A daft thing you've done recently

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keep em coming!

Some time back I was on our local bus when an elderly lady ( as I am ) got on . Instead of her bus pass she gave the driver her house keys. The driver looked at her and said " Sorry love as you can see I am working " . As she left to go to her seat he added " But I finish at 4 pm to-day "

I'm in fits of laughter here at all of your replies!

-boheminan and - ClicketyClick in particular - HA HA HA!

When I was working in Retail and I was on till duty, for some reason I could never explain, several times when I went to press the till buttons, I opened the under-shelf drawer instead, then realised quickly! A male colleague also did the same; he couldn't explain either!

At home, I accidentally bang into a doorknob, chair, whatever, then say sorry to it!

I can top this...My Mother went to a family funeral, and after being at the wake , she went up to the bereaved and said 'Thanks, I've really enjoyed it' !!! She was soooo embarassed.

Oh, I have never laughed out loud so much at any GN thread.

Thank you everyone. My top laugh was requesting the plumber to sort your pipework out, oh my the embarrassment...🤣

I'm doing bits and bobs all the time as mentioned by others.

Growing0ldDisgracefully

Years ago but I unlocked and got into a car in the supermarket (old car not with remote lock). Couldn't work out why the key didn't fit the ignition, then realised I'd got into someone else's car, the same colour as mine and parked a couple of bays away from mine! Oops!

Collected a friend from the airport in the dark and loaded up the Renault with her motley collection of bags etc, only realising were in the wrong car as I tried to drive off. We hastily moved ourselves and our stuff into the correct car and we're about to drive off when my friend realised one of her carrier bags was missing.... I nipped back to find the owner of the car holding the bag at arms length in confusion. Having listened to my garbled apology, she demanded to know what colour my car was. On learning it was pale gold, she haughtily informed me: "Well, mine is GREEN, revved up her car and a screeched off before I could point out that all cars are gray at night!....

boheminan

On a very hot day a couple of weeks ago I was going to visit a friend that lives round the corner, so I was going to wear my Crocs.

As my feet were a bit sweaty, I hastily puffed a large amount of talc in each Croc. As I walked along the street a couple of neighbours looked rather strangely at me and when I looked down I found my Crocs were puffing out large clouds of talc through the hole and it looked like my feet were on fire.

That sounds like fun to do on purpose. I will mention this to DGS

I called to the chap on the desk at my David Lloyd that my membership card wasn’t letting me in.

He came over, took a look and said, ‘That’s because you’re trying to get in with your British Museum membership card.’
(Both in my Apple wallet. )

He did add that I wasn’t the only one!

2 this afternoon - new pair of sunglasses, still folded, stood in front of the mirror, held them up to my eyes then wondered why I couldn‘t see

took 2 baps from the freezer, looking forward to egg and cress, then announced, I can’t use these they must be stale, feel how hard they are

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Magenta8 Your post has had me howling laughing !!

Left my handbag with debit card and phone in Sainsbury's. Didn't notice until I got home. Fortunately a member of staff looked after it so I got it back intact.

I've done that too. More than once!

I am always a bit nervous when I take our tabby cat to the vet, but the receptionist is lovely and chats away to calm me down. Much relieved after a bit of minor treatment I was paying and chatting away when I realised I was a bit late. Picked up the cat basket, jumped in the car and arrived home only to find a very puzzled black and white cat staring out at me through the bars. I had picked up the basket of the person next to me in the queue. Luckily Mr Black and White was very chilled out, as was his owner.

I went to work one day with odd shoes, one heeled and one flat. If that wasn’t bad enough my skirt was inside out as well!

I have been known on more than one occasion to my utter embarrassment to attempt to change the channel on the tv using the telephone handset. Should I be worried ?

Came to Jersey in tropical storm season - nearly got my legs chopped off this morning when the car door blew shut as I was about to get out.

I was at the cinema watching the film of the stage show SIX, it was amazing. I was so caught up in the show that when the audience on the film clapped so did I. It was very embarrassing as I was the only one in the cinema to do it, so I spent the rest of the film with my arms folded so it didn't happen again.

Mr J once came out of our local Supermarket without paying, all the goods were still in the trolley and not in the bags he had taken in with him to pack. He sheepishly returned and one of the staff (who knows us well) said: have you forgotten something and he sad: yes to pay!

Got out a bowl for breakfast and washed some fruit in a colander, leaving it in there. Got out the yogurt and added it to the fruit in the colander! Looked at the fine mess I’d made and couldn’t work out what had got into me!🤣

Growingold I once got into the passenger seat of 'our' car, but the man (rather startled) sitting in the driver's seat wasn't my husband!!
Wrong car

yogitree

A friend has just finished removing a window and climbing into our house to let us in as we got ourselves locked out (Yale snib). He's put it back in now - what an (talented) angel he is!

Years ago we were looking after a neighbour's cat while they were away for Christmas. We went in and my ex put the keys down on the kitchen counter while we sorted the food bowls and litter tray. We left pulling the door behind us and only realised the keys were inside when we came to lock the second lock. Each of us thought the other had the keys. We spent a good part of boxing day breaking back in. It involved removal of a letter box surround in order to get an arm through then eventually releasing the yale catch with a claw hammer! We did do a bit of damage to the internal wall for each time the claw hammer missed!

I fell over the dishwasher door the other night, giving myself a real wallop on the thigh and I have a huge bruise. After this the door would not close so we called the engineer. A week later he came, bent back the upstand on the bottom basket and closed the door - he said he'd never had to do that before, though he is regularly called to fridges that won't close because something on the shelf is in the way.

Last week, running late for aqua I pulled on my swimsuit and tracksuit and hurtled out of the door without my phone (has code to get into gym). The girl on the desk let me in, no problem, but in my haste, I’d also forgotten my towel!
Then I realised I had no

I was doing the reading in church. I only found out when I got there as I hadn't received the rota so I quickly skimmed the sheet on the lectern in case of tricky names or places. There were none so I relaxed. When the time came I went to the lectern, read the sheet then saw the pencilled arrow at the bottom of the page. I turned over . Nothing. The next part was on a second sheet, but the two sheets were stuck together so I found myself muttering an apology to the congregation before separating the sheets and resuming the reading.
Note to self : the rota now comes from a different email address so I should have known!

My son and I were going out for a meal on Saturday evening. It had rained a lot during the day and when we got in the car, the windows were all misted up. I turned the controls to defrost and after a little while I said “The windows are misting down now.” !!!

Good job he’s used to me….