Topic: Facepalm moments

Yesterday I commited a facepalm moment - I locked myself out of my own home.

Typically defined as something so wholly stupid a faceplam moment should have happened in the first place, and this shouldn't have happened at all. To provide some context I am looking after the cats of a colleague, while they are away on holiday, which require feeding at around 6-7pm every day. I managed to tear myself away from Elite at 5:45 to go and do this so I put my shoes on, grabbed my coat and headed for the door. It was unlocked so I stepped through and shut it behind me and turned to lock it. That's when it hit me, there was a key in the other side of the door. Without giving away too many of my home security features it is suffice to say that the lock wont turn if there is a key in the other side. So I couldn't lock it but neither could I open it, I was stuck.

Mrs Turian was away in London and wouldn't be back until 10pm and the back doors also had keys in their locks. I spent the next 2 hours trying to break into my own home. I vaulted the back gate, retrieved my toolbox and attempted to fish the keys out of the lock using a hook on a piece of wood. This was promising until the keyring broke leaving the key at 90 degrees to vertical and unable to extract. I tried lifting the back doors off their hinges but that didn't work without access to the inner frame and tried jimmying windows with the same result.

In the end I called a locksmith. He came to the house, pulled a box out of his van and proceeded to put together a hook like device. He posted it through the letterbox...and pushed the handle down on the other side. 10 seconds, £141. Instant Facepalm

My wife will be reciving flowers and chocolates tonight by way of an apology in addition to my agreement to do all the housework for a week.

So, your turn. What are your best facepalm moments?

I was on a job in Germany and put my passport in a drawer for safe keeping. Left hotel, left passport. Got to the airport, realised what I'd done and returned to hotel. With typical German efficiency they had already found it and POSTED it to me. Left hotel, saw German mailman emptying box, asked -no chance. Phoned embassy who after a while agreed to escort me to airport and get me on plane (couldn't guarantee that I would get into UK tho. On getting to UK, explained what had happened, guy asked me if I had a credit card. Showed him, on my way hom in minutes. Passport arrived next day.

I use Super-Diesel in my current car. Arrived at the pump to full up. There are three nozzles...Diesel, Super-unleaded and Super Diesel in that order. You know where this is going don't you! Yep! I filled the tank (£63) without checking. At the time I was visiting my late Dad in hospital on a daily basis, so my mind was not completely focused. I drove home (around 2 miles) without an issue. Next day I'm about to go to the hospital and the car is spluttering and running terribly. My heart sank as I checked the receipt...super-unleaded!!!
The AA kindly removed a full tank of contaminated super-unleaded, relieved me of £244 and off I went to the garage again for another fill-up - with super diesel!
So my face palm moment resulted in a £350+ tank of fuel!

I didn't know it was so cheap to hire Kevin Nash

HA HA. I remember him when he was Diesel. Wasn't he 'supposed' to be someone's body guard that started wresting?

I had a great one this morning. Decided to cut my hair, so went and found the clippers. Took the guide off to clean them and it, then switched them on and cut a strip through my hair. Then realised I hadn't put the guard back on.

I now have a completely shaved head and it looks kinda weird, as my head where my hair used to be is quite white!

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