Whoops…….I can’t believe I did that.

I taught in a school in Madrid as a young women. We were all due to fly back on the same plane to London at Christmas. At the airport I realised I'd brought the stub of the ticket I went out with! Mad dash in a taxi back to the flat screeching bad Spanish. Returned as the plane was about to leave. BUT my teaching friends on the plane begged the pilot to stay for another few minutes. He did. I was thrust out of the airport and ran across the tarmac. Everyone cheered as I got on. I was so grateful to the pilot.

I booked a flight for 4 from Stanstead to Prague, but I'd had problems with the booking page reloading. Got to Stanstead to find our flight wasn't listed because we were booked to go out of Gatwick. We managed to get on a flight to Prague paying £20 total extra (20 years ago). Got to Prague to change flights back to find they wanted £90 each. My FinL in the UK had to book a taxi from Stanstead to Gatwick for us to retrieve our car. Haven't lived it down yet, but only flown once since

Forgot that I was doing school pick up and not the childminder. Fortunately as they were at school gate she was picking up other children, she phoned and waited with them until a very flustered Granny turned up. I blame the other half of course.

In 1981 my family embarked on a move from the UK to South Africa. We were seen off by my grandparents at Manchester train station for the first part of the trip to London. When we got off the train there was an urgent call over the speakers for my father to contact the help desk. He put his hand in his pocket and pulled out the car keys that he was suppose to give to his parents. The car was parked in a 30min zone but the police kindly put a notice on it so it wouldn't get towed. The keys went on the next train back. We're just thankful we hadn't made it all the way to Johannesburg before finding out.

Many years later DH, children and I went to Essex from Cheshire on a camping trip with our posh large 9man tent. On arriving at the site we couldn't find the tent pegs anywhere, DH only had to pack the tent and had left them at home. Had to go to Argos and get a tiny tent to make do.

There were 9 years between me and my sister so having a baby in a pram was unfamiliar to my mum when I was born. She returned from shopping with my sister and was having a cuppa when she gazed out of the window and saw nappies on the line. Only then did she realise she’d left me outside a shop, she dashed back and found me still fast asleep where she’d left me nearly 2 hours before. Years later my sister admitted she knew mum had left me but didn’t say anything in the hope I’d go back to where I came from. I think I’d have grown up in care if that happened today

When my son was a baby we were going to visit my parents for the day. He was asleep in his cot while I packed the car with high chair, buggy, toys, spare clothes, nappies etc. When I had finished I jumped in the car and drove to the top of my cul de sac before remembering he was still asleep in his bedroom!

Working late in 2 storey office building, thought I’d be clever and sent heavy briefcase containing laptop and client files down in the lift whilst I ran down the stairs. Only when I got home did I realise I’d forgotten the briefcase. Got there at crack of dawn next morning as soon as the building opened, pressed for the lift. Amazingly the briefcase was still there!

Prepared for a week's family camping trip, caravan hitched, everything packed - bar the kitchen sink - Set off and after driving for a few miles, had a feeling we'd forgotten something. Yup....our poor little dog was at the garden gate waiting for us when we returned to fetch him ?!

Baggytrazzas, I'm sorry this event still mortifies you, but it's one of the funniest things I've ever read Thanks for sharing and making my day !!

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Oh could be, Camelotclub.
Thank you.

What's an H.E., please?

Im guessing - His Excellency ?

Reading these I realise I've done quite a few of them! Locked my keys in the car in the depths of winter while heavily pregnant. Had to ring my husband to come home early from work but he was an hour away. The shops were all closing leaving me on the street. The kind staff at the travel agent were closing but not leaving the building so they took me in, made me coffee and let me wait in the warm.

Locked myself out of the house when going outside to put a cover over the car to stop the screen freezing in the winter. Had to wait in a neighbour's house until husband came home.

During this week's heatwave I had doors open both ends of the house to create a draught. Went to bring the bin in from the street and the door slammed. Total panic as I had something cooking on the stove and DD was at work in central London an hour and a half's journey away. Couldn't phone her anyway as phone inside! Neighbours out so no access to their gardens to try and get over the fence. Thankfully I'd also failed to bolt the side gate last time I used it so was able to get round the back easily. I've decided to leave it unbolted as I clearly can't be trusted with locks etc.

I did exactly what you did.

I got a phone call from my father when I was at work asking why my Vauxhall Victor was "arse first " in the garden of my flat.

I also started walking home from a shop in the early days of motherhood completely forgetting my baby in the pram. Fortunately I didn't get far.

Nothing quite so dramatic!

Leaving a 10 day old dd1 in her pram in Boots, having completely forgotten that I had her? But only for about ten minutes.

Much more recently (as I think I posted here) putting the cake batter that was supposed to be for 24 fairy cakes, into 2 x 20 cm sandwich tins instead.
And then putting them in the oven.
And only realising what I’d done a few minutes later, when it was too late to remedy.

I reversed out of the drive and managed to hit hubby's car on the otherside of the road. I'm my defence it was the first time l have driven an automatic car. I did tell him to reverse it into the drive lol

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Lucca

One if my first jobs was as a Secretary to an ambassador ….I got the chauffeur etc ready and sent H.E off for a lunch with a foreign bank…..a week early. To say H. E. was cross is an understatement ?

What's an H.E., please?

His Excellency ?

Something I've never forgotten - in the bar of the office building I worked in I fished in my bag for my purse and pulled out a tampon, in full view of the men standing alongside! Crept away feeling awful. They've probably forgotten all about it.

I know my grandmother once put the hot water bottle outside the front door and took the empty milk bottle up to bed with her.

Many, many things.

Said how much I was enjoying driving my husbands fairly new Alfa Romeo, promptly drove into very high curb and wrecked 2 tyres. He never lets us drive along that road without making some "witty" comment.

Also - on group holiday in Cuba, visiting various areas. We had forgotten to bring a flannel. DH (who travelled a lot on business) assured me would be OK to take the one from the hotel. Get on coach ready to go to next destination, flannel in luggage in storage area.Manager from hotel boards coach and refuses to let coach leave until someone returns the missing flannel. Never been so embarrassed in my life!!!

Lucca

One if my first jobs was as a Secretary to an ambassador ….I got the chauffeur etc ready and sent H.E off for a lunch with a foreign bank…..a week early. To say H. E. was cross is an understatement ?

What's an H.E., please?

When living in Beijing our 16 year old daughter used fly over every holiday after school finished, by herself. We went to collect her one day and I panicked as she wasn’t coming through the exit. Realized then that I was a day early.

Another time, after divorce, with younger daughter, father dropped her off at the Beijing airport a day too early. She had to contact him at the office to collect her.

I took my 3 year old daughter into town in her pushchair. We went to the bank and the library. Walked home, all okay. Next day went to get the pushchair. Nowhere to be found! We went back to the bank and the library, no it wasn’t handed in. My daughter was quite happy walking, but my sister who bought it for us has never let me forget about it!
Also when I was younger went to the library and walked home reading a book. Then realised I had ridden my bike there! That time I got it back.
Are you seeing a theme here?

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Loaded luggage in the car, got in and drove off for 2 weeks' holiday leaving the house door wide open.
Thankfully, our neighbour spotted the error and locked up for us!

We had a bird come down our chimney, the cat was going crazy and we opened every door and window to get it out. When it flew out we shut everything but forgot to lock the French door from the dining room to the garden. It was a new build and the garden was bare mud so we didn't really use that door. Some weeks later I came home from work to find a parcel in the middle of the floor. Turns out the postie had gone round the back, found the door unlocked and delivered to the middle of the room. Goodness knows how long it would have remained unlocked otherwise!

Miles from home and not used to a two door car, with a few-month-old-baby daughter in the baby-seat at the back, I got out of the car with my elder daughter, pushing down the buttons on the inside of the doors leaving the keys inside the car with the baby.
Luckily the daughter could go to a phone box and contacted her father at the office to collect a second key at home.

I got on an underground trai. in Paris without noticing it was going back to the depot ...I was on my own, all the lights went out and I had to first find and then pull the emergency cord. It terrified me ..Fortunately the driver was very kind and sorted me out.