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I carefully transferred all my things, keys, purse, phone into a new handbag, then left the house with the original one.

Luckily my husband was home when I returned, and could let me back in.

parked at the cinema and came out and couldn't find the car,even although I had counted the rows back from the door when I parked it so I knew where it should definately have been. panicked and was just going to phone the police when I met a friend and he asked what was wrong, then asked quietly are you sure you came out the correct entrance - there are two different ones! felt stupid - went back into the cinema and out the other entrance and there was my car!

I’d been watching itv+1 so I was a hour behind, but what made it worse was because it was the weekend the clocks went back. I altered my clocks with the time on my phone, but the next day I looked at the telly & thought what’s going on...I altered them yesterday....basically I was totally confused.
I had someone due to visit ...I told her she was early & it was her that told me about itv+1 ?

When my grandad arrived home from work a couple of hours late, looking sheepish, and evading nanna's inevitable question as to where he had been, nan was able to round on him, and say she'd seen him go sailing past her, fast asleep and oblivious, on the top deck of the 38 bus. He'd been all the way to the depot...and back....

This is a senior moment when I was young. I went to the school to the christmas fun day,leaving my 3 year old daughter in the creche while I took my 5 year old son round to see the displays etc. When it was over I happily trotted out of the school towards home and then remembered I had forgotten to collect my daughter.

Joined the Gransnet forum and chose the username gobldygook and then much... much,... much.... later realised it should be spelled gobbledygook

I went to work with two different shoes on - one blue, one black but the worst thing is they had a different heel height and I didn't notice until lunchtime. I then refused to move from my desk unless absolutely necessary for the rest of the day.

When grandaughter asked if I’d been in the bath all afternoon and I replied no why do you ask and she said well your hands are all wrinkly like mine get when I stay in the bath too long.

My eyes are streaming with tears of laughter at all the great posts above. My own experience was only last week when we were collecting the grandchildren from school and hit roadworks so we had to ring the school to say we'd be about ten minutes late. The efficient secretary asked the names of the children and then said logically 'What is your name?' at which my mind flipped and I just shouted 'It's Grandma!' (stunned silence at the other end!!)

Just before retiring I went shopping for the school where I worked. I stopped in the driveway on the way back in to drop off some goodies to the Nursery. I jumped back in the car and shut the door in readiness to drive on through to the car park. It was then I wondered why I was sitting in the back seat? Was anyone watching? You bet they were!

I have had way to many to count but my latest one was reading an advert in the paper and trying my best to work out what a por-table DVD was. It was of course portable but as it was split on two lines it was super hard. I was asking my son and he was like I have no idea mum can you spell it so I did and he was roaring with laughter when he told me what it was. You would think I would have know better as many years ago when the princess Beatrice was born I was having a conversation with my mum and said what a stupid name to give a child Beat-rice. As in two separate words. She laughed for a long time too and brought it up again when my son told her about the portable DVD.

I was very young, looking after my siblings when I was always late for school. Hot ready quickly start walking to school when I noticed I was still wearing my slippers, which reminding me again when I did something similar lately. Ready to go shopping....on the way I noticed I still have my slippers on. History repeated!

I thought the elevator was broken and started walking up, it was really hard going, when I was half way up I saw everyone at the top looking down at me, I was walking up the down escalator, instead of stopping and going down I made it worse by carrying on up to the top, very red faced and out of breath, I smiled and said "Well that's my work out for the day" but my toes curl when I think I must be on camera somewhere

One day, back when DH did most of the driving, I happened to be at the supermarket by myself. Came out, opened the boot put the shopping in and climbed into the passenger seat. A woman standing by the next car started up a conversation about husbands who disappeared on an errand of their own and failed to turn up when expected to drive home. I commiserated with her, miscalled DH and the penny only dropped when the woman said , 'At least you have the keys and can sit in the car while you wait'.

I waited a while, hoping her DH would appear because I didn't want her to realise how stupid I had been, but with no sign of him and a school pick-up looming I had to do something. So I got out of the passenger seat, slammed the door, said 'to hell with him' got in the driver's seat, and with the woman cheering and shouting 'Good on You' I drove off.

My colleague and I were getting a rollicking from our Depute Head teacher for daring to use our initiative.
I happened to look down at my friend's feet and saw that she was wearing one flat navy shoe and one high heeled navy shoe.
This was at three in the afternoon and she had been walking about all day without realising. . I started to laugh and was making all sorts of strange noises, trying not to disgrace myself, until I let out an enormous snort. My colleague kept elbowing me to try to stop me, which only made it worse.
We still laugh about it till this day. How could she walk about all day wearing two different shoes?

What’s the difference between a cormorant and a shag asked the guide. We were on a river trip around Brownsea Island. My mum piped up oh I’ve always wanted to know what a shag is like. My sister and I were dying but to his credit the guide didn’t crack a smile, he just explained. The other passengers were convulsed, I closed my eyes.

a couple of months ago the hot tap in the kitchen stopped working, no matter what we did not a drop of water would come out. after turning the water supply of an poking around, we then spent the rest of the day trying to get a plumber to come out, either stupid prices or not getting any response, it was really frustrating, we had spent the whole day on this tap. We saw a neighbour and asked him if he knew any plumbers, he didn't but said he would come and look at the tap. he turned the tap and the water poured out, we just stood there in amazement, it turned out we had been turning the tap the wrong way! the tap that we have had for about 10 years, we turned off instead of on and there was nothing wrong with it at all! we felt really stupid, we had been from 5.30am until 5.00pm without any hot water in the kitchen. we both felt very old .

Going to the wrong church for a wedding in which my daughter was a bridesmaid. She was furious!

My most senior moment is when I put the phone in the fridge which also has my bank card in the phone case and I searched high and low for it even ringing the phone and still couldn’t find or hear it, I cancelled my card with the bank and reported my phone lost to the mobile company only to later on that evening go into the fridge to make tea picked up the chicken and lo and behold my phone was underneath it I should of known to look here I often put things in the fridge that aren’t meant to go there

My old Skoda Felica needed a service and as Mr GB is a useful chap, I went into our local car parts shop to ask for filters for a Skoda FELLATIO :O !
How they kept a straight face as they solemnly repeated "Felicia" very many times as they put theorder through...

In supermarkets I like to put my packs of meat into plastic bags to separate them from other foodstuff, but in Tesco recently I put two packs into one plastic bag, without thinking, obviously! It wasn't until I was checking myself out that the voice told me the item was too heavy! I did an eek expression and ripped the bag open so I could scan both packs!

How about when my mum was writing LOL at the end of her texts thinking it meant Lots Of Love ???

Spent half an complaining to my wife that we had to return to a pub to collect her handbag that she had left behind and then realised I had left my wallet.

I don't normally do the cooking but on the day my grand-daughter was born I had to do it as we were busy rushing around to hospital, etc. I put the dinner in the oven and the plates to warm in the warming oven - or so I thought! It was only when I took the plates out of the warmer and burnt my hands that I realised I'd switched the ovens. We had a luke-warm dinner and plates that were too hot to handle! Thank goodness for a microwave oven!

I have been known to store the cheese in the microwave instead of rge fridge.