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Oh Fiddlesticks

Sporadic Sparkly

This is just so typical of me... Face palm

Earlier this evening I succeeded in writing out a pile of Christmas cards for my relatives and friends. Great!

As it is more convenient for me to print my own postage labels, I then signed into my Royal Mail account to get the postage sorted and paid. Unfortunately, when I went to retrieve my supply of self-adhesive printer labels to load into my printer, I realised I didn't have enough. This was not so great.

Admittedly, this is not the end of the world because I can just print onto normal printer paper, and use sellotape to secure my labels to the envelopes. It's just the fact that it tends to look less aesthetically pleasing.

The logical thing would (of course) have been for me to check I had enough printer labels BEFORE I had signed into my Royal Mail account. D'oh!

As the saying goes, we live and learn, although in my case that's debatable sometimes. Lol.

  • in reply to Sporadic Sparkly

    Whenever I had a 2012 Citroën DS3, I tried unlocking the doors of two cars similar to mine; they were coloured white, too. Then, I went into a tizzy whenever they didn't work. lol

  • in reply to Sporadic Sparkly
    Sporadic Sparkly said:
    I'm not a tea drinker, but if I were, it would be the end of the world if I discovered I had an empty box of teabags

    Lol believe me, from a tea devotee it is definitely the end of the world! Stuck out tongue 

    I put an empty tooth paste box back and this morning discovered it was empty. I did have a spare it turns out but at the time I was really annoyed with myself lol.

  • in reply to Old Timer

    How unfortunate to discover you had forgotten your wallet, Old Timer.

    That anecdote reminds me of an occasion when I had been out shopping. I had my purse, but when I went to retrieve my debit card to pay, it wasn't there. Fortunately, my mother was with me, so she offered to pay.

    Where was my debit card? In my son's wallet, back at home. I'd forgotten that I had given it to him the previous day and that he had forgotten to give it back to me. Oops! Laughing

  • in reply to Desmond79

    Oh dear! I feel thankful that my keys all look different to each other. That said, there have been many occasions when I have tried to unlock my back door with the key for my front door. After several minutes spent cursing, the penny drops... Ah, wrong key! Laughing

    Not good when I am desperate to get inside my house and upstairs to my bathroom because I am bursting for the toilet. Lol.

  • Ah yes, this is something I myself do on a more regular basis than I care to admit. At my age and time of life one can be forgiven for these lapses of memory.

    My Good Lady is always telling me off when she discovers an empty box of cereal, or when a lightbulb box is present but empty... And I can't get away with blaming it on Horace, out dog. Blast!

    Quite recently I told my Good Lady I would take out the Dolomite for a short drive as it rarely sees the light of day. So I preplanned the entire journey, intending to blast through the countryside and I would get fuel at the same time. I got to the petrol station, filled it up, and then I went in to pay and then oh dear no wallet in my blazer.

    Ahh yes, it's in the glove box. But it wasn't.

    It was a classic case of oh fiddlesticks!

  • I had an issue trying to find the right key to unlock the padlock, for my shed. I have a tendency to force things in, even though they may never fit.

    Join the club.

  • in reply to Grace

    I'm not a tea drinker, but if I were, it would be the end of the world if I discovered I had an empty box of teabags. Laughing

    My son, however, does drink tea. He too is prone to putting empty boxes back in the cardboard. Lol.

  • We've all been there lol. We live and intend to learn. Stuck out tongue closed eyes 

    At least your Christmas cards are done and ready for dispatch though. There are positives here. Not so long ago I was making a cup of tea, put in the milk, got my spoon, and biscuit and then opened the tea pot and - no tea bags!

    Oh no! Go to the cupboard, the box of tea bags is there - breathe sigh of relief. Open the box and

    It's empty. This is me and my house, so naturally it's not really a surprise I put an empty box back.

    Lol live and learn, hopefully. And I did from that experience, it hasn't happened since though that's not to say it won't again.