Once (not long ago I'm ashamed to say), I went all the way to work on the bus with my trousers undone. I only realised when I went to the canteen with my mate and the woman who works in there pointed it out to me. Lucky I'm not a bloke - and that I had some nice knickers on!

Had a very Harriet moment earlier.

My husband had collapsed the rotary washing line so i put it up, hung all my clothes on it.

BUT

I'd not secured it correctly so it collapsed again. Because of the weight on it I couldn't get it to go up again without pulling all my clothes off and by this point I was in such a bad mood I flung them on the ground while swearing.

At this point my 3 year old daughter ran past naked shouting "you can't see me"
I said "oh yes I can, go and put your clothes back on"
She said "why?"
I couldn't think of a good answer.

My daughter is going to be a naturist

I've just discovered a lump of nectarine stuck to the side of my (white) top.
Must be from when my 1 year old was firing missiles of fruit at me while I was crawling about under his high chair with the dustpan and brush clearing up round1!

Awwww Kids…. You gotta love ‘em right??

Actually, on that note...

Not really a Harriet-ism but still a rather funny story about a little girl and a dippy teacher…

My best friend and her husband are having a baby – she went for her 12 week scan on Friday. Her sister, Beth is only 3 and refers to them as “my sister Amie” and “my brother Andy” so when her mum told her that her sister was having a baby, she went into school the next day and told her teacher that “my sister Amie and my brother Andy are having a baby”. Apparently, according to the class assistant who’s my mate’s mum’s friend, the teacher looked rather horrified and struggled to recollect herself before she worked out that Beth actually meant her brother in-law and not her actual brother!!

Hehehe!

Today's Harriet-ism...

Drove all the way to work and then remembered I'd left my dogs in the garden with the back door open, so I then had to drive all the way back home again to rectify the situation! Luckily all valuable items were still in their rightful places (including said dogs)!

Needless to say I'm up for the "berk at work" award again this month...

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Needless to say I'm up for the "berk at work" award again this month...

at least you'll be remembered. and when were the other times??

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Originally posted by mac's girl:

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Needless to say I'm up for the "berk at work" award again this month...

at least you'll be remembered. and when were the other times??

I'm too embarrassed to recall, although I think one of them at least is actually posted on this thread... It involved a photocopier and one rather dippy employee (that's me by the way).

Y'know I really don't think I do much to proove that blondes really aren't as stupid as the jokes tell us! I'm thinking of becoming a brunette to get away from that stereotype!!

It's no good Hols, blondness is a state of mind, you'll never get away from it! Personally I have brown hair and always have, it doesn't stop me having blonde moments! Last week I had a major strop because I couldn't find my car keys, turned the flat upsidedown and then found them in the car door, thank god my car is too old and crap to be worth nicking!

I can't think of any specific harrietisms right now but i do tend to lose things and forget things alot. And i have an unfortunate knack for rememebering trivial information that has no relevance to anything and forgetting important things like phone messages and the like.

My car just had to go into the garage - apparently they had to put 4 1/2 litres of oil into it!

Oooops!

I have learnt now that when the oil light comes on you stop NOW. I completely destroyed the engine of my car by ignoring the oil light - I thought it was like the petrol one, I could drive wherever I was going and then put some oil in.

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Originally posted by VoteARS!:
I have learnt now that when the oil light comes on you stop NOW. I completely destroyed the engine of my car by ignoring the oil light - I thought it was like the petrol one, I could drive wherever I was going and then put some oil in.

I didn't know that!

It's also surprising how your car won't like it if you're stupid enough to put diesel in it when it's not a diesel car...

...not that i'd ever do a thing like that. La la la

My dad did that...
I have remembered a Harrietism of mine - one of my many attempts to bake -
my friend bought round one of those cupcake kits with all the ingredients measured out etc and instructions. It says "put the cake mixture in the bowl and add water" I put both packets in, assuming they're both cake mixture. I scan the instructions " while the cupcakes are baking make the icing sugar" I think they must have forgotten the icing sugar. My friend points out that one of the packets was the icing sugar - producing very sticky and sugary cakes....

Have actually just been clearing out the rubbish from my handbag....and down in the corner were the wrapped-up mushy remains of the ham sandwich my littley didn't finish at the cafe on Friday! I AM Harriet! Damn, now I've got butter all over this keyboard.....

Incidentally, I've just got my Black Books 3 DVD and in the Hen Party episode where Fran goes off the get wrecked with 3 old school friends, Olivia Coleman (Harriet) is the career woman who has everything! From those dizzy heights to fazed mum - it's just like real life, isn't it?!

(Have to go and lie down now at the thought of JRT in Black Books 3 - esp. the outtakes...)

I noticed Olivia Coleman in black books, in fact the first time I saw that ep (before series 2 and my obsession really kicked in) I spent hours trying to work out where I recognised her from, I was trying to explain to my hubby that she had played a really ditzy secretary character but I couldn;t remember what in, my husband just thought I was strange (to be fair he was probably right)

She used to be in those AA car adverts but she's been replaced now.

Okay, here's one of my many Harrietisms...

I pulled into the drive at home, turned the car off, got my daughter out of her seat, and then we went to the porch. I unlocked the house and let her in, then I went in and finished the day. The next morning, when headed off to work, I reached into my bag and couldn't find my house keys. My husband and I looked everywhere! I opened the door and headed out to search through the bins outside. My husband yelled out the door laughing, "Hey hon, I think I found them!" I ran up the porch and asked where they were while looking at his hands. He pointed at the door. There they were, still in the lock from the day before. Brilliant, right?

Crikey! You were lucky no one ran off with them (you obviously live in a nice neighbourhood!) On the subject of keys, I run around in a flap hunting for my keys a lot when they're either in my hands or my pockets! This is a most common occurrence at 6.30am when I've just leapt out of bed to the sound of my alarm clock...!!

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Crikey! You were lucky no one ran off with them (you obviously live in a nice neighbourhood!) On the subject of keys, I run around in a flap hunting for my keys a lot when they're either in my hands or my pockets! This is a most common occurrence at 6.30am when I've just leapt out of bed to the sound of my alarm clock...!!

You have your keys in your hand (or pyjama pockets presumably) when you wake up in the morning?

My husband can never find his sunglasses and they are ALWAYS on his head!! I love not telling him for a few minutes. You'd think that he would learn by the sheer number of times I have told him...

Oh no it's even worse than that!! I pick them up first and then forget that they're in my hand or that I've placed them safely in my pocket so I then hunt around looking for them!

Have you seen Finding Nemo?? All my friends refer to me as "Dory" - I can't think why!!

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Originally posted by HolsBols:
Oh no it's even worse than that!! I pick them up first and then forget that they're in my hand or that I've placed them safely in my pocket so I then hunt around looking for them!

Have you seen Finding Nemo?? All my friends refer to me as "Dory" - I can't think why!!

it's one of the few disney films i haven't seen (yet)

Today I was about to find my contacts for packing and I found my glasses case and my contact lenses were in their case inside it. Then I thought, right, where are my glasses then...I spent five minutes looking for them before realising that I was wearing them; you'd think it might occur to me that it was odd I was able to see whilst looking for them!

I took a colleague out and I was driving and talking when he asked if I knew a shortcut.
I had taken the wrong turning off the A12 and been going for about 20 mins without realising that i was on the wrong road.