Can anyone beat my idiocy?

[DillonPanthersFNL]

For 2 days we haven't had any heating Or hot water. 2 days! 2 days! Had the gas engineer out yesterday and he said it was an electrical problem so had the electrical engineer out today. Took him about 5 minutes! When the previous owner took the water tank out of the house and put a combi one in they left the immersion tank switch which is by the kettle in the kitchen and I went round on Monday eve and turned all the switches off.. this switch turned the boiler off completely

It cost £120 to flick a switch that I turned off!!

BRB going for a hot shower 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

@LadyEloise1 ah! We only have mains water showers as opposed to electric ones. So no showers at all which is crap really

Got on a train to London (heading south from me)

Got off in Birmingham an hour later, 50 miles to the north of me.

My key wasn’t working to get into my flat. I tried jiggling it but it was hopelessly stiff. I knocked on my neighbour’s door. Someone answered, only he wasn’t my neighbour. I assumed he must be my neighbour‘s friend.
I asked if he could help me get into my flat. He came and also tried jiggling the keys. No luck. Only after a few more tries did I realize I was on the wrong floor of the building.

Pressing the button on my car keys to unlock house. Using my fingers to try to zoom/scroll on a printed document. I so stuff like that all the time.

Took my DD fully dressed up to a fancy dress birthday party. That was actually the following weekend. So actually I've just shown up randomly on their doorstep with DD in a costume. And I had to go back again the next weekend

I spent several minutes trying to get through the train station ticket barrier using my work pass rather than my travelcard 🤦‍♀️

😂😂

Couldn't get my car to start and had a major panic. Phoned a friend to help. It was an automatic and it turns out you can only start an automatic when it's in Park.

I did this in my first rented solo flat. The letting agents sent a plumber round and said they would charge me for the callout when I moved out but it was 4 years later and they forgot 😁

Extended idiocy? I moved house and from day 1 the built-in oven was sub-par and a constant source of irritation and frustration. I was new to fan ovens but everything took ages, results were variable and I lost interest in cooking.

I stuck with it because I was going to revamp the kitchen at some point but roasting a chicken always felt 'risky'.

The penny dropped one frustrated evening well over 6 years later. That circular raised area on the oven's back wall was where the fan opening would have been if it had been a fan oven. I'd thought the fan was covered and air circulated through 'openings' elsewhere...

I haven't changed the kitchen yet but have got a new oven - an actual fan oven.

Went to the wrong hospital for a scan yesterday

We did similar, tall integrated fridge freezer stopped working, dh changed the bulb in the fridge, nothing, lots of ranting about how it was only 18 months old and how things aren’t made to last any more, on the phone to Bosch to send an engineer when we realised someone had knocked the isolation switch in the cupboard next to it. 🙄

Oh and I booked a family day out at an escape room and turned up a whole week early.

I have a few that are legendary in my family, but so many people know about them that I would have to name change to keep any chance of my anonymity. Unfortunately, I know that if I did name change for them, it wouldn't matter how careful I thought I was being, I would get a name change fail as well - so sorry, but I can't risk it 🤩

Yes! I had someone out to fix our oven as it wasn’t heating up and it took him about 15 seconds to remove a baking sheet that had slipped down the back and was covering the heating bit 🥴

😂 yes ok I can!
Years ago moved into house with a downstairs shower.
Couldn't work out how to switch it on and after 48hrs of showering in very grim work showers I got a professional out.
The switch to turn the shower on was next to the oven switch!he spent half hour tracing wiring back but I did feel an idiot.
Happy Days😀

Not me but DH - loose bit of carpet on the landing so he put in a nail and hammered it in, wondering why it was so difficult to do. A few hours later, the dining room ceiling (underneath where he’d put in the nail) was soaking - he’d only gone and hammered through a water pipe!

I stored up the incident against the day when I did something stupid

Not me but my parents about 3 years ago. Came over on the ferry from France. Stayed with us for a while and eventually booked a return crossing and told us what date they'd be leaving. Leaving day came. Something didn't feel right to me but I couldn't work out what so I said nothing. They drove several hundred miles to Portsmouth expecting to see their ferry in the port and join the queue to board on the dockside but there was no ship and no queue. Baffled, my dad found a dockside worker and asked him if the crossing had been cancelled. Nope - they'd turned up 24 hours early and had to pay for a hotel in Portsmouth overnight.

Me this time. A few months ago I was cooking burgers on the Ninja Foodi grill. I prepared the salad, got the burger buns ready, fried some onions and got the relish out of the fridge. All set to serve, the Ninja beeped to let me know the burgers were ready. I stood there for ages looking round the kitchen, utterly baffled as to where I'd put the burgers. I was genuinely mystified. They were still in the grill. Perfectly cooked (but drying out at this point). I just hadn't moved them off the grill but was convinced I had. In my defence I was in the first trimester of pregnancy and didn't know which way up I was.

I used to love it when my mum would warm our clothes on a cold winter morning by hanging them on a chair in front of the hot oven that was left open to heat the kitchen up a wee bit.

My housemate got us a 50 quid callout charge for a plumber while I was out at uni, she said the boiler was broken and the heating wouldn't turn on...she hadn't checked the thermostat settings.

Been there, done that, except I dragged DH out on an hour round trip to rescue me. He's never let me forget it (in a playful way) but I learnt my lesson good and proper!

Over the years I must have gone through at least 5 mashing machines and with 6 kids I needed one
theyd just stop draining,lights would flash and I’d end up forking out for a new one
it took my ex 5 seconds to check the filter and a word in my sons ear to stop putting crap like coins,leaves and conkers in his pockets-or to empty them before putting them in the wash
now,any tiny sign that it’s not draining,that’s the first thing I check-ive been through 2 washers in 14 years rather than at least one every 2/3 years

I stopped at a petrol station on the way home and couldn't get the car to turn back on again, it was completely dead. Luckily DH was at home, so came down complete with jump leads.
DH got in to try it and it started first time.
You had to push the clutch in before turning the key. I had been driving it for 2 years at this point.

Not me but DP. We live on the opposite side of the globe from where he grew up. He got an invitation to a wedding back in his home town, so he booked a flight home (costing thousands). He then announced on Facebook that he was looking forward to flying home in August for the wedding.

One of his friends then replied to the post on Facebook, pointing out that the wedding was actually in August the following year. He had booked his flights a whole year too early!

Poor DP had to fly home that August anyway as he'd already told his mum he was coming home. And he ended up not attending the wedding as it was too expensive to fly home a second year in a row.

Once made a lovely French onion soup. When it was finished, I absent-mindedly wandered over to the sink, picked up the colander and strained it.

I still served the beefy-winey-garlicky onions. I think it took my wife a few days to stop laughing