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Post by andi9899 on Jan 12, 2015 22:59:30 GMT -5
We were at a fiesta for cinco de mayo one year. It's a pretty big production around here. I asked my cousin if she had seen my oldest who was about 3 or 4 at the time. She says "Um..." and pointed to the fact that I was carrying her on my hip. I was in my 20s at the time, so I couldn't even blame it on a senior moment!
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Post by tigerpause on Jan 12, 2015 23:47:15 GMT -5
One time I attended a St. Patrick's Day dance downtown. I had bought this new concealer stick, which was green, and I had tried it that night. I checked my make-up a few hours later in the ladies room. My face had green on it! I had left my house in such a hurry I'd forgotten to put my face powder on over the green concealer. (Being St. Paddy's Day, everyone was wearing green, so maybe nobody noticed...)
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Post by Peace77 on Jan 13, 2015 0:41:35 GMT -5
One time when my grandparents were visiting they couldn't find the toothpaste in the morning. It turned up in their bedroom. Then, grandma realized that it wasn't Aspercreme that had been rubbed on Grandpa's sore hip, it had been toothpaste.
One time I called the police to report my car stolen. The operator was asking me lots of questions about where I might have parked my car. Then, I discovered that I had parked in front of the house on the street instead of in the back. The operator told me that it happens all the time.
The remote control not only can't make phone calls but I've also discovered that cell phones can't change the channel on the TV.
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Jan 13, 2015 1:59:23 GMT -5
This isn't something "blind" I did - but what my father did years ago.
The man couldn't find his way around a kitchen if he tried - even with a road-map . My mom did all the meal prep. (Not sure he could even manage boiling water).
One day my mom was out running errands or doing something so that she wasn't home at lunch time (must have been a weekend, since dad was a teacher and wasn't usually home for lunch during the week).
He was hungry and decided to make himself a sandwich. How hard can that be, right?
When she finally did get home, she asked him if he wanted some lunch. He told her he made himself a sandwich. She asked what kind? He said he used up the rest of the opened can of sandwich meat that was in the fridge.
Mom said "What can of sandwich meat?" He said "the one that was in the fridge". She looked in the trash can, and discovered it had been a partially used can of soft cat food.
We ribbed him for years after that whenever he visited - asking if he wanted his favorite sandwich for lunch.
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Post by mamasita99 on Jan 13, 2015 5:30:05 GMT -5
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Post by nutty on Jan 13, 2015 8:11:42 GMT -5
I have cleaned the u trap under the sinks a lot of times. I mostly ALWAYS forget that there is water in there and proceed to open it with out a bucket there.
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Post by zibazinski on Jan 13, 2015 9:10:41 GMT -5
This isn't something "blind" I did - but what my father did years ago.
The man couldn't find his way around a kitchen if he tried - even with a road-map . My mom did all the meal prep. (Not sure he could even manage boiling water).
One day my mom was out running errands or doing something so that she wasn't home at lunch time (must have been a weekend, since dad was a teacher and wasn't usually home for lunch during the week).
He was hungry and decided to make himself a sandwich. How hard can that be, right?
When she finally did get home, she asked him if he wanted some lunch. He told her he made himself a sandwich. She asked what kind? He said he used up the rest of the opened can of sandwich meat that was in the fridge.
Mom said "What can of sandwich meat?" He said "the one that was in the fridge". She looked in the trash can, and discovered it had been a partially used can of soft cat food.
We ribbed him for years after that whenever he visited - asking if he wanted his favorite sandwich for lunch.
My grandpa drank my science project! Thought it was Kool aid even though it was clearly marked to not drink it. My grandma actually had to go with me to school and tell the teacher my grandpa ate it because I'm sure she had a million excuses and I was afraid to tell her this one.
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Post by milee on Jan 13, 2015 9:23:37 GMT -5
My grandpa drank my science project! What super powers did he get? I'd drink a science project if I then developed the ability to fly or sling webs.
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Post by zibazinski on Jan 13, 2015 9:26:48 GMT -5
He just complained that it didn't taste good. Well, it was clearly marked DO NOT DRINK! Then He had the nerve to get mad about it.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Jan 13, 2015 9:47:34 GMT -5
We took a red eye on a trip. We got to the resort, but I was a walking zombie the 5 hours before we crawled into bed.
i went to brush my teeth and realized that the toothpaste tasted hideous. I used the tube of cortisone cream I had packed, instead of toothpaste!
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Post by The Captain on Jan 13, 2015 9:49:14 GMT -5
Home from college on a break once. I was the baker in the family and my Dad asked me if I'd make him a batch of chocolate chip cookies. I happily threw together a batch for him so he'd have some nice warm ones to take with him as he headed off to work (he did nights, so left the house at midnight).
Smiling, I handed him a container and a separate warm one as he was headed out the door, there were a bit odd looking but he took a bite, smiled and thanked me.
After he left I went to have one for myself and almost gagged. Later come to find out the flour container had a crack and got musty and mom put baking soda in there to try to clear out the odor.
Yep, I substituted baking soda for flower.
Now I ALWAYS sample before giving out, no matter how many times I've made the recipe.
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Post by whoisjohngalt on Jan 13, 2015 9:56:05 GMT -5
How stupid am I??
Is this a trick question ?........
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jan 13, 2015 9:57:39 GMT -5
I was half awake and went to brush my teeth. Couldn't figure out why it tasted so bad and like soap. I'd put my toothbrush underneath the foam soap dispenser. DH likes to leave his denture paste right next to the tooth paste tube. So far I have managed not to confuse the two. DH keeps hoping I will and that he'll be home with the camera.
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Post by CarolinaKat on Jan 13, 2015 10:03:28 GMT -5
Last week I went to warm up the car and hit the manual door lock, and I go back inside our building. I finish getting ready for work and go out to the car and the key fob on the spare isn't working. I can't unlock the door! I locked the keys in the ignition! I'm freaking out! Hubs comes out and, yup, inserts the key in the door and manually unlocks the door. I had to take a train 10 minutes later than my usual one because of my lapse of common sense. I've got one better: We have ceiling fan in our bedroom. The light is cut on and off at the light switch and the fan is operated by the pull chain. There is also a pull chain for the light, which is never used due to it being repetative. One morning I get up, go to cut on the light, and nothing happens. I try the switch several more times and then give up. I cut on the lamps and begin examining all the bulbs. They all look fine. So i go to work and figure that DH will look at it when he gets home. He ends up having to work over night, so I have to go another night with no overhead light in the bedroom because I didn't have time to go buy new bulbs. So the next DH comes home. I look at him and frustration and declare 'We need to buy new lightbulbs' 'No we don't, they're practically new' 'No they're not working, we need new ones' 'Show me' So I walk into the bedroom and flip on the switch and nothing happens. 'See? They've been out for like 2 days!!' Then DH starts laughing at me. He immediately walks over to the fan and pulls the light cord and the lights come on. He then walks out... I felt so stupid
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Post by wvugurl26 on Jan 13, 2015 10:09:18 GMT -5
The other night I was trying to open a window. Yes, its January and like 25 degrees outside but it was hotter than hell up in the bedrooms. Stupid townhouse with thermostat downstairs so its 68 and almost cold down there but 100 degrees upstairs in the bedrooms. Some dumbass only locked one side of the window when it was shut last time. So I flipped both of the locks and was too half asleep to realize they were going in opposite directions and that's why the damn window wouldn't open.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Jan 13, 2015 10:10:17 GMT -5
I had to be at work at 6AM due to working 4 10's. Lived 25 miles from work so busing butt to get there on time. Got up, dressed, did hair and out the door. Stopped by PO for mail then stopped at Circle K for Cigs. Got to office with 2 Supers waiting for me to go over quirks in payroll. Put on pot of coffee and we sat down for about 30 mins going over payroll. They left and I went to bathroom. Looked into mirror and realized I hadn't combed out my hair after using curling iron. Wondered why they looked at me kinda funny when I came in. One other time I got to work and realized I had on one Reebok and one Nike shoe - same place of employment. They kinda got used to me Oh and the morning I was tooling along the interstate and had a flash moment - as in this doesn't look familiar - I had not only passed my exit but the last one that would have taken me back to office. I had to go into the next county and turn around and head back - I was late that day. But I have done way more blind/stupid stuff that I won't even post here. Sorta my life's story. I just count them as lifes little adventures.
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Post by Cookies Galore on Jan 13, 2015 10:19:57 GMT -5
I'm one of those morning multi-taskers who is always trying to accomplish one more household task before leaving for work. That usually means that I am bolting out the door, late for work. All too often I have discovered later at work that my underwear or a blouse is on inside out or that I have two different shoes on. Ha! I once made it halfway to the train station before I realized I didn't put on a bra! Good thing it's only a five minute drive in the morning.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jan 13, 2015 10:23:34 GMT -5
We get in my car one day and DH sticks the key in the ignition. It won't turn. He keeps jiggling it and it won't turn. He gets increasingly pissed off and demands to know what is wrong with my car.
I look down at the key chain it says "World's Best Father". He was trying to use the Pontiac's key to drive my Impala.
I pointed to the key chain. Boy was he embarrassed.
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Post by tloonya on Jan 13, 2015 10:28:06 GMT -5
I don't know why I am not feeling like telling you anything...
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Post by Sam_2.0 on Jan 13, 2015 10:30:06 GMT -5
One time when my grandparents were visiting they couldn't find the toothpaste in the morning. It turned up in their bedroom. Then, grandma realized that it wasn't Aspercreme that had been rubbed on Grandpa's sore hip, it had been toothpaste. One time I called the police to report my car stolen. The operator was asking me lots of questions about where I might have parked my car. Then, I discovered that I had parked in front of the house on the street instead of in the back. The operator told me that it happens all the time. The remote control not only can't make phone calls but I've also discovered that cell phones can't change the channel on the TV.They can if you download the DirecTV app Finally had to do that after I kept losing the remote.
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Post by steph08 on Jan 13, 2015 10:30:47 GMT -5
My dad likes to tell the story of when I was still living at home, and he and I were having dinner together (my mom was working late or something). We decided to have grilled cheese and soup. So I cooked it. I use American cheese on my sandwich (Kraft singles), but he has pepper jack - a kind of cheese that I have never cooked with before. So we're eating dinner, and he is chewing and chewing and chewing, saying that his sandwich is really tough. It's grilled cheese, how is this possible? Then he ever so slowly pulls out the piece of paper that they put between cheese slices in the pack of pepper jack cheese. He had probably eaten a quarter of a piece by then. Oh we laughed and laughed. I'm still embarrassed by it - I didn't know they put paper between slices (and I was like 22 at the time)!
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Post by Sam_2.0 on Jan 13, 2015 10:36:12 GMT -5
Turned on the heat at our house for the first time. It was BOILING hot upstairs and still about 50 degrees downstairs (t-stat is upstairs). We lived with it like that for a week! Had some friends over, and when we commented on it, they asked us if we had switched the damper in the duct work. Our friend went downstairs with DH, showed him the switch, and within an hour our house was a nice even temp We've never lived anywhere with more than one floor so we had no idea. I can't tell you how many times I've washed my hair backwards (conditioner first) and wondered why it felt so greasy. I also tend to leave the house without deodorant often enough that I keep it in my desk drawer at work. I have a very ordered routine in the morning, and if anything disrupts it apparently I have a hard time remembering where I was or getting the rest of it completed.
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Post by Peace77 on Jan 13, 2015 10:37:25 GMT -5
One time when my grandparents were visiting they couldn't find the toothpaste in the morning. It turned up in their bedroom. Then, grandma realized that it wasn't Aspercreme that had been rubbed on Grandpa's sore hip, it had been toothpaste. One time I called the police to report my car stolen. The operator was asking me lots of questions about where I might have parked my car. Then, I discovered that I had parked in front of the house on the street instead of in the back. The operator told me that it happens all the time. The remote control not only can't make phone calls but I've also discovered that cell phones can't change the channel on the TV.They can if you download the DirecTV app Finally had to do that after I kept losing the remote. Don't you have to buy Direct TV service? We don't have it and our TVs are ancient (not digital).
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Post by Sam_2.0 on Jan 13, 2015 10:38:58 GMT -5
Yeah, you do. But it's a nice perk if you have it
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Post by wvugurl26 on Jan 13, 2015 10:44:54 GMT -5
I will have to check on the possibility of a damper Sam. Thanks for sharing. I would have never thought about that. I lived in a townhouse in college where the ductwork wasn't right and you just had to deal with it. My brother suggested turning the fan on. Have to figure that out on the programmable thermostat.
It was so hot the other night I woke up and my throat was so raw it felt bloody. I'm cold natured but that was insane!
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Post by cktc on Jan 13, 2015 10:59:33 GMT -5
Yesterday I decided to paint a step that didn't stain well, did a preliminary search for my wood-grain tool but couldn't find it so I called my sister to see if I loaned it to her. She didn't know what a wood-grain tool was so I resumed my search. Swift victory, I found it. Then I realized the paint I wanted wasn't with the rest, or in any of it's usual spots so I ask my SO, he suggests a location and I find it, hurray! Leave box of paints precariously positioned on edge of washing machine but this is a quick project and I'll move it when I am finished. Finally finish the step and my SO is waiting for me so we can head out. Quick clean up, I'll worry about putting everything away later, pour a water for the road, oh wait, where is my phone. Retrace my steps after conversation with sister and it is upstairs where the wood grain tool was hiding. Head back down, oh wait, where is my water? Now that is also upstairs abandoned in the hunt for the phone. Finally head out and remember the box of paints on the washing machine edge. 20 hours later, and I've just texted my SO to move that box off the washing machine
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Post by midwestlily on Jan 13, 2015 11:00:32 GMT -5
I too have reached for the remote to rewind something that happened in real life. I too keep deodorant in my desk for the days (once or twice a year) that I forget to put it on. I too have worn mismatched shoes to work. I've never left the paper between slices of cheese, but the first time I roasted a Cornish game hen, I left the little paper sac of giblets inside. Didn't find it till I was halfway through eating the bird. Yes, I'd seen my mother and grandmother dealing with giblets in turkeys and chickens, but it had never occurred to me that they'd be included in a game hen. My worst makeup fail was the day I put mascara on one eye but not the other. I looked really weird. The incident that bothered me the most was when I got up one morning, wondered why the cat wasn't there to greet me, and then saw her sad little face staring in at me from the unheated screened porch. It happened in the fall, hadn't been that cold overnight, so she was fine. The door is close to the bedroom, and she must have made a lot of noise breaking one of the screens, but I never heard a thing. I still worry that I'll leave her out there again.
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Post by Tennesseer on Jan 13, 2015 11:02:35 GMT -5
A friend's parents were visting her. The father went into the guest bathroom to use the facilities. After completing his business, he exited the bathroom and told everyone that the cookies offered in the bathroom tasted terrible. My friend, knowing there were no cookies in the bathroom, asked her dad to retrieve what he had partially consumed. It turned out he had eaten a bar of soap, the size you find in hotel bathrooms.
In the father's defense, he was suffering from terminal brain cancer but the family, especially her dad, had a good laugh about the soapy cookie.
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Post by Tennesseer on Jan 13, 2015 11:11:43 GMT -5
I too have reached for the remote to rewind something that happened in real life. Yeaaaaa!
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Post by Sam_2.0 on Jan 13, 2015 11:52:30 GMT -5
I will have to check on the possibility of a damper Sam. Thanks for sharing. I would have never thought about that. I lived in a townhouse in college where the ductwork wasn't right and you just had to deal with it. My brother suggested turning the fan on. Have to figure that out on the programmable thermostat. It was so hot the other night I woke up and my throat was so raw it felt bloody. I'm cold natured but that was insane! Don't turn the fan on the furnace unless you want a really high electric bill to go with it! Our damper was located near the furnace. The previous tenants had marked it winter/summer to make it even easier on us
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