Are you a Dopey Doris

hollydolly

hollydolly

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(no offence to anyone called Doris)



I have remote controls for my lights and lamps around the house. In the livingroom I Have 2 sets of ceiling lights and 4 large table lamps...


Last night before I went to bed, I turned all the lights off using the remote control as usual... and one Lamp stubbornly refused to turn off. I tried pressing every button on the remote to no avail. The Lamp sits on top of a large cupboard so I couldn't move it to turn it off at the wall socket...so I had no option but to leave it on all night in the hope my husband would notice at 5am as he was getting ready to leave for work and fix it .




Despite having glass doors.. he clearly didn't notice the light on in the livingroom as he walked past into the kitchen so when I got up later, I texted him to ask what to do about the lamp... and he said..






''Duh'...turn it off using the switch underneath the bulb'' In my defence it's been a Long time since I turned a lamp on or off manually, and I'd totally forgotten...lol, what a dopey doris.


Has anyone else done anything that was embarrassing or downright daft ?...don't let me be alone please... ;);)




 

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hollydolly said:
Has anyone else done anything that was embarrassing or downright daft ?...don't let me be alone please... ;);)
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I'm thinking.

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try dialing the phone with the remote control

Or changing TV channels with your mobile phone..... :crying:





 
I few years ago, I was sitting in my car waiting for my wife to leave a grocery store, and watched a woman and her son come back to their car with grocery bags in her hand. The son was about 8ish. The woman had her keys/keyfob in her hand, and pointed at the car and pushed the button. Nothing. She pushed it numerous times before she realized the battery in the FOB was probably dead. I heard her shout 'Arhhh!...Now what the hell are we going to do? We can't get into the car...' They stood there for a few seconds, then her son said 'can you use the key?'.
 
NewRetire18 said:
I few years ago, I was sitting in my car waiting for my wife to leave a grocery store, and watched a woman and her son come back to their car with grocery bags in her hand. The son was about 8ish. The woman had her keys/keyfob in her hand, and pointed at the car and pushed the button. Nothing. She pushed it numerous times before she realized the battery in the FOB was probably dead. I heard her shout 'Arhhh!...Now what the hell are we going to do? We can't get into the car...' They stood there for a few seconds, then her son said 'can you use the key?'.
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Ha! Good one! That is too funny:)
 
NewRetire18 said:
I few years ago, I was sitting in my car waiting for my wife to leave a grocery store, and watched a woman and her son come back to their car with grocery bags in her hand. The son was about 8ish. The woman had her keys/keyfob in her hand, and pointed at the car and pushed the button. Nothing. She pushed it numerous times before she realized the battery in the FOB was probably dead. I heard her shout 'Arhhh!...Now what the hell are we going to do? We can't get into the car...' They stood there for a few seconds, then her son said 'can you use the key?'.
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lol...yes I've heard of that too...although some new cars don't have keyholes any more..and then you REALLY are stuck
 
I lost my car for the hundredth time and was walking aimlessly through the parking lot. A lady saw me and asked if I was having trouble finding my car. I told her I was and she asked if I have the button to make the car honk. I did and immediately I found my car in the next isle. Another time my daughter asked me to save something on my computer. When she visited she would show me what to do with the saved item. When she came she asked me where I saved it because she couldn't find it. I told her I had printed it out and put it on my cork board. She looked at me in complete disbelief. I'm sure there are many more.
 
I wore boots all of my working life. On the occasions I had to wear shoes, I'd buy a pair. After the occasion, I'd put the shoes in the closet, and find a pile of shoes already in there... Now I'm done wearing work boots, and finding I'm replacing shoes for occasions with slippers for winter...
 
Ruth n Jersey said:
I lost my car for the hundredth time and was walking aimlessly through the parking lot. A lady saw me and asked if I was having trouble finding my car. I told her I was and she asked if I have the button to make the car honk. I did and immediately I found my car in the next isle. Another time my daughter asked me to save something on my computer. When she visited she would show me what to do with the saved item. When she came she asked me where I saved it because she couldn't find it. I told her I had printed it out and put it on my cork board. She looked at me in complete disbelief. I'm sure there are many more.
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hahaha...that's hilarious, :D:D
 
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When I was a young mother, as I was getting ready to leave the doctor's office,
I put my newborn baby in his car seat, closed the door them realized I had locked
my purse, my keys and my baby in the car. I was frantic. I ran hysterical back into
the doctors clinic. A nice pharmacist used a wire coat hanger to unlock my car.
 
hollydolly said:
lol...yes I've heard of that too...although some new cars don't have keyholes any more..and then you REALLY are stuck
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Wow... I didn't know that.

The last car I bought was the one I'm driving now, 2004 Honda.
My remote entry failed years ago and I am using the key.
 
Cops have thin metal strip that they slide down inside the door from somewhere where the window is. It unlocks the door.

Several times at work, I tried typing on the keypad but way using the calculator instead.
 
That's the first time heard the term Dopey Doris.. :D.Just yesterday the grand baby wanted to watch TV in the guest room and I couldn't get the ROKU turned on ,and it wasn't even plugged up. I couldn't figure it out until I went to bed and thought about it for a FEW hours, then it hit me.
 
Seeker said:
That's the first time heard the term Dopey Doris.. :D.Just yesterday the grand baby wanted to watch TV in the guest room and I couldn't get the ROKU turned on ,and it wasn't even plugged up. I couldn't figure it out until I went to bed and thought about it for a FEW hours, then it hit me.
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LOL...I think it might be a British phrase... ''Dopey doris'' not sure .....
 
KingsX said:
Wow... I didn't know that.

The last car I bought was the one I'm driving now, 2004 Honda.
My remote entry failed years ago and I am using the key.
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I've just checked with my husband to make sure I'm right..and he said yes there are cars with no keyhole on the doors..he had a hire car (french Renault 2017) while he had his own car in the shop... and he said there is a keyhole somewhere in the car for emergencies, but it's not in the door, so if you had one of those you'd have to look in your manual to find the keyhole lol
 
I've tried, more than once, to open somebody else's car with my remote. For a few seconds, I stood there wondering why nothing was happening.

Once, I got off the elevator at the wrong floor and tried to open somebody else's door with my key. Fortunately, they either weren't home or were too terrified to come to the door.

And once I left my own keys dangling in the door all night, until a neighbor knocked on the door the next morning to tell me.

I could probably come up with a few dozen more stories like that.
 
The only kind of dopey thing I easily remember offhand is once when I bought a little punching bag toy for my cat many years ago. It came with a suction cup where you could stick it on the wall, so I had it in the living room a couple of feet up from the floor.

I saw this stain on the carpet that bothered me, so I got out my carpet cleaner spray in the can and sponges and cleaned the spot, let it dry for several hours and vacuumed it up....only to see it was still there. I started complaining to my husband that I didn't know what this stain was from and it wasn't coming up. I had my cleaning stuff out again, this time with an additional stain remover spray.

My husband came into the room and started chuckling, I asked what he was laughing about. He showed me that the cat toy was just casting a shadow on the rug and there wasn't a stain there at all. We still laugh about that sometimes.
 

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