Ever had one of those days?

[Nutty Bavarian]

Lately my time and energy has been stretched pretty far. Between school, helping my mom take care of my grandparents, driving to and from my veterans appointments, and the general everyday stuff my time is pretty full.

All that being said my concentration has been pretty craptacular at times.

Today for instance, I walked into class and sat down. I thought something wasn't quite right. I looked around and didn't really recognize any of the faces in the room. It took me almost 2 minutes to realize I was in the wrong classroom :oo:

I'm sure the fact that I suffer from sporadic nights of insomnia doesn't help anything. :sleepy:

All in all, it makes for a good laugh sometimes.

So, anybody else want to share their oops moments? :laugh:

[womby wombles]

Today, I have managed to drop (and not know it) my handbag in a supermarket carpark, got to my next destination only to discover it was missing. So I back tracked and went back to the supermarket and found my bag had been handed in and was safe (money still in it too) in a little office.
I then went back to where I was supposed to be, to only to try to walk through a "door" that turned out not to be a door, but a glass panel that was actually next to the door. I didn't see the real door and couldn't work out why the other "door" wouldn't open. Someone told then told me that the door was just to my left. :oo:
I was having a definite blonde moment, that lasted the entire day. thankfully it is now the beginning of another day, one I hope won't be a repeat of yesterday's.

[Perse Jr.]

OMGoodness guys! I'm sorry you've had these incidents, but I did have to giggle a bit. Life is funny sometimes, huh? Well, I've had a ton of "oops" moments, but I guess the funniest one would have to be an "incident" that happened when I was a senior in high school. I was struggling to get dressed and to my next class after gym. As I bolted out of the locker room and ran through the gym, people started to clap. Not knowing what the coo was, I slowly looked down and realized I had no pants on!

Also, there was this one time I was on a cruise and leaving the disco. Instead of walking through the doorway, I walked smack-dab into the glass wall next to it. I left a face print and everything. After the initial shock, I don't think I have laughed so hysterically. And by the way, my face print (forehead, nose, lips and chip) was on that glass wall the entire cruise. Guess you could say I made my mark....

[rjt65]

hahah i started this thread read up on it for some companion stories!

http://www.stephenking.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9406&highlight=iam+fool+today&page=2

We all have em-----:laugh:

[PatInTheHat]

Moments:rolleyes:?

Try decades..my daily existance seems to be a Rube Goldberg experiment gone horribly wrong:down:.
Now if you stay at least a couple arms lengths away, you should be safe (no sweat just in case, got plenty of first-aid:oo:), but I certainly hope you have a decent drycleaner...and possibly a flare gun:oh:.

Oh riiigght..nix the flare gun!
:laugh:

[MadamMack]

I like this thread . . .

:rofl:

[Charms7]

I was going to say the same thing. Every one of my moments are not only blonde but also senior! I thought it might be because the hair dye I use finally ate through. Thank you everyone for making this old Tet-Mate feel a whole lot better!

[Ma Kin]

How about 3 months! First I was vacuuming one day..stepped on the cord and it really hurt..found a lump on the bottom of my foot. It got worse and worse. Hurt pretty bad.
Went to the podiatrist, it is called plantar fibromatosis. Basically a ball of scar tissue. She taped it up. Said it should help. It did. One time she wrapped it and the tape pulled the skin off of the top of my foot. Darn! so I patched that up, retaped it. It happened again, only this time got a nasty infection. That hurt really bad too! On the up side, I got 6 weeks off from work and now everything is finally almost healed. Who would think a foot could be such a problem!

[Jojo87]

I think I have those oops day everyday. I forget to do things and afterwards I start to think what I forget now. Sometimes I start to laugh, when I have forget something I should have done

[Natjen26]

Well, yeah.. Lots.. Lately I keep forgetting the lock the doors of my car. This morning being the final coup, seeing that I even didn't roll up my window. It was just standing there, looking all pretty and stealable. Lucky it's parked on our driveway and not on the street, cause otherwise I would be cycling to work from now on. :)

[SKfan2006]

during my senior year a few times over the course of the year i would get home and discover my fly was open the whole time while i was at school. thankfully nobody noticed.

[Damaris]

Hmm, probably my funniest oops was at a hotel once. It was a nice place and one wall of the lobby was done in mirrors. Coming down the stairs with my partner I noticed our reflections and pointed, saying something like, "Hey, we can watch ourselves make a grand entrance!" and then promptly tripped and fell the rest of the way down the stairs (no injuries). It was very inglorious. :laugh:

[Nutty Bavarian]

I just talked to a friend of mine and he reminded me of the time I sat in an office chair and promptly snapped the pivot pin and flipped over. I tried to put it back together to no avail, so I set it back up so the next guy to sit down would get to take a trip of his own :laugh:

[Nutty Bavarian]

Well I just got my first speeding ticket in 5 years on Saturday. I'm a speed demon, I can't help it :laugh:

[SKfan2006]

years ago my great-aunt had bought some new shoes. when she got home they didn't fit her at all. so she decided to give them to my grandma and found out why they didn't fit. she forgot to take out the paper.

[Perse Jr.]

Well, here's an awful one. Over the weekend, we were doing some (endless) yard work. Anyway, as I was walking in our front yard, highly visible to our street; my pants leg got stuck on a small stump, and I fell face first into a pile of leaves. My pants, too big by many sizes, were instantly yanked down by the stump. The only way to get up and out of the pile was to show a couple of cars driving by my big old white moon. Mortifying. Say "no" to crack.

[Moderator]

Sorry :rofl:

[~Ally~]

I've been having one of those days for the past three weeks, and sadly not in a funny/ironic way either. :(
Coming here makes me smile though.:)

[PatInTheHat]

Well, here's an awful one. Over the weekend, we were doing some (endless) yard work. Anyway, as I was walking in our front yard, highly visible to our street; my pants leg got stuck on a small stump, and I fell face first into a pile of leaves. My pants, too big by many sizes, were instantly yanked down by the stump. The only way to get up and out of the pile was to show a couple of cars driving by my big old white moon. Mortifying. Say "no" to crack.

:laugh:

:umm:

Hmmm, C-R-A-C-K spells Moon!


(Do I ever have a great one about stumps that would fit quite snuggly here. Goat stumps they call 'em here in the Mighty BlueGrass, but alas I'm afraid Ms. Mod might very well break her quick draw like delete finger, and somehow through virtual magic, she'd poke me right in the eye:arrow::oo:...oh my word would I ever deserve it, why yes I would I would:blush:)

[Mookie]

I just talked to a friend of mine and he reminded me of the time I sat in an office chair and promptly snapped the pivot pin and flipped over. I tried to put it back together to no avail, so I set it back up so the next guy to sit down would get to take a trip of his own :laugh:

I did the same thing in my FIL office chair when I was dating my husband. (boyfriend then) I leaned back and away I went before I knew it. I was so mortally embarrassed. He just laughed. I've done many more clumsy things over the years,:oo: he's gotten used to it.

[Srbo]

Oh, you mean days like when you put your phone in the fridge and can`t find it for the whole day then ?
Oh yeah, it does happen...:laugh:

[Mookie]

The winter before last we had one heck of an ice storm, we have 4x4 so decided we could navigate to the movie store. We arrived and I proceeded to get out of the truck, no sooner than I did that, I found myself underneath the darn thing. Everyone seen me fall and slide under the truck....... except my husband who asked me what are you doing down there?? Gee, I think I fell dear....(shakes head, men.:eek2:)

[Jax]

One of my "oops" moments happened last summer in a Kmart parking lot. I had a couple of prescriptions to pick up one evening so my husband and I pack up the kids and head out. We head out of the store and back to our car, and the vehicle that parked next to us has two little barking, snapping, masses of fur that are biting at and attacking the window. For some reason I found this really funny, and being immature I decide to "agg them on". I start growling and barking and carrying on like an idiot, when I happen to look up as I'm getting into my vehicle there is a guy sitting in his car a few spots down laughing at me and shaking his head. My husband starts laughing and says "good for ya!" That was the last time I acted like I was about 6 (in public at least). :laugh:

[Chelle71]

Yesterday I was so tired...(insomnia), I left the house, got in my car and realised I would not be driving anywhere I still had my slipppers on. That may not seem so bad but they are in the shape of bigg chicken feet.....no way I was going to be able to drive....thankfully! Imagine turning up to work in them:sleepy:

[malarabid]

Jax, please don't let that stop you!!! *barks and growls*

I'm sure I have more oops moments than I care to remember, if I asked my mom she would probably remember them though my blessed brain refuses.

Although, I do remember being allowed to drive the car, a big shark-like Cutlass Supreme, to high school one rainy morning. By afternoon, the miserable weather was gone, and I took great pleasure in walking home (only about a mile). It wasn't until after dinner that anyone noticed the car was not in our driveway. I felt a rush of fear, had it been stolen? I don't know who realized that I'd driven to school that morning (but I doubt it was me). At least the weather wasn't so bad when I walked back to school that evening and drove it back home.

[Nutty Bavarian]

Well I'm glad to see I'm not the only one with a embarassing moments.
Speaking of which, I put in a pull-up bar in the door frame in my bedroom. The bar is about six inches from the top of the door. Well I'm about 73 inches tall. Just tall enough to hit my head if I'm not paying attention.
The other night I got up to use the facilities and promptly hit my head on the bar. Needless to say I've started taking it down when I'm done. As Homer would say, "DOH!"

[pandora]

Yeah, I know what you mean Nutty!!! My brain is fried today and I've been robot driving everywhere. On my way to work, as I'm driving, I go into autopilot and realize a little to late that I'm going the wrong side of town.........oops......wrong client. Ahhhhh!!!
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[Perse Jr.]

Yesterday, within a 5 hour window....I burned my hands when I lost my grip on a boiling pot of water, the shower head fell off the wall and ON my head during my shower, and after checking on my sleeping kids, I fell down a flight of stairs on my way to relax and watch TV. This morning, my littlest one dropped a new tube of toothpaste on my bit toe, and my oldest dropped a bottle of orange juice on my right foot. I am battered and bruised, but funnily enough, happy and in good spirits. What else could happen? Right?

[Todash]

Sorry :rofl:Are you? Are you really? Somehow I doubt it. :biggrin2:


Yesterday, within a 5 hour window....I burned my hands when I lost my grip on a boiling pot of water, the shower head fell off the wall and ON my head during my shower, and after checking on my sleeping kids, I fell down a flight of stairs on my way to relax and watch TV. This morning, my littlest one dropped a new tube of toothpaste on my bit toe, and my oldest dropped a bottle of orange juice on my right foot. I am battered and bruised, but funnily enough, happy and in good spirits. What else could happen? Right?Perse, we don't look a thing alike, and I don't know how this would have happened, but I think we are really sisters because we are more alike by far than I am like my own three sisters. I think there must have been a "switched at birth" incident.

I have fallen downstairs more times than I can count. My favorite time was when my husband and I were staying at my in-laws'; it was a big family gathering thing. Their stairs are carpeted and somewhat steep, and my feet are pretty big, so when I step on those stairs I have to step down sideways to get the balls of my feet completely on the step. I was barefoot, in a huff for some reason, it was about 1 AM, and they had recently removed the handrail to paint. Two steps down, my feet flew out from under me, and I banged very loudly down the rest of the stairs. Although I was battered and bruised, I tried to keep it on the DL, but my FIL came flying out of his bedroom, and my younger BIL Jeff ran out of the computer room (covered in the Pepsi he had spilled on himself when he heard me). So there was no being sly about it.

I've done many dumb things as well, such as the time I reached into the oven to remove a pan of rolls with bare hands. And of course the BIL who lives to make fun of others was standing there watching me. He tells that story at least twice a year. (Why can't be alone when I do dumb stuff?)

[Perse Jr.]

Perse, we don't look a thing alike, and I don't know how this would have happened, but I think we are really sisters because we are more alike by far than I am like my own three sisters. I think there must have been a "switched at birth" incident.


Todash, I believe you to be right! And may I add, what a compliment that is to me. :) I too have grabbed for pans with no oven mitts on...I have done this repeatedly. I like to think of these episodes as "multi-tasking overloads," not "blonde moments (though I'm a brunette)." Sorry blondies!

And I can completely and totally relate to the feet/stairs issue! I have very large feet for a woman (size 10 in sneakers though I can sneak into some 9's & 9 1/2's), and have "slid" down stairs more than a handful of times in the last few years. So glad I'm not the only one.

What a story you shared!. Poor thing, thumping on down the stairs with people flying at you due to the noise! It is awful these incidents don't occur when we're alone.

I once did almost a full split in a grocery store parking lot. It was a rainy night, and I was crossing the parking lot to go into the store; in an effort to not make cars wait for me, I ran across the street, slipped in a puddle, and down I went. I tore my pants at both knees, and this little old lady rolled by and asked if I was "OK." Yeah, fine, thanks for asking...

[Mookie]

We stopped at one of our local farms one day to feed the horses. I ran out of apples and carrots and proceeded to feed them the leaves they were cropping on that they couldn't reach. My husband walks up and goes do you know that's poison ivy?? I was not only embarrassed I was covered in poison ivy the next day. Needless to say, now I can spot it a mile away. Horses eat it all the time they are immune to it....lucky one's!

[Jaedpact]

Woah! man I wouldn't wish that on anyone!!