Just spent over a minute trying to open the front door with me car key
:laughabovepost:
Could have been worse, it could have been next doors front door! :laugh:
My wife spent quite a while trying to get money from an ATM using her Tesco Clubcard. Even went into the store to complain to Tesco that the ATM was not working! The red face shone through her rouged cheeks!
OK, no comments but I did in the past spent 5 minutes trying to shave at 5.30 in the morning... easy mistake battery razor, calulator side by side on the beside table (at least that is my excuse :confused1:
I once tried using the mobile phone to 'turn over the TV channel' and got really annoyed after 2 minutes of attempting to press the numbers on the phones key pad to no avail before realising the remote control for the TV was actually on the coffee table :-[ :-[ :-[
Before mobile phones got smaller then got bigger again such as the Samsung Galaxy smart phones,a woman got on my bus to go to work.As it was busy she had to stand up near the drivers cab.
As is always the case,she decided to check her phone and pulled out the telly remote control.As we were stationary in traffic,I was at the time,not necesarily watching,but I saw her pull it out.She saw that I'd seen her take it out and smiled then went a bit red.
Pete
:Class31: :Class37: :NGaugersRule:
Maybe she wanted to change lanes ?
I still can't find my watch after 3 weeks!!!
Do recall Mrs "H's" father staying with us when he was told he had a phone call and tried not to p myself as he hollered into the TV remote control.
Jerry
Quote from: dodger112958 on October 22, 2013, 04:51:42 PM
:laughabovepost:
Could have been worse, it could have been next doors front door! :laugh:
Done that.
Quote from: EddieA on October 24, 2013, 08:29:11 PM
OK, no comments but I did in the past spent 5 minutes trying to shave at 5.30 in the morning... easy mistake battery razor, calulator side by side on the beside table (at least that is my excuse :confused1:
Had what I thought was the smoothest shave I'd ever had from a disposable razor before I realised I hadn't taken the plastic cover off
Sitting in the bath and trying to wash my face before I realised I'd still got my specs on.
Allan
Done that :laughabovepost:
I'd need me glasses on just to get into a bath without breaking me leg
I find shaving REALLY annoying. I have to take my specs off whilst I splatter gel all over my face, then grope around for my specs to put them back on for the shaving bit. But by then I've covered the lenses in shaving gel so still can't see a damn thing. :veryangry: :veryangry:
Quote from: Bikeracer on October 29, 2013, 08:20:40 AM
Sitting in the bath and trying to wash my face before I realised I'd still got my specs on.
Allan
I often get into bed, turn the lamp off, and think...wow I can see really well...and then realise I still have my glasses on!
I keep to hand at home a small notebook just for jotting off things down, bits of shopping, phone messages etc..One Saturday morning I used the notepad and then put it down. A few hours later something came to mind that I needed to jot down. Could I find the notebook...no. I quizzed the kids, as they often use it to, "no, not had it Dad". I retraced my steps and couldn't find it. Mildly frustrated with myself I found another pad and noted down my "thought". Later in the day my wife opens up the microwave and asks "Who left this notepad in the microwave?"...don't remember putting it in there at all!
But there you go...
Quote from: Bikeracer on October 29, 2013, 08:20:40 AM
Sitting in the bath and trying to wash my face before I realised I'd still got my specs on.
Allan
In the days of analogue tv's I've tried adjusting the focus on a fuzzy tv once and after a couple of minutes realise I've not got my glasses on. :-[
Quote from: Jack9465 on October 29, 2013, 05:59:33 PM
Quote from: Bikeracer on October 29, 2013, 08:20:40 AM
Sitting in the bath and trying to wash my face before I realised I'd still got my specs on.
Allan
In the days of analogue tv's I've tried adjusting the focus on a fuzzy tv once and after a couple of minutes realise I've not got my glasses on. :-[
It is always a pleasure to know that I am not alone!
Putting a notepad in the microwave and some of the other things described here are often caused by having too many glasses! :D :beers:
Lost my keys today, (or so I thought), I had a panic on for over a minute that I couldn't find em, until I realised I was still holding them :doh: :-[
For years a genuine poltergeist really did move my glasses (which I only need for driving) to places in the house and attached garage which I hadn't visited to my certain memory.
Now that I have bought a pair of Oakley transition glasses with prescription lenses for cycling the poltergeist has given up. I put the Oakleys on and my normal glasses appear in such places as the middle of the duvet cover, on the roof of my wife's car, or hanging from the V neck of my pullover.
Before the Oakleys they could be missing for hours.
I keep a Solar powered torch in my hallway to use in emergencies - on Sunday decided to check it was OK in case of problems during the storm only find it was not there and I still can't find it - I certainly can't remember moving it but I suppose it will turn up eventually in a most unlikely place - very worrying
Just remembered this. A few years back my wife and I let her mother flail her arms and legs in the car for full 20 seconds before we told her she was tring to get out with her seat belt on. Wicked but nice. :claphappy:
Quote from: ParkeNd on October 31, 2013, 08:54:09 AM
Just remembered this. A few years back my wife and I let her mother flail her arms and legs in the car for full 20 seconds before we told her she was tring to get out with her seat belt on. Wicked but nice. :claphappy:
:no: I hope you haven't got any daughters'-in-law who can read this. ;D
Quote from: cwh on October 31, 2013, 05:53:56 AM
I keep a Solar powered torch in my hallway to use in emergencies - on Sunday decided to check it was OK in case of problems during the storm only find it was not there and I still can't find it - I certainly can't remember moving it but I suppose it will turn up eventually in a most unlikely place - very worrying
Its probably keeping my watch company! I put it somewhere "safe" 4 weeks ago now....
QuoteI put it somewhere
I'd love to know where Somewhere is, it must be quite a large but cramped spot it seems everybody puts things "Somewhere" for them to never be seen again.
Another point strikes me, the bestway to find something you mislaid is to buy a new one, the mislaid one will reappear within a few days.
Quote from: Dorsetmike on October 31, 2013, 11:22:04 AM
QuoteI put it somewhere
I'd love to know where Somewhere is, it must be quite a large but cramped spot it seems everybody puts things "Somewhere" for them to never be seen again.
It is close to Jeopardy, where all those jobs are :D
Another point strikes me, the bestway to find something you mislaid is to buy a new one, the mislaid one will reappear within a few days.
This is very true, I lost my Swiss army knife and was very upset about this as it had travelled the world with me and I had owned it for many years. I searched the internet and found they still made the same model so I bought one. A week after the replacement arrived I noticed my old one lying in plain view on my desk. I did not care that I now have two, I was just so happy to have my old and trusty friend back :claphappy:
cheers John.
right my one.
driving to the office. finding some very surprised faces why I was coming to work on my day off :-[
My safe place is meant to be my 'man drawer' but sadly it's not always the case.
If I lend books, DVD's, CD's etc to anyone I have to write it down and then keep that piece of paper in.........you guessed, a safe place ::)
Walked around in my new slippers for two weeks before realising I had left the cardboard stiffeners in them.
Sat watching the TV the other night, thinking I needed my eyes testing again as it was a bit blurry. Son walked in and asked why I was watching TV in 3D mode without the glasses on :-[
Quote from: IanUK on October 31, 2013, 05:42:26 PM
Walked around in my new slippers for two weeks before realising I had left the cardboard stiffeners in them.
Slippers with cardboard toecaps - perfect safety footwear for the modern gentleman modeller :D
cheers John.
I drove Clare mad for three weeks trying to find a pair of Woodland Scenics tunnel mouths I KNEW I had bought for my branch line to disappear into - we turned out every drawer, cupboard and bag of modelling stuff trying to find them.
Then as I was looking at the layout to do some scenery I noticed the road bridge I'd constructed a month earlier, made from a pair of dark-painted Woodland Scenics tunnel mouths . . . :smackedface:
Paul
This thread is a crackup! Love the mother-in-law and the cardboard slippers.
Driving through New Zealand earlier this year with the female voice going on the satnav, my wife said, "She doesn't really read all that stuff in, does she?"
Back in the days when we owned a jewellers shop my mother would often apologies to customers for not serving them but she was busy searching for her glasses. Ive known her to search for close on an hour before someone pointed out that she was wearing them.
We never bothered to tell her because it kept her busy and out of the workshop