As someone who's put salt in my first cup of coffee a morning after a night before... bleeeaargch!

And Did You Know (blicky, anybody?) that you can make lasagna with raw lasagna if you do it in the microwave and add a little extra water? Works a treat and the meat (or whatever) juices really get through the noodles, you don't have to do separate assembly steps, and it takes about 2/3 the baking time.

Stupidest thing I ever did, according to my family: We were picking up my sister from college for the summer, I was about 11; I left my carryall on the top of the car (of course!) as we left Middlebury, VT to drive back to Boston. As we got there, I realized it had all my toiletries, and (remember this, Best Beloved, like the suspenders) we were supposed to leave to go back to Africa the next morning. I was just being delighted at having managed to lose my toothbrush... when everybody kind of all together realized it had also held my PASSPORT, TICKET and HEALTH CARD - which meant that not only might we have to get me issued a new passport, which can take months, but (to MY personal horror) - I MIGHT HAVE TO HAVE ALL THOSE SHOTS AGAIN!!!
Happy ending, which in family lore saved Daddy from killing me (when he died over a decade later, he was the only family member who still didn't think this story was funny!): Not only was there a message waiting from my sister's roommate when we arrived in Boston that the bag had been immediately found (luckily it did NOT stay on top even out of the driveway), but the person with whom we were staying had a friend who had private plane, and he flew ME (Whee! Dad was furious, Mom was getting me out of the way) to Burlington, where roomie handed the bag through the window and we flew back. It was great fun. And for years we all laughed at how poor dad still didn't think it was funny...