As if further proof were needed that small children addle your brain….
Following on from my recent absentmindedness causing me to make two trips to get a punctured tyre changed, I bring you new proof of my jelly brain.
Picture: whatleydude
I walked into the living room the other day and my wife, who was reclined on the sofa – while I was dashing about doing everything. EVERYTHING! 
– threw a puzzled look down at my feet.
Being so busy, I felt sure that they must have been on fire and it was the flames that had drawn her attention.
But it was in fact that I was wearing odd slippers – as in different to each other, not novelty slippers – I just hadn’t noticed. And of course it’s normal to own two pairs of slippers. Who doesn’t?
Actually, owing two pairs of slippers is new, but it makes me feel ostentatious.
It did look very funny, and although I tried to pass it off as a deliberate attempt to amuse my wife, she wasn’t falling for that old codswallop. She did the only thing she could in the circumstances…. she took the piss.
Pah!
Having made a mental note to myself to always check I was sporting matching footwear, I went back about my business of being chief cook and bottle washer.
A few days passed and a few more brain cells died.
As I bowled in through the front door having been out to do a major supermarket shop and then stopping off to collect my eldest girl from playgroup, I found my wife looking at my feet again. I thought, “Crikey, my wife has a secret fetish that she’s kept hidden from me all these years.”
Nope!
Oh YES my friends, you’ve guessed it!
I’d done it again. Thankfully not slippers – but trainers.
I must have looked such a pillock, strutting about in trainers of different designs and patterns. Granted they were near enough the same basic colour but they were different enough to be noticed.
I wondered why so many people had been smiling at me – and now I know.
The moral of this story:
Children rot your brains – live with it!
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