Further Senior Moments !

I was putting ear drops in and it felt a bit different and so I checked and realised that I had put eye drops in (they were in the same sort of bottle). Just glad it wasn't the other way round as I don't know what ear drops in my eyes would have done to my eyes.

I too got in the shower the other day with my glasses on,i also got into bed the a few days ago with them still on.The thing is i don't need to wear them as much as i do,so just seem to forget to take them off.

minxie

I was googling something on my mobile phone and I couldn’t find my phone, which was in my hand ?? worrying

Yip I've done that and also jumped in shower and forgot to take my hearing aids out which totally destroyed them....

Have had quite a few chuckles reading these today. Not a great day but looking up a bit now. Am sure I’ve had my own senior moments but none come to mind right now.

My husband was at the end of the drive recently when a delivery man asked if he could leave the neighbour's package with us. He asked H for the name of our house, but he could not remember it at all! Delivery man wasn't too bothered, but H certainly was. I've been testing him ever since, name of the prime minister, the date etc!

Several years ago a well know brand of gravy granules changed their packaging (jars instead of packets). My dh made me a cup of what he thought was coffee with it. Not nice with milk and sugar.

After having just removed my nail polish I once picked up and drank nail varnish remover instead of a small bottle of beer sitting beside it! Luckily I was outside and soon spat it out!! . Another time I brought the washing downstairs with my make up bag, you guessed it the whole lot went in the machine, everything in my make up bag totally ruined, didn’t do the clothes a lot of good either! I will have to write 100 lines of “I must concentrate more”!

No flies on you CarrieAnn!

I sprayed my hair with fly killer,and I'd just had my hair done!

My FIL once took a swig of Friars Balsam cough linctus but got confused and swigged the White Horse Oils embrocation for his bad back instead.

Friend had been asking my advice on how to lose some extra pounds he’d gained. It gave him quite a distinctive shape.
Few days later whilst shopping with my little ‘in, in my then small town, I saw him (Could tell his shape from the back and he was wearing his usual smart grey suit) on the other side of the street peering into the bakery window.
I yelled across the busy street “ well your not gonna lose any weight if you go in there’”...... he turned around and it wasn’t him ?
Cue for me to turn crimson and run as fast as I could whilst pushing my baby in the buggy .... soooo embarrassing. Again as pp said not so much a senior moment, but maybe new mum hormones?
Worse, but not funny at all, was when my mum in her late seventies, was using prescription eye drops as she’d had laser treatment for macular degeneration.
She used them religiously and always kept the small dropper bottle in the same place. Unfortunately, she also had a bottle of (same size & shape) Tippex fluid correction... she lives some distance from me, and when she phoned me to tell me what she had unwittingly done, I was aghast. Thankfully, no long term ill (she’s still alive to tell the tale at 97 plus!) effects. However, she said that it took copious amounts of water to “ ungum” her eyelids... I’m shuddering even now just recalling the memory.

I've been having a long senior moment. We were given a beautiful orchid in February and I said to my husband that it was risky as we haven't managed to keep one, ever. So, I have been lovingly giving it a drop of water every so often and watching it continue to bloom, not a shedding of a single flower or bud in sight. My husband even commented how well it was doing. So the other day I decided to risk moving it from the lounge table to a smaller side table and it was only then that I realised it was a fake orchid!! It's an excellent imitation but I am left wondering how I could have gone 7 months without noticing (and him indoors too!!)

yes, I've put glasses on top of glasses too! also straightened glasses on my face when not wearing them! ha ha. hand goes up by habit!

I too have left my baby outside a shop and been well on my way home before I realised and ran back for her, and I’ve jumped into strangers’ cars thinking they were my lifts (not once but three times). The other week I found my phone in the fridge. And just today I poured our soup into bowls and put them out on the table with spoons and bread. It might have been helpful if I’d remembered to heat it up first...

As I was being discharged from hospital on Tuesday, a Nurse asked me where I lived. My mind went a complete blank. I could give her the post code, I could tell her my last address, I could tell her how to get there, just not the name of the street!!!

@Beeny ?

A couple of years ago dh and I went to the London Festival Hall for a concert - IIRC the St Matthew Passion - it was around Easter time.
We duly found the right concert hall, but there seemed to be no other audience there, and there was apparently some sort of rehearsal going on.

Wondering whether it was the right auditorium on the ticket, we eventually found a couple of staff to ask.

‘Er, your tickets are for March next year!’

At least it gave them a good laugh, and we did manage to join in. Not an entirely wasted journey - we had a drink on the riverside terrace, followed by a walk along the river.

Nipped into a local mini mart on my way to caravan for the weekend with grandkids in the back of car. First time I’d been in shop since lockdown so was a bit anxious. All fine, I came out of shop with bag of goods and put it into the boot, climbed into car and turned to speak to grandkids but they weren’t there. Panic, then I realised it wasn’t my car. Mine was behind it and grandkids were watching me, in amazement. I retrieved my shopping and made a quick getaway. I’ve never lived it down.

My mum once washed her hair with hand cream. That took a loooooooot of rinses!

I too can lay claim to forgetting children when shopping. I made all 4 of my children wait outside the shop, they were being unruly after school pickup. Hence I did my shop, drove home 4 kms away and realised I had forgotten them. Felt a fool going back into town to pick them up. My daughters watched me walk past them and get in car and wondered how far I would get before I remembered them. Don’t think they will ever let me forget.
Another time, I had left my 4th child at home on the bed, all of 5 days old. I had driven to visit my parents some 25kms away and it wasn’t until I pulled up and went to get all 4 out of the car that yes I had left her at home. Oopsy.

Thankyou all for the laughs, just what was needed after a very busy day

Hmmm... do I dare?

Yup, I do!! Please scroll past quickly if you are of a sensitive disposition...

Scholl Cracked Heel Cream and tube of lube on the bedside table. Well, easy to mistake one for the other in the heat of the moment!! We may never get over it!

Oh I’m finding this thread strangely reassuring and very amusing.
Walsing you must have strange weather where you live! ?

then, sorry

I was in the library one day, husband got tired standing and waiting so went to sit down. I checked out my books, looked round for him, recognised as I thought his bald spot, marched over and thumped him on the arm and said “are you right then” and a bemused stranger looked up at me.
Another time I went into a shop, looked back to check where we were parked, came out, same couloir car parked in space, got in, a startled stranger looked at me! Husband moved the car while I was gone. Well.....it was the right colour!

I regularly leave my walking stick by the shop counter, ten wonder why I'm not walking too well.