Two Daft Old Bag episodes today….

Oh, Witzend, are you old enough to remember the sing " Welcome to My World"?...

Witzend, sit down ..feet up and have a glass of your favourite tipple

I have daft old bag episodes regularly. Glad to know I’m not alone. 🤣

I wasn't even a daft old bag, but my father had been rushed to hospital and at some point his bag with his pyjamas and washing stuff had been lost. My mother and I went out and bought replacements for everything and set off to the hospital. We had to take the bus to get there and it wasn't till we got off at the hospital that we realised I had left his bag of stuff at the bus stop! Sadly he was never well enough to hear the story because he would have loved it!

I seem to have daft bag episodes everyday. Fact of life for women if s certain age

A dozen times a day I cry, ‘You STUPID woman!’ at myself. The neighbours must think I live with a half-wit they’ve never seen.

And today I went for my overdue haircut, only to be told that my favourite stylist had an accident earlier and can’t work today. And no, they don’t have any other slots today, not that I’d have risked anybody else. My chap recently moved from the salon I used to use - I did once try someone else when I forgot to specify him - never again!

Three things today.
Went to the front door prior to walking down to town. Oh, where are my keys ?
Went back in , picked them up , arrived at front door only to find I just had my car keys. Return for door keys.
Once on my way remembered that I hadn’t got the envelope I was supposed to put through a friends door.
Having done my errands and had coffee with my Sister in Law, returned home having forgotten to pick up the prescription that was the main reason I went down to town in the first place.🤪

Yesterday I had a terrible day. Rushing between Boots and Specsavers for my hearing appointment. It was awful. Finally the wee girl in Specsavers took me to the right Boots, there are two in our shopping centre, and sorted it out. Yesterday was Monday not Tuesday as I thought! My appointment was for today not yesterday. I felt so old and bewildered. At least two daft old bag episodes in one afternoon. Thankfully today has been much better. Finally had my hearing test and although it isn’t first class any more it’s apparently acceptable for my age! (80) lol

I once stood 20 mins in a queue in Primark to return a jacket. It came my turn and I opened the bag and handed over the receipt. The girl looked at me and said “This is from Dunnes Stores You’re in the wrong shop”! Oh the embarrassment!

I have a £10 note in my bag, in case I forget my purse, in my phone case, in case I forget my bag, in the glove compartment of my car, in case...

I did go with DH to daughter's to drop off some bits while she was at work. Her house key is on my bunch, which was at home....

I’m feeling so much better for having read this thread and knowing I’m not alone.

Last week in M&S I called the assistant over at the self checkout as it wouldn't accept my card. He looked at it and said 'this is a Holland and Barrett card madam not a Sparks card'. 😂😂😂

So I said 'oh sorry they are the same colour'.

Actually they aren't!

Sparks cards aren't much use anyway and I don't like being called madam.

I had a query for HMRC, and hung on for ages on the phone line till they answered. Then confidently reeled off all my details, which I’d carefully written down. I was confused when they didn’t recognise my NI number, which I insisted was correct. Until we realised that I’d given them the number of my premium bonds account.

I do daft things constantly, and at “only” 67 I cannot even begin to think how it will be if I’m lucky enough to make it to 80!

So my most recent and most daft act is I collected my dear cocker spaniel from the “dog spa”, drove us home and then found parking (mid terrace house grrrr). Was happy as found one almost outside and house. Got to front door feeling something wasn’t quite right and realised I’d left dog in car 😱😱😱

HA HA HA!

So I'm not the only one who has Daft Old Bag episodes then!

Two days ago, I went into our local Spar in Whitby, grabbed a pack of sliced corned beef and a pack of chicken breast slices, took them home, and shoved them in the fridge.

That night, I had half the pack of chicken slices with an egg salad/various veg, and put the rest of the slices back in the fridge, on top of the corned beef and next to the cheese.

Last night I went back for the other half of the chicken slices, and they and the corned beef were nowhere to be seen! I was totally puzzled as I clearly remember putting them both in the fridge! I removed all the yoghurts and other stuff, couldn't see them,

I was a bit worried, thinking maybe, aged 60, I've got dementia or something coming on, then I wondered if I'd scoffed them while sleepwalking, which I have been known to do over several years, so of course I wouldn't have known I was doing it, but there were no empty packs in the recycling bin!

There were 2, 2Lt bottles of milk on the fridge shelf, lying down and side-by-side, and for some reason, my tiny little brain can't work out, I'd put both of the packs on top of the bottles, squashed under the above shelf, so I wasn't able to see them when I was looking for them....until I tried to grab one of the bottles to open it!

DOH!

Please excuse me while I test my skull for a brain.....nope! Nothing in there!

Cossy

I do daft things constantly, and at “only” 67 I cannot even begin to think how it will be if I’m lucky enough to make it to 80!

So my most recent and most daft act is I collected my dear cocker spaniel from the “dog spa”, drove us home and then found parking (mid terrace house grrrr). Was happy as found one almost outside and house. Got to front door feeling something wasn’t quite right and realised I’d left dog in car 😱😱😱

Not as bad as my OH who left the dog at work 12 miles away. I opened the boot as usual and no dog shot out. OH zoomed out and came back home ½ hour later with a happy dog.

Just thought I'd ask........how can you go swimming on a Bus?.

I did something really embarrassing a month or so ago, we have a lovely neighbour who lived with his elderly mum, she has dementia, he was retired and single and did everything for her. Was putting out my bins when when he wizzed past being pulled by his very impatient dog and managed to say that his mother was no longer with him. I was gutted, had known his mum a long time, so anyway I got him a sympathy card and pushed it through the door saying he should pop in if he wanted to talk. He did pop in a couple of hours later to inform me that his mum was actually in a care home, hence him saying she was no longer with him, he apologised knowing that this was easy to misinterpret.
I was mortified. 🫣

Oh dear Fallingstar, you must have felt terrible but I think I would have misinterpreted that as well.
I did two silly old bag things today;
As we drove out of our close a person walking down the road waved to me and I waved back saying to my OH “goodness, Pat looks really rough these days”. OH was puzzled and asked who Pat was. I said Pat xxxx, she just waved to me and he said “that was xxxxx the man who lives in the end house”!

We then went shopping and returning to the car my OH went on ahead while I stopped at our car and was just about to open the door when I realised he wasn’t there. I looked and found that he was several cars ahead as I was trying to get into a strange car. Luckily the owner wasn’t there and the alarm didn’t go off!

It was always drummed into me as a teen to never go out without matching underwear. So bearing that in mind, one of many of my daft old bag episodes was when I recently was in a big rush getting ready for a night out. It wasn't until I went to the loo later that I saw that I was wearing a pair of Y fronts. Can you imagine if I'd had an accident and explaining that one to the A & E staff

Ha ha A and E staff wouldn't have batted an eyelid these days !!