The most stupid thing I’ve done recently 😩

Oh dear !! Do drive with care - safe journey.

I am sure most of us have done something like that.

I hope you have a good journey there and back with not too much traffic.

Can’t do without my phone. When I go anywhere, the first thing I check - is my phone in my handbag?
It’s Sunday morning so the roads will be quiet. And you could stay for a nice lunch with your family

Oh b****r Witzend

If you could manage without your phone you could ask for it to be sent, recorded delivery?

Thanks everybody, but it was a few days ago, and a safe enough double journey!
But no, I didn’t want to put anyone to the bother of sending it via a courier.

Recently my hub did the same thing. We were staying in a hotel in Dublin and had to drive back to Belfast. We were nearly home when he remembered he'd left his phone in the hotel bathroom. Nothing else for it but to drive all the way back.

My nephew left his phone here one evening and I didnt notice until after he had gone. He came all the way back (40 minute walk) next day to retrieve it as he uses it for shopping and messaging his mates.

Ive got an old dumb phone in PAYG and would have used that for a few days while I had the smartphone sent special delivery. Royal Mail will now pick up from any house - you dont have to be a business - or take it to the post office. Printing labels online is easy peasy so long as you have access to a printer. Or you can make your own and email them to the sender.

I plug my phone into the car for even the shortest journey, but I have forgotten to remove it and left it in the car whilst I shopped/whatever.
DD1 left her phone on the plane at JFK - she was extremely pleased to find it in safe hands prior to her departure a week later.

biglouis

My nephew left his phone here one evening and I didnt notice until after he had gone. He came all the way back (40 minute walk) next day to retrieve it as he uses it for shopping and messaging his mates.

Ive got an old dumb phone in PAYG and would have used that for a few days while I had the smartphone sent special delivery. Royal Mail will now pick up from any house - you dont have to be a business - or take it to the post office. Printing labels online is easy peasy so long as you have access to a printer. Or you can make your own and email them to the sender.

Royal Mail will bring a label if you request it.

Halfway to Heathrow for DD to catch a flight and she said she'd left her phone at our house. It was too late to go back for it.
It cost me nearly £40 to post it Airmail tracked because of the battery!

Another time DH left his phone in the seat pocket on a plane, never did get it back. It was before Smart phones.

I left my phone charging in my DS's house while I walked their dog as I wanted it charged for my journey home. I'd had an achy leg so thought walking the dog might loosen it up. Sadly my leg gave way under me preventing me from putting any weight on it so I struggled to walk the 1/4 mile back and practically had to hop hanging on to parked cars or garden walls. No phone to call for help and of course when a kind passerby offered his phone I didn't know their number as it's saved in my phone! After 3 extra days staying with them and 2 visits to A&E I was finally able to travel the 200 miles home. Once there I remembered DiL's phone number is on the dog's collar! I rarely go anywhere without it now!

My most stupid thing ever was on Saturday evening.
Filled up my aluminium bucket with coal and dumped it in the kitchen rather than taking it to the sitting room. Stirred my chutney on the stove and turned round straight into said bucket and of course hit the end of the handle bit which took a neat right angled chunk out of my leg.
Stopped it bleeding but was very swollen by then so thought it needed looking at.
Half hour drive to A&E and then was out 60 mins later having been cleaned up and patched together.
Felt such a twit, but could not fault my hospital one bit!
(Although as my daughter pointed out “you were too early for the drunks” 🙄)

Last Wednesday morning I went to the nearest DIY store, fortunately.

I found the cable clips, jig-saw blades and chain-saw oil I needed, and bought 3 3 metre long skirting boards in the wood-yard. Went in to pay and realised that my purse, and visa card were at home!

Did I feel a fool?

Nothing for it but to go home, fetch purse, return to DIY store and pay.

Fortunately, as I was on my bike, the distance was nothing like OP's, but I did feel stupid.

Could you not have done without your phone for a few days!

I couldn’t be without my phone for an hour Yellowfox
My order before I leave the house is purse, keys, phone, glasses and I wouldn’t leave without them all and if I had made the same mistake as witzend I would have turned round and gone back too

People that say they couldn't do without their phone.. What did you do before mobiles?

yellowfox

Could you not have done without your phone for a few days!

I could, but it would only have meant the same journey sooner or later - they don’t come to us very often - so I thought I might as well get it over and done with.

Stupid thing I've done recently was last night when I put in the toaster these little muffin type of things.

While I was stood there waiting for it I was guzzling a bottle of Robinsons Orange and Pineapple.

I was totally in my own little world when the muffins popped up, scaring me to death, the drink went all over me and the bottle and drink all over the floor! HA HA HA!

Even after I came out of the shower and a change of clothes I still smelt quite fruity!

grandtanteJE65, how did you carry 3 metre long skirting boards on your bike?

Our doorbell has a little ceramic button saying "Press".
Last week I found it on the front drive, so brought it indoors and during our shopping trip, I bought some Super Glue!
On Saturday I 'fixed it'. Holding it in place for the required time and checked that it worked. Success.... until Sunday when our daughter called in. She asked if we really didn't want any visitors, as the button was very firmly stuck in and immovable.
Slightly red faced, I have had to asked the electrician who installed it, if he can source another, then come to replace it.

Ohhh I couldn't find my stupid dog, I looked everywhere in the house for him it was midnight & I was getting ready for bed.
Thinking he must still be having a late night wee. I ran out to see what the nit was doing but the back door was still locked, I knocked myself out & woke up in a pool of blood.
Stumbling about I eventually found drippy dog on my bed, oblivious to my near -death experience. 🙃

Witzend - it’s so easy to do and so difficult to survive even overnight withiut the mobile
I ‘think’ my phone is backed up in the cloud so if I lost it I could somehow magic its secrets.
But I’m not sure and where is The Cloud.
I’m feeling increasingly like my grannie who announced she wanted nothing to do with that there new money and would stick with pounds and half crowns thank you

I hope you are ok Ilovedogs22, that sounds really nasty.