What kind of idiot...?

harrigran, if that's a sign of dementia.....I didn't even stop pouring

Re the bleaching, DH has taken on the task of bleaching the bathrooms since he retired (don't ask). On bleaching day he gets straight out of bed (nothing on), grabs the bleach and gets on with it. Bless him!

Got a jar of coffee out to fill the container on the worktop and picked up the boiled kettle, realised just as I started to tip the kettle over the jar. Isn't that a sign of dementia ? knowing all the steps but doing them in the wrong order.

Snap Anya, I also have a pair of black pants with orange spots, I didn't realise that the cause was bleach, could it be caused by close contact with soap powder in an overloaded washing machine? My idiot moment was spraying my hair with a can of furniture polish.

Tries to put on mascara whilst still wearing her glasses...........

I do make up so rarely these days, note to self: Stop letting yourself go!

Galen re the chicken, smell it, if it smells ok, then it is ok!

Stopped using a sugar bowl after too many episodes of pouring tea into it!

Curry it.

What should I do with one day past use by cooked chicken? Chuck?

I bet you're frothing at the mouth Galen!!

I have sometimes put eggs on the boil and forgotten them, then wondered if fireworks were going off.
I have also put a chicken carcass on to boil for stock, settled down for the evening, then much later on smelt burning.

Just put washing liquid in my coffee mug instead of milk!
Multitasking clearing out past its sell by food out of fridge.

I polished the fireplace with ant spray as both the tins were very similar!

When we first moved into our current house DH bought a little summer house to stand in the corner of the garden. I put the keys in a "safe place". We have never been able to unlock it since. In desperation, DH broke into it, and now there is a clever way to open and close the doors.

I wonder how many of us were on GN at the time the dinner should have been put in the oven, or when whatever was smelt sticking itself to the bottom of the pan was discovered.

Charley girl I do hope so (about the home). Wouldn't we all have fun!!!!

I painted my nice new garden trellis one day last Spring, worked until dark, hurriedly ate a sandwich and washed and changed and all in a rush drove off to choir.

It was only when I sat down that I realised I had forgotten to change my work jeans - which were beautifully splattered all down the front in a pale grey-blue, under which was a few splodges of green, against the dark denim. Not a good look, especially when you have to stand in the front row!

Wore brand new jeans. Scrubbed pink flagstones with bleach mixture in a bucket using a long handled scrubber. Nice new jeans all covered in little white dots, but only down the front.

When I was newly married, DH and I returned from a night out. We lived in an upstairs 'maisonette' with its own front door and stairs. I remember opening the door and saying 'mmmm, the casserole smells gorgeous' as we went upstairs. OK, the oven was on....... But the casserole was there on the work surface.......not in the oven! Ah well! Another fish and chip night! No other 'take aways' available then!

I put things in 'safe places' and never find them again, like a DIY poltergeist?

I hastily hid my Preparation H tube when someone dropped by unexpectedly and I thought they might need to use the loo, and I now can't find where I put it. Which means it will probably turn up somewhere really wierd if and when I have another visitor . [I must point out that I don't get many visitors so things tend to float around my house that others would immediately put away ]....

Now there's restraint!

When we moved to Cornwall 40 years ago we celebrated by buying a lovely pine table from a trendy kitchen shop. Two weeks later DH was sawing some wood on it and yes! he managed to saw through 6 inches of the table top!! We lived with it like that for thirty years before we replaced it and I didn't even divorce him

Yes, a couple of my cotton jumpers had white stripes across the tummy area from leaning across a bleached sink!

The sleeves have white spots from spraying mould and mildew remover around the shower.

I know someone who wears her bikini to scrub out the shower. I don't have a bikini

I clean the showers in my underwear as I have ruined a few pairs of really cords with splashes of bleach.

My microwave is above my fridge and oddly my fridge does not reheat anything.

I'm starting to worry that I am having more of these 'incidents'! It took me ages to realise why I had strange marks across my stomach, and why they coincided with my bleaching the kitchen sink area every Friday. It's when I lean across to do the back behind the taps.

I went into shock the day I found the washing liquid in the fridge and the milk in the cupboard.