This is really unfair, Mary. I keep thinking how good your English is when I read your posts.  

Rant at myself...sometimes I astonish myself with my own capacity for stupidity!

That is all. 

I think this is the first time I'm in need of this thread. Last night I accompanied my niece and her friend who are staying with me to see the fireworks at the Eiffel Tower (can't let two seventeen year old girls from the countryside gadding about on their own that late). Though everybody was sitting on the grass while we were waiting (about 2 and a half hours - ugh) when the show started everyone stood up and all we could see was a forest of arms holding phones high above their heads - that annoys me so so much. Their videos will be very bad quality anyway, why can't people enjoy life first-hand and not through a smartphone all the time?

I can beat that.  In my 1st ever job, I smashd a child's hand cuffs, in front of the child!

Me?  The kid's handcuffs.  He brought them into the playgroup and I let him put them on me.  Then I couldn't get them off.  So I had to smash them!
I phoned his mother later to apologise.  But she juist laughed and said the boy had thought it was hilarious.

I'm into my 3rd week of hols!

Got banned from the Brokeback Mountain forum I was a member of...without warning and without being given a reason for it. They won't tell me what I'm supposed to have done...

Davina wrote:

My blunder...I sold a saddle to a girl last week. She bought a saddle I was selling for a friend. Two days ago I suddenly realised I had given her he wrong saddle. Instead of my friend's one I had given her my one (also for sale). Different size and also worth 4x what my friend's one sold for. Messaged the girl explaining error and said I would swap them over to the size she wanted. She replied saying...no it's fine! I am now seriously out of pocket, have already given my friend the money the girl paid and I still have my friend's battered old saddle to sell!

See. Told you. I am an idiot!

Oh, poor you! This could sooo happen to me as well!

Davina wrote:

The girl is now ignoring me. So I guess I have whistled goodbye to my saddle. See, if it was me, I would be too guilt ridden to keep it and would arrange to swap it back. But then I guess not everyone is like me!

That sucks :/  You could always take her to small claims court, but I guess it's up to you how much trouble to want to go through to get it back.  How many horses do you have, and what kind?  My family often adopts mustangs for cheap ($25) and then takes them to be broken.  We've had some great horses throughout the years...paints, pintos, a buckskin, an appaloosa and some great plain old brown horses, lol.  Our neighbor had a beautiful big red Morgan horse that we used to ride all of the time when we were young.  I haven't ridden in years now, though.  My parents had a miniature pony (palomino) that we kept for the kids, but he passed away a few years back.  They are currently breaking their only two horses, a paint and a pinto.  The paint just turned 2, and she's a beautiful thing (red and white).  I can't wait to ride them next time I go down

kittykat wrote:

Got banned from the Brokeback Mountain forum I was a member of...without warning and without being given a reason for it. They won't tell me what I'm supposed to have done...

Since there's a great history regarding my internet forum activities, I can relate to you.
Whenever I got banned from an internet site just because one of the moderators didn't like me I viciously created a couple of accounts and trolled them for weeks.
But don't bother - sites who ban you without giving you a reason are not very legitimate and therefore not deserving of your presence.