Big senior moment

No sound on computer. Checked to see that I hadn't put the volume control on mute.
Spent an hour trying to solve the problem, by googling and looking at various websites. Found out that I had put volume to zero - can't remember why!

Oh dear, MooMoo. Is a home ready for you! Yes, we all do stupid things sometimes - I put my shopping bill amount on my CC when it should have been my PIN, and wondered why it was rejected.

GabriellaG54 must you?!

I started early doing this. Back when I was twelve years old I asked a shop assistant in all seriousness "how much are your threepenny bags of crisps"

I tried to pay for some plants the other day at the garden centre with my National Trust Card. When we realised what I was doing the assistant laughed with me. However, the next card I waved over the card machine was my Nectar card, because what I was looking for was the garden centre discount card, in a similar colour, Fortunately the people behind me found it funny too! I am glad they all said they had such similar senior moments too.

Catching the bus back from town, I placed my bus pass on the card reader and instead of telling the driver my destination, I told him my bank PIN number. ?

I tried to use my National Trust card in Ikea for the discount. Well they are the same colour

I popped my bank card into the ATM, something I do regularly, as there isn't a branch of my bank here, withdrew the amount I needed, took my card and turned away. THEN remembered my cash, fortunately before anyone else had spotted it!

Rather worrying, isn't it?

MY FRIEND HAD BEEN INVITED TO HER DAUGHTERS'TO MEET DEVON A NEW FRIEND. WHEN DEVON ARRIVED MY FRIEND STOOD UP TO MEET HER SAYING " HELLO DOVER".

I thought I was being very tactful not asking "when's the baby due?" to a buxom friend who already had a baby of a year.
Well blow me if she wasn't expecting number 2 imminently and was insulted that I had assumed she was fat!
You can't win sometimes.

I just stood there in the bathroom trying to work out how to let the water out of the basin..

GG54, please stop[criticising others peoples typing, it doesn't do you any favours.

I don’t know if this is a senior moment but my husband fixed two very clever softly self closing toilet lids in our house but not our holiday flat. So it’s taken me 4 weeks to stop dropping the lid and crashing it !! When I go home I just know I’ll be trying to close the self closing lids! It’s the things I do on autopilot that can go wrong ! Like jabbering away in English, seeing someone looking puzzled, and realising oh woops I’m in Croatia. Wrong language!

Grandmasue UK I love your one about the stapler mouse ! That really made me giggle ?! Can just see myself doing that ?.

Some time ago I was trying to get money out of the cash machine using my mobile phone top up card.

Gabriella 54 did it again!

Making a cup of drinking chocolate I put the tub of chocolate into the microwave and the cup into the cupboard. Luckily I realised as I switched it on or it might have been rather messy!!

Not as bad as my mother though, who took a tube of eye ointment out of the cupboard and squeezed it onto her eye only to discover it was superglue. Luckily for her she missed and it went onto her eyelid and she realised quickly enough to wash it off.

Couldn’t work out why my bus pass wouldn’t ping until the driver pointed out I was using my bank card ?

Note to self ....must read other posts before posting I see lots of us use bank cards instead of bus passes
What is it about bath taps barmyoldbat I couldn’t remember which way the hot went off the other day when I was in the shower and the water was getting hotter and hotter as I was turning it more and more on instead of off

My DSis was chatting to a chap to whom she had just been introduced and called him Mr. Cox.
"Actually" he said "my surname is Dick".

And is it just me who points the car key at the front door of the house to open it??

Purpledaffodil - no, it's not just you! ?
Oldgoat - ??!

OldGoat
How mortifying

Years ago I’d just started in a new post and was making my way round senior staff members to introduce myself and explain my role.
I was shown into the office of one lady and noticed photographs of 2 young boys whilst I was waiting. She arrived and, after introductions, to break the ice, I asked her whether the boys were her grandsons. You can imagine my horror and embarrassment when she informed me that they were her sons!

It's not so much the criticising per se^ but doing it so publicly so that it humiliates.

If posters absolutely must pick people up on their English, punctuation etc., then PLEASE do it in a private message.

The rest of us really don't want to witness the sad need to criticise, which is humiliating to the poster as well.

And we're not in school.

I actually think the person doing the criticising is the only one who should feel embarrassed, as it is very bad internet manners to do that.