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Original poster

For thinking I'm an absolute idiot

98 replies

somm · 03/02/2020 18:48

I've posted on here a few times, but this is the first time I've started a thread. I'm doing it because I'm clinging to the fond hope that others have made stupid mistakes that they would like to forget.

I've just apologised to an online website (that's not the daft part), after I received the skirt I'd ordered. The skirt was in what I thought was my size but when I tried it on it fell to my knees. I went on their website and said it couldn't possibly be the size I ordered (despite the right size being on the skirt lable). I loved the skirt so said I'd like a replacement if the sizing was right. I thought I was doing them a favour by suggesting they should look at the sizing of this product. About 10 minutes after posting to their website I realised I'd been trying on the skirt upside down.

In my defence the skirt is very ''beady' and I'd struggled to find the zip, and then straight after emailing the company for a replacement realised that the zip I thought opened at the bottom actually opened at the top. And I let them know (despite feeling like an absolute fool.)

OP posts:
TheQueef · 03/02/2020 20:26

So reassuring that others are as dim as me Grin
Wine

Sparklfairy · 03/02/2020 21:03

Soho was it scoobydoo1971 Grin

vegvegveg · 03/02/2020 21:25

I went to a job interview in London wearing trainers with heels in my bag ready to put on at the last minute. When I got to my interview and got my shoes out to put them on I had brought two different shoes with me, no time to buy any so had to wear odd shoes to the interview. Still got the job!

vegvegveg · 03/02/2020 21:25

Oh and they were both for the same foot! Looked a right idiot!

Serenity45 · 04/02/2020 00:36

I got halfway through a day in the office once before I realised both my trousers and top were on inside out...

Rather than quietly nipping to the loo, I also felt the need to say "ballsacks I'm inside out!" Cue general laughter/ disbelief from younger team members that,no, I don't check myself out in a full length mirror before leaving the house Blush

Natsel84 · 04/02/2020 00:52

It's ok my dh ordered new work trousers . Moaned he must of put on weight as they didn't fit properly. Turns out he had ordered womens trousers and not mens 🙄

JaneJeffer · 04/02/2020 01:04

Natsel84 was he going for a job in IT?

Janus · 04/02/2020 01:17

That made me laugh!
My absolute fail was going into liberty make up department, very posh! I was browsing amongst the glamorous brands and stopped to look at a pot of something on the counter. I rubbed it with one finger and then rubbed it in on the back of my hand. I thought ‘this is very moisturising’ and was quite impressed so I asked the lady on that department what it was ...
‘That’s a candle madame’ 😱🤪
God I felt stupid (well I was!!!), obviously it wasn’t lit!

charlieschocolate · 04/02/2020 01:25
Grin

I once spent ages picking a watch in a shop in France and counted out all my money (about 20 francs). I was adamant it was enough. It was 200 francs. I sloped out.

Bookoo · 04/02/2020 01:32

Got the wrong tyre changed once. Absolute idiot.

Myshitisreal · 04/02/2020 01:51

I bought a top off ebay and couldn't understand why it had thread extra straps. Scissors in hand I thought hmmm I'll just post on my Facebook group because the folk the are great with advice. I posted a picture and was mortified to realise it was a cold shoulder top and I had my arms in the wrong holes 🤯 😝 I was so mortified. I never did wear it and re charity shopped it. I'm sure I could find the photo if I tried 😂 the group were in hysterics at me 😂

Emmily · 04/02/2020 02:12

I'll join the idiots club Wink I've just registered with MN to offer advice on something I know a little about, only to discover the op is in NZ and I'm in UK, so it was useless advise anyway. Smile

NotALurker2 · 04/02/2020 02:18

I was enjoying all the attention I was getting walking down the street, and caught my reflection in a passing window so I could verify how attractive I was, only to see a reflection of the bottom of my skirt tucked into the back of my underpants.

HavenDilemma · 04/02/2020 02:32

@Billben Omg! She sounds ace! I'd love to know who she was so I could befriend her! Ha

@somm You spent £75 on a Skirt?!?!? Hmm

Original poster
somm · 04/02/2020 03:13

In response to you, HavenDillemma, yes, I did spend £75 on a skirt and one day I may even make use of it (the clue's in the title :) I'm a fool). But in the same week I ordered a t-shirt from America where the delivary cost was nearly as much as the t-shirt price, simply because it features a grammatical conumdrum.

My dog looked at me askance when I tried the skirt on, and I looked back at him to say 'What's gone wrong here?' He loves the 'oxford comma' t-shirt, but he's not so sure about the upside-down, very heavy, beady ASOS skirt :}

OP posts:
Bluerussian · 04/02/2020 03:35

It's a lovely skirt!

Monty27 · 04/02/2020 03:46
Grin Love these stories. I had a development review. It wasn't until after I realised a) my trousers zip was down and b) I'd forgotten to pop the poppers on the 'teddy' I was wearing so that it was hanging out of aforementioned undone zip. Blush Grin
pauapaua · 04/02/2020 04:03

One day she had to stop at the traffic lights and all of a sudden she just fell off her bike. Why? Cos she forgot to put her foot on the ground when she stopped 😀

I'd put money on her being a horse rider GrinI have some of them have been known to do that Blush

readingismycardio · 04/02/2020 04:10

I once tried on a beautiful light pink blazer - seemed the right size. I couldn't get it on and I couldn't understand WHY the heck. It was children's size. I was in the children's department

mathanxiety · 04/02/2020 04:46

@FelicityBeedle, but have you ever crashed out through the door of a cubicle in a women's fitting area while trying to pull on a pair of jeans and landed on your face in front of a little audience of women bearing armfuls of clothes to try on, who wet their pants laughing?

Because I have Smile

WhereShallWeMoveTo · 04/02/2020 04:55

I once spent ages in a changing room trying to work out why a sundress was really tight despite being correct size but had a huge flap of extra material...took it off and put it back on again... same problem. Then I realised I had put both legs into one leg of some culottes...

On top of the upside down skirt this is making me cry. 😂

WhereShallWeMoveTo · 04/02/2020 05:02

And I once went to work in mismatched shoes: identical in style, but one black and one navy

bought two different shoes with me.....oh and they were both for the same foot!

Okay fess up. Which one of you is Diane Abbot?

WhereShallWeMoveTo · 04/02/2020 05:09

I went to a posh cocktail reception once - it was a work thing so I needed to make a good impression. I wore a pair of those hold up stockings with a sticky/grippy top to them, under my knee length dress.

It was summer and still daylight for most of the evening. I went to the loo at some point and as I bent down to lift my dress I realised that one of the stockings had lost its grip and was all bunched up around my ankle. Gawd knows how long it had been like that but I hadn’t felt a thing. Confused

originaldomesticgodess · 04/02/2020 05:42

A friend's son got his new girlfriend a pair of pyjamas for Christmas. On boxing day she told him they would have to be returned as they were huge. He had bought size 18-20. Because she was 19 years old.

Dennisreynoldsduster · 04/02/2020 05:48

Oh OP this is brilliant. Thank you.

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