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More of a 'Junior' moment. I once left baby no.2 parked outside our village P.O. in her pram, then walked all the way home without her. I've never run so fast back up a hill before or since. She was still there fast asleep, completely oblivious to her brief abandonment . I still come out in a cold sweat when I think about it nearly 40 years on....

I bought my son and daughter in law birthday cards at the same time. I sent my son the pink daughter in law birthday card oops

We stopped at a motorway services for a comfort break with my Mum (who had Alzheimer's). She saw the sign advertising 'free Wifi' and asked what 'wiffy' was. She loved a good bargain!

We bought a satellite TV service. It was brand new and I couldn't remember the TV channel my programme was going to be on. So I rang my daughter to ask her if she knew.

Except I "rang" her on the new satellite controller.

Which was a blessing, because it turns out my favourite channel has the same first three numbers as her phone number.
I had switched the programme on all by myself!

In a hurry to get out of the house on a hot summers day I failed to notice my skirt was tucked into my knickers revealing a large expanse of flesh.As I walked up the hill a few car drivers beeped their horns and waved at me.I smiled and waved back thinking I must know them.As I reached the top of the hill a French lorry driver pulled in and started to make hand jestures at me and pointed towards my lower regions. I thought he was a pervert so started to shout at him to go away and threatened to call the police!Then I heard a voice from behind me say “ I think the poor chap is trying to tell you that every one can see your A** love”. I still go red when I think about it.

I think I may have started my senior moments several years ago. I came home from doing a big shop and put everything away. Next morning I found a box of Tampax in the fridge. Every Senior moments in my life, of which there are many at 66, are now referred to as Tampax in the Fridge moments!

I made it all the way in to work one day and couldn't figure out why everyone had been looking down at my feet when I met them, so I looked down and found I had one slipper and one loafer on - they were both comfortable so I never noticed before. Needless to say, I spent the rest of the day hiding my feet wherever possible.

Ahh my 84 yr old mum has just sent my GD aged 7 a birthday card with Mother on . I was impressed that she remembered TBH

Just this week I received a box of books from a well known online retailer. Although in the midst of doing other things I just couldn’t resist opening it on the table, which I have to admit was to put it mildly, a little cluttered, with Christmas cards, wrapping paper etc. I took out a couple of the books and looked at them but then saw a book I certainly hadn’t ordered - a well cookery book but it looked used. I presumed I’d received someone else’s 2nd hand book order. It was only several days later when clearing up the messy that I realised that book was in fact MINE! I’d been checking the recipe for the Christmas cookies I was making and must have accidentally scooped it up and put it in the box when looking at the new books!

I came out of the supermarket and I had forgotten where I had parked. I had to walk up and down all the rows to find it.

So glad I don't have to choose the winners, although I know which two would win the prize if I did!

I've done so many of these things that my DH says it's like living with the village idiot!

My offering is driving on the M6 in fog and asking my DH if he knew what Fo9 on the electronic warning sign meant.

This was the sign

Complaining on the phone to the gas company that my meter was spinning around when I wasn't using any... After demanding to speak to a line manager and ranting at them they politely pointed out I was looking at my electricity meter... Oops!

Forgetting where I had parked, searching all over for my car getting frazzled only to then realise I hadn't come in the car today, I had been given a lift to the shops

When after coming home with my shopping on the bus, then my husband said 'where have you parked the car'.....then I realised, it was in the supermarket car park !

I put some frozen food on my husbands tool cupboard, knew I had bought some and couldn't remember, until he went into it the next day and found it

Oh dear, thank you all for this wonderful thread - I've just been browsing the political ones and needed a laugh! So many are familiar to me especially leaving cars in car parks and walking home. I live only a few hundred yards from the centre of our small town and have popped in to the supermarket on the way home and left the car behind on more than one occasion. I try to slip back as if making out I've done it on purpose and really intended to lug all that shopping home.

Keys are the worst. They end up in the most peculiar places. The shed key turned up in a old gardening shoe not so long ago. It must have dropped in there when I came in. I can't possibly have put it there. Although....

I am getting a little concerned about me though. DH seems to be saying "I worry about you" more often over something I've said or done, and I frequently have no idea why. I tell myself he's covering up his own blunders.

I once made (and then served) chocolate custard instead of gravy with the Sunday roast ...

I have many senior moments, from taking my dog for a walk and leaving him tied up outside a shop (poor boy not for long though) and going home to the usual walking into a room not remembering what Ive gone in for.

When I got back from a visit to the doctors to find I had an odd pair of shoes on!

I don't recall any of mine but my Mum's funniest was when she came to stay with me a few years ago. I was feeding a stray cat at the time & he was really nervous of everyone except me so when Mum approached him he turned tail & ran. As he did Mum shouted out in horror 'Oh Liz, he's got terrible haemorrhoids!' At which I cracked up laughing & replied 'No Mum, he just hasn't been neutered!' We both howled laughing & she's never lived it down.

Recently, we had to retreat a few fence panels after they had had to be replaced. We used a pot that was in the garage ... only to find it was the shed treatment, not the colour we'd used on the fence. So we have to do three coats now!

Hanging up whenever my moby rang. I could not get, for the life of me, how to answer but I kept hanging up...

Funniest senior moment was when i forgot the word photographer and kept saying photocameraman at a wedding !

A couple of years ago my husband and I took our two grandchildren on holiday abroad. My husband was playing tennis with the two of them and I thought that it would be lovely to film them using my iPhone and send the footage home to their parents. I began to film but I couldn't see the screen very well because the sun was so bright. When we got back to the hotel, I began to look for the video of them playing tennis but for a couple of minutes all I watched was my face only. Needless to say but I had filmed with the camera on my face and not on them.