Can you beat my colleague's mistake?

[yaela123]

I work in a school and we were doing a cake decorating activity this afternoon, so at lunchtime I sent a colleague to the local shops to but some icing, decorations, etc.

On the list was sprinkles. (aka 100s and 1000s)

He comes back with... a sprinkler!

Yes, one of those things for watering the garden.

He said he was a bit confused, but could he really be that dim?

In his defence, there is a small garden. but everything else on the list was icing, chocolate chips, etc. And we don't send out the teachers to buy gardening equipment!

What silly mistakes like this have people around you (or even better you yourself!) made?

Many moons ago my parents bought a new build house which included a house alarm and attached personal alarm button in the master suite.

Except the builders (who to be fair had built 100 house of 4 designs but 8 because they could all be mirrored) put the personal alarm in the second bedroom. Which, of course, is the room you'd put both your five year old and toddler on the first night you move in.

Which is how to meet all your new neighbours, at midnight, after hours of moving.

Eek, some of these are hilarious

Spent a night in a pub trying to calm down a friend of friend who had just realised he'd lost the company he worked for 1.5 million pounds... not surprisingly he wasn't very easy to calm! I seem to remember him trying to work out how many years it would take him to repay it assuming they let him basic cost of living and nothing else... it was many, many years!

Completely shockingly he didn't lose his job over it... he must have been bloody brilliant at his job when not moving decimal points in spread sheets.

My mum used to work in hospital labs back in the 50s - one of her jobs was to look after and provide equipment needed on the wards.

When new hospital porters started working there the nurses would sometimes play silly tricks on them - mum often had young male porters turning up asking for a set of Fallopian tubes.

I've just taken delivery of 6000 disposable gloves
My colleague ordered 6 lots
She thought we would get 600
We are not going to have to order anymore for years now

I used to work as a followspot operator in a theatre. It was several nights into the run of a show and I was familiar with my cues etc so was on 'cans' bantering with colleagues. Got ready to open up my spotlight on the star of the show on a blacked out stage and realised I hadn't turned my spotlight on, so the star was singing in pitch blackness until my spot warmed up! I