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

56 replies

Blandmum · 22/08/2006 16:21

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?

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muma3 · 22/08/2006 20:41

call my hand blender billy

SecurMummy · 22/08/2006 20:44

muma3 - pmsl - that is what ds calls his Ahem!

Cam · 22/08/2006 20:52

Had a totally blue room when I was a student in honour of the film Blue where the girl rollerskates around and the bath is in the middle of the floor and he makes shows us how to make sandwiches with french baguettes - please someone remember this and tell me I'm only a little bit mad.

Also spent a long time waving madly at my brother and calling his name out very loudly who was waiting to cross the road at a majorly busy junction in Swindon - he completely ignored me and when he finally got across I realised it wasn't my brother but a complete stranger who looked at me like I was a Class A nutter

poopy · 22/08/2006 20:54

PMSL ...
When DD was a week old we took my parents out for lunch (it was their last day with us). As we were leaving the waitresses cooed over the baby and told me how beautiful she was. Then one of them asked me what her name was. I opened my mouth to reply but went completely blank ... I just looked at her and said, "I am sorry but I can't remember". My mum answered the question and bundled me out of there pissing herself laughing

aaronsmummy · 22/08/2006 20:58

Stayed married to dh for so long lol.

thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat · 22/08/2006 21:39

chloe - that's priceless.

HowVeryDareYou · 22/08/2006 21:46

As a student - phoned the Samaritans to ask advice on cooking boiled eggs - well the posters did say they would talk about anything

morningpaper · 22/08/2006 21:48

MartianBishop your story is really funny

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Blandmum · 23/08/2006 07:39

It was funny because I was showing off! I had never had so much money in my life and I was being swanky. I am obviously not born to such things

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ggglimpopo · 23/08/2006 08:13

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hockeymum · 23/08/2006 08:18
  • totally forgot my name, my hubby to be's name and where I was going on honeymoon when I went to pick up the tickets to said honeymoon from the travel agent.

  • signed me maiden name when I was pregnant and shopping, 8 1/2 years after said marriage!

  • last sunday went out with dh, dd and ds and left the front door not only unlocked but wide open! (we left out of the back). Our neighbour was very proud of himself keeping an eye on the property, made his day!

lolliepops · 23/08/2006 08:18

on my first day at work when i was a 17 my manager walked past me and a collegue bent down and picked up something off the ground held it right up in the air and said has anyone lost a shoulder pad! to my shock it was acsually the padding out of my bra i went so red and scurried off to the toilet dening all knowledge, i still cringe now at the fact she put it on top of her computer incase it was anyones!

kittywits · 23/08/2006 08:39

Becoming pregnant with my 6th when my eldest has only just turned 8. Actually, I think I agree with them!!

ggglimpopo · 23/08/2006 08:46

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Medea · 23/08/2006 08:54

Once in the university dormitories I didn't have my contact lenses in and I offered someone a light for her cigarette that had been dangling, unlit, in her mouth for several minutes. But then she informed me that it wasn't a cigarette in her mouth but a pen. . .

And then another onebut I've told this story on mumsnet beforewould be the time I turned up for an interview at a swank PR firm in NYC having forgotten to put on a skirt. So alll I was wearing was a shirt and jacket, both just long enough to cover my bum. Didn't get THAT job!

thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat · 23/08/2006 09:27

pmsl medea - that's the kind of thing I dream about doing the night before the interview. haven't seen you around much recently - are you coming to the big meet up in November?

kittywits · 23/08/2006 09:49

ggg I'm due in march, God help me

ggglimpopo · 23/08/2006 09:50

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fullmoonfiend · 23/08/2006 10:04

Apart from regularly tying my hair back with knickers (or my son's undies) for a shower then forgetting to take them out, which has been discussed on here before...

I regularly do that ''mad waving and enthusiastic and loud greetings to a friend in town, only to realise they are not the person I thought...

I have been caught by my MIL dancing round the front room naked, to Madonna, with a hairbrush for microphone (I'm not sure who was most embarassed!)

Astrophe · 23/08/2006 10:25

this thread has me pmsl!!!
when i was doing a gap year at a posh boarding school in the uk i popped outside into the corridor to use the pay phone wearing only my undies. Of course the door slammed behind me. Only the caretaker had a spare key but he lived on the other side of the playing fields...,so had to break the door open by flinging naked body against it. Thank goodness the door wasn't well made.

LaDiDaDi · 23/08/2006 11:09

I went to Barcelona with 5 friends and we visited the big Gaudi cathedral, Santa de Familia I think. We all decided to climb to the top. I hate spiral staircases and heights but somehow didn't think that the staircase would be spiral or go very high despite the obvious roundness and height of the towers. Nevertheless I persisted, getting more and more anxious the higher we got. Then really near the top you have to go outside and cross over a little bridge from one tower to another. I looked down and was overcome with fear, dropped to my hands and knees and crawled across the bridge in front of lots of gawping tourists. Friends were very amused!

thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat · 23/08/2006 13:02

don't worry ladidah - i'd have done the same.

Bucketsofdinosaurs · 23/08/2006 15:06

Ooh LaDiDaDi, I don't think anyone would know quite how they were going to behave until they got to that point! The things we do to show off

essbee · 23/08/2006 15:24

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Beetle73 · 24/08/2006 21:32

I put concealer under my eyes this morning, but the lights changed before I could spread it out. Drove 15 miles and forgot about it, then walked into the petrol station, browsed casually, lingered by the chiller cabinet and only realised that I looked like a red Indian when I was at the counter waiting to pay.