.. something happened. I did not want to tell you because maybe you would think I was stupid and leave me. But then I thought maybe you do stupid things too (I hope) and it would be a relief for you to read about other people doing stupid things (I hope). Though you should never CALL someone stupid – not to their face. If you tell someone he is stupid he will BE stupid. Name calling lowers ones game. It teaches us nothing.
But no-one called me stupid. Well, not recently anyway. 
You see, for a number of days my phone was not ringing. There was no sound at all just the vibration. I played with the buttons on the side turning it up and down. I went into settings and fiddled about – nothing. I discovered a few hairline cracks in the glass so I assumed it had been damaged. 
So (in the absence of a teenager) while I was in town the other day I took my phone into the shop where I bought it -I had all my insurance papers in order. I was ready for a long and protracted Carry On. I walked into the store, cockily said Hullo to The Greeter before she saw me, walked with confidence across to the phone department and was met by a terribly nice young man who was probably about twelve years old. He put down the device he was working with, giving me his full attention. I explained my predicament and he smiled and reached out his hand and said ” Can I see the phone?” “Sure”, I said and handed the offending device over. He took it in the palm of his hand, tilted it slightly to look at the side buttons, flicked one with a fingernail and said “You had the Mute on.”
My eyes widened, my pulse elevated and a blush spread across my face as I did a quick search of the immediate area to see if anyone SAW! “Oh”, I said, grabbing my phone and stuffing it back into my bag – at speed. “Thank you.”I smiled and laughed, as you would. “Silly me”! I said. “I am so sorry”. He was awfully gracious “Happen to anyone, sometimes the covers slip over the button, I love your accent, where are you from?” But with a wave I was already out the door and hurrying for my used cooking oil car, almost running down The Greeter who was outside having a smoke, as I bolted for the carpark . Can you imagine – the embarrassment?!
Now, if you think that was stupid listen to this. Yesterday I was off to buy feed and so I dressed accordingly and I took out my clean town shoes, (I never wear farm shoes where other farmers might be walking). These shoes are green Converse shoes. I love them. I put one shoe onto one foot then remembered something in the kitchen so with one foot shod and one in a sock I ran from the bedroom to the kitchen. Saved my coffee or whatever it was, I cannot remember, then I raced back to the bedroom to put the other shoe on but Icould not see it, i searched and searched but NEVER found the second shoe again. It had vanished! For ages I hobbled about the house with one shoe on and one shoe lost, backtracking and retracking myself looking for the other clean green Converse shoe. GONE.
I had to change my trousers to accommodate boots (I only have one pair of shoes) and then went Out and Back again. It was not ’til much later in the evening that I found my beautiful clean green Converse shoe on the shelf next to the microwave in the pantry. What WAS I thinking not looking for my shoe on the shelf next to the microwave in the pantry!
Here is another Stupid Story. Because of the cold breezes coming into the barn now I gave each set of pigs a whole bale of straw to play with and so they could snuggle down in the lea of the bale, out of the cold, and sleep. Well, the day before Yesterday I was talking to one the Plonkers in the barn, when behind me I heard a noisy excited scuffle namely Tahiti (above) and Molly, the two Hereford gilts, shoving their bale of straw up against the gate then climbing up onto it and launching themselves over the gate like fish sliding out of a bucket – straight onto my feet. “Merciful heavens”, I said much surprised, “how long have you been practicing that little trick.”
“It worked.” they screamed with delight to each other and merrily began to gnaw on my boots!
Needless to say I took out my trusty farmers knife and slit (there is that nasty word again) the strings on their bale of straw before opening the gate and letting them back in.
I think I need to drink more water! Obviously I am so distracted lately I am losing my MIND.
Did you see what Boo is looking at in the header shot? Here it is again.
The big hunter. Have a lovely day,
Our new Dexter heifer should be coming today! I will keep you posted.
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70 responses to “The other day…”
I’m not playing this game. I’ve done plenty of dumb things and still do, for that matter, as you well know. Blessedly, most occur in the privacy of my own home with no one around. That’s where I intend to leave them — but if Max could talk … 🙂
John is so right! One does get away with lots living alone and looking oh so innocent 🙂 ! Actually methinks I did a lot more stupid things in my younger years – now one is more than careful not to ‘frighten’ oneself with what may seem like a ‘senior’ moment . . .
Oh dear! I have moments like those at least once a day! And most days I drink 2-3 ltrs of water, some days I even drink 4ltrs, so I can’t blame dehydration haha ❤
Those clever little pigs!! If only they would turn ntheir brainpower to good instead of mischief 🙂
I laughed right out LOUD – very LOUDLY – when I read where you found your shoe. Isn’t amazing how our minds can totally miss seeing some things! I’ve been in that type of situation – so maddening when you KNOW you started out with a pair. Oh my – sure would have loved to have someone else be manning your camera house when you saw that shoe. I imagine that was a priceless expression on your face! Love that you caught ‘Mousey’ in your shot.
It happened TODAY! I was building a snap together shelving unit in my cellar thinking evil thoughts and saying bad words about the person who packaged it and the store who sold it because I was short one connector – which was in my hand. So very glad not even the dogs were down there with me.
My dad once lost a pair of prescription glasses, could be found nowhere no matter how many times he backtracked his day. He had to go buy new ones. Two YEARS later they were found in a box of stored items on the very top shelf of his closet !?!
Boo, the keen ratter!
My niece saved my phone with that same switch! You are never alone !
I had an embarrassing day. I saw a coworker in the car next to me at a stoplight. And when we rolled down our windows to chat, I mistook his daughter for has wife, never having met either. Proceeding to the market, I got to the checkout and realized I’d left my purse at home. When I told the clerk this, she promptly dropped an entire case of San Pellegrino on the floor. It shattered and caused a small flood. I should have stayed home.
No, we all do stupid things..I asked my other half today if she had the cell phone, she told me she gave it to me so I said I guess it’s lost, she went out in a huff & lo & behold there was the phone on the seat in the truck! I guess she gave it to me while I was driving & forgot about it! And the other day we were @ Foxwoods Casino & couldn’t figure out why the machine wouldn’t accept our slip,,,,turns out the slip was for Mohegan Sun. And we both do this, grab the portable phone to change the channel on the TV. See, you are not alone!
I’m sure not leaving. You’re one of the bright spots in my day. I had misplaced my pair of walkie talkies, both of them. After months of looking for them I found them nestled happily together on the desk, right where I’d put them. Picked them up and moved them so I was certain where they were for the next shopping trip to the big box store so the spouse couldn’t lose me and when we were getting ready to go headed to pick up the walkie talkies, yep, there were gone, still haven’t found the blasted things and the spouse did lose me in the big box store, three times in one trip. My glasses do the disappear too, usually perched on top of my head while I go hunting the house for them and Smoky watching me like I’ve lost my mind because I put them on top of my head so he could give me puppy dog kisses and he slimes my glasses, silly boy. It isn’t stupid, those who are stupid are unteachable and constantly do the same things over and over expecting different results. It is distractedness, sometimes a tiny thing will be enough. The walkie talkies being AWOL is annoying and the ring that fell off somewhere in the house because my hands were so cold I didn’t feel it slip away. What is absolutely maddening is packing stuff, then not knowing where it went while hunting yourself silly only to realize it’s in a box in a storage unit.
OMG, I wouldn’t feel bad! We all have these moments, which I’d say is the body’s way of saying, ‘Slow down!’ Even if just a bit. Husband Chris loved the Tahiti photo, btw 😉 xoxo
I have done the same thing with my phone, so do not feel bad, luckily, or not, ha ham it was my husband that showed me what I did !! He usually shows me what stupid things I do with the silly iphone !!!
I’ve done the same thing with the mute button–positive I’d flipped it on. I hope this is something drinking water can help. I spend an awful lot of time looking for things lately.