Ridiculous mistakes !

ninamoore - the OP responded to this upthread -

NotSpaghetti never fear, I can’t drive never have, it was my husband at the wheel!

If your eyesight is so bad should you actually be driving 🙃

My ex came to see me, to find out if I needed shopping.

I was feeling really unwell and shaky, and dropped one of my pills.

He was all flustered because I was upset, so scrambled around under the table, went and got me a glass of water.

He told me to hold put my hand as he had found my pill.

When he put it into my hand it was a piece of grated cheese.

Barmeyoldbat

Cycling in in the Dutch countryside my friend and I stopped to admire a house with a lovely garden and a pond. There were some ducks on it and we were admiring them as well and my friend threw them the crust of her sandwich but we then recused they were plastic ducks

That reminds me of a time many years ago when my mum - not elderly at that time - was taking a trip with us on our narrowboat. She had been happily throwing bread to a 'duck' until we pointed put to her that it was an empty bottle bobbing up and down in the water.

My brother in law was once told off by his mum as he attempted to kill a big spider indoors. She picked it up, went onto her balcony & threw over the rail - they lived on the 6th floor😱

Cycling in in the Dutch countryside my friend and I stopped to admire a house with a lovely garden and a pond. There were some ducks on it and we were admiring them as well and my friend threw them the crust of her sandwich but we then recused they were plastic ducks

One evening I picked up a ball in the garden, which belonged to our dog, only to find it was a rolled up hedgehog. I don't know who was more shocked, me or the hedgehog. It didn't even open it's spikes so I put it safely back in the garden borders. I bought a hedgehog house and ensured it was well hidden in the undergrowth. I used to put small amounts of dog food and water out and it always ate it. I saw it for a couple of years after that but when I saw that the food was no longer being eaten during the summer months I thought it may have died so stopped putting food out. I named it Tiggy.

I am sure both St. Francis of Assisi and St Gertude, the patron saint of cats, sent notes to the Recording Angel. Did you rescue the sodden fleecy jumper?

I find odd creatures too when I don't have my glasses on and they sometimes turn out to be bits of fluff, leaves or twigs.

Sadly, others do turn out to be half a mouse, ( I did not see that one, I stepped on it in my bare feet!) or a tom-tit that one of the cats has brought in.

Haaaaa

Many years ago I went to stay with a friend who was terrified of insects. A huge dragonfly like creature got trapped in the backcombing of her hair. She was screaming and having a panic attack. Her husband had to hold her in a bear hug while I fished the insect thing out of her hair.

Another time I went to work as deputy librarian with a boss who was reputed to be a bit of a dragon lady. She was terrified of insects and I had to go into the basement and make sure all the spiders were removed before she would enter it.

She said I had a lot of nerve and recommended me for promotion after 6 months.

Greenfinch

Serendipity your experience reminds me of when I went to pick up a teabag from the sink only to discover that it was a bat.

😯

Serendipity your experience reminds me of when I went to pick up a teabag from the sink only to discover that it was a bat.

DD's friend stared across their farm and said "I've been watching those sheep for ages and they haven't moved at all".
DD said "They're hay bales".

Some of us are silly Billy's aren't we laugh 😆 🤣 😂 😅

Fair2good

AskAlice My husband and I have just been laughing ourselves silly over that stain !
AreWeThereYet I once heard a woman in our local shop telling the assistant how her husband dealt with slugs by throwing them over their back garden wall. Yes you’ve guessed it. I recognised her as her house was/is right behind ours !

I hope you stood waiting with a tennis racquet to bat them back over the wall 🤣

😂😂😂

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Years ago, I saw a hedgehog in the garden, at night. I went out with some cat food, which I left beside it. The next morning, I saw the hedgehog was still there - it was an upturned flowerpot!

In a bit of a state one day, many years ago, I dashed upstairs to see our cat asleep were he wasn't supposed to be asleep. "What are you doing there?" I yelled only to realise that I was shouting at my black suede boots, abandoned on the floor!!

Awwwwww ....

You're not on your own hahahaha.

I used to clean for a lady who lived on a farm. I went into her kitchen and thought there was a dead mouse on the floor in the corner, I have to add at this point that I didn't have my glasses on, so there I am thinking ohhhh no, a dead mouse, i will have to pick it up, ughhhhh

I grabbed loads of kitchen roll and bent down to scoop up the dead mouse only to discover it was a flippin used TEA BAG 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

AskAlice My husband and I have just been laughing ourselves silly over that stain !
AreWeThereYet I once heard a woman in our local shop telling the assistant how her husband dealt with slugs by throwing them over their back garden wall. Yes you’ve guessed it. I recognised her as her house was/is right behind ours !

When young my niece loved slugs - she had a glass tank that she kept some in. She used to pull her gran around the streets looking for them in walls and cracks, put them in her tank and take them home to let them live in gran's garden. Every night gran used to go out looking for slugs in the garden and disposing of the, else where.

Not an animal one, but my DH once spent ages scrubbing at a stain on a new carpet, only to realise eventually that it was the shadow of a vase on the windowsill!

It was a toad!

What on earth was it ? The mind boggles !

My neighbour was cursing her dog for having relieved himself in the porch when suddenly it hopped off!