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Which mystery do you want solved.? Very very lighthearted..

383 replies

Scaffoldingisugly · 05/03/2024 14:14

What sort of half - wit designs /manufactures pale cream ddog beds?
Trawling the aisles of a popular pet store for aged creaky ddog-willing to spend as she isn't comfortable in current one (my sofa /chair) Majority have cream interiors.. The bit ddog will put her dirty paws and bumhole on!!

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Londonrach1 · 05/03/2024 21:34

Why does my dc give me wrappers to hold on walk back from school and how hard is it to find a bin in the house to put rubbish in when at home...

Bloom15 · 05/03/2024 21:35

Pigeonrific · 05/03/2024 20:50

Why is it some people on public transport decide that the journey is the best timento make phone calls loudly? Do they think everyone else is quiet just so they can make their call? Do they understand that the vehicle is still able to move independently of their gob?

And on speaker!

NeverAloneNeverAgain · 05/03/2024 21:37

DrunkenKoala · 05/03/2024 14:21

Where the other sock goes? I knew I put both socks into the washing machine but only one came out 🤷🏻‍♀️.

This! I buy socks. I never bin socks but I have no socks!

momager1 · 05/03/2024 21:37

@YeahIsaidit just asking. Have you checked your head? Because when I walk around looking for mine.. I have usually just shoved them up on my head. lol

Scaffoldingisugly · 05/03/2024 21:38

Was once an egg smell in my car... Dh tried endlessly to solve that particular mystery by partially dismantling my car. .
The hard boiled egg under the seat was the clue I found....

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CaramelMac · 05/03/2024 21:39

How my colleague still has a job when he’s an unprofessional twat who couldn’t be on time for work if his life depended on it?

twingiraffes · 05/03/2024 21:43

DD works in hospitality and they once mislaid a large quantity of dining chairs.

Found eventually, but only after sending a small army on an in-depth search.

Lacuranights · 05/03/2024 21:45

I’d love to know why so many people run red lights. Not just being an ‘amber gambler’, but on red long enough for the oncoming traffic to be moving. It’s becoming more common where I live and there are accidents pretty much every day at a local major intersection. Yet I’ve never met anyone who admits doing it.

HoneyWogan · 05/03/2024 21:46

Scaffoldingisugly · 05/03/2024 21:38

Was once an egg smell in my car... Dh tried endlessly to solve that particular mystery by partially dismantling my car. .
The hard boiled egg under the seat was the clue I found....

That randomly reminded me of the story in the news ages ago about the police who discovered some illicit substances being grown in a field. The only reason they noticed them, was because the car windows were down as they drove past, and they smelled the 'special herbs'; and the only reason the window was down was because the officer sitting in the back was making copious rather 'eggy' fragrances of his own Grin

Bluesky91 · 05/03/2024 21:47

WhingeInTheWillows · 05/03/2024 14:43

Why my dog cannot hear me call her to come in from the garden but can hear a crisp packet being opened when she’s in the other side of the house.

It’s the smell.

menopausalmare · 05/03/2024 21:49

Why our house has six toothbrushes on the go but only four people live in our house. It's been like this for years.

HoneyWogan · 05/03/2024 21:50

I'd also love to know why some people go out driving at night without any head or tail lights on at all. Not just one of the bulbs gone, maybe, but all four of them switched off - and the car is only visible to those behind it when they slow down and the brake lights come on.

I'm not even talking about the irritating and irresponsible people who refuse to ever use headlights in the daytime, however atrocious the weather and however poor the visibility; but when it's actually properly night-time.

No matter how many other drivers repeatedly flash them, they still proceed oblivious. Do they not even notice that they can't see anything on their dashboard as some kind of a bonus clue?

RedRedCabbage · 05/03/2024 21:52

My mum lives in a care home. She is pretty much immobile. There is a kitchen area in the corner of her room and we keep a small amount of crockery and cutlery in there for takeaways, cake etc. when we visit. In theory no one but family would take cutlery and plates out of there, as when the carers bring food to my mum it comes on a plate, with knife and fork supplied.

But gradually her plates disappear, never to be seen again. The teaspoons disappear. The forks disappear - I bought a few more at Christmas, all gone now! But the knives, the knives are multiplying like rabbits, I think she must have 627 knives.

I swear, next time I buy forks I will prise up the floorboards and hide them underneath.

TeabySea · 05/03/2024 21:54

Several:

  1. What happened to the emerald & cubic zirconia ring I used to own when we lived in our flat (about 20 years ago).
  2. Where my unicorn sock went? I wore the pair once, washed them and one disappeared.
  3. Family history stuff - where a few people are in the 1911 census. Two different families, in different areas seem to be unrecorded. They were definitely in the UK so I can only suppose they're either so woefully mistranscribed that I can't find them, or that the pages they were on are missing.
feelingalittlehorse · 05/03/2024 21:54

Why are plain Wagon Wheels in a red packet, and jam ones in a blue packet?

Jam is red. Surely having a red packet would indicate ‘contains jam’.

dodobookends · 05/03/2024 21:57

SirQuintusAurelius · 05/03/2024 20:15

@Rosestulips Rosestulips · Today 17:07

Why does my sleeve or belt only get caught on the door handle when I’m already annoyed?!

I can solve this for you. It's because you are in temper you are moving faster (huffy stomping!) and you also aren't paying attention because you are focused on your problem so you are more likely to catch something because you are huffy stomping and carelessly distracted.

This also explains the stubbed toe mystery.

HoneyWogan · 05/03/2024 21:58

feelingalittlehorse · 05/03/2024 21:54

Why are plain Wagon Wheels in a red packet, and jam ones in a blue packet?

Jam is red. Surely having a red packet would indicate ‘contains jam’.

Maybe it was the same as with those little Soreen malt loaf snacks. Their standard colour was/is yellow, but then they later introduced a new banana flavour variety - however, as they'd already established yellow as the colour for the original one, they had to use orange for the packs of the banana ones.

RedRedCabbage · 05/03/2024 21:58

RedRedCabbage · 05/03/2024 21:52

My mum lives in a care home. She is pretty much immobile. There is a kitchen area in the corner of her room and we keep a small amount of crockery and cutlery in there for takeaways, cake etc. when we visit. In theory no one but family would take cutlery and plates out of there, as when the carers bring food to my mum it comes on a plate, with knife and fork supplied.

But gradually her plates disappear, never to be seen again. The teaspoons disappear. The forks disappear - I bought a few more at Christmas, all gone now! But the knives, the knives are multiplying like rabbits, I think she must have 627 knives.

I swear, next time I buy forks I will prise up the floorboards and hide them underneath.

@Sharontheodopolodous But now we have 8 knives,8 spoons,8 teaspoons and 1000 forks

So it was you, you pinched my mum's forks! Grin

Damnedidont · 05/03/2024 22:00

Who was DBCooper? And that bloke whose name I forget who vanished from his private plane though there was no way he could have. What happened?

Alltheyearround · 05/03/2024 22:01

TeabySea · 05/03/2024 21:54

Several:

  1. What happened to the emerald & cubic zirconia ring I used to own when we lived in our flat (about 20 years ago).
  2. Where my unicorn sock went? I wore the pair once, washed them and one disappeared.
  3. Family history stuff - where a few people are in the 1911 census. Two different families, in different areas seem to be unrecorded. They were definitely in the UK so I can only suppose they're either so woefully mistranscribed that I can't find them, or that the pages they were on are missing.

Read that as 'manscribed', oh I though a new version of mansplaining....

I need to go to bed.

silverbirches · 05/03/2024 22:08

Why do I keep finding dd's socks in my laundry when she moved out 7 months ago?

Tlolljs · 05/03/2024 22:09

Where’s my left boot? Lovely soft leather ankle boots years old. Worn them out before Christmas and the left one has vanished.
How did I get home with only one boot on? Or my house has been broken into and that’s all they took.

Purplebunnie · 05/03/2024 22:16

Lincslady53 · 05/03/2024 17:23

I reckon Henry Tudor was behind the killing, and the subsequent cover up.

Definitely Henry Tudor - he legitimised their sister so he could marry her. The Princes when legitimised had the better claim to the throne he'd just grabbed

PeppermintParty · 05/03/2024 22:16

Those of you with missing spoons/forks, knives, if you have a compost bin, they will probably be in there. I've found several in my compost.

Alltheyearround · 05/03/2024 22:18

PeppermintParty · 05/03/2024 22:16

Those of you with missing spoons/forks, knives, if you have a compost bin, they will probably be in there. I've found several in my compost.

Too right. Vegetable peelers are always in danger of heading off hidden in carrot peel... Have rescued more than one.