Big senior moment

Of course I didn't mean tine
Thought I'd better mention that before the knuckle rapper does!?

We all make mistakes Aggie. So what?!
Wouldn't waste tine dwelling on things, especially from people you may never meet.?

annep1 I am a sensitive wee soul

"Scarred you for life" Aggie Really?

Yorksherlass I was finking the same thing.

I was new to forums and kindly corrected someones use of their and there , the torrents of scoldings I got scared me off for ages and scarred me for life , I wince at grammar and spellings , but no longer correct anyone , indeed I blush at some of my own missuse of words

Speaking of microwaves.

I have the bad habit, repeated many times, of popping something in the microwave (cauliflower, green beans) before a family meal to heat them up - then finding the dish still sitting there, when they've all gone home.

I have a tiny kitchen so it's not always possible to keep everything piping hot at the same time. I now say, 'Remind me there's ........ in the microwave.'

And sometimes they even remember to do so

I fink that who does the critisizing gets off on it with all the feedbak !! Howzat ?

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.

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.

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!

OldGoat
How mortifying

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

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

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".

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

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

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.

Gabriella 54 did it again!

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

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

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!

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 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.

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 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?