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My vacant moments.....

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Donbean · 19/12/2004 17:56

Ok, too many to list here but to start:
~Went to safeway, discovered when i got there...i had my tatty old slippers on.
~ went on a night out.....with my jumper on inside out (size 14~16 label flapping in the wind)
~tried to leave work with some one elses jacket on the other night.
These are all due to severe sleep deprivation as DS does not sleep at night.
Do you have any as they make me and friends laugh allot!

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FLOPSEYfairylightswithBUNNIES · 19/12/2004 22:30

lol, at all of these stories.

went into boots to buy nappies, choose said nappies placed them ontop of pram as cant be bothered using a basket. didnt need anything else so walked to cash desk, but some how forgot to stop and kept walking! was half way down the high street when i saw nappies still on top of pram, still not paid for!. went back in and thankfully no one noticed, they've now moved their cash desks away from doors, possibly they get alot of dozy mums walking around.

FrostyTheSurfMum · 19/12/2004 22:38

I am so glad it isn't just me that has lost it.

to all of them.

PMSL fostermum and spacedonkey.

TwasTheNightBeforeXmasOwl · 20/12/2004 05:28

i have stolen from asda got an eyeshadow from shelf and put it in my pocket to stop it slipping out between the trolley bars...yep, i walked out with it too! i also, when dd was a baby, frequently found a lovely freshly boiled kettle in the fridge. other incidents include waking up and running around the house to find my baby, fearing the worst, only to remember that the night before i went out and both my kids are at my mums!

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TwasTheNightBeforeXmasOwl · 20/12/2004 05:29

newborn baby i meant...shes still a baby! (see, it gets you all the time....)

DingWongMerrilyOnHigh · 20/12/2004 05:32

I've done the clothes inside out when you don't even have the kids with you

I went to the local pub in London to meet a friends and bumped in to a woman I know from the park who is aslo a part time Guardian colomnist and newsnight commentator. I started jabbering on about how great it was to be out without the kids and I should get out more and would she like a drink, ah c'mon now sure you will, ah c'mon. She backed away

Then when my friend did turn up she kindly told me I had my multicoloured patterned jumper on inside out and back to front.

TwasTheNightBeforeXmasOwl · 20/12/2004 05:33

oh yes...has anyone ever used the chunky calculator at work to try and ring up a supplier?

SantaQuated · 20/12/2004 08:09

yesteray i pit coffe and sugar in my cup then went to the sink and filled it with cold water

worst one was coming out of Focus car park, was struyggling to remember which side of the road to drive on hesitantly chose the right hand side more then pulled out onto the road, luckily onto the left side. that was about 12 months ago and i still thibk of what could have happened

Mandy03 · 20/12/2004 08:15

I wore a new top when I went shopping the other day and a woman came up to me and said "Excuse me, but you've still got the price tag attached to your top & it's hanging down at the back of your neck." It was one of those big cardboard ones too... how embarrassing.

What on earth happens to our brains after we have children

SilentNiteForJess · 20/12/2004 08:38

I have terrible, expensive experiences with mobile phones. The daftest was with my first contract phone last year. I found it at the bottom of the sterilising unit. It had clearly been there 4 days! The steriliser obviously gets changed daily but I must point out we don't have babies.. we sterilise a lot of other bits pieces (oral syringes, medicine pots etc) and tend to just tip out the old water and refill, and add Milton..so not as thorough as if I was doing bottles for a new born . But still had failed to notice that there was navy blue Nokia in the bottom!

Had the cleanest, most sterile phone in the UK.. but sadly it did not work. Turned out it wasn't insured either thanks to DH's little oversight

My mum, my sister and I are always doing stupid things.. will post about the funniest ones as I remember them.. .. good to know others are shot away too!

Mirage · 20/12/2004 10:11

I'm glasd its not just me!Since having dd,I have.
Tried to open the door with the car key.
Tried to change channel on the TV with the car key (its one of those buttony ones)
Drove to my mums.Got back in the car at the end of the vist & wondered where the steering wheel had gone.I was sitting in the passenger seat.
Forgotten my own telephone number.
Forgotten DH's birthday.
Frequently forgotten to brush my hair before leaving the house.
Driven off to go to the rubbish tip & found myself heading in the opposite direction.

I was absent minded before I had her & I'm even worse now.

SilentNiteForJess · 20/12/2004 10:58

LMAO @ Mirage!

Does anyone ever find themselves standing in front of their front door, pressing the button on their car keys, and vaguely wondering why the front door is not unlocking for them?! I do this often...scary really..

SantaClausfrau · 20/12/2004 19:37

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pixiefish · 20/12/2004 20:22

filled up sugar bowl, put sugar in tea and took a sip... too late... I'd filled the sugar bowl up with salt... yuck...similar storage containers

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Donbean · 21/12/2004 19:16

Yes yes yes...shopping trolley,i do it EVERY time im alone!!!!!rock rock rock......doolally!!!

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Donbean · 21/12/2004 19:25

Last night after a horrendous shift i was getting changed in the changing rooms at work. I put on my jacket, which strangely had been moved to another hanger. Put my hands in the pockets which were empty?! Very strange as standard in my pockets are:

  1. car keys...always
  2. 2 box's raisins...you never know
  3. 4 Dummies...essential
  4. 2 packets of tissues
  5. Toy cars, put there by DS in case i get bored on my breaks... Stomping out of the building thinking some one had stolen said listed items from my pockets, i decided to go back and investigate. The changing room was full of people also getting changed from the shift. I was crawling around the floor in search of pocket stuff, with every one watching me.......when i saw MY actual jacket out of the corner of my eye, hanging up where i had left it earlier. Completely different to the one i had stolen and was on my way home wearing! Could have died one thousand deaths......
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JennisaurusUnderTheMistletoe · 23/12/2004 20:01

On my way to work this morning I caught myself saying LOOK DD A BIG LORRY! I was alone in the car...I do this all the time as well

Loobz · 27/12/2004 22:16

Mine include;
Going for a hospital appointment a day early
Puting window cleaner in the fridge
Going to work with odd shoes on (not even the same colour!)
Looking for the car in a car park and eventually remembering (just before I called police to report it stolen) that it was in another car park
Taking the house phone (cordless) out instead of the mobile
Leaving my car keys in the loo at work and taking 2 hours to find them by which time I had missed a meeting that I was due to attend in another office

BUT....my best one has to be the day I nipped into a shop on the way back to work and sidled up to a guy that I thought was a colleague and said to him 'Hi gorgeous, do you come here often'.....YEP...You've guessed, was a complete stranger
No wonder my family disown me at times!

SPARKLER1clausiscomingtotown · 27/12/2004 22:25

You put the window cleaner in the fridge!!!!! - the poor man!!!

merrymarthamoo · 27/12/2004 22:28

Washing my hair in the bathroom - alone - said out loud in a cheery voice after rinsing "there now, all done!"

Put my purse in the fridge once.

Went though a stage of making a cup of coffee then throwing the teaspoon in the bin - had to buy more teaspoons in the end.

And I'm always saying "whoopsadaisy!" in public, on my own Feel like saying "sorry - I have kids, can't help it."

merrymarthamoo · 27/12/2004 22:29

I've also found myself announcing to adults - "I'm just going for a wee wee." The shame...

SPARKLER1clausiscomingtotown · 27/12/2004 22:32
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colditzcolditzcold · 27/12/2004 22:37

I remember one of my mothers.

She and I were walking into town and we came to a busy road. (bear in mind my sister is 10 years younger than me) She held out her hand and grabbed mine, chanting "now, we must never be silly on the road, must we"

I was 15!!!

colditzcolditzcold · 27/12/2004 22:42

Also, a few months ago, I was in town and couldn't find my mobile phone. I had a Mobile Phone Panic Moment (where you are convinced it's been taken off the top of your pushchair) and started to march to the local copshop.

On the way there, my phone rang. It was my partner.

My first words to him were; "My bloody phone's been nicked!!"

Fran1 · 27/12/2004 22:47

I took dd for her 6 wk check, only to be told by the nurse that she was only 5 weeks old. (blush)

Gobbledigoose · 27/12/2004 22:51

Coming out of the park once i had ds's in the double buggy - took ds1 out and strapped him in, took ds2 out and strapped him in the car. Drove off. Look back in rear view mirror to see double buggy sitting all alone on the pavement!

The other thing I've done a couple of times and not sure I should admit this - is put the baby rock-a-tot seat down on the back seat while holding ds2 hand, walk ds2 round the other side and strap him in then drive off and only realise when I get home that ds3 is not strapped in at all, just perched on the seat - at least he's strapped into the rock-a-tot!

Also done many of the daft things in the fridge thing but never gone out with the wrong shoes on or clothes inside out! Does that say something about my vanity?