How embarrassing!

[onthepier]

My MIL called in for a coffee the other day, sat down to sort out some money she owed me and managed to drop a coin down the side of sofa cushion. She slid her hand down to retrieve it and her hand came out covered in all this black dust! She said (half jokingly), OMG how often do you clean down there?

After she went I took cushions off sofa and was horrified to find dust, a small plastic toys, loose change and a few screwed up tissues! I've now given it all a good hoover with nozzle and put cushions back on sofa. How does all that muck get under there? I do hoover/clean regularly but don't think about UNDER the sofa cushions. Anyway, all lovely and clean now

Sympathies!

My friends visited and their DS lost his shoe, we thought it was behind the sofa so we raided it and OMG! Awful.

The worst part is, it wasn't even there, it was in a much less disgusting part of the room!

Oh thats just reminded me of the time DPs aunt dropped by with DPs cousins baby. She was 2 at the time and wanted to sit at DD1s art desk to draw a picture. Its one of those bright ones with the two benches and the holder for pens. I sat her down and as we were chatting she pulled a mouldy peice of bread out of the pen holder and handed it to DPs aunt!!

I do wipe the table all the time but never thought to take the pen holders out. DD must of hid a sandwich in there She looked horrified at first but then i laughed it off and said 'omg shes always hiding stuff i must of missed that one'

I dread to think what shes been telling the rest of the family

These are funny! Another one springs to mind - Years ago my friend brought her two yr old dd round and I'm not joking, she was into EVERYTHING! She came running into the living room where we were chatting, brandising the toilet brush from downstairs loo covered in, you've guessed it, FRAGMENTS OF POO!

My friend shrieked, I took the brush off her and secretly put it in wheelie bin outside, remembering to my shame that one of our small children had had diarrhoea a few days before. My dh told me at the time that he'd dealt with it and given the toilet a good clean Oh I felt so ashamed, I hate loo brushes!!