Have you done something daft today ?

Got myself presentable for a trip to the village post office to return a parcel. Arrived, got out of the car walked to the PO door - left the parcel at home! That was yesterday, can't wait to see what today will bring.

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It cheers me up no end to discover I'm not the only one!

Jaxie

Not me but my husband: I asked him to trim my topiary duck and he cut the beak off.

So sorry Jaxie, I know it will take ages to grow back but it did make me laugh. How could he?

Haven't done anything daft today yet, but the day before yesterday while giving the bathroom a thorough cleaning, I came across a little plastic case that had held toothpicks.

It was just the right size and opened the right way to make a laptop for a Barbie doll, so I stuffed it into my pocket and later put it down up here in my workroom.

Do you thihk I can now find the blasted thing?

You are quite right, I cannot!

I'm getting a lot of tidying up down in my efforts to find it.

One of my frequent daft things....and an expensive mistake. I was working at my laptop with a perfect cup of tea. I reached for the phone and swept the tea all over the laptop. £284 later I have it back in working order. My first daft thing was when I was 24 and sat on a pair of scissors, I still have the scar.

The door bell rang early. I rushed to open the door and saw a lady with a box too big for the letterbox. No porch keys handy, so I opened the living room window and said, “I’m locked in, can you pass it through?”
In a lowered voice she said, “You’re locked in? Are you OK? Do you need any help?”
Red faced, I explained that the keys were upstairs.
Aren’t delivery people kind?

grandtanteJE65 how clever you are. I’d never have thought of a laptop for a Barbie Doll!
I’m still laughing about the duck’s beak, sorry Jaxie.

A couple of days ago I was half way to the supermarket when I realised I had left my mask at home! I now carry a spare in the glove compartment

I sang Happy Birthday by phone to my friend's hubby and she had it on loud speaker. I'm sure it sounded absolutely horrendous.

Not today, but yesterday I thought I would bake a lemon drizzle cake as I had a fresh lemon available, only to discover I didn’t have enough caster sugar. Never mind, I’ll bake some bread instead. Kneading the dough happily, to then realise I hadn’t added the yeast, still sitting on the worktop! No bread flour left to start again.

I’m doing silly things most days. The only comfort is knowing that I’ve done them!

Put the clean wash I had just removed in the washer the dirty ones are still in the basket.

After chatting to mum on phone& making myself a cup tea at same time,phone call ends& I put phone back in fridge instead of milk.? I didn't realise what I had done until phone starts ringing again.Ive even got milk from fridge to iron my clothes!!!

The actual daft thing was done a few days ago. I received a new bank card and in a separate letter a new pin for it. I followed the instructions, activated the card online, but when it came to reading the pin, I couldn't, it was all fuzzy. I finally phoned about it today. Long story cut short, I'd thrown away the bit of paper the pin was on and was trying to read the wrong bit. I felt a total fool or 'tube' as I called myself (common slang in Scotland). The call adviser was a fellow Scot, and couldn't have been friendlier, tried to reassure me that lots of people do this. I've had numerous new pins over the years, never done this before, hopefully never will again.

Quite regularly try to turn the TV off with the telephone.

Oh yes. Still reeling from my robotocism. Lost a sock whilst dressing this morning. After searching intensely I despaired until I eventually removed the 'other' one. Hey presto, I had only put one on top of the other. Trying to excuse myself in that I was telly watching intermittently but still find it hard to believe I did this (somewhat difficult) thing. Jeepers!

Thank you for starting this thread, Hellesbelles. I needed a good laugh. This from the OH.
“That was a really nice vegetarian pizza, apart from the meat.”

A friend of mine had great difficulty driving to work one day, couldn't see properly. Once she got there a quick trip to the bathroom revealed that she had put both contact lenses in one eye!

Drove to old fashioned home bakers in village. Got out of car with face mask on and shopping bag in hand. I opened the shop door and walked in to see a woman sitting in an armchair. As I stood there perplexed she said “the bakers is next door hen”!
In my defence the doors were the same colour!!

I had a craving for a ham and cheese wrap for lunch today. After looking forward to it, I was so disappointed while I was eating it. With every bite I thought “this cheese is tasteless”
I realised why when I went back to the kitchen and the cheese was still lying on the chopping board ?

Cleaned the bathroom tile grouting with bleach and an old toothbrush. Only just heard of this way of cleaning grouting and felt really smug that all the marks had gone. Then looked down at my favourite green cord trousers which are now ruined from splashes of bleach ! So sad ?

Not today but worthy of a mention! I'd made leek and potato soup the day before, some of which was left in the pan, I also had half a carton of smoked haddock chowder in the fridge that I put in the microwave to heat for my lunch. While I was waiting I poured the spare leek soup into a bowl to go into the fridge. When the microwave pinged I took the carton out of the oven and poured it on top of the leek and potato, it didn't taste good at all!

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