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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?

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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