Are you a Dopey Doris

SeaBreeze said:
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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I can so see me doing this...good one. Sometimes it takes two.
 
Seeker said:
I can so see me doing this...good one. Sometimes it takes two.
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You know, I almost caught myself doing something similar years later when we put those PUR faucet filters on our faucets. In the bathroom I saw a darkened stain in the sink and as soon as I furrowed my brow, I realized it was just a shadow cast. At least I learned my lesson. :p
 

Sunny said:
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.
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I owned a Chevy Tahoe a few years ago. Made a trip to the mall and when I got to it in the parking lot, there was another Tahoe parked in the next space. When I pressed the unlock button, BOTH Tahoes' doors unlocked. I even locked/unlocked them a few times to make sure I wasn't losing it. (I didn't get in the other one to see if I could start it, though. :D)
 
Yikes, that's pretty bad C'est Moi. I wonder if Chevy has corrected that, they could be liable for a mega law suit, if someone had something stolen out of their car that way. (Of course, how could they prove
that they locked the door in the first place?)
 
oooh that reminds me of a time years ago when I had driven to a town in the next county to do some shopping. I wasn't too familiar with the parking in the area , and so I parked in the nearest Multi storey car park to the town centre, remembered I was on the 6th floor, and what time the car park was to close. I returned with just 20 minutes to spare, took the lift to the 6th floor, and Nothing..Nada...the whole floor which had been packed when I'd arrived was empty.

So carrying all my heavy shopping I realised I must have made a mistake on the floor number , and very aware of the closing time (barriers came down to prevent exit until they re-open the following day)...I rushed down to the 5th and then the 4th..NOTHING!! now I'm panicking, it's getting dark and I'm certain someone has stolen my car...so I dashed out of the car park to ensure I had gone in the right exit, there might be another side to it.. I had less than 10 minutes to find it... only then when I got outside did I notice there was an Identical Multi storey car park just yards away.. I ran carrying these heavy bags, got the lift up to the 6th floor, and there was my car sitting all alone by itself.. *phew* I was exhausted and emotionally fraught but totally relieved ... I think I drove out of there with just a minute to spare...
 
It felt like it at the time RR... really, I was sweating, I really had visions of my car gone..and I was going to be stranded far from home.. lol
 
Went to the grocery store the other day, forgot my list (only 4 things on it) do you think I could remember one of them?? So I decided to text my wife only to discover I forgot my phone. I was going to call her from what has to be the only remaining phone booth on earth, only to discover I forgot my wallet. I went home and had a beer while she went to get the groceries.
 
Happened with my son's 2006 Ford Escape also.
I actually got in,realized it was much to clean so I never tried to start it.
 

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