Active discussions

Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

Set a reminder

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Parenting

For free parenting resources please check out the Early Years Alliance's Family Corner.

Original poster

My vacant moments.....

82 replies

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!

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
Set a reminder
Loobz · 27/12/2004 22:53

I've just realised how daft that last message sounded! Freudian slip perhaps - my window cleaner is quite nice looking. Good thing it was the type of window cleaner that comes in bottles otherwise think Dh might have had something to say. Then again maybe not - he knows I'm completely loopy!!!
One or two of my bosses one's are quite good. He reversed into my car which was only a week old - but when asked how he managed to hit my car he confessed to reading a report while trying to reverse.
He was also so intent on watching a car in his rear view mirror which was going the wrong way up a one way street that he drove into the back of another car.

SPARKLER1clausiscomingtotown · 27/12/2004 23:36

Colditz !!!!!!!!
Loobz you weren't being daft - I just found it amusing!!

HappyNewCardigan · 27/12/2004 23:40

GG - I've done the pushchair one as well!!

Interested in this thread?

Then you might like threads about this subject:

General parenting
sallyhollyberry · 28/12/2004 00:24

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

SPARKLER1clausiscomingtotown · 28/12/2004 00:30

He he! OMG. They had an expensive shopping bill then!!!

Cinderellascarrieg · 28/12/2004 00:40

I think the odd shoes thing is compulsory!

Went back to work (teaching) last January & announced my pregnancy (had just passed the 3 month point & some kind soul had commented on how much weight I'd put on over Xmas...)

'Oh well you see ACTUALLY I'm pregnant...& oh &^%$ I'm wearing odd boots, wondered why I was limping this morning...'

Colleagues spent at least a week speaking VERY SLOWLY & CLEARLY to me on the basis that my hormones had clearly hijacked my brain

mishmish · 28/12/2004 00:48

I was cursing at my white sauce for not thickening last week, tipping in more & more cornflour...but it was icing sugar! Also, postie had to knock & tell me I'd left my keys in the front door AGAIN. In a hurry one day and wondering why DS was walking strangely - I had put his shoes on the wrong feet, poor little man! There's no hope.

Loobz · 28/12/2004 10:34

Sparkler, I found it amusing too when I read it again - kept sitting giggling to myself as I thought of my window cleaner sitting inside my fridge. Needles to say Dd is now convinced that I need locked up somewhere for my own protection
Keep telling her she'll be like this one day too. Try to convince the family and myself that I was normal before I had children but Dh does not buy into that one - Huh, so much for loyalty

SPARKLER1clausiscomingtotown · 28/12/2004 18:37

it's making me giggle too!!

PocketTinsel · 29/12/2004 01:15

lol, these are all classics and make me feel SOOO glad that i am not alone!
I have walked out of the house taking on the cordless house phone before.. Got to the gate before wondering why i was loosing a signal! Dh has found the cordless ringing from my handbag loads of times now, and now looks there first when it rings . I've tried the car key in the car door for a good two minutes before realising that it wasn't our car!! Not even the same model! Been tidying up and making a quick lunch for myself at the same time before... Was poised with hot water hovering over an open tub of sudo cream before going to the medicine cabinet to retrive my pot noodle!

But the best on was soon after having ds, I was waiting for a friend to pick me up. The car stopped in front of of me and i jumped in, anouncing that it was bloody cold and i was "freezing my nipples off!" . Only for the strange guy in the driver seat to look up and say "Errr, Can i help you, love?" !!!!!!!!!. Needless to say i got out of the car very fast, appologising to the bloke over and over, only to see my friend pull up behind him, looking more than a bit confused to see me getting out of a strange mans car!!! (That took some explaining i can tell you!)

bambi06 · 29/12/2004 15:30

ive taken my daughter to the wrong playgroup! AND my poor mom was with me and didnt say a word even when my DD asked why she was coming here today !!! and there are numerous ones that i simply cant remember but im sure my dh wouldnt kindly remember if i dare ask him!!

SPARKLER1clausiscomingtotown · 29/12/2004 15:32

PMSL pockettinsel

fuzzywuzzy · 29/12/2004 15:43

I've unpacked groceries and merrily put cleaning fluid in the fridge and then wonder why we didn't have any and why the milk was in the cupboard under the sink.
Walked out the house semi-dressed, ie no bra and wonder why everything is so errr jiggly???
But the worse was a few weeks after having dd2. dp found me close to tears, when asked what the matter was I informed him I'd lost my glasses and these are my absoloute last pair as dd1 has broken two others.. dp looked at me thoughtfully realised that I was NOT taking the pee and said 'Your wearing them'..... And to think I spent all that time going to dd1 where did you put mummy's glasses ????

Fimbo · 29/12/2004 15:46

Got up earlier than usual, made sure DS uniform was clean and tidy, spent ages doing her hair into two french plaits, cleaned her shoes, arrived at school early as advised for school year photograph. Wondered why we were the only ones in the school playground at 8.30 in the morning - only for my friend to tell me - its next week not today. Of course on the real day, we got up late, her hair was a mess and she had lost her 2 front teeth !!!! DOH!

Fimbo · 29/12/2004 15:48

See I am even having one now - that should have said DD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THEnorthstar · 29/12/2004 15:58

yes yes yes to so many of these.
(remote control found in biscuit tin EVENTUALLY)

Trying to manouvre car out of really tight parking space and cursing the object blocking my view before realising it was my handbag on the bonnet.

Hushing ds every time he said "but mummy" and hurrying him out the door not realising that he had NO SHOES ON until we were in town - luckily we had the buggy (which replaced the one i reversed over after leaving it behind the car in the driveway ready to put in boot)

Now, at 5mths pg, keep un-doing my trouser buttons while driving then forgetting and walking into places with my trousers undone and feeling SO SO slim because my trousers aren't even tight.

Bet you're all glad you're not me!

sallyhollyberry · 29/12/2004 16:07

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

BethAndHerBrood · 29/12/2004 23:09

I put the kettle on to have a cup of coffee after i'd mopped the kitchen floor. Put coffee and milk in cup, mopped the floor. It wasn't until i was tipping the "dirty water" down the drain i noticed. I'd mopped the floor with......milk!!!! Oh Dear.

Loobz · 30/12/2004 09:17

Am begining to agree with Dd that I maybe need locked up!!! Went out to feed rabbit yesterday and she always jumps out of cage when I open door. Yesterday I put the food in the bowl then put the container in the hutch and closed the door leaving the rabbit running around the garden. Never noticed either - was only when Ds asked me why I had left the rabbit out.
I am so glad I found this thread though - I used to think it was only me who did crazy things - does this mean i'm really normal

Carla · 30/12/2004 09:23

Mum gave me £500 for my birthday a couple of years ago ... could I find it? Eventually found it in the salad crisper

shalom · 30/12/2004 11:58

went to drop my dd at nursery and walking to the car the nursery nurse asked me if i had forgotten something. i said no and thinking what on earth is she talking about only to remember that my 6 week old son was with another nursery nurtse and all the children were gathered around him cooing and aahing.

foxinsocks · 30/12/2004 12:31

We all went out as a family the other day and I made dd and ds do a wee before we left - they both said 'but mum, we don't need a wee' and I said, in a huff, 'yes, but you need to try and I'm not stopping the car once we've started'. Then absentmindedly, I looked at dh and said in a cross voice 'well, what about you - have you gone and done your wee wee yet?'

he's now convinced I'm losing my mind!

JaysMumWantsaSilentNight · 31/12/2004 01:21

HEE HEE HEE and I thought I was the only one!!!!!
Having a very restless night with ds2...whilst he is sitting watching Garfield AGAIN...I am tittering to myself reading these posts!!!!

Walked out of the toilet cubilcle in the local shopping centre the other day....told the lady going into the loo after me...."Dont forget...wash your hands."

mishiclaus · 31/12/2004 08:25

pmsl these have had me giggling

my vacant moment s are

trying to answer cordless phone through tv remote

driving car and wondering why my windscreen was so dirty despite using wipers..only to remember i actually wear glasses.

Leaving keys in door...all the time

when ds was about 3 weeks old i completely forgot we had him and dh and i parked car got out and walked away, it was only cos i thought i had left my coat we went back to see ds asleep in car seat...whoops

i have given ds a dpg treat and the dog ds biscuit..neither complained..loool

Original poster
Donbean · 31/12/2004 11:38

My friend told me last night that she once went to the petrol station 2 miniutes from her house as she needed milk and to fill up with petrol. She got her petrol, went to pay and get her milk then walked home. Her DH asked where the car was and she remembered she had left it.
She also went to do some shopping in the village, parked up, did her shopping then walked home complaining and groaning that the shopping was heavy, only remembered when she got home and saw that her car wasnt outside the house!

OP posts: