Or do what we do now - make toast under the grill, so there is no "popping up" involved.
My wife tried using a toaster for a while in our old house, but one day found the door of the cupboard above was misshapen - she'd not bothered to move it out, and the heat was gradually melting the door!!
I could have moved the bin, but the toast would then have gone straight onto the floor - at least it saved me the job of picking it up and binning it! The toaster was at the end of the worktop. Seemed to be smaller things like hot cross buns and tea cakes that would fly out. Now I’m wondering what other minor tweaks I could do to save myself some aggro! Never got on with using the grill, not even sure how the one in my new oven actually works! In the past, putting bread under the grill has resulted in numerous episodes of burnt toast, the smoke detector going off, and one of us having to wave the door open and closed to disperse the clouds!
I have so enjoyed reading the above entries. They have made me laugh and cheered me up no end. It is such a comfort to know I am not alone in being an ejit. I am always putting "things" away in a safe place. I assure myself the place is so obvious I will remember where the "thing" is, but when I need said "thing", I cannot find it. Until I do not need it and am not looking for it. Then I wonder what possessed me to put the "thing" where I did. Looking at something and not seeing it is another bad habit. I lost my car keys for a fortnight, I found them in the peg bag. Where else would I look for my car keys?
The lost car keys made me laugh. Years ago the undergardener was busy in the garage and thought he’d best put the car keys somewhere safe. It was months later in the winter when he found them …in his wellies. I of course never misplace owt😀
😂 pleased to learn I’m not the only one who has absentmindedly placed keys in the peg bag (mine were the house keys). Hunted around for ages trying to find them 🤣.
My excuse was, I had a long line of washing out. Came home from shopping just as it began to rain so dropped bags of shopping on back door step, dashed down the garden to collect the dry washing, car keys in hand, and as I dropped pegs into the peg bag, dropped the keys as well. The only reason I found the keys was because one day I decided to retrace my footsteps, knowing I had driven home. I started by sitting in my car and repeating everything I did, including collecting imaginary clothes from the clothesline, and dropping imaginary pegs into the peg bag. Hey presto, keys found. I do not think anyone was watching idiot woman prancing around the garden waving her arms around as she collected fresh air, threw it over her arm and grovelled in a peg bag.
Some years ago, when my oldest kids were toddlers and coloring on every scrap of paper they could find, I ordered new checkbooks and hid them in a safe spot away from the considerable athletic and gymnastic reaches of said toddlers. I remember thinking, "Oh, yes, this is a good spot. They'll never be able to get to them here."
Twelve years later, I still have no clue where those checkbooks are.
Whilst having a shower,I noticed little black sluggy things or maybe they were drowned spiders. I checked the shower head. I checked the ceiling. I even checked my hair to see if there were any more. I turned off the water and gingerly picked one up. It was black fluff from inside my socks.🙄
I occasionally have that problem too, @B3. It has made me wonder if I should be washing socks inside out? I’ve just used the glass and card trick to evict a spider from the downstairs loo. It was one of those ones with the tiny bodies and long legs, that quiver like jellies if you disturb their webs. It’s been there for quite a few weeks, so am I an eejit for waiting until the weather is warmer before dumping it outside?
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My wife tried using a toaster for a while in our old house, but one day found the door of the cupboard above was misshapen - she'd not bothered to move it out, and the heat was gradually melting the door!!
Never got on with using the grill, not even sure how the one in my new oven actually works! In the past, putting bread under the grill has resulted in numerous episodes of burnt toast, the smoke detector going off, and one of us having to wave the door open and closed to disperse the clouds!
I am always putting "things" away in a safe place. I assure myself the place is so obvious I will remember where the "thing" is, but when I need said "thing", I cannot find it. Until I do not need it and am not looking for it. Then I wonder what possessed me to put the "thing" where I did.
Looking at something and not seeing it is another bad habit.
I lost my car keys for a fortnight, I found them in the peg bag. Where else would I look for my car keys?
I started by sitting in my car and repeating everything I did, including collecting imaginary clothes from the clothesline, and dropping imaginary pegs into the peg bag. Hey presto, keys found.
I do not think anyone was watching idiot woman prancing around the garden waving her arms around as she collected fresh air, threw it over her arm and grovelled in a peg bag.
Twelve years later, I still have no clue where those checkbooks are.
I turned off the water and gingerly picked one up.
It was black fluff from inside my socks.🙄
I’ve just used the glass and card trick to evict a spider from the downstairs loo. It was one of those ones with the tiny bodies and long legs, that quiver like jellies if you disturb their webs. It’s been there for quite a few weeks, so am I an eejit for waiting until the weather is warmer before dumping it outside?