Doh moments

[symposes]

This isnt related to the Simpsons... HAHA!

Has anyone ever had a "Oh crap" moment, as a customer or even worker, where you felt like a complete heel?


For example, years ago, I went to go see a movie, i cannot remember which one it was now, but it was atleast 5 years ago.
I ordered a large coke, they make it, and set it on the counter, and i grab it from the top, as I lift up, the lid came off the cup and the whole thing fell on the floor, rather large mess, I dont remember it going anywhere else, including my clothing, thankfully.

Anyway, Im thinking to myself, Oh crap! oh crap oh crap x10000. Course Im practically pleading with the employee's to let me clean it up. They just keep telling me, dont worry about it, and handed me a new drink, which i triple checked the lid and didnt grab it from the top anyway.

[It's me]

Well, this wasn't at work or a store or anything, but I did feel like a complete idiot for not paying attention.

Winter driving....

Going fairly slowly down a gentle slope, with a sharp turn at the bottom. I found out the hard way that there was black ice on the slope... when I put the brakes on not much happened, and the car slid straight ahead, over the curve, and "kissed" the guardrail. Not much damage -- basically scraped paint on the corner of the bumper cover that hit the rail. 6-7 month old car too, grrrr...

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I seem to have Blonde Moments on occasion . . .

Such as this evening, while cooking dinner. I had the potatoes on the stove cooking (we were wanting potato salad.) Went back to the sofa with the laptop and browsed through the Wiki for a spell.

Check potatoes, they're done. I drain them, then put them into the big bowl. Get out an onion and send my brother to go get Mom (she always puts it together.)

She comes in a minute later, and finishes peeling the onion. She looks around and asks "Where's the eggs?"

My mind went blank for a moment.

Oooops . . . that's what I forgot. The eggs. :doh:

So, I get the eggs on to boil and go back to the living room . . . it's much easier to not be in the kitchen when Mom's in there.;)


Of course, there was last weekend when I was trying to bake a cake and thought I had the oven set on bake . . . I ended up BROILING the cake instead. :ashamed:

[Gawdzillers]

Of course, there was last weekend when I was trying to bake a cake and thought I had the oven set on bake . . . I ended up BROILING the cake instead. :ashamed:

Mmm.
Broiled cake.

[Caveat Emptor]

A few years ago, I was making Kool-Aid for myself. It was the sugar-free kind. I add sugar, stir and taste.....


Bleah!!! WTF? I think, did I get a bad batch? So I add more sugar, BLEAH!!!

Anyone see those new Dymo Label Maker Commercial where the family is spitting out the cake?


















I had added salt to the Kool- Aid.



Twice.

[Giggle Goose]

Anyone see those new Dymo Label Maker Commercial where the family is spitting out the cake?

I LOVE that commercial. No, not because I've done something similar before....:whistle:

I have moments like that all the time. One of my most famous ones is freaking out because I can't find my keys and they're in my HAND, or at work when I start cussing out the poor guys in the kitchen because my food isn't up yet; only to find out that someone ran it for me.

Last night a few friends and I went to a bar after work and there was a band playing. I'm sorry, but the guy couldn't sing to save his life. We wanted to leave when they were between sets, so my friend goes up to the waitress and asks for our check "before he starts singing again," AND HE WAS SITTING RIGHT THERE! My friend just ran away before he could say anything, and we got the hell out of there. At least they got some constructive feedback, albeit not as gentle as it could have been.... :o

[kerrisan]

Oh yeah. I've had more than my fair share of d'oh moments.

Summer before last when we went to Quebec, I was in Logan Airport eating a free tuna melt because our flight had been delayed. Right before I bit into the juicy, cheesy, buttery goodness, my arm somehow spasms and I hit the bottle of ketchup on the table. The whole bottle flies a few feet away and slams to the ground. This was a fairly new bottle. Ketchup EVERYWHERE. I was so embarrassed. I apologized over and over again and offered to help clean it up, but the guy wouldn't let me. All I could do was sit there and eat my sammich while the guy cleaned up my mess. :o

[Misanthropical]

I was getting ready to leave work on fine Saturday (everyone else had left already) and decided to use the ladies room before I left. I go to leave and I can't find my keys! I go nuts looking everywhere. I ask security if anyone found any keys. Nope.

I call my husband and tell him I can't find my keys, so he takes a taxi down to come and help me find my keys. Yeah, we only have one car.

So, we are going through the entire floor looking for my car keys. I decided to look in the ladies room one last time. They were sitting on top of the toilet paper dispenser. :o

[BookstoreEscapee]

A doh! sighting from last week...I stopped to get milk and a few other things one day, and at the dairy section a woman had dropped a gallon of milk...of course the top came off, or the bottle broke, and there was milk everywhere...so I wandered around the store for about 10 minutes to give them time to get it cleaned up, so I wouldn't have to wade through the milk flood to get mine.

At B&N they use "v-carts" to move books around the floor...if you haven't seen them, it's a square base with "walls" on 2 sides in a V, with wheels on the back corner. There are 2 sizes. We used the larger ones when we had tons of mass market paperbacks to put out...they can hold 4 stacks of books, which we would do in a circular sort of pattern which was a little more stable. We would stack the books in layers, so you could always see every title from either side. I have, more than once, gone to set the cart down somewhere, and let the front hit the floor a little too forcefully, and had all the books go toppling to the floor (and it goes in slow motion, too). So much for organization.

And a few times I have caught a wheel on a book or something sitting on the floor, and had the whole thing just flip over on me. That also seems to go in slow motion. So you watch in horror, knowing there's nothing you can do to stop it.

[Thrifty]

When I'm at the library at school (like now!) I will take my phone out and put it on the desk next to the computer so if anyone calls I can answer it (talking is allowed on this floor). So then the time comes when I have to leave the library. One day on my way out I called my fiancee, and I was talking I patted my pocket to make sure my phone was in there. Of course I was on the phone so it wasn't in my pocket. My fiancee enjoyed telling me I was on the phone when I asked myself out loud where my phone was.

[Emrld]

This just goes to show how busy our lives our . . .we need to spend more time reading Customer Suck dot com to give our brains a chance to slow down . . .

I like the time I went to check on a property . . .went to walk out the door . . . .made sure I had keys . . .get to my car and they are the house keys . . .locked my car keys in the house . . .call friend to ask for an idea . . . they laughingly suggested using the house keys to get in the house to get the car keys.

somedays I think I would make a great brain surgeon:roll:

[MadMike]

One time, I was on my way to the karaoke show, and was listening to a song I was trying to learn. The song wasn't quite over yet, so I stayed parked and let it finish. Then I got out of the car, locked the door, and flung it shut, noticing just a little too late that the thing was dinging at my, telling me the keys were in the ignition.

I had to go inside and call a locksmith to get my car unlocked, and of course, as soon as the DJ found out, he really busted on me for it. Worse yet, the guy who was helping out used to reposess cars for a living, and had the tools in his car to get it open, and would have done it for free if he had known.

If that wasn't bad enough, I did the same thing about a year ago, and even left the engine running that time. But at least that time, I had a copy of the key in my wallet.

[Binky]

I had one today :p

needed to get some Panadol. Went into the pharmacy, picked it up, placed it on the counter. guy hands it back in a paper bag and I hand him the money. I forgot I had the Panadol already shoved under my arm.

Guy gives me reciet and walks off. I say "ummm where is my Panadol" in a sort of whiny pissy voice" (in all honesty it came out that way without realising it had) and he goe's "ummm under your ARM"

:rolleyes::rolleyes: Realising my incredibly STUPID mistake I couldn't stop apologising, I mean I was sucky

[sms001]

our check "before he starts singing again," AND HE WAS SITTING RIGHT THERE!

GF and me at a shoe store.

GF: (Jokingly) "What do you think of these?"
ME: (Laughingly) "The ugliest shoes I've ever seen in my life."
Shoe Store Clerk: (VERY Dispiritedly) "Hi folks, may I help you?"
GF: (Still Laughing): "No thanks, I'm just looking."
ME: (Staring from ugliest shoes ever on display to - you guessed it - ugliest shoes ever on nice salesperson's feet.) "Um, no, I think we're going......." :(

doh.

[Caveat Emptor]

GF and me at a shoe store.

GF: (Jokingly) "What do you think of these?"
ME: (Laughingly) "The ugliest shoes I've ever seen in my life."
Shoe Store Clerk: (VERY Dispiritedly) "Hi folks, may I help you?"
GF: (Still Laughing): "No thanks, I'm just looking."
ME: (Staring from ugliest shoes ever on display to - you guessed it - ugliest shoes ever on nice salesperson's feet.) "Um, no, I think we're going......." :(

doh.

"This is the worst looking hat I ever saw. I bet you buy a hat like this and you get a free bowl of soup! Oh, it looks good on you though." :p