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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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For thinking I'm an absolute idiot

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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.)

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Pipandmum · 04/02/2020 17:37

I was a couple cars back at a traffic light London. This young woman walked across the street. Her skirt was tucked up in the back exposing her bottom (wearing tights at least). I thought surely the woman a few steps behind would say something... no she didn't... and about three dozen cars watched her walk past, not to mention everyone else (busy part of London during rush hour).

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somm · 04/02/2020 18:05

Oh I just love what people are posting on this thread - you all make me feel so much better. However, it's also made me remember other times when I've been an idiot, which is bad, but at least I know it's not likely to be due to any approaching health problem, because I must always have been daft.

Like some on here I've also been at work and realised I was wearing shoes from two different pairs. Also there was another time, long ago now, when I was sitting in a pub with my husband and his friends. I was wearing a strapless, tight, dress. Eventually one of his friends kindly pointed out that one side of my dress was underneath where it should have been. So, I have no idea for how long, I'd been sitting there showing off one of my breasts to all and sundry.

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buzzswole · 04/02/2020 18:32

I'm the one who phoned the water company in near hysterics because I need to make a bottle up for my pfb but the water was coming out bubbly.
Only to realise mid-rant about contamination and after insisting they should come out immediately that there was a bit of fairy on the end of the tap.

Flymetothetoon · 04/02/2020 18:55

Moved house with a new fridge/freezer that was only around 10 wks old . Removal man told me not to plug it in at new house as 'one of the wires was almost burnt through'
I duly phones the manufacturer and spoke to an incredulous guy but eventually got him to agree to send an engineer out only for said engineer to calmly peel off a piece of brown paper from said wire 🤭

Knittedfairies · 04/02/2020 19:37

I didn't witness this, unfortunately. I used to volunteer in a charity shop, and one volunteer took a shower cap home. She apparently brought it back into the shop, very annoyed, because it was 'far too big'. It wasn't a shower cap; it was an elasticated seed catcher for a budgie cage...

Mamalicious16 · 04/02/2020 19:42

OMG- my daughter had loads of bath bomb making stuff ( a lot in teeny tiny white jars ) waiting to be thrown out at the weekend. Today I was tidying a noticed another jar - presumed I'd missed it and popped it in the bin. DP casually asked if I'd seen his prescription heartburn tablets. They usually come in a blister pack but apparently now they come in a tiny white bottle........FFS!!!!

Mamalicious16 · 04/02/2020 19:44

Bin has had tea leftovers and old cat food and everything in since then. AND I'd just asked him to change the bin bag so it's gone ready for the bin men ....

stewiesmumlois · 04/02/2020 19:52

Outing but....

Once ordered dh a pair of custom made trainers for his birthday. They came and I was looking at them when I noticed they were in a size bigger (or smaller can't remember) than I'd ordered. I immediately rang Nike and spent ages explaining to the poor woman on the phone that id ordered them especially for a big birthday etc and now they wouldn't be ready on time etc etc. Half way through her trying to sort the issue for me I realised I'd been reading the US size not the UK. Felt an absolute idiot and had to admit it and apologise. Luckily she found it funny 🤦🏻‍♀️

Starface · 04/02/2020 21:14

Last week on training I drank the tea belonging to the woman next to me. I got to the bottom of the mug and found a teabag - I'd taken mine out. Then asked whose was the cold tea on my other side and the woman on that side said it wasn't hers. It clicked. I said nothing and styled it out for the next hour whilst we were partners doing the active part of breakaway training. She was very nice. We were chatting all the time I was drinking her tea and she said nothing. She must have known... actually hilarious.

EnidBlyton · 04/02/2020 22:51

I had a big tidy up, chucked out DH stopper for his food processor, by mistake, never ever admitted it, total look of innocence

Neighneigh · 04/02/2020 23:03

I recently went to a tea & coffee machine at a sports centre, happily put my coins in, made my selection, only to have to watch a whole cup of tea being dispensed into the drainer because not only had I forgotten to put a cup there, there were no cups in sight .....

Itsjustmee · 04/02/2020 23:31

I got new iPhone and couldn’t work out why I couldn’t hear anyone when I called them
Took it back to Apple to complain and the guy peeled the protective plastic off it

ALongHardWinter · 05/02/2020 00:25

OMG this thread is hilarious! It has reminded me of an incident that happened when I was at secondary school,many years ago. One of the girls in my domestic science class had forgotten her apron. The teacher told her to borrow one from the box in the store cupboard. She came back out,having put one on,saying 'This is a really funny apron',because it had a large elasticated pocket at the bottom. Turned out she was wearing an ironing board cover.

ALongHardWinter · 05/02/2020 00:30

Knittedfairies I'm am nearly wetting myself laughing at the thought of someone trying to wear a budgie cage seed catcher as a shower cap!

WhereShallWeMoveTo · 08/02/2020 10:42

My DH has two pairs of flip flops identical in style but one pair green and one yellow. He accidentally packed one of each for a holiday and spent the whole time looking like some whacky children’s TV entertainer, which is a bit embarrassing considering he’s 50 odd. My teenagers were mortified and wouldn’t walk with him. 😂

StCharlotte · 08/02/2020 13:19

The ironing board cover has made me burst out laughing!

Tried a new bronze highlighter sunday but did it early before work in poor light. halfway through my shift I looked at myself and it had turned my whole under eye area a bright yellow!

Reminds me of the time I tried that green moisturiser that's meant to tone down redness. Applied liberally in a restaurant toilet with subtle lighting. Got outside into daylight and my friend started laughing as my face was very green

Also got to work in agony only to realise I had my shoes on the wrong feet.

Spartonian · 08/02/2020 13:47

My DD had to cut me out of my new bra last week.

It was one that went over the head then did up, I managed to get in on fine but could not get back out of it.

Papergirl1968 · 08/02/2020 13:51

My niece is beautiful and very bright but a bit...dopey.
She was walking along a train platform when a man told her that her dress was tucked into her knickers. When she stammered out her thanks and apologies (not sure what she was apologising for!) he said, “don’t worry, love, you just made all of the men very happy!”
On a different day the same niece managed to lose a shoe between the platform and the train. She hopped around on one foot till the train departed and a man armed with an umbrella knelt down and managed to hook the shoe.

Ghoulestofmums · 08/02/2020 14:12

We have a pod coffee machine. I was making coffee at the same time as talking to DH on the phone. Coffee tasted horrible - very weak. I’d forgotten to take out the previous pod. Yuk.

Nirvana1979 · 08/02/2020 14:33

I wore my slippers to work once...i couldnt leave the office the entire day as we need safety shoes in other parts of the building.

Online shopping with Asda i ordered what i thought was 6 individual bananas. Turned out to be 6 bags of bananas so 30 odd bananas turned up. Deliver guy asked if i had a pet monkey

Formermousemat · 08/02/2020 14:52

Went for a quick lunch with DH at a pub. It was winter so we'd gone in wearing thick coats. Took my coat off and went to the bar to order while DH sat down.

I thought the lady serving gave me a slightly odd look but I didn't think about it too much.

Sat there for ages directly opposite DH, ate my lunch quite happily.

Went to go to the toilet and saw myself in the mirror.

There was a 50p sized hole in my dark coloured top, just about where my nipple was.

I had, unfortunately, chosen that day to wear my bright pink bra. It was extremely noticeable. So much so that at first glance I thought I'd somehow got a bit of fluorescent post-it note stuck to my top.

I put my coat back on as soon as I got to the table.

I asked DH why he hadn't said anything and he claimed he thought it was part of the pattern. Useless bugger.

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somm · 09/02/2020 20:17

Formermousemat - is our husband a bigamist? >
'I asked DH why he hadn't said anything and he claimed he thought it was part of the pattern. Useless bugger.'

The amount of times I've said to my husband, 'Why couldn't you have told me I've been wearing my t-shirt inside out all day?' His response, 'I didn't know you were'. Oh, wait - doesn't that make me as much as idiot as him :-) humm

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hambledon · 09/02/2020 20:33

Queef; So reassuring that others are as dim as me *
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I'm going to inject a bit of defensive earnestness into this thread. There are lots of funny stories on this thread that have made me laugh and reminded me that I've done similar things often. I have dyspraxia, am generally scatterbrained and to make matters worse I have insomnia so tiredness adds to it all. However, I'm not dim or stupid. I've got a PhD. I find it a bit irritating that people equate scatterbrained with stupid. What about the cliche of the mad scientist? Often people who are distracted in their thoughts will get into scrapes like this.

I thought of this a week or so ago, also on MN where somebody described a man who accidentally sprayed himself with air freshener as stupid, not very bright etc. And wondered why OP would want to date someone who wasn't very clever. What has intelligence got to do with the manual skill of spraying air freshener?

As you were.

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