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JessM Fri 01-Feb-13 21:06:33

Not known for being ms well co-ordinated and focussed when it comes to practical tasks. Last time I was staying with DS I managed to melt a plastic kettle all over his plug-in hotplates and ruin 2 things.
This morning he opened the freezer compartment to extract his new shoe. Put there in the interests of removing chewing gum. (how anyone gets chewing gum on the top of a shoe I don't know. But it was London's fault. The city.).
Fails to get drawer open wide enough, pulls shoe too hard, drawer hits the deck along with ice cubes, frozen peas etc. Cracked drawer.
Who I wonder does he take after...
It it just me that finds this kind of nature repeating itself scenario entertaining?

annodomini Sun 03-Feb-13 16:04:25

Don't even keep such things in my drawers, jeni. grin

jeni Sun 03-Feb-13 15:56:24

Do you mean thongs?

annodomini Sun 03-Feb-13 15:10:02

I think most of my drawers are 'bit' drawers. Oh dear!

kittylester Sun 03-Feb-13 14:14:28

Ella our bit drawer is called, ominously, 'The Drawer' accompanied by ghostly type music. grin

annodomini Sat 02-Feb-13 19:02:51

Tegan, probably in the car. It's surprising what ends up in there. shock

jeni Sat 02-Feb-13 18:36:40

Yes it's called 'my house!"

Ella46 Sat 02-Feb-13 17:41:34

Don't you all have a 'bit' drawer where everything that doesn't have a home
goes?

It will be full of retractable tape measures at the moment! grin

jeni Sat 02-Feb-13 17:32:47

Or should it be sofa or chaise lounge?

Tegan Sat 02-Feb-13 17:32:46

In the car?

jeni Sat 02-Feb-13 17:32:17

Under the settee then?

annodomini Sat 02-Feb-13 17:27:49

My kitchen's too small to have the luxury of a veg cupboard, jeni.

JessM Sat 02-Feb-13 16:44:13

There is also the thing of "person I know who is most likely to be spotted in transit lounge or other location doing some oriental breathing exercise" Me. Him.
He's off home again tomorrow.

jeni Sat 02-Feb-13 14:25:24

In the vegetable cupboard?

annodomini Sat 02-Feb-13 14:15:40

Barrow I have, at the last count, three retractable tape measures. Any suggestions as to where I might have put them? grin

AlieOxon Sat 02-Feb-13 13:54:52

hah.

jeni Sat 02-Feb-13 13:00:00

Butterflies in South America?

Grannyknot Sat 02-Feb-13 12:51:02

barrow and jeni what darling husbands you had.

This thread made me LOL too. I'm a bit scatty and husband is ruthlessly efficient and has 'a place for everything and everything etc.' so from time to time I get a lecture. But I just tell him I subscribe to chaos theory - and there's order in my chaos. Or I wait until he walks away and then pull a face behind his back. [childish emoticon]. Makes me feel better.

jeni Sat 02-Feb-13 12:46:03

I've bought two moresmile
And I can't find them either? hmm

AlieOxon Sat 02-Feb-13 12:43:02

MY tape lives on the kitchen shelf....only sometimes it doesn't....

jeni Sat 02-Feb-13 11:46:30

Barrowmine did the same! And I've lost my tape as well!
What are we like?grin

kittylester Sat 02-Feb-13 11:36:55

Barrow that's lovely. I bet he's laughing at the fact you don't know where you've put it. smile

Movedalot Sat 02-Feb-13 11:18:56

Are you all related to my DH? grin Tegan might be, they come from the same place.

Tegan Sat 02-Feb-13 10:55:00

Oh Barrow that's so sweet and thoughtful smile.

Barrow Sat 02-Feb-13 10:18:25

Before my DH died he put together a drawer full of things he though I might need, amongst them was a large retractable tape measure. I needed it the other day and it is not there - I must have put it down somewhere but I can't for the life of me remember where!

AlieOxon Sat 02-Feb-13 10:15:21

Trying to tidy my house at the moment and have realised that the majority of the things that are untidy are the things I haven't put back.....
...or never found a place for in the first place.....

I try to put things where I last looked for them

Where have I put my best glasses? Wearing my computer ones but the others have hidden since yesterday!