The Dumbest Thing...

[abecedarian]

I could write a book on the dumb things I done, but here's one I was just retelling last night:
I was mixing up a huge batch of yeast bread while the kids played in the living room. The phone rang and I was trying to keep from adding the ingredients at the wrong time, and the phone from falling into the bowl. It was a cordless phone. Then, as usual, the kids got rowdy and started to fight. I sat the bowl down and kept talking to my friend on the phone as I stomped into the living room to separate kids. Oh, I think I still had the wooden spoon in my hand(doubles as a spank spoon in a pinch). I was waving the spoon around menacingly, and reaching for the first offender, when I sat my foot on top of the Fisher Price Schoolbus..which became a rollerskate...Of course I fell. I twisted as I fell and pounded my knee. The whole time I was still holding that blasted phone up to my ear! I told my friend that I'd just fallen, and that I thought I'd injured my knee. I had to call my husband away from work to take me to the doctor so he could tell me I'd sprained my knee. Multi-tasking has its limits!

 

[Kookamoor]

I could write a book on the dumb things I done, but here's one I was just retelling last night:

Oh my! That's not necessarily 'dumb', more a chain of events that would be hilarious on film! Reminds me of those insurance ads where the bowl falls off the table, startles the cat, cat jumps on the curtains, curtains fall down onto table, ball from table hits fish tank, fish tank cracks, water shorts out television and electrical cord causing air conditioner to fall out of window and onto the car below.

I hope your knee was okay!

 

[abecedarian]

Lucille Ball is one of my heroines

I was simply trying to do too much at one time. You'd think I'd learn. Then there was the time I was talking on the phone in the kitchen, and my toddler at the time, poured dish soap all over the floor. The overhead light was out, and I didn't excuse myself from my caller so I could grab some paper towels.. and the resulting fall was much less than graceful. I was pregnant at the time, and should have been more careful. I wasn't hurt, and the baby was fine, but it could have been worse.

Other dumb things have included giving my daughters a tea set..sounds harmless enough. But I didn't realize the plastic tea kettle had a "whistle"..From the bathroom, with the fan on, it sounded almost like the last note of the doorbell...
Then there was the toy handheld phone that sounded exactly like a rael phone..again, picture a pg woman trying to jump over small children and dangerous toys to get answer the phone..