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Any daft moments you want to share?

Oakling

I remembered a moment from work today that just made me laugh as I remembered it and so, whilst no one else may actually find this funny, I thought I’d share.

I was stood at the photocopier waiting for my printing to come out, whilst trying to maintain a conversation with a colleague. I was definitely masking my way through the conversation, which I should know by now as something I can’t multitask with. It takes all of my focus, but I gave it a go anyway.

Someone else’s printing came out before mine, so I thought I’d be helpful and stack it neatly and place it on the side for them to collect. At this point I was still talking to my colleague. Well rather than placing the paper on the side like I meant to and continuing on with the small talk I was trying to navigate, I instead turned to the printer and tried to hand it back the stack of printing and said “thank you, that was very kind of you” in reference to me organising the stack of papers. 

My colleague didn’t really know what to do with this, but they definitely noticed mid conversation that I both tried to return some paper to the printer and simultaneously thanked it for my own organisation and for ‘being very kind’. I think I may have malfunctioned a bit… And they definitely did a double take and got out of my vicinity as quickly as possible (probably worried that I was now able to communicate with technology).

Do you have any light hearted stories like this that you want to share?

  • I've had a few Stuck out tongue 

    Somehow daftness follows me around like a shadow. I've done the classic dropping the car keys down the drain, yes this did happen in November of 2019.

    When we lived on a council estate and I opened the door to go and get in the milk and it swung shut behind me. The front door had a latch thing which was on to stop it closing, however, it failed and closed shut anyway. I ended up sitting in the car listening to music in my boxers and had to wait until my sister finally got up and went to school. She nearly woke up the neighbourhood laughing when she saw me.

    One Christmas when I was a bit younger, 14-15, I stayed home when my family went to see grandparents and my mum had left her cakes in the oven and I promised her I would get them out and put them under her airer tin. However in my teenage autistic state I got preoccupied sorting through the things in my room, and my mind totally forgot the cakes... Mid sorting I felt a disturbance in the force. Was it a burglar climbing the drain pipe? Was it kids trying to cut the roof open on my dads Triumph Stag? Was Santa a week early and on the roof?

    To be honest, all of that would have been preferable... The disturbance was in fact a hideous smell wafting up the stairs. Only then did I become aware of the oven bleeping, alerting the cakes were done, and by the smell of it, they had been done a while.

    I rushed downstairs, got the cakes out and oh man they were mega hot (yes I poked one) and they were rock hard. Whoops!

    Now, any mum would I like to think be proud that her teenage son was responsible enough to be sorting his room rather than outside shoplifting, doing graffiti and putting holes through people's car roofs like normal teenagers do...

    NOT my mum! I can hear her now like it was yesterday. How dare you abandon the cakes young man! You had one task. ONE! And what do you do?? You go upstairs! The house could have burnt down...

    I've got many more daft moments of my life. I'll add them another time in case there's a word limit for posts.

  • I was on holiday in Italy many years ago and I walked into a shop, through the doorway which was wide open. Once in I realised the shop didn’t have what I wanted so turned back around to walk straight out.

    The door was now shut, a glass door, and I walked face first into it, really hard and swore very loudly in shock. And ended up with a lot of shocked Italians looking at me and the face print I left in the glass.

  • in reply to Roy

    I was being introduced to some top programming dude in my field at the time at a party.

    They said, "I Sperg, this is IGOR he is Russian"

    I coudln't help myself but to reply; "Well he should slow down a bit then"... 

    Then made it worse by finding my own drunken wit very, very, amusing...

    Everybody gave me "the look" then..

  • I got gum in my hair once and then used another piece of gum to try and pull the other piece out but it also got stuck. Definitely among my daftest moments Laughing

  • We was staying in a rented house for a long weekend and it was freezing cold, we went down to the local chemist in the morning to get a hot water bottle, I couldn’t find them so asked the little old lady who was working there. She took me to them and said, “We have the plain ones and ribbed ones, my brain went into overload, I blurted out, “ I’ll have the ribbed one for added pleasure!” The old lady didn’t laugh and my wife gave me ‘the look’.

  • in reply to Shardovan

    As you've introduced an interesting side-bar of fictional daft moments... one of my favourites courtesy of Tom Baker: 

    SCORBY (hired thug, played by Boycie off of Only Fools...): Shut up. Okay, start talking.
    DOCTOR: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had perfect pitch...

  • in reply to I Sperg

    That is a VERY daft moment. Bravo!

  • in reply to Shardovan

    Great thread idea by the way Oakling, plenty of mileage here no doubt!

  • Letting my oil run out over the coldest weekend (this one just passed) in ages and freezing through half the weekend before remembering I had a plug-in electric oil heater thingy on wheels that was patiently sitting in the back room waiting for me to remember it existed. Not that the house didn't stay freezing after it went on, just a little less so. In one small corner! 

  • About twenty years ago or so I had had a bad day at work. I sat down in the living room, looked at the floor and said to my roommates, "...I will bring them to a stark realization. It will be stark. And they will realize." HAHAHA! It was hilariously Doctor Evil-ish and my roomies burst out laughing! I had zero realization myself, ironically, how comical I sounded.Imp

  • I gave milk to hope, while spilling on a loose printout - on the floor - which was part of the 2021-22 Tax Return. Doh!

    I should have a PDF copy, however, on my Dropbox.

  • Today, I was in Superdrug, third in the queue.  The person being served was asked for their email address, which he gave very carefully and slowly spelling out every letter and digit, then he was asked for his phone number, again spelled out every number, then the small talk began, was he a student.  I was really pissed!  Suddenly the woman waiting in front of me dropped her shopping and stormed out of the store.  I realised that I wasn't alone.

  • Well, what comes to mind wasn't so light hearted for me at the time, but probably funny for everyone else! 

    At uni, in a cake shop, which had taken a while to get round to, being afraid of shops, front of the queue,, finally - and the elastic in my charity shop skirt failed...

    That was a moment! 

    I am over it now, I suppose because I finally concluded it could have happened to anyone... although naturally it was me, lol! 

  • Yes, from this afternoon.

    i was on a Teams call and needed to drop out to do something else. I went to type into chat “Sorry dropping off to do another call”. But as I was typing it someone else typed that they were dropping out to receive a delivery of logs.

    And my single-threaded brain then typed “Sorry, dropping off to do a log”.