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Lighthearted...what daft thing have you done lately?

230 replies

LushLemonTart · 23/01/2026 12:26

Make me feel better.

I took a photo to upload on an app as needed it for an agency (extra job) . Luckily I noticed the tag at the front as had my jumper on inside out 🤣🙈 It's health care. They'd be signing me up for a carer!

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HereComesAuntySocial · 28/01/2026 08:24

I hadn’t see the cat all day and was going out till late, I hadn’t fed him since the afternoon before so I wanted to feed him and get him in for the night.

I went out looking for him and found him, he’d wandered much further than usual so I picked him up and brought him home and fed him in the kitchen and went straight out.

I had a few drinks when I was out and was a bit tipsy, I got home and fed the cat again and left him in the kitchen eating then got into bed where the cat was fast asleep.

I was just falling asleep when I sat up confused as to how the cat was asleep on the bed when I’d left him eating in the kitchen!
I woke DP who had got home after I’d gone out then gone to bed, he said he’d fed the cat that morning and saw him go under the bed so I’d obviously gone out whilst he was inside asleep to look for him and catnapped someone else’s pet.

We later found out it was the neighbours son’s cat who was frantic for his furry friend.
In my defence both cars are black and both called Salem so neighbours cat answered when I called him. 😂

Starlight1979 · 28/01/2026 09:10

ConnieHeart · 27/01/2026 21:22

I've told this story before but I do think it's a classic

I had to accompany a gentleman with learning difficulties to a meeting with his bank, for work. The bank clerk took us into a room, there was only 1 spare chair so I let him sit there & the bank clerk pointed to a fold up chair fixed to the wall for me. I pulled it out & sat on it. After about 10 mins the bank clerk looked over at me and said "I thought you were a bit high up. You're supposed to take the chair off the wall before you sit on it!" 🤣

Hahahahahaha!!!!!!!!! This is absolutely brilliant 😂

Barleybumpsadaisy · 28/01/2026 09:11

ConnieHeart · 27/01/2026 21:22

I've told this story before but I do think it's a classic

I had to accompany a gentleman with learning difficulties to a meeting with his bank, for work. The bank clerk took us into a room, there was only 1 spare chair so I let him sit there & the bank clerk pointed to a fold up chair fixed to the wall for me. I pulled it out & sat on it. After about 10 mins the bank clerk looked over at me and said "I thought you were a bit high up. You're supposed to take the chair off the wall before you sit on it!" 🤣

Thanks for posting, that’s utterly hilarious 😂😂😂

Barleybumpsadaisy · 28/01/2026 09:17

Dontlletmedownbruce · 27/01/2026 23:17

I remember a post here about a funeral where a poor mourner was supposed to throw flowers on the coffin as it went down but accidentally threw her handbag in. I presume there was a fuss retrieving it. I know it's awful but it makes me laugh and i have thought of it during funerals, I'm ashamed to say.

I love that image, thanks for sharing 😂😂😂

Starlight1979 · 28/01/2026 09:19

Dontlletmedownbruce · 27/01/2026 23:17

I remember a post here about a funeral where a poor mourner was supposed to throw flowers on the coffin as it went down but accidentally threw her handbag in. I presume there was a fuss retrieving it. I know it's awful but it makes me laugh and i have thought of it during funerals, I'm ashamed to say.

No I would find that very funny too!

Not me but DH... DM was in a hospice when she died in the middle of the night. Me and DH had been there with her and other family were on their way to say goodbye. It was the middle of summer and the room she was in was stifling hot so DH decided to open the patio-type door to let some air in. Next thing all the alarms in the hospice were going off and the nursing staff were running into my mums room. Turns out it was the emergency fire door 😂

Not the peaceful goodbye we envisaged but it was a very funny moment at a very sad time which we still laugh about now. My mum would have found it hilarious too 😊

Disturbia81 · 28/01/2026 09:32

Love a good brain fart!

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 28/01/2026 09:43

Boiling up a chicken carcass with assorted veg bits for stock - and then after a good hour of gas energy use, draining it by setting the colander over the sink….
😩

Navybluecoat · 28/01/2026 10:06

NotVWoolf · 27/01/2026 17:08

My husband was picking me up in his car and didn’t want to wait/pay for parking so I saw the cream mini, jumped in and had fastened the seatbelt before I noticed the very surprised driver, who wasn’t my husband!

My mother did this but with a motorbike

My father was riding it and she was on the back

They stopped right outside a corner shop and she got off and ran in

While she was in there,my father moved the bike a few metres up so another bloke on a bike could pull in safely (both bikes where very similar in colour but different makes)

My mother came running out of the shop,jumped on the bike,leaned forward and said 'move!you old bastard!'

(Married a long time and this is how they speak to each other)

The poor bloke in his 20's just turned to look at her and gave them both a fright

My father,who was looking from his space a few meters down was pissing himself laughing (and got into a lot of trouble!)

I could write a book on their antics

thebeautifulsky · 28/01/2026 10:10

Making beans on toast for my DGS and a cuppa for me and DH. Beans in teapot, loose leaf tea in pan!

thebeautifulsky · 28/01/2026 10:15

Oh and this one….
Facetimed my DH whilst he was at work in Italy
He answered quickly. Me, “good morning tufty head. Has the hair fairy been?”
I could hear lots of laughter. DH turned camera round and room was full! DH was CEO at the time and never lived it down!
No idea why he answered my call when in a meeting!

thebeautifulsky · 28/01/2026 10:19

How many posts on this are we allowed? Sitting here chuckling to myself as everything floods back
Another DH one. He asked me to trim the back of his hair before work. He usually has a number 5. Accidentally scalped him with a number 2. I didn’t own up until he got home.

LuckyShark · 28/01/2026 10:20

I was very into bleaching my own hair a few years ago.

A had a blank once when doing my roots and then massaged the fixture through the rest of it, didn't even realise until I washed it out and it was like chewing gum and dryed like a halo of fluff.

Luckily it was already short and most of it stayed on my head. Managed to style it ok and thought id got away with it.

Went swimming a few days later and came up from diving in to see massive clumps of my hair bobbing away from me.

Straight to the hairdressers for a no 1.

PAY CLOSE ATTENTION WITH BLEACH!!!

LushLemonTart · 28/01/2026 10:54

u3ername · 28/01/2026 07:41

I went to make myself coffee, came to lounge and sat to have a sip, to realise I haven’t made the coffee - just prepped the machine and the cup… A bit worrying as I’m catching myself doing daft things like that recently - things disappearing and me not sure if I’ve completed the task. Is it peri??

I love the thread though.

Could be peri? Have a word with the GP if it's worrying you. How old are you?

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LushLemonTart · 28/01/2026 11:00

thebeautifulsky · 28/01/2026 10:19

How many posts on this are we allowed? Sitting here chuckling to myself as everything floods back
Another DH one. He asked me to trim the back of his hair before work. He usually has a number 5. Accidentally scalped him with a number 2. I didn’t own up until he got home.

I was a hairdresser for years. One woman I worked with was doing this man's hair and the guard came off and she gave him a zero up the back but high up. He was having a number 4 on top. She had to take it all off. He'd just come out of prison 😲 Luckily he was ok. Worst thing is she charged him!

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rebeccachoc · 28/01/2026 11:01

LushLemonTart · 28/01/2026 10:54

Could be peri? Have a word with the GP if it's worrying you. How old are you?

I second peri, I got diagnosed after forgetting I'd ordered a piece of furniture and then going to order it again, leaving the gas on the hob and my room dance as I call it. Going upstairs for medication, leaving my phone, going back to get my phone, leaving my drink, going back for a 3rd time to get my drink then leaving the medication I went for in the first place etc. It's slow, embarrassing torture!

ACIGC · 28/01/2026 11:13

Newbuildtooldbuild · 27/01/2026 07:25

Clicking the button of my car key to try and open the front door to my house 🤦‍♀️
I’ve done this many times

I was going to post the exact same thing! You’re defo not alone.

AussieManque · 28/01/2026 11:13

Stopped at supermarket for a few things. Had trouble at the self checkout, needed assistance twice before payment finally went through. Took the receipt, got home, realised my purchased goods were still at the supermarket, argh!

Safxxx · 28/01/2026 11:24

properidiot · 27/01/2026 15:44

NC for this - when you read it, you'll understand why ...

It was a really icy morning and my car was frozen. It was on my driveway along with DH's car. I thought I would just back up my car a little on the drive so I could keep an eye on it from the kitchen while it defrosted. I'll just move it back a metre I thought to myself. The windows were totally frosted over and I couldn't see a thing but I just thought, it'll be fine I know how far a metre is.

Reversed, heard beeps and a crash. Panicked, went forward and another crash.

Turns out I don't know how far a metre is when I'm essentially driving blind. And it is incredibly disorientating driving when you can't see out the windows - who knew?!! I crashed into DHs car first (caused a big dent in his drivers door) and then crashed into the front of my house (big brick scratches on the front of my car and damaged the front wing) and left a mark on the house wall.

I then had to go and wake DH up to tell him the news ...

OMG 😳 I can't imagine the trauma your DH woke up to...and the shock you would've been in 🥹

ThePrecisionsifthisislove · 28/01/2026 11:53

ACIGC · 28/01/2026 11:13

I was going to post the exact same thing! You’re defo not alone.

Done similar with a swipe pass was so used to swiping at work every time I encountered a door.

ACIGC · 28/01/2026 11:57

I have had a daft thing done to me. We went to look around a Cattery and when we were looking in the enclosure that DCats would be put in, the lady went back to the office to print off forms and everything… and locked us in the pen.

We stood there ages waiting for her to realise. In the end she came to put someone else’s cat into a nearby pen and we had to shout to be let out.

HelloSkeletonFace3 · 28/01/2026 12:13

Cracking thread. Hello my people!

I have walked around the house talking on my phone whilst LOOKING for my phone (which is, y'know, pressed up against my ear). This has happened multiple times....

Devilsmommy · 28/01/2026 13:40

HelloSkeletonFace3 · 28/01/2026 12:13

Cracking thread. Hello my people!

I have walked around the house talking on my phone whilst LOOKING for my phone (which is, y'know, pressed up against my ear). This has happened multiple times....

I posted this exact thing at the start of the thread. The absolute panic that you can't find your phone whilst talking on the thing is ridiculous 😂 and I've done it so many times it's not even funny🤣

Conniebygaslight · 28/01/2026 13:40

Barleybumpsadaisy · 27/01/2026 17:38

Not me, DH. He put two hard boiled eggs in the microwave because he thought they needed more cooking. He booked a hotel at Heathrow, we were flying from Gatwick. He washed the washing machine gel tablets because he thought they were a bit sticky. Bless him, he died very unexpectedly last year. I miss him so much. He was a highly gifted intelligent man, but daft with it.

He reminds me of my DH...so terribly sorry for your loss 😪

ChewedEar · 28/01/2026 13:57

I knackered my calf muscle at the gym the other day.

This morning, I rubbed on deep heat. Got distracted and forgot to wash my hands.

When I was getting dressed I dropped my knickers. Picked them up gusset first with my Deep Heat hands.

I was half way to the train station before the fire started to spread over my flappage. My minge has been on fire all morning.

ElsieMc · 28/01/2026 14:03

Thought there was a large black feather inside my sealed wholemeal loaf. I was disgusted until an elderly lady pointed out it was a print on the packaging. Just as well I didnt complain.