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‘Momma says stupid is as stupid does.’ Young Forrest Gump
Ever done something stupid? Stupid in the ‘I-wasn’t-thinking-but-surely-I’m-smarter-than-this’ sort of way? Well, I would love to hear from you to ease my own woes. Feel free to share…
Me? I left my brand new mobile phone in my trouser pocket and yes, it went through the entire wash, rinse and spin cycle….and no, it’s not water-resistant. Ack! (Smacks forehead repeatedly)
I also realise and increasingly appreciate the fact that you all are eternally patient in reading such non-fibre blather in this space during our seemingly never-ending transition.
Have a great weekend!
Well I once lay in the middle of the street with my feet in the air and insisted my husband took countless photos! He he, yes it was a bit stupid but the street wasn’t that busy. Sorry to hear about your phone. I once heard of a kid helping his daddy out by bathing his dirty mobile phone! Enjoy the weekend.
22 Jun 2007 at 10:28 am
I had my new mobile phone in my back pocket on my jeans and went to the loo and it dropped out of my pocket and into the loo, unflushed! Even if it still worked, I wouldn’t want to use it!
22 Jun 2007 at 11:35 am
Oh, Cheryl! I never check the pockets before tossing stuff into the wash either. So far the worst I’ve managed has been ink pens, which can create its own set of problems.
22 Jun 2007 at 12:25 pm
Oh Cheryl, sorry to hear about your phone. Hope you are able to get a new one quickly. I’m forever leaving things in pockets and never bothering to check, although I think I’ll be a bit more careful as I’ve just had a washing machine engineer here this morning as the filter was clogged up causing the machine to stop. ( a bra hoop, 2e, and 10c coins and a screw did the damage.)
22 Jun 2007 at 12:28 pm
Oh my! I think that we are all a little guilty of doing stupid things. In fact, I even have a special category in my blog for my own brand of personal stupidity under the heading of “duhh”
I hope you have a great weekend.
22 Jun 2007 at 1:16 pm
Yikes!! There but for the grace of God go I………none of us is perfect.
My recent one was trashing the roof box on the car in a covered carpark…………………..
22 Jun 2007 at 5:22 pm
Could be worse. I had an employee who thought her computer was running a little slowly, so it needed a good cleaning, and since it had vent fins in it like her coffee machine, she poured an entire bottle of white vinegar into it. There is a reason why I gave up being a general and went back to being a foot soldier.
22 Jun 2007 at 7:47 pm
This was the thing that happend to my son the other day. He went to a game arcade in the night because he was bored at home. He went to the bathroom there. He wetted a bit the front of his pants because he didn’t pull the zipper down completely. He put his mobile phone there and went to the basin and washed the front of the pants with water. The basin was about one meter from the mobilphone. After washing his pants with water eagerly, he noticed that his mobilephone disappeared. sigh…..
23 Jun 2007 at 2:39 am
Well, I kept running things through the dryer … after I’d found gum on the first load. I just didn’t think that the gum would’ve gotten stuck inside the dryer, and would contaminate all the subsequent loads, too.
A couple of days ago I hemmed a pair of shorts without making sure that the legs were the same length. They weren’t.
Enjoy the move.
23 Jun 2007 at 5:25 am
I know I linked to it in one of my recent posts, but there WAS that time I baked a ham without removing its plastic wrapper. I basted that plastic and everything.
And my mom would remind me to include the time I slipped and fell in the middle of a giant mud puddle, wearing good clothes because I’d just had pictures taken, because I was running with my eyes closed. My mom laughed SO HARD at me that day. I mean, it was a really huge mud puddle. When she asked, “Well, didn’t you SEE IT?” I stopped crying long enough to say, “No! I was running with my eyes closed!”
Followed immediately by, “IT’S NOT FUNNY!”
And yet, 28 years later, I can’t stop laughing.
23 Jun 2007 at 9:23 am
not to worry - if you ever put a brand new, hand spun and hand knitted cashmere cardie through the 60 deg. C cycle - let me know if it feels the same:)) quite some time ago - but the loss still hurts! as soft as cashmere is - felted it was as stiff as a board….
23 Jun 2007 at 2:38 pm
ok, first off you are not stupid…just a little preoccupied. and who checks pockets before putting things in the wash?! not me. ask my husband. hang in there and have a safe trip.
24 Jun 2007 at 1:56 am