What have you done that made people think you were totaly mad?

[Blandmum]

Following on from Cd's announcement to the tax woman!

We once sold a house and waited 6 months to buy another. the cash we made on the house was in the building society for a few days, and I went in to get a cheque for the deposit to give to our solicitors.

I grandlt tossed the cashier my card and said, 'I'd like a cheque for 'large sum' made out to ....' She looked at the card for a second and said

'Sorry dear, that is a Sainbury's Club Card'

She obviously thought I was totaly deranged. That will teach me to be swanky!

and you?

I cried in the delicatesan - today

(but I am very tired - and the deli man was very horrid to me!)

Needless to say I am sure that he will be far more careful about taking out his temper on slightly hormonal very very tired women out shopping with a large number of young children!

I've locked my keys in my car whilst it was running.

Twice.

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Left first born in post office when he was 3 days old....walked out thinking 'I just know there's something I've forgotten'

Yep left DD at 3 weeks old in her pram outside of the village shop, tied dog up, popped in got a few things - came out moved pram out of way to get to dog, untied dog and walked all the way home, put kettle on, let dog out the back garden, made cuppa, wandered in to sitting room, saw nappies and wet wipes and thought F*ck where's the baby??

Did all of the above in reverse - Got to shop where - luckily I know all of them - cooing over her and laughing their socks off at me

And various other things too hideous to mention here !!

I always thought the additive aspartame was pronounced a-SPART-am-ee, as in some sort of Greek Goddess of artificial sweetness. Only found out when I mentioned the word in front of some friends and they looked at me in utter bewilderment.

err...how is it pronounced

well not me but my son just put a pea up his nose, much panicking, it is out now

I once sacrificed a beanburger in the Oracle shopping centre in Reading, so that my friend and I could read its entrails and divine the fate of a work project that we were both doing. We had got ourselves into such a bizarre state of hysteria that we daredn't not do this.

I could explain how we got to such a pass that we spent our lunch hour driving to Reading to do this, but I'm not sure this would help much.

arrived at Morrisons wearing my slippers. (big fluffy jobs)
Funny thing was, i had set out to go to Tesco, dont know how or why i ended up at Morrisons in my slippers.
(hadnt slept for about 16 months by then)

buckets, that how i'd pronounce it (if i ever had call to say the word) so please do tell, how should it be pronounced...?

PMSL - aspartame - I think I like that pronunciation better....

When I was about 10 I thought "misled" was pronounced "mizzled".

I pronounce it ASS-PER-TAME

did you set up some sort of altar for your sacrifice? did you perform mystical chants?

I think I would say it AS-part-ame but I am not sure - I am wondering around the house trying out different ways to say it and they all sound odd (further evidence - if required - of my approaching locked awayedness )

I had 3 women I'd never met before sleep on my floor the day that I moved house. We were all going to last year's Christmas meet up.

I fell asleep on an underground train once whilst pg. (Well, i fell asleep lots but ykwim).

The train pulled in at Waterloo and sat there, silently for a few minutes with the door open. There was only one other person on the carriage, a man, who was sat next to me.

In my sleepy state (you never quite fall into a deep sleep I find...), i suddenly let out an involuntary "uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr" noise (almost like a growling bear noise ).

This immediately made me come to...I opened one eye, looked around and realised there was no-one around, except this man sat next to me...so I quickly pretended that it was an extended cough (yeahrite) and pretended I was still asleep........

The man sat next to me got up and moved to the next carriage !

no mystical chants, but we did kill it with a penknife before examining the entrails on a small altar made out of the polystyrene box. We were trying not to be too conspicuous...

haha vicky! brill

i once left my friend's house and got into what i thought was my cab and it was a bloke waiting for his mate next door.

When I was pg, i was in the swimming pool in centre parks with dh when all of a sudden the water fountain started up, hit me in the face and disorientated me. I jumped up onto dh and wrapped my legs round him nuzzling into his neck protecting my face from the water yelling "Ah, babe it hit me in the face, I can't see, I can't see, protect me!" When I opened my eyes I was looking over his shoulder and saw dh in the distance wetting himself at me. I had wrapped my legs round a complete random who quickly swam off when I released him

Have just looked up Aspartame on Wikipedia but can't reproduce the International Phonetic Alphabet on this board LOL. It's ASS-puh-tame or uh-SPAR-tame.

ROFL Chloe!

I'd love a deep red dining room...Wow!

I regularly leave my front door keys AND car keys in the front door
feel like such a fool - god knows what the postman thinks - although obviously very honest