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I drove home to a place I hadn't lived at for 5 years after a run of night shifts. Decided right about then that night shift wasn't my thing.
Recently I was so tired that I mixed up tubes and applied Melbcat’s toothpaste to her nose instead of her sunscreen
You may have seen an incident that blew up on reddit about the person who put their pet rat in the fridge and the butter in the cage and then had to fight to extricate the rat who had discovered the ham.
that was me. Autopilot and exhaustion are a helluva combination.
I didn’t see it. Ham huh? I bet rattie had a wonderful time!
oh she did
Oh that sounds like a fun day!
I got home from graveyard shift, had Onion (rat) roaming merrily on counter while making toast. Eat toast. Put things away. Take rat back to cage. Realise i was putting tub of margerine in rat cage. Panic, bolt back into kitchen, tear open fridge full of apologies.
Onion had discovered the deli ham and clung to sides of fridge when I tried to remove her
You got me with rat on the counter. Nope Nope Nope Nope.
I was once at a friend's house when her cat was licking the butter. Friend said "naughty baby" and put the lid back on and put it back in the fridge. I never ate there again.
Cats love butter and marg
So do I but I don't wanna share.
That’s the idea. He didn’t want to share and licked it so it was his
Onion the Rat! Love it! At least you realised before you'd tucked yourself into bed for a nap. And she was having her best day because who wouldn't want to be trapped in a smorgasbord.
My ex brother-in-law applied what he thought was roll on deodorant and was mystified and freaked out about 10 minutes later when his armpit hair began to fall out
Boyo once applied toothpaste to this face instead of sunscreen. It was all over his face and beard before he noticed. I absolutely howled laughing and took a picture (with permission).