That Moment When ......................

We've all had them, the 'Sod's Law' moments - the mini disasters that strike just  at the most inconvenient moment.  You know the ones - when you're in a hurry, every light is a red one, you drop your toast and it falls butter-side down.

"Ooopsie" is the acceptable comment (in front of my little one), although in my head its a mite stronger.  I think 'Alternative Words to Swearing' will be another blog ..........

While I accept it's not the end of the world when these things happen, I am able to keep them in perspective - I haven't reached the Basil Fawlty beating-the-car-with-a-branch-and-shouting-at-it stage.

Some are annoying, embarrassing or hilarious - depending on many factors.  Some have that ohnosecond where you can see what is going to happen and can not prevent it.

I'm collating some of my recent That Moment When's ............

• You sneeze just after you've finished putting your mascara on.
• You throw your handbag on the passenger seat when getting in your car and when you retrieve it, the strap wraps itself round the gear stick - if you'd attempted to do this intentionally, it would take years.
• You struggle opening a sealed bag of food, it rips and the entire contents of the bag falls on the floor.
• You're coming downstairs (carrying your baby) first thing in the morning, and step in cat sick.
• You drop fresh, clean washing on the way to the washing line - in the only part of the garden where it can get dirtier than it was before it went in the washing machine.
• You press 'Send' on a text and realise you're sending it to the wrong person.
• You bump into someone you know in the supermarket and are unable to introduce them to your partner because you can't remember their name.
• You take stuff out of your chest freezer and put them on the side - to enable you to burrow to the depths to get what you're after - much later during the day spotting the now defrosted items still sitting on the side.
• You realise you've spent the morning with your jeans flies down.
• Your baby has finished breast feeding and is looking round at the other shoppers - your little pink nip is still poking out in the fresh air.
• You load your baby (after drying the seat - it's raining) and shopping bags into the trolly outside the supermarket and after the first little push you realise its the one that has a locked castor/wheel.
• You try to open your front door with your push-button smart car key.
• You try to open a screw top bottle of wine with a corkscrew (this one wasn't me).
• You close an important document on your computer and when the computer prompts to save you accidentally click on 'No'.
• You find the birthday card in your glove compartment you thought you mailed to your friend last month.