know the staff were giving me pitying looks and rightly so. DH pissed himself laughing.

Any other stupid stories to make me feel better?

OP posts:
redmimi · 17/10/2018 20:38

Cut 6 live wires with a pair of scissors to stop the house alarm blaring.

We've never used it in 8 years and I panicked.

It didn't occur to me to switch the electric off first.

bananamonkey · 17/10/2018 20:38

Booked a gig and nice hotel room in another city for DH’s birthday, checked the tickets a few days before and realised it had been the previous weekend, still feel awful about this years later Blush

NewYoiker · 17/10/2018 20:46

I went to the tip and threw all these really gross bags in the skip. I couldn't find my car keys afterwards and I had them in my hand when I put the bags in  had to ask the nice tip man to get in the skip to look for them- he couldn't find them I went to call DH to bring the spare set but they were in the ignition  I gave the bloke a fiver!

Soubriquet · 17/10/2018 20:51

Moving house.....bagged loads of rubbish up. Threw away the rubbish and went to the house.

Started to unpack and realise loads of shoes were missing.

Yep. They were in a black bag and got binned with the rubbish

FelicisWolf · 17/10/2018 20:53

First day of new job I take my boyfriends car (only car, we shared and he could walk to work). Park it where I had scouted out earlier, in a residential road so didn't have to pay for parking. Running late on first day so massively stressing out, run in to work profusely apologising. Walk back to where I had scouted out, car isn't there!! I walke round the whole area, down roads I know I hadn't gone down just to double check. "My cat's been stolen!" I cry. Ring the police and insurance company to report a stolen car, tell boyfriend who is very understanding and outraged that someone would steal a car in a quiet residential street. Tell everyone (friends, family, new colleagues) that car has been stolen and how annoying it is that I now have to take a 2hr bus journey to work and back instead. 3 weeks later, boyfriend gets a call from the police who had a report of an abandoned car... I had parked it on the other side of town. In a road that looked very similar to that road ("but it had a grass verge!" I cry). Never lived it down since, I was very lucky the insurance claim hadn't gone through yet 

Drummingisfun · 17/10/2018 20:56

Spent hours pulling my phone apart and replacing the touchscreen using a spare screen and special tools that I'd ordered online. Finally managed to put it back together with all working.
Went to tell DH I'd finally finished then flopped down on the sofa... Right on the new screen that I just installed, breaking it completely Sad

Chalkhillblu3 · 17/10/2018 20:57

Got angry at the sweet lady who works in the launderette for losing my favourite bra. Got home fuming to find I was wearing it.

Very nearly got run over by a train because I was drunk. I still get shivers thinking about it to this day.

YearOfYouRemember · 17/10/2018 20:57

Very carefully planned my morning to get to the dental appointment I'd known about for a week. No. No appointment for me. I asked the receptionist where I was supposed to be then. Funnily enough she had no idea.

cricketmum84 · 17/10/2018 20:59

@mozartvanbeethoven the guinea pig story just broke me. My mascara is actually hurting my eyes I've laughed that hard 😂

edwinbear · 17/10/2018 21:06

An NCT mate of mine took her DS swimming once and some CF stole her jeans, her DH was at work so just her and her toddler DS. Story planned out in a similar way, reception with a towel wrapped round her, searching lockers etc in her pants for the world to see. A very kind lifeguard offered to lend her her jeans to get home on the bus in (as she could manage in her uniform shorts). My mate was a post baby, size 16, the lifeguard a svelte 16 yr old with size 6 jeans.....was a sight I’m told.

Didactylos · 17/10/2018 21:08

I superglued my hand to a table
and then a few months later repeated the process except that I superglued myself to the floor. Which was much harder to get out of than the table situation as at least with the table I could move about the flat
I am not allowed superglue anymore

JustDanceAddict · 17/10/2018 21:10

Left the front door open when I went to the local shops. I did have baby brain but still... luckily no thieves had noticed.

krazycatlady · 17/10/2018 21:24

I once went on night out drove there left front door key in glove compartment in car . Got taxi home realised left key in key compartment .

FrangipaniBlue · 17/10/2018 21:45

Left mobile phone on roof of car and drove off. Took a policeman and the find my iPhone app to get it back from the CF who picked it up and took it home!

"Lost" toddler DS in a department store. Thought he'd gone up in the lift. He was hiding behind a clothes rack.

Left a wedding card for a colleague with the £500 collection in it at the train station. Didn't get it back despite someone being caught on cctv walking away with it.

Tried to boil an egg in the microwave. It was ok until I tapped it on the table to crack the shell. Instant eggsplosion.

lynmilne65 · 17/10/2018 21:45

Getting married twice!

lynmilne65 · 17/10/2018 21:48

Sent a text to my son telling him I had posted his phone ! 🙄🙄

Sunnysidegold · 17/10/2018 21:53

Got a knife sharpener thingy and proceeded to sharpen all the kitchen knives. Felt pretty pleased imagining how efficient the chopping would be. Ran thing down blade to see how sharp it was and sliced a huge gash in thumb. Turns out it was Pretty sharp.

Dontfeellikeamillenial · 17/10/2018 21:54

Not going for coffee with him.

Big mistake. Big. Huge.

LunaLovegoodsRadishes · 17/10/2018 22:00

Couldn't find my phone in my bag whilst at work. Emptied it, no joy. Rang husband to ask if he'd seen it at home. Nope. Was looking to see how much of my contract had left to go when the work's communal fridge started ringing.

My lunch bag that I'd stuffed in my bigger bag (we are mobile, so need to be able to carry my crap) had caught my phone in it's side pocket, I didn't see, and stuffed my food in the fridge. Luckily it rang before I cancelled my sim!

Cheerymom · 17/10/2018 22:04

Woke up in lovely thatched holiday cottage. Joy of joys, snow on the unlit fire, you know those big old fashioned fireplace, direct access to the sky. Wake small children up and demand they dress for the weather in clothes left in the wardrobe for guests as we had not packed for snow. They are delirious with excitement. We run outside.

The snow was direct sunlight on an empty grate. It was August in Kent.

AimingToMisbehave · 17/10/2018 22:05

Ran into a wall when I was 7 and broke my arm.

When I was about 16 I was in town and went to pay for something only to find my purse missing. I knew I had it with me because I'd taken cash out of a machine earlier. Concluded that I'd been the victim of a pickpocket and informed the police. Cancelled my bank card, and my library card.

I found my purse a few hours later in another section of my bag Blush

Oysterbabe · 17/10/2018 22:09

I was leaving work late one night when I was about 18. There was a group of lads sat on a wall in the car park and I felt quite vulnerable. I walked past them with my head down and quickly tried to unlock my car. I was struggling though, the key didn't want to turn. Eventually it did and I got in and an alarm started going off. It wasn't my car. Mine was the other old mini parked a few spaces away. The lads predictably pissed themselves as I found the right car and made my escape while the alarm continued on the other one.

Similarly, walking home late in the dark with a group of lads walking behind me. There was an alley next to the house that had a heavy metal gate that was NEVER closed, I didn't even have a key for it. I walked full force into the closed gate, giving myself a bloody nose and cut head. I had to knock on the front door to be let in while they walked past crying with laughter.

Drummingisfun · 17/10/2018 22:12

Oh, forgot this one.
Chopping carrots using mini blender thing.
Carrot got stuck on blade.
Forgot to remove my right hand from the "on" button before I unjammed the blade with my left hand. Luckily my reactions are quick but my left little finger is missing a little bit at the tip.

prettyisoverrated · 17/10/2018 22:16

As a teen I asked my mum how to cook baby sweet corn, her reply was to cover it with hot water, which is exactly what I did, ten minutes later I go into the living and tell her it’s not doing anything, turns out I was meant to switch the hob on!

Sleeperagent · 17/10/2018 22:18

I was doing some shopping in the city centre. It was raining so I was using my umbrella. I decided to go into the mall and it took me about 20 minutes to realise I still had my umbrella up.