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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.

florencef1 Mon 11-Dec-17 18:37:09

I put an empty milk bottle in centre of dining table and a cyclamen in a pot on the doorstep .

NanaandGrampy Mon 11-Dec-17 17:38:55

I still blush when I think of mine.

I thought I was dressed to impressed with a long white, pleated skirt, blazer etc on the train into London.

The train had individual slamming type doors and the train was quite full and I was sat by the window.

As we pulled into Fenchurch Street station I thought I would beat the rush to get off the train and promptly stood up to move past the people sitting by me.

What I had not foreseen was at some stage my skirt had got trapped in the door and as I stood up, my skirt fuelled by an obliging elasticated waist did not !

It was one of those days when I thanked my mum for wearing clean underwear !

In my travelling companions favour apart from an intake of breath from the lady opposite , no one said a word, I quickly sat back down and remained until everyone had left the carriage before retrieving my skirt from around my feet!

kamoc Mon 11-Dec-17 12:53:33

it was mistaking my fiance's sister for his mum

Elrel Mon 11-Dec-17 12:29:25

I often thank people for phoning me when I've missed the call and rung them back.
Embarrassingly, saying tearful goodbyes at a family funeral, I thanked the deceased's daughter (who'd arranged it with her DF) for coming! Like me she'd enjoyed a consoling dram or two and 10 years later I'm still hoping she didn't notice!

Elrel Mon 11-Dec-17 12:21:59

Yesterday - Staying at DD's. First I told her the boiler had broken and the shower was running cold, she pointed out that some third party had turned it to cold.
Then I couldn't turn off the tv in the bedroom I slept in. The remote clearly was dead and I couldn't find a switch on the tv itself. Sighing she pointed out that the remote charger switch, behind a cupboard, had been switched off, not by me! I still haven't found the on/off switch on the tv ...
I'd better get my coat!

Charleygirl Mon 11-Dec-17 11:38:27

I do not think that there is a care home large enough to accommodate us all!

mrshumphreyjr Mon 11-Dec-17 10:55:47

many and often senior moments but the best one was waiting in a 'q' of people for the checkout, only to finally realise I was standing behind a couple of mannequins...and they weren't dressed....

antheacarol55 Mon 11-Dec-17 09:41:42

Mine was getting the bus home from town and then when my husband asked where is the car? I remembered I had left it in John Lewis car park !,

WilmaKnickersfit Mon 11-Dec-17 00:00:57

sparkle tchshock tchgrin

WilmaKnickersfit Sun 10-Dec-17 23:59:38

This is the funniest thread in ages!

Charleygirl you've reminded me of what I did last Christmas. I was meeting up with a friend and I knew she'd moved house to somewhere near another friend of mine. I asked her to pop my Christmas card through the other friend's door. I have never told her that later I remembered my other friend had died. tchblush

sparkle58 Sun 10-Dec-17 23:55:54

Posting all my christmas cards then realising I hadn't put the stamps on!

cwasin Sun 10-Dec-17 23:27:06

My underarm deodorant felt sticky one morning. It was hairspray.

cwasin Sun 10-Dec-17 23:12:47

Out with a friend I kept the lovely little chocolate you get at the end of an Indian meal for my DH because he loves them. Two months later I wondered what the disgusting sticky mess at the bottom of my handbag could be.

cwasin Sun 10-Dec-17 23:10:20

Telling my daughter I had bought her a cd of her favourite rapper Fifty P.

Pumpkin2 Sun 10-Dec-17 21:24:38

The other day, when the car was iced up on the drive, I went out and started the engine running. Five minutes later, I was looking in my handbag wondering where my car key was.

johnsonp100 Sun 10-Dec-17 20:35:10

Walking up the stairs and not knowing why I', there. Coming back down and remembering what I went up for.

Ikea1234 Sun 10-Dec-17 19:24:10

And this is another example!! "Friphone nods?!?!"

FRIENDS HOUSE!!

grannybiker Sun 10-Dec-17 19:23:37

A while ago I had a Skoda Felicia. Was due as service, so hubby looked around as I went to the counter and asked for filters to fit a Skoda fellatio :O !

Ikea1234 Sun 10-Dec-17 19:22:36

I left my friphone nods the other day, got in the car to drive home.

Except I didn't.

I got on the ring road, went all the way round it, got off at (what I thought was) my junction, parked....and was back at my friends house. Obviously she spotted me.

Well one of us thought it was funny anyway.

Granny23 Sun 10-Dec-17 19:08:47

Beautiful morning, driving to work nice and early for a VERY IMPORTANT meeting. Happily singing along to the radio when I realised that my voice sounded odd, all shhhh and ssss. Drove on puzzled, then the awful dawning - my teeth were still in the bathroom cleaning themselves. grin

vivianallman Sun 10-Dec-17 19:08:42

my mom slipped over outside the jewellers and then in a loud voice said... i know it's because i was pished....... she meant pushed as we were laughing and joking but her accent made it sound different, and a rather posh gentleman said don't worry old dear we all get pi$$ed sometimes it's just a senior moment to admit it...

AliW1 Sun 10-Dec-17 18:21:49

I was paying for something at a till. I meant to say "Thank you" but I said "Hello"........

adelleg3 Sun 10-Dec-17 18:19:50

i am always hiding things away for christmas so good that i cannot find them. i will find them next summer then do the same next year

s861421 Sun 10-Dec-17 16:51:48

I went out with odd shoes on and didnt realise. Several of my friends realised and thought it was just something I would do

ktmd Sun 10-Dec-17 16:49:01

Years ago my Nana told me her friend was staying in a fancy condom. She meant condominium lol.