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LauraGransnet (GNHQ) Mon 04-Dec-17 12:11:16

We've teamed up with Bonnier Publishing to give you the chance to win a £100 M&S voucher and four hilarious titles.

Most of us have had a ’senior moment’, whether it's calling your child by the wrong name (us, often) or returning from the supermarket without the one item you specifically went in for (oh, us again. Frequently).

But it seems that these things happen to the best of us and that's certainly borne out by Senior Moments, a hilarious new book series collating the best of award-winning greeting card illustrator Tim Whyatt’s cartoons depicting the highs, lows, laughter and indignities of later life.

To be in with a chance of winning an M&S voucher and copies of Senior Moments: Ageing Disgracefully, Christmas, Love & Marriage and Uncensored, tell us - what's your funniest 'senior moment'?

The Senior Moments series is out now and available to buy from WHSmith.

Please post your entry below by midday Monday 18 December.

Usual T&Cs apply.

angiehoggett Sun 17-Dec-17 18:42:49

my husband was sitting outside waiting for me while I popped into the supermarket. I came out got back into the car then suddenly realised it wasn't our car, there was horror on my face when the confused guy looked at me. I quickly got out and found my husband, I never told him I felt so embarassed!

biddymarie Sun 17-Dec-17 18:42:22

I went into the Post Office to draw out some cash & couldnt understand why it was not working till the cashier realised I was trying to draw cash from my Tesco Clubcard!

jocyrets Sun 17-Dec-17 17:24:50

I have been known to store the cheese in the microwave instead of rge fridge.

mec Sun 17-Dec-17 16:55:22

I don't normally do the cooking but on the day my grand-daughter was born I had to do it as we were busy rushing around to hospital, etc. I put the dinner in the oven and the plates to warm in the warming oven - or so I thought! It was only when I took the plates out of the warmer and burnt my hands that I realised I'd switched the ovens. We had a luke-warm dinner and plates that were too hot to handle! Thank goodness for a microwave oven!

masocom9 Sun 17-Dec-17 15:43:42

Spent half an complaining to my wife that we had to return to a pub to collect her handbag that she had left behind and then realised I had left my wallet.

Jf1968 Sun 17-Dec-17 15:11:25

How about when my mum was writing LOL at the end of her texts thinking it meant Lots Of Love ???

christineM Sun 17-Dec-17 12:10:13

In supermarkets I like to put my packs of meat into plastic bags to separate them from other foodstuff, but in Tesco recently I put two packs into one plastic bag, without thinking, obviously! It wasn't until I was checking myself out that the voice told me the item was too heavy! I did an eek expression and ripped the bag open so I could scan both packs!

grannybiker Sun 17-Dec-17 12:00:42

My old Skoda Felica needed a service and as Mr GB is a useful chap, I went into our local car parts shop to ask for filters for a Skoda FELLATIO :O !
How they kept a straight face as they solemnly repeated "Felicia" very many times as they put theorder through...

Lisapaige24 Sun 17-Dec-17 10:12:26

My most senior moment is when I put the phone in the fridge which also has my bank card in the phone case and I searched high and low for it even ringing the phone and still couldn’t find or hear it, I cancelled my card with the bank and reported my phone lost to the mobile company only to later on that evening go into the fridge to make tea picked up the chicken and lo and behold my phone was underneath it I should of known to look here I often put things in the fridge that aren’t meant to go there

audidude27 Sun 17-Dec-17 09:35:33

Going to the wrong church for a wedding in which my daughter was a bridesmaid. She was furious!

compy99 Sun 17-Dec-17 01:06:01

a couple of months ago the hot tap in the kitchen stopped working, no matter what we did not a drop of water would come out. after turning the water supply of an poking around, we then spent the rest of the day trying to get a plumber to come out, either stupid prices or not getting any response, it was really frustrating, we had spent the whole day on this tap. We saw a neighbour and asked him if he knew any plumbers, he didn't but said he would come and look at the tap. he turned the tap and the water poured out, we just stood there in amazement, it turned out we had been turning the tap the wrong way! the tap that we have had for about 10 years, we turned off instead of on and there was nothing wrong with it at all! we felt really stupid, we had been from 5.30am until 5.00pm without any hot water in the kitchen. we both felt very old .

cwasin Sun 17-Dec-17 00:00:58

What’s the difference between a cormorant and a shag asked the guide. We were on a river trip around Brownsea Island. My mum piped up oh I’ve always wanted to know what a shag is like. My sister and I were dying but to his credit the guide didn’t crack a smile, he just explained. The other passengers were convulsed, I closed my eyes.

Marydoll Sat 16-Dec-17 23:26:46

My colleague and I were getting a rollicking from our Depute Head teacher for daring to use our initiative.
I happened to look down at my friend's feet and saw that she was wearing one flat navy shoe and one high heeled navy shoe.
This was at three in the afternoon and she had been walking about all day without realising. confused. I started to laugh and was making all sorts of strange noises, trying not to disgrace myself, until I let out an enormous snort. My colleague kept elbowing me to try to stop me, which only made it worse.
We still laugh about it till this day. How could she walk about all day wearing two different shoes?

Granny23 Sat 16-Dec-17 22:52:33

One day, back when DH did most of the driving, I happened to be at the supermarket by myself. Came out, opened the boot put the shopping in and climbed into the passenger seat. A woman standing by the next car started up a conversation about husbands who disappeared on an errand of their own and failed to turn up when expected to drive home. I commiserated with her, miscalled DH and the penny only dropped when the woman said , 'At least you have the keys and can sit in the car while you wait'.

I waited a while, hoping her DH would appear because I didn't want her to realise how stupid I had been, but with no sign of him and a school pick-up looming I had to do something. So I got out of the passenger seat, slammed the door, said 'to hell with him' got in the driver's seat, and with the woman cheering and shouting 'Good on You' I drove off.

Minnibix Sat 16-Dec-17 22:30:26

I thought the elevator was broken and started walking up, it was really hard going, when I was half way up I saw everyone at the top looking down at me, I was walking up the down escalator, instead of stopping and going down I made it worse by carrying on up to the top, very red faced and out of breath, I smiled and said "Well that's my work out for the day" but my toes curl when I think I must be on camera somewhere

dahlia08 Sat 16-Dec-17 22:18:59

I was very young, looking after my siblings when I was always late for school. Hot ready quickly start walking to school when I noticed I was still wearing my slippers, which reminding me again when I did something similar lately. Ready to go shopping....on the way I noticed I still have my slippers on. History repeated!

Lisa2705 Sat 16-Dec-17 21:43:55

I have had way to many to count but my latest one was reading an advert in the paper and trying my best to work out what a por-table DVD was. It was of course portable but as it was split on two lines it was super hard. I was asking my son and he was like I have no idea mum can you spell it so I did and he was roaring with laughter when he told me what it was. You would think I would have know better as many years ago when the princess Beatrice was born I was having a conversation with my mum and said what a stupid name to give a child Beat-rice. As in two separate words. She laughed for a long time too and brought it up again when my son told her about the portable DVD.

Weston127 Sat 16-Dec-17 20:38:17

Just before retiring I went shopping for the school where I worked. I stopped in the driveway on the way back in to drop off some goodies to the Nursery. I jumped back in the car and shut the door in readiness to drive on through to the car park. It was then I wondered why I was sitting in the back seat? Was anyone watching? You bet they were! blush

AnnB Sat 16-Dec-17 19:48:38

My eyes are streaming with tears of laughter at all the great posts above. My own experience was only last week when we were collecting the grandchildren from school and hit roadworks so we had to ring the school to say we'd be about ten minutes late. The efficient secretary asked the names of the children and then said logically 'What is your name?' at which my mind flipped and I just shouted 'It's Grandma!' (stunned silence at the other end!!)

Grandmother1234 Sat 16-Dec-17 19:47:15

When grandaughter asked if I’d been in the bath all afternoon and I replied no why do you ask and she said well your hands are all wrinkly like mine get when I stay in the bath too long.

marymod Sat 16-Dec-17 18:15:44

I went to work with two different shoes on - one blue, one black but the worst thing is they had a different heel height and I didn't notice until lunchtime. I then refused to move from my desk unless absolutely necessary for the rest of the day.

gobldygook Sat 16-Dec-17 18:04:20

Joined the Gransnet forum and chose the username gobldygook and then much... much,... much.... later realised it should be spelled gobbledygook

gobldygook Sat 16-Dec-17 17:48:42

This is a senior moment when I was young. I went to the school to the christmas fun day,leaving my 3 year old daughter in the creche while I took my 5 year old son round to see the displays etc. When it was over I happily trotted out of the school towards home and then remembered I had forgotten to collect my daughter.

suttonJ Sat 16-Dec-17 17:48:00

When my grandad arrived home from work a couple of hours late, looking sheepish, and evading nanna's inevitable question as to where he had been, nan was able to round on him, and say she'd seen him go sailing past her, fast asleep and oblivious, on the top deck of the 38 bus. He'd been all the way to the depot...and back....

Bestbuddy1977 Sat 16-Dec-17 16:26:56

I’d been watching itv+1 so I was a hour behind, but what made it worse was because it was the weekend the clocks went back. I altered my clocks with the time on my phone, but the next day I looked at the telly & thought what’s going on...I altered them yesterday....basically I was totally confused.
I had someone due to visit ...I told her she was early & it was her that told me about itv+1 ?