Tell me you've done something this brainless!

[kiwi3129]

LOL! I did this, except that it was my brother-in-law's car. He was parked in our turn around area and I totally forgot that he was there when I backed out. It caused minor damage, but we kept offering to pay to have it fixed. He kept declining. A few months after it happened his car was totaled in an accident. I was kind of glad then that he had declined our fixing my damage!

 

Yep. I pulled out of the garage and backed right into our other car. Twice. DH was not amused.

[kiwi3129]

One more I can think of -- I got distracted with the kids after we had pulled into my parents' driveway. I forgot that I hadn't put the van in park yet and let off the gas. Put a pretty nice dent in the garage door. Thankfully my dad had some extra garage door panels (don't ask me why) and was able to replace the dented panel himself.

[thessa516]

Tried to hard boil eggs and forgot until the water completely evaporated and the eggs were black.

 

If you cook them just a bit longer than the completely evaporated/black state, they'll explode. :001_huh: Yeah, the kids love to tell about the time I made the eggs explode. It's terrifyingly louder than you would think. I had to scrub egg off the ceiling! :lol:

[Chelle in MO]

One more I can think of -- I got distracted with the kids after we had pulled into my parents' driveway. I forgot that I hadn't put the van in park yet and let off the gas. Put a pretty nice dent in the garage door. Thankfully my dad had some extra garage door panels (don't ask me why) and was able to replace the dented panel himself.

 

My dh would TOTALLY have the extra door panels! Weirdo! :D (Not that your dad is one. :001_smile:)

[Denisemomof4]

Clearly you don't know me, Pam, or you would know better than to ask such a silly question.

 

When my mother was living in our home, we actually bought a handicap bus with a hydraulic lift so I could take her to the doctors or, most often, the ER. I seriously needed that bus because I had to call an ambulance to transport her twice.

 

 

Anyway, she landed in the ER every few weeks. The docs knew me by sight and first name. I was there all the time. I knew the hospital and parking garage inside and out.

 

One time I took her to the ER and I was distressed because I knew what was coming: needles, poking, prodding - PAIN. I was getting so tired from caring for mom and I remember being REALLY overwhelmed this night. I brought mom into the ER and told them I needed to go park the bus. Instead of taking a left into the garage to avoid those stupid clearance warning signs, I took a right. And crashed into the signs with the top of the bus.:glare: everyone found it necessary to watch me to see how I was going to get myself out of that pickle. Then a security guard came running to direct me, all the while making everyone else stop and watch me. I mean, really?:lol::lol::lol: talk about embarrassing.

 

Unfortunately, that wasn't the worst part.

 

I was so mortified that when I finally scraped my way out of that situation, literaly ..... You could hear the sign scraping the top, and the initial impact sounded like it took the roof off! Anyway, I parked, peole still staring, security guard glaring, :glare: I locked up and ran to get inside to be with mom. As usual, I was there for HOURS. I got mom checked into the hospital and finally got to go home hours later. Couldn't find the keys. I get out to the bus and see them right there in the ignition. I call dh, he doesn't know how to get into the bus. I tried to pry open the bifold doors, no luck. Finally I call BIL and he tells me I can get in by squeezing in between the crack which separates the hydraulic lift and the roof of the bus. I can only get up there because I'm so tall. Then I get stuck. And cars are driving by. Honestly, I so wanted to check out at that point.:lol: I somehow squeezed through and fell on the ground hard. Of course someone was going to their car, parked right by me. I have no idea what they thought, but I wanted to get the heck out of there!!!

 

I think I had a glass of wine when I got home. Or two. BIL was laughing at the scenario over the phone. I wasn't amused.

:lol:

[Cinder]

My brainless act is not nearly so funny as everyone else's. Just the other day after I got out of the shower and dried off I was putting lotion on my legs when I noticed I had managed to shave only one leg. :tongue_smilie:

[Chelle in MO]

My brainless act is not nearly so funny as everyone else's. Just the other day after I got out of the shower and dried off I was putting lotion on my legs when I noticed I had managed to shave only one leg. :tongue_smilie:

 

My "drying off after the shower, then putting on lotion" story is similar. But instead of using actual LOTION, I used body wash. :glare:

 

Back into the shower I went. Doubly clean! :D

[Miss Marple]

My brainless act is not nearly so funny as everyone else's. Just the other day after I got out of the shower and dried off I was putting lotion on my legs when I noticed I had managed to shave only one leg. :tongue_smilie:

 

LOL! I once put the milk in the cereal cupboard, went to town wearing my slippers, forgot ds#3's birth date (filling out paperwork - lady thought I was really stupid - very embarrassing), went to church with my turtle-neck shirt inside out. Dh is the one around here that does things that cause permanent damage :D

 

Many years ago when we drove a full size van, dh managed to put a ding in every corner. We had to take it to the mechanic once - I drove the van and dh drove another car. When the mechanic walked over to the van, he gave dh a couple jabs with his elbow, a couple of knowing winks and said, "women drivers and big vehicles" wink, wink, jab, jab...dh just smiled and nodded and said nothing in my defense. I was too shocked, with my jaw hanging on my chest, to say anything. Needless to say, when I recovered my composure, dh did get an earful.:glare:

[DawnM]

I once backed one of our cars into another of our cars! Yup, brainless. Thankfully no real damage as I was going really slowly, but still......

[Outdoorsy Type]

When I was pregnant I had trouble remembering my Dr's visit days/times. Once I called them at 9am to ask the time, and then *still* showed up at the wrong time. I think I was an hour early? Thankfully, it was a small town and the office was only a mile away from my house. It gave the staff quite a laugh, though.

 

Then there's the time that I backed into DHs car. While MIL and DH watched from her car. I wasn't used to having his car behind mine.

 

Or the time I was in college for Early Childhood Ed and was studying Montessori methods. I walked up to the deli and asked for Rotessori (rhymed with Montessori) chicken. The deli person just stared at me. :lol: DH was standing next to me and was about to pass out from laughing.

[Swimtaxi234]

The OP's - not once, but twice and the "strong like a bull" stories had me crying with laughter.

[Mama Lynx]

Last night I drove off with the back hatch of the car wide open.

 

:lol:

[melissel]

OMW, this thread has me absolutely :smilielol5:!

 

Not nearly so expensive, but my first-time-pregnant brain completely shut down on me one day while I was out to lunch with two teacher friends. We were at a local fast-food place trying to eat before our lunch break was over and the woman who substituted in the office for the secretary walked in. We turned to say hello ... I don't know what I was thinking. I was holding my milkshake in my right hand, taking a drink and for some reason let-go mid-drink ... the entire thing went crashing down to the floor between me and one of the other teachers. The straw stayed in my mouth, dripping milkshake down my pregnant-belly. The other teacher was sitting across the table and had a look of horror on her face; my friend next to me thought I was in labor. Nope. Just epic pregnant-brain failure. I still cannot tell the story without laughing so hard I can't continue.

 

Oh my gosh! My one major story is similar, and I was pregnant too! I had just left my weekly midwife appointment (I was probably about 38 weeks at that point) and was headed home down a four-lane road that curved for awhile before straightening out. I was in the right lane, when I suddenly realized I needed something from my purse. I took my eyes off the road and started digging through it to find what I needed...with both hands. A few seconds went by until WHAM! I hit the curb and went up over it :confused: Thankfully I had the presence of mind to get us (DD9 was in the back, 2 at the time) back on the road quickly before I traveled as the crow flies to the municipal building, but wow, was I scared. I realized afterward that my blood sugar was crazy low. The alignment the whole thing necessitated was pretty pricy too :blushing:

 

Yeah -- I wish I had only sewn my fingerNAIL -- I've sewn right through my finger!! Thankfully it was just to the side of the nail where there aren't too many nerve endings, but the sight of the needle straight through the finger is horrifying. Plus, like an idiot, I tried to yank my hand out of the machine without lifting the needle first!?!?!

 

OK, this is the reason that my brand new sewing machine is still sitting down in the garage, unused--for the past 8 years. I'm terrified of that, and so many seamstresses have assured me that it will happen at least once :svengo:

 

Yeah, the kids love to tell about the time I made the eggs explode. It's terrifyingly louder than you would think. I had to scrub egg off the ceiling! :lol:

 

:lol:

 

I backed into dh's car with my van. DH was in the passenger seat. I stopped, "Opps! Put it into drive and pulled off his car's bumper with the tow hitch on the van."

 

Oh, this is SO something that would happen to me, and with DH right next to me too. Yesterday I backed out of the garage while DH stood in front of me and waved. As I did, I cut a little too hard to the right and scraped along the side of the garage doorframe :blush: This is the 3rd or 4th time I've done it, but the first time when DH was standing right there. The look of horror on his face was priceless.

 

Thankfully, most of my foibles involve me doing something like tipping my hand to look at my watch, while holding an open cup of water in my hand. Or, most recently, carrying a laundry basket upstairs, then bending over to pick up a dropped item of clothing...while holding an open cup of water in my hand. That seems to happen to me a lot, actually :confused:

Edited January 14, 2012 by melissel

[GoVanGogh]

forgot ds#3's birth date (filling out paperwork - lady thought I was really stupid - very embarrassing)

:lol:

My son was due mid-February of 2002. We kept hoping he would have a 2-2-2 birthday, but he was born premature in 2001.

I had "2002" so engrained in my head that I filled out paperwork with 2002 as his birth year for nearly a year before a kind nurse notified me that I had listed his birthday wrong on dozens of forms. If you have ever had a premature baby and been to dozens of specialists that first year... you know how many times I had listed his wrong birth year before anyone ever said anything to me. :lol:

[cin]

This isn't mine but it's the one the kids laugh about the most.

My Mom had picked them up and decided to take them to a&w for lunch. My mom pulled up to the drive through and started to place their order at the garbage can! The girls couldn't stop laughing long enough to help her!

 

We have 2 fast food restaurants right next to each other that are both red and yellow (Wendy's and Gold Star, for those familiar with Cincy). I pulled up to Wendy's and ordered a 3 way. God only knows what the teen age male thought he was getting into :D I was re-directed to the next restaurant.

 

I've also stopped at the current advertisement and waited until the person behind me beeped, then realized that I was NOT at the place to order. I was at a SIGN.

[Chelle in MO]

It was in my pocket and fell out! I'm not that dedicated!

 

Well, that explains it!

 

My aunt had a brand-new, $300 pair of glasses in her pocket when she went to the bathroom in a mall one time. She finished her business, pulled up her slacks, and heard the glasses fall into the toilet. Bad enough, but when she went to retrieve them, the automatic flusher kicked in and away they went down the drain!!!

Edited January 14, 2012 by Chelle in MO
Had to fix the spelling error!

[MamaT]

I was walking through our living room about six months after we got married, saw a ball on the floor, and for some crazy reason decided to kick it - hard. When it hit the wall, I realized it wasn't a ball, but the new puppy's bowl of milk. I'm sure my dh wondered what kind of crazy he had married.

[Miss Marple]

Well, that explains it!

 

My aunt had a brand-new, $300 pair of glasses in her pocket when she went to the bathroom in a mall one time. She finished her business, pulled up her slacks, and heard the glasses fall into the toilet. Bad enough, but when she went to retrieve them, the automatice flusher kicked in and away they went down the drain!!!

 

Oh, that must have been horrible!

[cin]

I am a klutz; VERY accident prone, but nothing sticks out. It must be so much my nature. :D I do know that TIDE in the dishwasher is a catastrophe. And a new dishwasher. And electric stoves do NOT cook like crock pots. That, of course was the day mom and dad brought gramma over to see the 'new' house. FULL of smoke and stinky! My favorite stupid thing though, is one that DH pulled...

 

DH was holding the bottom of a door, which needed about a half inch cut off the bottom. He's holding with his left hand, and cutting with his right. As he's cutting, his left hand starts feeling funny. Then he realizes that his fingers, which are on the bottom side, are being cut also, while he's cutting through the door.

 

The best part for me. The ER was really busy that day. They had to give him *3* sets of shots. It took THAT long to get him cleaned and stitched.;)

[Miss Marple]

My "drying off after the shower, then putting on lotion" story is similar. But instead of using actual LOTION, I used body wash. :glare:

 

Back into the shower I went. Doubly clean! :D

 

OH, that reminds me of the time I was putting hair gel on my hair before drying it...only to discover that it was shampoo which doesn't dry the same way as gel :001_huh:

[MamaT]

I forgot where "reverse" was in a car I had been driving for over a year. I drove back to the city we had just moved from to go to the dentist, and was staying with my sister. I drove around all day making sure I could go forward (parking

anywhere was difficult). I called my dh and he told me to take it to the BMW dealership. The mechanic got in my car and made a wide circle in the parking area to get it up on the rack because he couldn't back up, of course. They told me it was going to cost $1100 to fix it. :confused: They put it in neutral and pushed it backwards out of the garage. Dh says to just get home the next day and we'll figure out what to do.

 

So my bil comes home from work and wants to look at it. I watched him get in the car (parked on the street because I couldn't back out of the driveway), and back up. I had been trying to put the gear shift in the wrong place ALL day. I don't know what the mechanic's excuse was.

[Ibbygirl]

I was walking through our living room about six months after we got married, saw a ball on the floor, and for some crazy reason decided to kick it - hard. When it hit the wall, I realized it wasn't a ball, but the new puppy's bowl of milk. I'm sure my dh wondered what kind of crazy he had married.

 

ROFL That sounds like something my dh would do! :lol::lol::lol:

[Heidi]

It was 5:00 a.m. I was the only one who was wide awake in the neighborhood, and I was on my way to a prayer meeting.

 

I got into my SUV, put it into reverse, and backed up. I didn't get very far. I hit something.

 

For no reason, I thought I had hit a log. My SUV is strong like a bull, so I figured it would go over that log. I moved forward and backed up again and again, but I could not get over it no matter how hard I hit the accelerator.

 

I was very disappointed in my vehicle, and I got out to move the log myself.

 

It was DH's car. He always parked beside me. I did not notice that his car was not in its usual spot. I did not look in the rear view mirror. Or maybe I did and his car was so low to the ground I couldn't see it. I have no explanation for this, especially since I had never seen a log lying around our property during the decade we'd lived there.

 

DH's car might have had scratches on its bumper or maybe a dent. What I remember clearly is that my SUV was not damaged at all. Because it is strong like a bull.

 

Lol! I'm crying!

[ApronMama]

I do this kind of stuff ALL the time. Way too many to mention! Its nice to know I'm not alone!

[BatmansWife]

We have 2 fast food restaurants right next to each other that are both red and yellow (Wendy's and Gold Star, for those familiar with Cincy). I pulled up to Wendy's and ordered a 3 way. God only knows what the teen age male thought he was getting into :D I was re-directed to the next restaurant.

 

I've also stopped at the current advertisement and waited until the person behind me beeped, then realized that I was NOT at the place to order. I was at a SIGN.

 

:lol:

 

Well, that explains it!

 

My aunt had a brand-new, $300 pair of glasses in her pocket when she went to the bathroom in a mall one time. She finished her business, pulled up her slacks, and heard the glasses fall into the toilet. Bad enough, but when she went to retrieve them, the automatice flusher kicked in and away they went down the drain!!!

 

Awwww....poor Auntie! That was an expensive potty stop!

 

I was walking through our living room about six months after we got married, saw a ball on the floor, and for some crazy reason decided to kick it - hard. When it hit the wall, I realized it wasn't a ball, but the new puppy's bowl of milk. I'm sure my dh wondered what kind of crazy he had married.

 

:lol: You thought it was a ball.....and you decided to kick it hard in the house?! :lol:

 

I forgot where "reverse" was in a car I had been driving for over a year. I drove back to the city we had just moved from to go to the dentist, and was staying with my sister. I drove around all day making sure I could go forward (parking

anywhere was difficult). I called my dh and he told me to take it to the BMW dealership. The mechanic got in my car and made a wide circle in the parking area to get it up on the rack because he couldn't back up, of course. They told me it was going to cost $1100 to fix it. :confused: They put it in neutral and pushed it backwards out of the garage. Dh says to just get home the next day and we'll figure out what to do.

 

So my bil comes home from work and wants to look at it. I watched him get in the car (parked on the street because I couldn't back out of the driveway), and back up. I had been trying to put the gear shift in the wrong place ALL day. I don't know what the mechanic's excuse was.

 

Those rotten mechanics!

 

 

 

The only other funny/stupid thing I can remember doing was about a year ago. Again...on my way out the door to church (maybe I should learn my lesson!). I'm walking toward the car and stop to say something to my dh, who's standing in the yard. We talk for a minute and then he says, "Do you wanna go to church like that?" He looks at the back of my dress. Then I look at the back of my dress. Here my skirt and slip were tucked into my nylons! I was thinking, "Yes...I want to go to church like this. It's the new style, you know." :glare: :001_rolleyes: Can you imagine if he didn't mention it and I really did walk into church like that??? :blushing: Apparently there was no breeze that day (unlike the day I had to pee behind the cardboard boxes)...because I sure had no clue.

Edited January 14, 2012 by ~AprilMay~

[Chelle in MO]

OH, that reminds me of the time I was putting hair gel on my hair before drying it...only to discover that it was shampoo which doesn't dry the same way as gel :001_huh:

 

Ooooooh...not good!

 

:lol:

 

The only other funny/stupid thing I can remember doing was about a year ago. Again...on my way out the door to church (maybe I should learn my lesson!). I'm walking toward the car and stop to say something to my dh, who's standing in the yard. We talk for a minute and then he says, "Do you wanna go to church like that?" He looks at the back of my dress. Then I look at the back of my dress. Here my skirt and slip were tucked into my nylons! I was thinking, "Yes...I want to go to church like this. It's the new style, you know." :glare: :001_rolleyes: Can you imagine if he didn't mention it and I really did walk into church like that??? :blushing: Apparently there was no breeze that day (unlike the day I had to pee behind the cardboard boxes)...because I sure had no clue.

 

That happened to a girl who was in a play we went to last night. I felt so badly for her!

[Melissa in Australia]

I was walking through our living room about six months after we got married, saw a ball on the floor, and for some crazy reason decided to kick it - hard. When it hit the wall, I realized it wasn't a ball, but the new puppy's bowl of milk. I'm sure my dh wondered what kind of crazy he had married.

:lol::lol:

 

Many years ago, one evening I noticed that there were a huge amount of moths and mosquitoes buzzing around the living room light. I got a broom to sweep them off, and swept the light right off the ceiling. My DH just stood there staring at me. He said he couldn't believe I would do something so stupid, what was I thinking... Um. I didn't think...

[Hunter's Moon]

The only other funny/stupid thing I can remember doing was about a year ago. Again...on my way out the door to church (maybe I should learn my lesson!). I'm walking toward the car and stop to say something to my dh, who's standing in the yard. We talk for a minute and then he says, "Do you wanna go to church like that?" He looks at the back of my dress. Then I look at the back of my dress. Here my skirt and slip were tucked into my nylons! I was thinking, "Yes...I want to go to church like this. It's the new style, you know." :glare: :001_rolleyes: Can you imagine if he didn't mention it and I really did walk into church like that??? :blushing: Apparently there was no breeze that day (unlike the day I had to pee behind the cardboard boxes)...because I sure had no clue.

 

This reminded me of something.

 

A few years ago, my church was having their annual Christmas party. You know how attendance at church during the holidays is usually a lot higher than it is the rest of the year? Well, that was certainly true for my church.

 

I was sitting in the front row with a friend who sat down after I had. I think I was getting up to go to the bathroom or something like that, so basically no one else was standing. Well, my friend had sat on my skirt AND slip, so when I stood, down both came and I was standing in the front of our packed church in my undies. Whatever I had meant to stand up to do wasn't that important because I pulled my slip and skirt up and sat back down and didn't move the rest of the service :lol:

[Chelle in MO]

This reminded me of something.

 

A few years ago, my church was having their annual Christmas party. You know how attendance at church during the holidays is usually a lot higher than it is the rest of the year? Well, that was certainly true for my church.

 

I was sitting in the front row with a friend who sat down after I had. I think I was getting up to go to the bathroom or something like that, so basically no one else was standing. Well, my friend had sat on my skirt AND slip, so when I stood, down both came and I was standing in the front of our packed church in my undies. Whatever I had meant to stand up to do wasn't that important because I pulled my slip and skirt up and sat back down and didn't move the rest of the service :lol:

 

 

:eek:

[Stacia]

I forgot where "reverse" was in a car

 

Something similar happened to my sil & me. We were in a rental car & had gone to meet my mil & her sister for lunch. After lunch, sil & I got in the car (she was driving; the car was a manual) & she (then we) could not figure out how to put the car in reverse. It was nuts. Sil tried & tried for over 20 minutes. We were laughing so hard we were crying. Somehow, she finally figured it out. At least it gave the people dining on the patio a show (though they were probably tired of the car's exhaust by the time we finally managed to reverse & leave). :tongue_smilie::lol:

 

And, does anyone else 'misplace' her glasses by having them on your face, in front of your eyes like they're supposed to be. I've done that more than once, exclaming, "Oh no. I forgot my glasses whereever." And, then, whoever I'm with always looks at me strangely & answers, "You're wearing them." D'oh!

[Jean in Newcastle]

Oh, I remember one now! I was in St. Louis in the spring and was staying at a hotel. The hotel had a secure parking garage. My room key was supposed to open the garage gate but I could not figure out how to make that gate go up. I sat there in my car, waving that key around the control box for a good ten minutes before I slunk inside to ask at the front desk. Apparently you had to actually insert the key into the slot in the box! :blushing:

[jewellsmommy]

I was walking through our living room about six months after we got married, saw a ball on the floor, and for some crazy reason decided to kick it - hard. When it hit the wall, I realized it wasn't a ball, but the new puppy's bowl of milk. I'm sure my dh wondered what kind of crazy he had married.

 

Oh, I have a similar one. We were dogsitting for a neighbor. While in the backyard, I saw a ball. I went to kick it. It looked like a kid's swirly blue plastic ball. Nope. It was a bowling ball.:eek: Why in the world would you have a bowling ball in your back yard!? :confused: Oh and yea, that hurt.

 

When I told the neighbors, they said they forgot that the ball was back there? :confused::001_huh:

[Meriwether]

I won't tell you what I did but it involved Dh's company truck and the arm of the railroad crossing.:blush:

[Chelle in MO]

Oh, I remember one now! I was in St. Louis in the spring and was staying at a hotel. The hotel had a secure parking garage. My room key was supposed to open the garage gate but I could not figure out how to make that gate go up. I sat there in my car, waving that key around the control box for a good ten minutes before I slunk inside to ask at the front desk. Apparently you had to actually insert the key into the slot in the box! :blushing:

 

Stupid St. Louis hotel garages!

[Ibbygirl]

I won't tell you what I did but it involved Dh's company truck and the arm of the railroad crossing.:blush:

 

LOL Oooops! hehe

[Jean in Newcastle]

Stupid St. Louis hotel garages!

 

That was when I got to meet you! :seeya: Hi, Chelle!

[MyLittleWonders]

And, does anyone else 'misplace' her glasses by having them on your face, in front of your eyes like they're supposed to be. I've done that more than once, exclaming, "Oh no. I forgot my glasses whereever." And, then, whoever I'm with always looks at me strangely & answers, "You're wearing them." D'oh!

I remember one night in college going up to my room to take out my contacts and put on my glasses. As I was walking back downstairs, I realized everything looked very distorted; I commented to my roommates about how my prescription must have changed (yes, so quickly that it changed between my taking out my contacts and putting on my glasses!) until I realized I never actually took out my contacts! :lol: I can't even blame that one on pregnant-brain. ;)

[RoughCollie]

The sun rises in the summer in Atlanta a couple of hours later than it does in Boston.

 

I had recently moved to Boston and married DH. We stayed awake all night, reading in bed and talking. I looked up from my book. It was shortly after 5 a.m., and bright light was streaming through our window.

 

I was so scared. I thought a spaceship had landed in the parking lot behind our condo. I didn't want to tell DH about it because he would think I was nuts. We are both intelligent, educated people and we do not believe that aliens are going to show up out of the blue.

 

OTOH, this was an Emergency. We had to get out of here in case the aliens came into our house. I calculated there was a 3% chance of us getting chosen, but with my luck, it went up to 100%. So I somewhat calmly asked DH to get up and look out the window and tell me what was there. He didn't react quickly enough so I encouraged him rather hysterically.

 

He did it. Then he looked at me and said, "There are no spaceships out there."

 

I replied, "Are you sure? How did you know what I was thinking?"

 

He said, "I know you." This was disheartening. I'd always been teased about my "blonde moments" by friends, but I didn't think they were blonde at all.

 

Then he explained how much further east Boston is than Atlanta, and how the sunrise times are different.

[melissel]

And, does anyone else 'misplace' her glasses by having them on your face, in front of your eyes like they're supposed to be. I've done that more than once, exclaming, "Oh no. I forgot my glasses whereever." And, then, whoever I'm with always looks at me strangely & answers, "You're wearing them." D'oh!

 

:lol: I've never done it with them on my face (my prescription is way too strong to make that mistake!), but I've done it with sunglasses on my head, and once I stormed around an apartment with my car keys in my hot little hand, ranting about "Where the heck are my keys? Has anyone seen my keys?!" It took me a long time to live that one down :001_unsure:

[melissel]

He did it. Then he looked at me and said, "There are no spaceships out there."

 

I replied, "Are you sure? How did you know what I was thinking?"

 

He said, "I know you." This was disheartening. I'd always been teased about my "blonde moments" by friends, but I didn't think they were blonde at all.

 

Then he explained how much further east Boston is than Atlanta, and how the sunrise times are different.

 

:lol::lol::lol: I did not know this either! Though, I don't think spaceships would have been the first thing to come to mind :lol:

 

I will say that one night my mom and I were driving down to Atlantic City late at night, chatting away, when we both saw an eerie light in the sky. It was much lower and brighter than a plane's lights would be, and it was hovering in the same general place in the sky for a long time. It was hazy and had indistinct edges and got brighter and darker periodically. I saw it and asked my mom if she saw it too. She did. I commented that it looked like as spaceship and we laughed. Then we both got reeeeeallly quiet for about 10 minutes! It finally vanished, and then reappeared sometime later...as the MOON, unobscured by clouds. We still laugh over that one. It was really eerie though! I've never seen that happen to the moon anywhere. I suspect it may have something to do with proximity to the ocean in that spot or something, because we've seen it happen once or twice more in that general area. Weird!

Edited January 15, 2012 by melissel

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I left the car running the whole time we were at the cider mill.

 

For some reason, I drove, even though dh was with us (he ALWAYS drives). I think his neck was hurting. Anyway, once we got there, we all hopped out, unloaded the boys, dh locked the car with his key fob, and we went off to enjoy the cider mill. When we were all done and walking back to the car, I couldn't find my keys. As we got closer, we realized THE CAR WAS RUNNING; I had left my keys in the ignition and the car running, and didn't realize it because dh locked the car with his keys. It's a pretty new car, and doesn't make much noise when running.

 

:001_huh:

 

Man, dh was annoyed. :D I told him it was his fault for locking the car with HIS keys. Plus, it's not like we did anything but waste gas; it was LOCKED, so no one could have stolen it, if they had even noticed. But I still felt pretty dumb. :tongue_smilie:

 

I'm also famous for leaving the oven or one of the stove burners on. I don't know why, I just can't seem to remember to turn that darn thing off.

[Caroline]

I love the look of a made bed, so I do it every morning. One morning, I tossed the spread too high and brought the ceiling fan down. I didn't like that fan anyway, so it may have been subconsciously on purpose. By the time DH got home, I had bought a new fan and had invited his brother over for dinner and to help install it.

[RoughCollie]

:lol::lol::lol: I did not know this either! Though, I don't think spaceships would have been the first thing to come to mind :lol:

 

 

Well, the curtains were closed, and what else could it have been? It definitely wasn't headlights, so that leaves a flying saucer as the Only Option! :D

 

I like your moon story. Heck, I identify with it! There was the night the full moon disappeared, leaving the night still lit. Who knew that the position of the moon relative to where I live changes? I do, now. My trouble, obviously, is that I don't think things through, and I used to have a fenced-in yard, so I wasn't walking the dog at night.

 

I used to teach my kids all of the interesting things I've learned. Now they just look at me like I'm senile. I think the proof of the pudding was a couple of months ago when I put my idling car in neutral just because I'd never done it before. I was waiting for DS3 to come out of McDonald's. I read my Kindle for awhile and when it was time to go, the car wouldn't move. So I put it in park and called AAA and had it towed to the dealer for repairs. I totally forgot I'd put it in neutral. The worst part was me insisting that it must be an intermittent problem to AAA, the dealer, and DH. The next day, for some reason, I recalled putting it in neutral.

 

Hmm. When my car was in the shop for actual repairs, the mechanic called. I answered the phone and he identified himself and then hastily said he'd just call DH at the office. I was busy so I let him get away with it, even though I was a bit miffed that he wouldn't talk to me -- it is My Car. Now that I think about it, he very likely recalled that car being in neutral situation.

Edited January 15, 2012 by RoughCollie

[RoughCollie]

Then he realizes that his fingers, which are on the bottom side, are being cut also, while he's cutting through the door.

 

That poor guy!

 

This is why DH won't let me get a chainsaw to chop down trees. For some reason, he thinks I'll cut off a body part instead. Yet he isn't worried when I use an electric knife (not on trees, on food).

[Puma Mom]

Whenever we used a rooftop carrier--back in the day when the kids were little and had more 'baggage'--we always put something in the garage, like a bike or a big box, to remind us not to pull in. Or at least we did after the first time we pulled in with the carrier still on top!

[melissel]

Well, the curtains were closed, and what else could it have been? It definitely wasn't headlights, so that leaves a flying saucer as the Only Option! :D

 

I like your moon story. Heck, I identify with it! There was the night the full moon disappeared, leaving the night still lit.

 

Who knew that the position of the moon relative to where I live changes? I do, now. My trouble, obviously, is that I don't think things through, and I used to have a fenced-in yard, so I wasn't walking the dog at night.

 

I used to teach my kids all of the interesting things I've learned. Now they just look at me like I'm senile. I think the proof of the pudding was a couple of months ago when I put my idling car in neutral just because I'd never done it before. I was waiting for DS3 to come out of McDonald's. I read my Kindle for awhile and when it was time to go, the car wouldn't move. So I put it in park and called AAA and had it towed to the dealer for repairs. I totally forgot I'd put it in neutral. The worst part was me insisting that it must be an intermittent problem to AAA, the dealer, and DH. The next day, for some reason, I recalled putting it in neutral.

 

Hmm. When my car was in the shop for actual repairs, the mechanic called. I answered the phone and the he identified himself and then hastily said he'd just call DH at the office. I was busy so I let him get away with it, even though I was a bit miffed that he wouldn't talk to me -- it is My Car. Now that I think about it, he very likely recalled that car being in neutral situation.

 

I'm :lol: at all of it!

[BatmansWife]

This reminded me of something.

 

A few years ago, my church was having their annual Christmas party. You know how attendance at church during the holidays is usually a lot higher than it is the rest of the year? Well, that was certainly true for my church.

 

I was sitting in the front row with a friend who sat down after I had. I think I was getting up to go to the bathroom or something like that, so basically no one else was standing. Well, my friend had sat on my skirt AND slip, so when I stood, down both came and I was standing in the front of our packed church in my undies. Whatever I had meant to stand up to do wasn't that important because I pulled my slip and skirt up and sat back down and didn't move the rest of the service :lol:

 

First of all....oh my gosh! How embarrassing! Did anyone seem to notice?? :lol:

Secondly....oh my gosh! Something similar just happened to me about 2 weeks ago. I completely forgot about it until reading this. I must have blocked the incident out. We were running a little late for church (I see a pattern developing with church and my doing stupid things). We pulled into the parking lot and my dh backed into a parking spot. If it would have been me, I would have just pulled straight in (thankfully he was driving that morning!). The side of the church building that faces the parking lot is full of windows. I was in the back seat of our two-door Explorer. Ds opens the passenger side door, gets out, and is standing there. As I step out, the heel of my shoe caught my slip and pulled my slip straight down to the pavement. I quickly pulled it up, laughed because ds was right there. Either he was clueless or he pretended not to know anything. Man how glad I was that we were parked in backwards so the opened door was between me and the church windows. I suppose someone could have noticed from below the door to the ground. But, I'm choosing to believe that no one saw anything. :001_rolleyes: :blushing:

[clarkacademy]

wHEN i WAS LIKE 19 i THINK i WORKED IN A FAST FOOD PLACE. Now I guess I leave caps lock on too! Anyway, I was talking to my manager while cutting the green onions for the salad bar when all of a sudden she just started screaming at me to stop stop. I was so confused when she grabbed a towel saying don't move and shoved it over my hand.

 

I was even more confused when I saw te red stuff all over and I was like what is that? She looked at me like I was stupid pulled the towel off and said it's your finger dummy don't you feel that? Yeah, I had just been cutting away at my fingers....I saw the meat and the blood and then I felt it all right, that is when I started screaming!

[Chelle in MO]

That was when I got to meet you! :seeya: Hi, Chelle!

 

 

:seeya: Hi, Jean! I'd love for you to come back to StL, but hope it's not for health reasons next time!

[Pippen]

If anyone walked out of Bed Bath and Beyond tonight and saw a strange woman kicking ice off the wheelwell of their green van, that could have been me.

 

Wrong green van. :blushing: