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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:
Eminybob · 17/10/2018 22:19

When I was 18 I did a fire walking course. Basically a hippy dippy mind over matter type day culminating in walking over hot coals. All controlled and fine.

Fast forward a few years and I’m on a beach in Goa, pissed on the local spirit, telling the fire walking story to a circle of travellers round a campfire. I decided to demonstrate. By standing in the fucking campfire.
Couldn’t walk for a week, the whole of the bottom of my foot was one blister. Should have probably gone to hospital but spent the next week holed up in my beach hut with a block of ice strapped to my foot.

MojitoMonkey · 17/10/2018 22:25

I put our electric kettle on to our gas hob. Only realised when I smelt a horrendous smell of burning plastic and ran in to find a melting kettle. I have no excuse, we've never had anything other than an electric kettle.

Shinytin · 17/10/2018 22:36

I went out drinking with someone who had recently started at my work. I didn't know her very well but she slept on my sofa in her undies because she couldn't get a taxi home. I sleep walk sometimes but forgot to warn her. You know where this is going... I woke up trying to spoon her on the sofa. She did not see the funny side.

Cathster · 17/10/2018 22:37

Went shopping a few months back and left the car door open. As in, as wide open as it could be. I had to act as if I’d meant to do that with the bloke in the car parked next to mine staring at me.

I’ve also thought my car had been stolen (on the verge of calling the police) when I’d dropped it at the garage that morning.

It’s usually car and door stupidity with me.

MrsJonSno · 17/10/2018 22:40

I finished work late one evening and got a cab to collect my daughter from Nursery. It was dark and raining and the cab pulled up in the Nursery carpark. I rushed in and collected her then back out again and we jumped into the back of the cab for the journey home. The man in the driving seat turns around and just stared. It wasn’t the cab! It was just some random guy’s car that we had got into! Shock

Peakyteaky · 17/10/2018 22:42

I stood at a conference stand all day in a fitted pencil skirt with a huge split all the way down the back. No idea when I started flashing my thong but I distinctly remember thinking my bum felt a bit drafty that morning so probably all day. There was no way people wouldn't have noticed. Not one single person told me. Why wouldn't you tell someone?!

Lymphy · 17/10/2018 22:45

During a driving test I joined a que of traffic leading up to a roundabout and waited for the traffic to start moving. After a good few minutes the examiner gently pointed out that the traffic que was actually parked cars. I failed FYI Blush

toomanypillows · 17/10/2018 22:48

My car needed filling up with petrol so I shouted to DH that in wouldn't be long. Left the house and thought "it's a lovely evening - I'll walk"

WhatsGoingOnEh · 17/10/2018 22:48

Married first DH. I love our D.C. but FUCK ME, he was a twat right from the first date.

Passmethecrisps · 17/10/2018 22:53

I have done plenty as an adult I am sure but the one which sticks in my head is as a child. I was about 10-12 maybe. I was staring idly at the electric bar heater and wondering how long it took the bars to get hot. So in the name of science I grabbed a bar and turned the fire on. It was only when I was running my hand under the tap in shock that I realised that I had given myself an electric shock and was bloody lucky I hadn’t seriously hurt myself. I told no one

icelolly99 · 17/10/2018 22:54

Sent my husband to Tesco's with a baby top that had gone holey to exchange or refund. They couldn't find item on the system, not even when typing in the number on the label.....i was annoyed when he told me.....then I realised that the top was 2nd/3rd hand me down from a nephew and was at least 10 years old.....oops!

PrincessDando · 17/10/2018 23:03

Came home from supermarket, baby in car seat brought every thing into the house, unpacked shopping, thought I'd check on the baby... Id left her on the front door step for a good 15 minutes, she was just staring up at the sky contentedly luckily the neighbours didn't notice!

ingenvillvetavardukoptdintroja · 17/10/2018 23:09

Hunting for sling which was wrapped round me
Forgetting to strap baby into car seat
Putting frying pan under grill to brown my dinner and grabbing handle with bare hand ... Very beautiful handle burn mark across palm!

Peakyteaky · 17/10/2018 23:10

Princess - I remember queing in bank and the man at the counter walking off leaving his new born in a car seat behind.

The lady at the counter barely looked up and told the queue "don't worry, he'll be back" and carried on.

He rushed back in a few minutes later and I have never seen anyone look so releived but I'd love to know if he ever told the baby's mum what he did!

edwinbear · 17/10/2018 23:11

My boss’s wife wanted to go to the Maldives on holiday. She booked the hotel she’d had her eye on for a while and left him to sort out flights.

He booked flights to Mauritius. First class ones too. She was not impressed.

PavlovianLunge · 17/10/2018 23:24

Years ago, as a quite quiet 16 year-old, I went to do work experience at a local bank.

On the first day, I was assigned to help one of the staff, and as we started the task, she asked me something that I didn’t properly catch. Rather than ask her what she had said, I simply replied ‘Yes’ and carried on working.

A while later, it dawned on my that what she had asked me was ‘Are you Ian?’ My name isn’t Ian. This dawned on me when a couple of people had called me Ian. I had to then tell the people calling me Ian that I was not, in fact, Ian. All the while wishing I could melt away back to school. Not the best of starts to my working life.

queenbeetofive5 · 17/10/2018 23:25

Telling myself five children couldn't be much harder than four Confused

thatwouldbeanecumenicalmatter · 17/10/2018 23:34

Passmethecrisps 😱

Bunchofdaffodils · 17/10/2018 23:41

Pavlovianlunge, that was brave. I probably would have just let them carry on calling me Ian...

chocsahoy · 17/10/2018 23:43

@CalamityJane10 I would totally do that chilli/curry thing

Mine is: Xmas period, needed cashback so stopped at the supermarket. Picked up a few things but long queues at the till so queued up at the self service (doesn't do cash back).

Went back in the shop & picked up something else I didn't need so I could get cashback this time, queued up at a proper till and then on autopilot tapped my card!

Had to queue up a third time. Could probably have gone on forever though

ShesABelter · 17/10/2018 23:48

I do stupid stuff so regularly not many stand out! I have drove to school and walked home too many times. Then walked out to the car and thought it had been stolen.

Walked to the shop with the dog and buddy. Tied dog up and walked home after the shop without the dog.

Locked us out the house lots of times.

Booked a holiday and flew into an airport close to the wrong resort but owned by same company. Luckily was only 50 minutes in a taxi but that cost a fair whack there and back for two taxis as there was six of us and they didn't do six seaters.

Got a tattoo on my bum cheek on my hen do when drunk that it's absolute nonsense.

Got lost at a festival, phone had died, was too drunk to remember anyone's phone numbers or where the bus home was so had to camp with complete randoms as I'd missed the bus an get my very angry husband to drive the 6 hour round trip to pick me up the next day.

ReginaPhalange2 · 18/10/2018 00:11

I used the sun beds a long long time ago.

It was a stand up one in a figure of 8 shape.
I went in got undressed, put my goggles on stood there for 4 minutes.

I repeated this for 3 sessions thinking I was definitely going browner.

On the 4th session I went in and saw the ‘other door’ was open leading into the part with all the tubes. Yup I’d been standing in the wrong bit of the sunbed, the bit where you get changed for 3 sessions.

This is massively outing as no one can be that stupid 😂😂

RealJudas · 18/10/2018 07:22

Years ago I was on a work trip to a European city. I had one of those adapter plugs that can be used for various regions and one of the pins got stuck in the live socket in my hotel room..... Without a second thought I tried to pull it out with my fingers..... To this day I can't believe I did it, and I'm very relieved I lived to tell the tale, but my god it hurt.

Raines100 · 18/10/2018 11:40

Many, many things.

I used to work in the town centre and popped into Boots on my lunch break. I got on the escalator up to the make up floor, got a third of the way up before realising what I need was on the ground floor after all... so I jumped off it!

I landed heavily on the metal plate at the bottom in my stilletoes, feeling like a prize tit. Thank God I cleared the steps! Grin

KERALA1 · 18/10/2018 11:44

Oh I have loads.
Throwing my handbag into a lake was a good one.
Meeting some men in a bar in India and getting into their car as my friend and I wanted a lift to a full moon party. Found out later they were drug dealers and the car was full of drugs. No harm came to us but wtf were we thinking! We weren't that young either and professionals Blush