My blond moment
By dorannmwin
@dorannmwin (36392)
United States
January 17, 2013 9:50pm CST
First of all, I have to say that I don't mean any kind of offense to any tow headed person on mylot and my little boy is a tow head too. I don't think that blond people are dingy, but I do tend to think of the cliche.
So on Sunday I had to take the kids over to my mother's house so that we could work on Kathryn's science project and we left Tom at home because he didn't want to go with us. We had been there for about an hour when I got a text message from my mother-in-law wanting to know why Tom's cousin had his phone. I responded to her that I didn't know and I proceeded to try to call his phone, not once or twice, but 25 times so I could tell him that his cousin had his phone.
Of course once I realized what I'd done, I left the kids with my mother for a little bit so I could tell him that his phone was at his grandmother's house and so that we could pick it up.
Needless to say, I've had my entire family laughing at me about that this week. Has anyone else had a similar experience in their lives where they've done something really dingy and had people laughing at them for days on end?
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@deazil (4730)
• United States
18 Jan 13
Well, I hate to admit it, but I was at my bf's sister's house and she had a few friends there. My bf left and a minute later the sister's daughter came in the kitchen and said "Uncle left his phone here". I was just about to make a call so without thinking I said "I'll let him know" and proceeded to call him. I didn't realize they were all looking at me strangely. Then they started to laugh as the sound of a phone ringing could be heard coming from the other room. It took a second for me to realize what I was doing. I said "Oh, right" and hung up my phone. The laughter was followed by a few "boy, it's tough getting old" jokes. That was a year ago. They're still laughing.
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@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
18 Jan 13
I'm so very glad to know that I'm not the only one that has done something like this with the phones. I suppose we just think, even though we know better, that a person always has their phone on them.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
24 Jan 13
If nothing else, we at least know that there are two of us in the world that have done that.
@deazil (4730)
• United States
18 Jan 13
That was my exact thought. I'll just call him and let him know.
It seems like an ordinary enough thought.
And (whispering to you) that's not the first time I did something like that. Different situation but trying to call someone about the phone they forgot. I think (hope) a lot of people have done that. :-)
It seems like an ordinary enough thought. And (whispering to you) that's not the first time I did something like that. Different situation but trying to call someone about the phone they forgot. I think (hope) a lot of people have done that. :-)
@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
18 Jan 13
Why is it when you have a blonde moment no one, but none lets you forget about it and it's brought up years later, when even yourself has forgotten what you did! Look on the bright side, you made them laugh, and isn't it true that laughter is the best medicine in life, thanks for sharing, made me smile!
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
24 Jan 13
It always is nice to be able to make other people smile, even when you know that they are laughing at your expense. Oh well, I'm sure that I will do more dumb things in my life too.
@cupkitties (7421)
• United States
18 Jan 13
My friend, the self proclaimed "genius" once confided in me about how he used to think that there was a pig that eats all the stuff that goes down the disposal drain. He had the same though into his 20s . He even went to the Home Depot and asked them where he could find the pig to go under the sink. 
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
18 Jan 13
It sounds to me that your friend had watched too many episodes of either The Flintstones or Dinosaurs while he was growing up. The reason that I say that is because that is the sort of thing that happened all the time on those two television shows.
@allknowing (137551)
• India
18 Jan 13
Oh several of them. Once there was something we could hear was going on, on the road. It was pitch dark so just to see what was going on there, I switched on my light, making it worse obviously and my husband had a good laugh.
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@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
18 Jan 13
That sounds like the kind of thing that I would do. I always think that if there is light then I can see better. However, the truth is that if you turn on the light in a car, it makes it a lot more difficult to see outside the car.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
5 Feb 13
Honestly, even funnier was a wrong number call that I got last week. I answered an unfamiliar number on my phone and it was a woman that was trying to call her own phone to find it in her home.
I said, hello and she said, "I would like to know who is answering my phone."
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
12 Feb 13
Hey, maybe you should met this guy that was given a random number. He could have been the man of your dreams. LOL!
@911Ricki (13588)
• Canada
8 Feb 13
That is pretty funny, I have had to call myself luckily noone answered it.
I have had people call me, and they thought they were calling someone else, and sit yelling at me, then when they look at the number it's a number off.
I had one guy call and turns out some girl gave him a random number, and it was mine.
@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
18 Jan 13
I have those moments constantly and I'm not a blonde. The worst is when you have those moments in front of your boss. OMG! I had atleast one of those today where I'm just like... the one pc wouldn't let me expand into sizes and there wasn't a floor person to help and of course she asks me if I try a palm... well duh didn't think of it.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
18 Jan 13
I never had any kinds of moments like that when I was working, but I can see plenty of times where it would have been something that could have been a definite possibility.
@amybrezik (2118)
• United States
18 Jan 13
I think everyone has these types of moments lol. I went to the Frdige looking for my sons num nums just a few minutes ago lol. I remember my mom walking around the house when I was little looking for her glasses and the whole time they were sitting on top of her head. WE still give her a hard time for that!
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
18 Jan 13
I agree with you that everyone has these kinds of moments. To me, I just felt like I should share about it because it is funny and it might have been something that gave someone a good laugh when they were having a bad day.
@shrijsr (574)
• Bangalore, India
18 Jan 13
oh! C'mon, i keep doing such things at least once in a week and my family really have great time everyday laughing at what i did. When there are family functions and when we have all our relatives in house , i'm the one for the topic. They all surround me and they all discuss all the little things i did all the while and laugh about it for hours together till their stomach hurts to the core. I will stand like simply and wonder why these people always have to target me, but then, seeing them all laugh and have great time together, i will also join them and laugh along.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
18 Jan 13
I thought that the only person in our family to whom this would happen is my husband's aunt, you could write a book about the silly things that she has done. But I suspect that I might be working on taking her place.
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@Dominique25 (9464)
• United States
18 Jan 13
yeah that is funny. I'm sure that I have had something like that happen before. I can't think of anything right off hand (it's really late and my brain doesn't recall things to often). But we do have to laugh at ourselves when we realize what we have done. If I think of something I've done I will have to come back and post it.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
18 Jan 13
It is definitely hard to not laugh at ourselves when we realize that we've done something so silly as what I did with the phone.
I would love it if you were to come back and share a similar story if you do happen to think of one of them.
@polaroidsredwine (509)
• United States
18 Jan 13
Oh no! That's so silly. I can't actually recall the last time I've had a moment that made me come off so dense.
My sister, however - up until age 16, she was convinced brown cows made chocolate milk. Even nearly a decade later, after she came home throwing a fit because her friends made fun of her over it one day at school, the family still likes to pick on her for it.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
18 Jan 13
I remember telling my children when they were younger that brown cows made chocolate milk and though they both believed me about it for quite some time, it wasn't that long before they looked at me and told me that I was silly. Of course, I did know the truth, but it was funny to me.
@mariaperalta (19073)
• Mexico
18 Jan 13
Im not blonde... and these things happen to me all the time here. Ha ha ha Have a great weekend there.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
18 Jan 13
I think these kinds of things happen to people all the time and it doesn't matter at all whether they are blonde, brunette, black haired or even red headed. It is just referred to as a blonde moment because of the cliches associated with a blonde person.
@vernaC (1491)
• Romania
18 Jan 13
that's really funny. My husband got his blond moment just last night. He got home very excited telling me that his bank gave him a new card because his old card will be expired this month. The bank didn't realize that they gave him a new card last year because of their promo; to make a card using your own desire photo. So this makes a total of 3 card including the old one. Then, while we were busy talking and laughing with some jokes, he started cutting the card into pieces, when I took the other card, oh boy! it's the old one that's left, he just cut the new card! And now, we are waiting again for the card to be replaced.@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
18 Jan 13
That is too funny, but that is also the kind of thing that could very easily happen. For me the only story that I have involving my cards is that my crazy ex took my current card out of my wallet one time and replaced it with my old card. I didn't notice that he'd done this until the bank started calling me about my overdrafted. The reason that it took me so long to notice it was because of the fact that I never used my debit card at the time.
@dee777 (1417)
• South Africa
18 Jan 13
An old familiar thing recently happened to me - and I am sure that it has happened to many others too! I got the entire family searching for my glasses... drawers were emptied in the search and they even looked in the fridge.... eventually when my son spoke to me again, he noticed the glasses firmly on my head... Is it age, or what... hiehie!
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
18 Jan 13
I don't really have a hard time with my vision, so I am typically able to find my glasses when I can't find them, but I do imagine that is something that happens to people on a pretty regular basis, although it really is funny.
