Lol!
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Sunday, 13 December 2015 10:24 (eight years ago) link
I somehow thought the driving lesson I have every week at 12 was at 12.30 and missed it then was waiting and getting mad at him when it was obv all my fault
What is a bit worrying though is the feeling of "why does my diary day 12 every week when I am totally convinced it's always been 12:30", really feel like I'm losing my mind sometimes
― a passing spacecadet, Saturday, 30 April 2016 12:08 (eight years ago) link
Last week I invented a new cooking technique called "dry steaming"
...Aaaaaaand then burned the fuck out of my hand on the molten saucepan once i realized there was no water
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 1 May 2016 02:46 (eight years ago) link
B cooked some 2 minute noodles for his son the other night and forgot them on the stove for at least 10 mins. There was this weird gooey gloop all over the pot afterward.
Kid ate the noodles anyway apparently.
― Interesting. No, wait, the other thing: tedious. (Trayce), Sunday, 1 May 2016 07:39 (eight years ago) link
The last couple of nights, I've wanted to adjust the temperature of the shower and forgotten which way to turn the cold water knob. I've lived in this apartment for 18 months.
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 01:50 (seven years ago) link
oh boy, a couple weeks of vacation had some moments of complete mental dislocation
I ordered a drink a week ago, got a canadian dollar coin in change, and went to drop it in a tip jar. I dropped it directly in my drink, which was in front of me, a foot left of the tip jar
I tried to pick up a breakfast pastry at the airport and managed to completely fumble it and drop it across the front of my shirt
immediately forgot names after learning them, along with basic vocabulary words
mumbled "durrrr" into one of those phone menu trees
― ฮผpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 02:09 (seven years ago) link
Why is my bag so heavy?
Oh, those tins of soup I bought yesterday, I forgot to remove them and have been carrying them around all day, to work and back, to that gig the other side of London...
― koogs, Thursday, 30 June 2016 23:18 (seven years ago) link
ok lol
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 July 2016 03:22 (seven years ago) link
But what if you got munchy?
― Stevolende, Friday, 1 July 2016 10:31 (seven years ago) link
When I'm not well I have a habit of talking to inanimate objects - not in a complicated sense, by I end up thanking ATMs and microwaves and trains etc. Not sure if that counts as absent minded - I don't mean to do it, it just happens.
― two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Tuesday, 26 July 2016 13:07 (seven years ago) link
I can't be the only person who does this but whenever it's my birthday and people say "happy birthday" to me, I sometimes repeat it back to them or have to stop myself from doing it, like you would with "merry Christmas" or "happy New year"
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 13:25 (seven years ago) link
Oh I def. do that - made worse by my birthday being 2nd of January.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 13:27 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, I say 'happy birthday' back quite frequently. (Once a year, even)
― two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Tuesday, 26 July 2016 13:27 (seven years ago) link
I've recently taken to dialling phone numbers in the calculator setting of my mobile - which is admittedly not as worrying as dialling phone numbers in an actual calculator but still...
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 05:38 (seven years ago) link
omg that is a good one
― mh ๐, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 14:25 (seven years ago) link
hahaI got on the train today with toddler and backpack full of snacks, nappies, keys. Unfortunately my wallet was still at home in my work bag. Nice ticket lady let me off for both journeys.
― kinder, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 16:41 (seven years ago) link
making myself a nice cup of coffee (in the microwave). with lemon squash instead of milk...
― koogs, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 12:51 (seven years ago) link
D:
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 19:35 (seven years ago) link
Lost my credit card, cancelled it, found it six hours later inside a packet of Strepsils in my bathroom closet.
It's like a magic trick, for an audience of none.
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 9 January 2017 09:48 (seven years ago) link
IRLLOL
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Monday, 9 January 2017 11:29 (seven years ago) link
That reminds me of a relative who lost their front door keys, then drove to the hardware store, bought new locks, fitted them, then drove to the locksmith to get copies of the new keys for everyone who was in the house. Relative then said something like "ah that's finally sorted out", and then put their hands in their jacket pockets only to find... the 'lost' keys.
― 2017, how bad could it be? (snoball), Monday, 9 January 2017 20:51 (seven years ago) link
i once cancelled all my cards after losing my wallet only to find it inside a pocket *in my fucking purse*
you have all of my sympathy
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 04:09 (seven years ago) link
Today one of my colleagues had a forty years of service anniversary, 60+ people gathered to celebrate her.
Within 10 minutes, I somehow managed to drop a glass bottle of juice I was examining, it fell on to my plate and broke with a bang, glass all over the tablecloth
;_;
Fortunately, laughter abounded.
― niels, Friday, 13 January 2017 11:03 (seven years ago) link
I lost my bank card because I failed to realise there was an inside pocket on both sides of the jacket I'd had for ~5yrs. There was all sorts of stuff in there - train tickets, a packet of rizla, a phone number. Clearly the part of my brain that puts things away was aware of this pocket but the retrieving part of my brain wasn't. Don't let your left hand know etc.
― Eallach mhรณr an duine leisg (dowd), Sunday, 15 January 2017 05:45 (seven years ago) link
that's really weird. wondering now whether I do this.
― kinder, Sunday, 15 January 2017 10:21 (seven years ago) link
oh god, i had a jacket where i did not realize the pocket had separated from the lining at the top and i lost several things inside the jacket until i realized it
― mh ๐, Sunday, 15 January 2017 18:41 (seven years ago) link
Don't let your left hand know etc.
I had a brilliant moment yesterday. I'm in line at the concession at the movies and suddenly realize that I can't feel my wallet in my right jacket pocket. I check for it with my right hand and, sure enough, it's not there. Only a few seconds later do I realize that that's because it's already in my left hand.
― jmm, Monday, 6 February 2017 19:08 (seven years ago) link
I've started looking for my glasses only to wonder why I'm seeing my nightstand so clearly
― mh ๐, Monday, 6 February 2017 19:09 (seven years ago) link
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I had a coat that I didn't wear very often, it was long but light - one day I decided to wear it to cycle into work. When I got off and locked the bike, I put my keys in the inside chest pocket, not realising that there was no lining on the bottom of the pocket - or on the bottom of the coat. And so I basically threw my keys in the gutter and strode happily away.
It turns out that it's really difficult to get the local council to take a lock off, even when it gets to "The bike is long-ruined, I'm just saying you could free up a bike rack".
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 6 February 2017 20:58 (seven years ago) link
I once lost my keys with those jacket pockets designed with small holes in them. Why on earth are they made like that? They look like they're made to hold a handgun but have the tip of the gun dangling out your jacket.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 6 February 2017 21:21 (seven years ago) link
I leave my cuff links behind in the gym change room approximately once a month - most recently last night. I've tried so hard to make a habit out of putting them in the coin purse of my wallet but somehow I keep forgetting to do so every once in a while. Thankfully they always turn up as someone hands them in but I'm sure my luck will run out soon
― monotony, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 03:11 (seven years ago) link
Only realised after copying jeans jackets that the construction leaves a hole at the side of the bottom of the inside pocket. So loose small objects can slide out.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 08:08 (seven years ago) link
so I basically threw my keys in the gutter and strode happily away.I did this a while back on a trip to Sydney for work. bought train ticket from airport to Central, then strode off stuffing it into what I thought was an outside bag pocket but was just a strap, so it fell in the ground. which I didn't realize til I got to the exit and had no ticket.
astonishingly the gate lady just waved me through. in Melbourne I'dve been hog tied and fined.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 7 February 2017 08:20 (seven years ago) link
Getting out of hand at my job. At least once or twice a day I can't find a worksheet or some student work I've put down somewhere, followed by five minutes of me wandering around the room like in a trance looking for it. Luckily I've got 3/4 this year--anything older and they'd be banding together and contacting outside agencies for help.
― clemenza, Thursday, 2 March 2017 20:58 (seven years ago) link
I need backup backup glasses.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 2 March 2017 21:25 (seven years ago) link
How many pairs can you hold pushed up on your forehead or hanging on a chain around your neck?
― nickn, Thursday, 2 March 2017 21:48 (seven years ago) link
Three. Don't ask me how I know this.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Thursday, 2 March 2017 21:55 (seven years ago) link
A few weeks back I had a complete brainfart, and called a skull a "skeleton head". I wasnt even trying to be funny.
No one in my household will let me live it down, now :|
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 2 March 2017 23:26 (seven years ago) link
imo that is a fine nomenclature
― mh ๐, Friday, 3 March 2017 02:37 (seven years ago) link
Thanking u, I agree!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 3 March 2017 02:44 (seven years ago) link
I also behind* skeleton head
This sounds familiar also.
*well, technically inside
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 3 March 2017 08:42 (seven years ago) link
Just had a mini meltdown trying to get my head around the spelling of the word "answer"
― PressAnarchyToContinue (Ste), Thursday, 27 April 2017 09:15 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, 'leisure' had the same effect on me earlier in the week - partly because my fingers misspelt it and my brain couldn't figure out which bits to rearrange.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 27 April 2017 09:21 (seven years ago) link
Worst mental space to inhabit, that zone where you've broken past the line of recognising the shape of the word and are into the quantum zone of atomic letters
― virginity simple (darraghmac), Thursday, 27 April 2017 09:30 (seven years ago) link
I've been forgetting names all week - colleagues, students, famous people. if this is early Alzheimer's then cheers guys, it's been a blast.
― Brexectile dysfunction (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 27 April 2017 09:31 (seven years ago) link
Well it hasn't. But we'll be kind and tell you that it was.
― virginity simple (darraghmac), Thursday, 27 April 2017 09:40 (seven years ago) link
you sound like you've had post-holiday blues all week
― Brexectile dysfunction (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 27 April 2017 10:07 (seven years ago) link
More to do with being back in the specific location as 77 reffed tbh but it's lifting
― virginity simple (darraghmac), Thursday, 27 April 2017 12:08 (seven years ago) link
yeah soz I read that afterwards
― Brexectile dysfunction (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 27 April 2017 12:31 (seven years ago) link
I poured a tin of soup into a microwavable plastic jug, then set the microwave running for one minute. I came back when the buzzer went off, only to find that the jug of soup was still on the counter and the microwave was empty.
― Zings Can Only Get Better (snoball), Thursday, 1 June 2017 18:07 (seven years ago) link