Stupid Or Silly Or Both?
Posted by Ling on April 6, 2011
I should be blonde!
Sometimes I think I am stupid, sometimes I think I am silly and sometimes I think I am both. Take today for example…
After I went to the Gym (yes, you read correctly, I went to the Gym!!!), I went to the supermarket which was near the Gym to buy groceries. However, when it was time to pay, I realised I had left my purse at home. DOH! In Australia, we are required to drive at all time with a driver’s licence so if I had been stopped by the police… Anyway, so this supermarket is 20 minutes drive from our place. Yes, 20 minutes. (And that’s partly due to my fault for booking Gym classes at a gym which was so far away – it turned out that there is the same branch of Gym which is waaaay closer to our place – like down the road!! But I booked this Gym without consulting Google Maps. So that’s definitely stupidity!) The checkout lady asked if I was going to leave the groceries or return for them. I did a quick calculation in my head – it would take me 40 minutes to do a return trip. I said to her, “Yes, I’ll be back in 20 minutes!” WTF? 20 minutes? I just calculated 40 minutes!! I could easily have said “Sorry, but no thanks” and go home, get my purse and go to my local supermarket which is up the road and shop for groceries again. Now, was I being stupid or silly??
I drove home and got my purse and headed back to the supermarket. Paid for my groceries and headed to the car. I was carrying 3 large bags of shopping and my handbag. I put the bags of groceries on the ground and took out my keys. Now, I have a bunch of keys but the car key is clearly marked. But for some stupid or silly reason, even though I knew fine well that I didn’t choose the correct key to open the car door, I still tried to force it in! Obviously did not work! Thank God I didn’t somehow snap the incorrect key int the keyhole.
Finally, after opening the car door with the correct key, I chucked all the shopping bags onto the car seat and closed the car door. I put on my seatbelt….and there’s no car key! Hello? I looked through all the shopping bags. Nothing. I looked on the car seat. Nothing. I looked in my handbag. Nothing. And then I got out the car…and it was still in the keyhole. DOH! Was that me being stupid or silly?
I was just having a stupidly silly day.
How was your day?
Johan Ho said,
Some days are just bad days! It’s strange. Could be that your mind and body are more tired than you’re aware of.
Last week when I was trying to bake a cake, I first added 140gr of sugar instead of 140gr of butter, don’t even know how I misread butter as sugar. Had to throw it away because it was only supposed to be 2 spoons of sugar… Then the second time through I forgot to sift the flour. (Though that wasn’t as hard to fix.) Hmm writing it out it doesn’t sound nearly as exciting as your day.
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Ling Tung Reply:
April 10th, 2011 at 11:05 pm
@Johan Ho, My mind and body are never in sync LOL
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Squeeze The Pug said,
HAHAHA. Reading this post is like reading a comic. You’re silly but definitely NOT STUPID. The fact you can write like that I think you’re really intelligent.
My day was pretty usual but busy. For sure it is not as comical as yours!
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Ling Tung Reply:
April 10th, 2011 at 11:07 pm
@Squeeze The Pug, Aww, you’re too sweet. I did another silly thing the other day… I drove past the place I have been locumming in (for nearly a year now) in broad daylight. I was like, “Wait a minute! Isn’t that where I work…??!!!” And then another day, I drove home with my handbrake unreleased!!! I was doing 100km/hr on the highway!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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