Whoops…….I can’t believe I did that.

I put my purse, that Day’s Guardian and my house keys on the roof if my car as I was putting in a carry cot, a baby, a dog and a bag full of essential items for a day out.
Arrived at the meeting point to find my purse, newspaper and house keys missing. This was 1972 - my income was based on £x a week, with about £4.00 a month left to save to holidays/spend on wine.
If I did that today, I doubt I’d be able to remember putting the items on the roof.

I carefully put everything we needed for the day on the bottom stair next to the front door, put G'children in the car, shut the front door.
Luckily I had the car key in my hand so we were able to drive to the DD's workplace and collect the spare house key from her.

it was day 1 back at work after a two week long holiday abroad with two small nephews. I was talking to a female colleague who had a speck of dirt on her face, and I without thinking got out my hanky, licked it, and ribbed the smudge off. We were both horrified! I mean, I could at least have asked her to lick my hanky....?

My OH once reversed the car into the garage with the door open - the car passenger door!!

He never lived it down; and whenever I did something silly and he was having a grumble, I could say ....."Remember that time......"

Rubbed. The trauma still gets to me.

I got married. Twice!!!

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I got married. Twice!!!

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Loaded luggage in the car, got in and drove off for 2 weeks' holiday leaving the house door wide open.
Thankfully, our neighbour spotted the error and locked up for us!

The worst was when one offspring was at uni they had been home.I had to get them to the station early.
We had a double garage with an awkward exit drive. You had to reverse out quite a way and then swing around the house to drive out of the drive. I reversed so far to let them into the car but forgot I had not reversed far enough to clear my DH.s car. The crunch was terrible and I had pushed in the sides of an upmarket new Italian car as well as my own.
Unfortunately they had to go into the same garage ,the mechanics all came and laughed at me and asked when the divorce was.

Drove 2 1/2 hours to Center Parcs only to find I was a week early and they were full! Felt a complete idiot but the woman on the gate told me that the previous week a woman had gone to the WRONG Center Parcs!

We had a bamboo curtain on our conservatory door. With the door open the lengths of bamboo kept getting knotted, so I tied two together, then the next two etc.I thought that might sto it moving so much. DH going out of the door caught his foot in the loops and did a perfect pirouette out on to the lawn. Then fell over. Sorry to say I laughed Not exactly careless but unthinking on my part.

Forgetting to load my OHs clothes into the Motohome for our holiday. We were in France before it was realised.
From then on clothes were always left in the motohome.

MrJ left his bag with our passports and boarding passes in the Taxi. Only realised when we joined the queue at Rhodes Airport to check in. Jet2 rep was marvellous, found the number and managed to get the taxi back. Whenever I forget something now and he rolls his eyes, I just need to say 'Rhodes Airport'

My car was written off Sago about 7 years ago. Same situation. Car was parked on the road opposite to our drive with the handbrake left off! My car was pushed into the house (luckily no damage to the house).

We set off t9 the airport a night early, in my defence it was the night the clocks changed and I had asked the travel agent for a specific day to travel, so off we went at 10 pm, leaving the kids at home with relatives and had to bang on the door to be let in at 2am, fortunately I realised before we actually arrived at Gatwick, I looked at the tickets and asked MrOops what the actual date was bearing in mind that the clocks had altered.

Oops…….

Then we had to do it all over again the next night.

I blame the Travel Agent as it wasn’t the day I asked for.

Everyone else blames me and they mention it constantly.

MrOops once went to the wrong airport, he blames his Secretary, his Client guest went to the correct airport and flew to their destination on his own, MrOops caught up with him in the evening.

Nobody blames MrOops.

Set the house alarm on autopilot totally forgetting the visiting well behaved substantial dog who liked to prowl. Disappeared off to a shopping centre along with the dogs owners happily reminding them how bad the mobile signal would be.

Of course the dog activated the alarm. Our neighbour couldn’t decide if we had been murdered or invaded. Her husband climbed the fence to check the back of the house. Eventually my phone pinged with a message, I called, after being assured the dog wouldn’t savage her in she went and silenced the alarm. Poor dog was cowering in a corner and was very pleased to see her. Thank goodness she was a dog person and spent some time with him apparently assuring him if he wanted to move lodgings he was welcome to go to her. We returned with a bottle of wine for the dogs saviour. This must have been 15 years ago, every time we see our friends they remind me.

Mine was yesterday-100% certain I was out early pm and I missed an Iceland delivery. Luckily Iceland staff were very busy so I was in a queue, it gave me time to check my diary to discover it is arriving today.

It goes without saying I bought a lot of the cold soft drinks yesterday which I also ordered from Iceland thinking the delivery was next week.

One if my first jobs was as a Secretary to an ambassador ….I got the chauffeur etc ready and sent H.E off for a lunch with a foreign bank…..a week early. To say H. E. was cross is an understatement ?

Years ago I drove to a small retail park and stopped outside M&S, went in and tried some clothes on.

Then went down into the Food hall, back to the car with my purchases and could not find my car keys. I was convinced I must have locked them in the car boot when I got the shopping bags out.

I rang Mr Trotter - who left a game of golf to assist me. Before he got there a staff member came out of M&S and said “have you left this coat in the changing room?” .
Yes I had, and in the pocket was my bunch of keys.

I was very unpopular with Mr T. ?

I had booked us for a few days break on Lundy Island in one of their little cottages.

The shore office called me asking if we were far away. I said "yes, because we're coming tomorrow".

"No", she said, "you are booked to sail today".

I had written the correct day on the calendar in the kitchen, and put the correct day in my calendar on my phone, but for some reason, I had the wrong date in my head.

Fortunately, they were able to accommodate us from the following day - but in the spectacular mansion-type house instead of the little cottage we'd booked. We had the nine bedroomed house all to ourselves - not too shabby at all.

A few years ago we had laminate flooring fitted in our living room. They fitted it. It looked beautiful. I thought I'd just give it a quick mop. I moved the settee forgetting that the feet in it were sharp. I scratched the flooring badly. I rang the shop begging them to come back and do something. Obviously they couldn't. I was terrified to tell my husband. Not that he's an ogre but I felt so stupid. It was put right eventually. Never again.

Oooh….so many!
Sent the children back to school the wrong week.
Worst public one was when my son was at prep school, sport big thing there, I parked the car outside to deliver a forgotten item. When I returned the car had gone….only to be seen rolling backwards down the bank across the hallowed cricket pitch ?, I ran after it and had to drive back up with every window full of small horrified boys. Quite a difficult apology letter!

Made up a picnic basket for three. Travelled an hour to get to the picnic spot. Did a lot of walking around, exploring the area and when it was time to tuck into our picnic I realised I’d left the basket at home.

Mine had the potential to be quite serious. Taking eldest out in the push chair, at the top of the drive turned to shut front door. As I turned back watched the pushchair sailing down our drive and somersaulting over the low wall. He was completely unscathed. I can still see it on my minds eye.