Just had a "should have had my glasses on" moments, and ruined my lunch

When holidaying in Italy I went into a local pasta shop which was full of different shapes, sizes and colours.
All the grandchildren love pasta so I bought them a bag each.
After being home for a while my lovely DIL phoned to say ‘nana, that pasta is full of genitalia shapes. 🤭.

Years ago two friends visited my daughter after the birth of her first baby. I made coffee for them and sweetened one. Only to discover when the friend took the first sip, I had used salt not sugar!! Ugh!

My accident prone DD1 had a weekend job at a Little Chef. She once sprinkled cayenne pepper on a dessert instead of cinnamon. Luckily, she knew the poor customers who suffered her mistake but they were not amused.

A few weeks after she went off to university, another employee told us that the number of breakages had reduced considerably since her departure! The worst catastrophe was when she wrote off my nearly new car by crashing through a fence into a field, luckily, without injuring herself!

Buying Noirmoutier salt crystals and a cute container with its own spoon as a souvenir resulted in DH absentmindedly adding salt to his coffee. Funnily enough, he gave up sugar in his coffee after that.

Doodledog

I once absentmindedly sprayed my hair with deodorant instead of hair spray.

My mother once sprayed her hair with furniture polish instead of hairspray. Not a case of no-glasses - she was driven to distraction by her own mother, who had dementia. 🙁

Supermarket delivery has just arrived. Somehow I managed to order 4 bottles of rice wine vinegar. I feel better after reading this thread. Thank you all.

A vivid memory of over 65 yrs ago when a gran was minding us when mother in hospital with delivery of baby. It was the day new baby came home and gran had done the meal. For dessert there was stewed apple that had a lovely shade of pink.... Gran had used salt instead of sugar! Mother always kept sugar and salt in identical large pots beside her cooker.

One evening my DH started brushing his teeth with what he thought was toothpaste - it wasn't, it was a popular brand of hair removal cream which I had left out by accident!

Oh no! Can’t imagine anything worse!

A few weeks ago I decided to make more room in the freezer so I asked DH to go get some cream as I was cooking two apple and caramel pies that I found in there. I put one pie in his bowl and one in mine and poured the cream over liberally……lovely…..not often do I allow myself a dessert. I finished mine and turned to DH who was three quarter way through it and he asked me ‘why did I pour cream over his steak & kidney pie’?
😂mine was definitely apple but apparently his wasn’t but he still eat it all up!

In 1976 we went on our hols to a caravan park in Great Yarmouth. Our parents had no money left at all but went to the clubhouse and my dad won the bingo on a free ticket. On the way home we stopped at a Granada services and had a meal. I had sausage and chips and poured sugar all over my dinner. My mum said people could tell we weren’t used to eating out as she wiped the sugar off my sausages with her hankie and I then ate the lot. I was so young it probably didn’t register that it was sweet.

Doodledog

I once absentmindedly sprayed my hair with deodorant instead of hair spray.

Me too - I was looking in the mirror as I did it, and saw my hair turning slightly grey as I sprayed. It took a minute or two for me to realize what I had done. 😁

I once sprayed Mr Sheen on my hair instead of hairspray. Instant shine 🙄

My mother had a long dress which came with a sort of chiffon cape. She had taken it off, folded it,put it on the table, then had to watch an elderly relative use it as an ashtray.

Haha! Thank you for a lovely post.

One xmas I gave my DD and DiL a small box of Chocolate bombes with marshmellow inside to make hot chocolate. Neither read the box and both added to bathwater !

Oldnproud

Doodledog

I once absentmindedly sprayed my hair with deodorant instead of hair spray.

Me too - I was looking in the mirror as I did it, and saw my hair turning slightly grey as I sprayed. It took a minute or two for me to realize what I had done. 😁

Yep. And the number of times I have used conditioner instead of shampoo (and vice versa) are too many to count. It's in the bathroom where I have the issues - no glasses and steam are not a good combination.

I put sugar all over my fish and chips in a cake . They were so sweet and just brought me another plate of food.

🤣🤣🤣

Should have said…The above is for Ginster.

I've done the dry shampoo on armpits and deodorant on the hair swop. I suppose it could have worked if I had hairy armpits.

A couple of weeks ago my DH must have filled the sugar bowl with salt. I dont take sugar and it took me a while to realise why he was complaining that his cereal and tea tasted funny.

I'm another of the freezer brigade - took out (I thought) some stewed apple for a crumble, only to discover when I opened the container that it was lentil soup ...🙄

Had a hankering for toast and jam. Couldn't find the strawberry jam in the fridge, so got a new one out of the cupboard. Took a bite and thought it tasted of alcohol... Cranberry sauce with cognac.

When my nan was babysitting us kids, a guest came round and while he waited for our mum and dad to come back nan made him a coffee.

She had only ever had that ‘Camp Coffee’ do not used to instant coffee.
She made a lovely cup of milky ‘coffee’
with Bisto Gravy. The poor fella drank it too!