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Well I really hope Jamie Oliver doesn't turn up at my son's school today. I was making his sandwiches at the same time as doing the Toot's toast this morning. I absent mindedly spread marmalade onto my son's bread! It was the last of the loaf so he has gone to school with marmalade sandwiches lol! Luckily my son thought it was hilarious...phew!

Think I got off lightly. My OH had been using his motorbike all one weekend,he absent mindedly filled the car with petrol..it was a diesel ! 

What have you done?

 :-\

Yesterday I was packing to come home from Greece and knocked a carton of orange juice all over the floor. As we waited for a taxi to pick us up from Manchester airport my cardboard container with 3 bottles of wine slid off the trolley and smashed!

:'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

At Vienna airport while we were waiting to get through security to catch our London flight (with 15 mins to go!) my OH managed to cover the floor in gin!

A US Admiral chum, in full regalia, bringing us a present, dropped it at the chekout at LAP.

A gallon of olive oil. Had to go straight to a meeting!

Hubby has made me a cup of tea with coffee in. Think I've also had tea with salt (yuk). He's cooked pizza or was it garlic bread with the plastic wrapper on (there are some things you stick in the oven with the special plastic bag but this wasn't one of them).
I read somewhere that someone had made jam using salt.

Absolute cliche situation.  It was the first Christmas together with my new husband. We decided to have Christmas dinner in our own home, just the two of us. I decided to do the full works, turkey all the veg, everything.  I put a lot of time and effort into the meal, making my own stuffing and everything.  Big moment arrived, when my new hubby carved his first turkey.  Gasps of embarrassment from me when with his first slice of the knife he revealed the (yes you have guessed it), plastic bag holding the giblets, that I had forgotten to remove.  I have never lived that down - and he has often referred to it over the 36 years of our marriage. Never done that again!!! :-[ busy_lizzie

Talking about Christmas just reminded me of the first christmas after Mr b & I had moved in together (end of November). As I labelled all the presents for my family he got most upset as, out of habit, I had just written the labels from me! Oooops!

My Hubby had built fabulous built- in wardrobes in the bedroom not long after we were married and I decided to paint them. I started at the bottom and painted the floor first. Then I stood inside to paint the sides...... ooops, white feet, white carpet, white everywhere  ::) Not been allowed to use a paint brush since (clever or what  ;) ;D ;D ;D ;D )

Quote from: Heldi on September 20, 2006, 09:50:11
spread marmalade onto my son's bread! It was the last of the loaf so he has gone to school with marmalade sandwiches

Soooo? If it's good enough for Paddington Bear it's good enough for anyone ;D

What have I done?

What haven't I done ::)

didn't think I'd recognise my son at an end-of-term Christmas carol service & asked a complete stranger ( but whose son was a friend of my son's) to point him out to me....

didn't know son was when he phoned the 1st time from Uni

when lots of peeps 'coincidentally'? called round at 7 one evening, gave them drinks & suggested that, as this was such fun, they all come round some other time for a meal? (go figure...)

put the cat in the fridge with one hand when I got her food out with the other...

for me the most bizarre, tho, was finding a mug of congealed mould-growing  tea in a high bathroom cupboard, a cupboard which could only be reached by me with stepladders, obviously put there by me when I was preggers. What the H was I doing, 8 months preggers up a stepladder which had to be dragged/carried from its usual place in a cupboard along a long hall to the bathroom?....still one of the Mysteries of Life..

Lishka, have to say, your moments take the biscuit! That one about people 'calling round' is one of my great fears, hence the kitchen calendar (if I remember to write who's coming for dinner and when?). You've made my afternoon! CLx....now what WAS I doing.....

I have been on the phone to mum or sister when the doorbell has rung, told them to hang on, wandered off, opened door, dealt with whoever was there, wandered back in, put the kettle on, turned the radio up, hung the washing on the line, wondered what the telephone was doing on the table, AAGGHH!

Quote from: EJ - Emma Jane on September 20, 2006, 16:13:40
I have been on the phone to mum or sister when the doorbell has rung, told them to hang on, wandered off, opened door, dealt with whoever was there, wandered back in, put the kettle on, turned the radio up, hung the washing on the line, wondered what the telephone was doing on the table, AAGGHH!

   

On our wedding day, I carefully put the rings in the pocket of a coat I always wore, intending to take it off when I got to the church. That way I couldn't forget them. Then it was a really ot afternoon and I didn't wear the coat. That delayed events for almost an hour, with Namissa being driven round and round the block while they were retrieved.

They should make a comedy programme about that  ;D ;D ;D

• When we moved into our house (new build) and we had to run the cooker for an hour before putting food in. I got it all ready but left the handle for the gril in the gril pan. Only realised 40 min later when there was a smell of burning and when we looked the plastic had melted into a pool in the gril pan. £190 for a new one so were using a tea towel.
• Was going into an important meeting on friday in a nice lemon top, come out of one meeting to go into the other and almost spil undrunk coffee over myself. Rearrange all my paper work so that i would not spill the coffee and yes you guess it a min later i am wearing a lemon top with coffee stains! Sat in the next meeting clinging a file to my chest till the top dryed.

::)

Yesterday gave my daughter my handbag to take into school. Walked back home with her bookbag & lunchbox...... then walked all the way back to school to get handbag containing doorkeys & mobile on which the lovely ladies in the school office had tried to phone me to tell me I was an airhead......

all this just days after I rushed back from an appointment on Saturday morning,

dashed into that hell on earth Toys R US for a present,

swept the girls home from Grandma's,

washed them,

brushed them,

stuffed them into their party clothes,

whizzed around to birthday girl's house,

which was strangely quite and deserted............ ??? ;D


BECAUSE THE PARTY WAS ON SUNDAY!!!!!!! :-[  :-X ;D ;D

How stupid did I feel? Really, really stupid  ;D

BUT TC at least the girls were a day early and not a day late, or just arrived as the party is finishing because Mummy thought she had the details in her head.............. :'(

I always liked the one my Mum told me about driving off with my aunt , only to be informed by someone at the next traffic light that she'd got a handbag on the roof of her car!

EJ has reminded me...I mislayed the house phone so phoned it with my mobile...found it,picked it up and answered it.LOL!

Absent minded? No not me I am sure I have never done any of those silly things ::) Uum.. I do have a bad memory!!!!