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

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!

Oh no! Can’t imagine anything worse!

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!

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.

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.

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. 🙁

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.

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!

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!

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 my dear mum made her usual bread pudding but instead of mixed spice used curry powder.

Nannytopsy

I have done the opposite Doodledog and sprayed my arm pits with hairspray.

I have done the opposite Doodledog and sprayed my arm pits with hairspray.

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

On holiday in Lanzarote a few years ago I was looking for a small present to take home for my daughter.
Knowing she enjoys cooking & wanting to buy something useful I chose some coarse pink “salt”from amongst the olive oils etc in a gift shop.
A few weeks later I spoke to a rather bemused daughter who had added pink bath crystals to her tomato & basil salad!
Fortunately her guests were amused rather than harmed by the experience.
She is now very wary of any “gifts” from me & always checks the small print.

I may have previously mentioned my 'should have gone to Specsavers experience, but for the benefit of more recent posters, I will admit to the time I thought I had made couscous but when it came to trying it, I discovered that I had used oatmeal. No - it wasn't edible!

Thank you. I've had a good giggle at some of these, and now I don't feel quite so bad about my own daftness 😅

I know someone who helped herself to a large mouthful of pot pourri at a candlelit buffet. She thought the bowl contained vegetable crisps...it wasn't me, of course.

Made my son’s first birthday cake with salt instead of sugar! It was understandable as we were living in a communist country where all staple foods were in white paper bags with blue writing in a language with which I was not familiar.

DH once stuffed the Christmas turkey with bread sauce!

I once covered a plate of roast turkey with what I thought was bread sauce only to discover that it was horseradish which I hate.

I made a chocolate cake with gravy browning instead of cocoa powder. (unlabelled jars,)

Years ago we went to a wedding party with an extensive buffet. I helped myself to a large dollop of mayonnaise to eat with my salad - it was horse radish

A few months ago I went out for breakfast with my DD & family. I squirted chocolate sauce all over my grandsons scrambled egg thinking it was brown sauce. I didn't realise what I’d done until he took the first mouthful.
Luckily it was an all you can eat buffet so I could go up and get him some more eggs. The chocolate sauce was there for the pancakes.

I once put pearl barley instead of sunflower hearts in my granola. I had my glasses on …