Idiot things you have done that are too dumb to be "senior moments".

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This morning I was searching for the remote. I could not find the damned thing. I looked and looked. It was not in all the places i normally loose it. Frustrated, I looked down. It was in my left hand. This was way too dumb even to be a "senior moment". What have you done that is way too dumb to be a "senior moment"?
 

I heed my wife's admonitions about ladders, at my age. However, right now I am wearing a back brace due to a spinal compression fracture.
I had purchased a large piece of pegboard, but it would not fit into my little Hyundai. Stupidly, instead of calling my wife to bring her bigger car, I tried to score it and snap it in half. Well, it snapped so suddenly I fell back on the sidewalk injuring myself.
 
bowmore said:
I heed my wife's admonitions about ladders, at my age. However, right now I am wearing a back brace due to a spinal compression fracture.
I had purchased a large piece of pegboard, but it would not fit into my little Hyundai. Stupidly, instead of calling my wife to bring her bigger car, I tried to score it and snap it in half. Well, it snapped so suddenly I fell back on the sidewalk injuring myself.
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Funny but not funny! You poor guy!

My husband fell off a ladder in the garage and shattered his left ankle nine years ago. He was getting our camping chairs down from the rafter BUT he was coming down the ladder frontways instead of backwards. The chairs threw him off balance and down he went. He had 4 surgeries within 10 weeks , a bad, bad infection and almost lost his foot. He has to wear a specially made leather brace on that ankle/foot to support the ankle because there are no bones in it, only a calcium pack. The thing is....he was a Boilermaker (welder) and climbed on high beams and ladders all his working life so he knew better.

Hope your back heals quickly.
 
I think some of these are senior moments, but we prefer to label them as "dumb." :giggle:
But, a few months ago when the power went out on a cold morning & I couldn't turn on the central air, I said, "No problem; I'll just use a space heater & stay in that room until the power comes on again."
I was halfway up the stairs when I realized...........
 
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I’ve searched all over the house for my glasses to catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror and they were on my head.

The power went out. I tried to flip on the light switch to find the flashlights.

Also while the power was out and
obviously the the coffee machine wouldn’t work, I had the “bright idea” to heat water in the microwave.

My daughter had the funniest moment of all when my granddaughter was a few months old. I was hanging out at their house, we were all in the kitchen, Lucy had been crawling around on the floor.

Paige: Mom do you see Lucy?
I smiled.
Paige: MOM. Where’s Lucy??
I smiled bigger
Paige: (frantic now) MOM IM
NOT KIDDING WHERE’S LU…..oh🤦🏼‍♀️

I pointed to her hip, where she’d been carrying Lucy the whole time. I informed her that losing your kid while holding the kid bumped her up to parenting level:expert! 🥇 We both had a good laugh once she calmed down 😂
 
Don M. said:
A couple of years ago, I got in a hurry and filled my lawnmower tank with diesel fuel. Luckily, I recognized my mistake before I tried to start the mower, and spent an hour, or so, removing and cleaning the tank.
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My brother just did that!
I bought him a new mower for his birthday & I used it to cut his yard. Ran great.
Two weeks later he calls.....could I come over......mower won't start.
Did you fill it with gas? Yup....pointing to the yellow can of diesel fuel.
duhhhhhhhh............
 
I wish, as a society, we never had to need keys (or something similar) to lock everything up. Lock the door, lock the car, lock the trunk on the car. Lock the effing keys in the car! Can't find the keys! I'm going to be late! Where the hell are they? They're still hanging from the lock outside the door from when I came home yesterday!!!
 
Judycat said:
I wish, as a society, we never had to need keys (or something similar) to lock everything up. Lock the door, lock the car, lock the trunk on the car. Lock the effing keys in the car! Can't find the keys! I'm going to be late! Where the hell are they? They're still hanging from the lock outside the door from when I came home yesterday!!!
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Oh yeah.....we've all had our run-ins with keys, shoes, socks, and cell phones.
It's funny how we rarely lose the crap that we don't need or care about.
 
Judycat said:
I wish, as a society, we never had to need keys (or something similar) to lock everything up. Lock the door, lock the car, lock the trunk on the car. Lock the effing keys in the car! Can't find the keys! I'm going to be late! Where the hell are they? They're still hanging from the lock outside the door from when I came home yesterday!!!
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That's my dumb-but-not-necessarily-senior moment. I've locked my keys in my car 3 times this month. I've got a spare, but it doesn't fit in my wallet and I keep forgetting to buy a magnetic key holder.
 
When my mom was around 80 she called me frantic to say she couldn't find her bridge. There were 9 teeth in it, so she couldn't eat.
I went over there & somehow I knew where to look. It was trash day & I thought the worst place it could be was in a FULL garbage can.....so that's where it must be.
I sifted through all 40 gallons of......juicy sticky trash, & found it near the bottom.
 
win231 said:
I think some of these are senior moments, but we prefer to label them as "dumb." :giggle:
But, a few months ago when the power went out on a cold morning & I couldn't turn on the central air, I said, "No problem; I'll just use a space heater & stay in that room until the power comes on again."
I was halfway up the stairs when I realized...........
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I've also done things like this. like "The power's out so I can't use the internet, so maybe I'll just watch news on TV." Fine, except that the TV won't work without power either.

Unfortunately, I have done this kind of thing before I was a senior.
 
I am bad at putting things back where they belong especially in the kitchen so I always say to myself "how can I lose something in one kitchen?" Eventually I find the item and I say I will recall putting it there thinking I'll remember but I seldom do.
 
My next door neighbor went on a vacation and asked me to water her plants while she was away. We already had the keys to each other's apartments.

I did what she asked, but realized too late that a couple of the plants that I watered were made of plastic!
 

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