VegemiteGrrl's Home for the Absent-Minded

Moving from the UK to US, arrived at my new apartment with 4 suitcases to find a lockbox on the door. I had the apartment keys, but hadn't expected the box. Pressed every button, tried every combination, it didn't seem to do anything or yield any keys. Called a locksmith. Locksmith arrived, asked for my keys, opened the apartment door with them, and pointed out that if the lockbox had had anything in it I would have been able to see it.

Arrive late and in a hurry for DJ gig, park car in loading/towaway zone to bring in equipment. Completely forget about car until bar closes at 2 AM. Need other DJ to drive me to impound lot.

Went to dry cleaner's to drop stuff off, forgot wallet, resigned self to taking dry cleaning back home, started to gather it up, and then had it pointed out to me by staff in shop that I don't have to pay till pick-up.

I have two doors that I go through to exit my home. Despite having done this hundreds of times, I continually pick out the wrong key to lock the door. They are distinctly different keys, yet I can't ever get them right.

i have dropped my keys into a dumpster while holding onto an empty coffee cup. >_<

From the "Document Your ARGGGH Moments" thread, which never took off.

Oh man, came out of playing a gig one night, bass in one hand, car keys and beer bottle in other hand. Tried to toss beer bottle into dumpster and keys went sailing along. Much time spent poking around a dumpster filled with mix of garbage bags, rainwater and fryer grease.

― On the sidelines in a trash can grumping (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 17:20 (3 months ago) Permalink

i always seem to misplace either my keys, wallet, or cell phone. i never leave them behind anywhere (except once), but i always put them down somewhere in the house and then forget where i put them. too many times have i ended up showing up late somewhere because i was frantically digging around the house trying to find one of those three items. and they're usually on the couch or the bed, for some reason often underneath a blanket or the cat.

as someone with dodgy plumbing, these overflowing bath stories are making me alarmed

as someone with A HOUSE WHICH HAS dodgy plumbing

it's too late for disclaimers james james morrison morrison weatherby george pants pee

^_^

Overflowing the bath/sink is fine if yr bathroom has a drain in the floor - which I grew up with and thought was normal, but I've since discovered isnt, really. It seems like it'd be v important, especially say, in a multi storey place!

Swear the biggest differences between my world and your world, Trayce, involve plumbing. In Australia, these are somewhat normal:

• The drain in the floor.

• The frequency of shower/sink being in a different room from the toilet.

• The common off-hand way people use the word "toilet".

• Troughs commonly found instead of urinals.

• This little step thingy in front of the troughs.

• Many residences not even having a bathtub.

• Being offered the choice of full flush or half flush.

Nothing wrong with any of that, but I could drive on the left-hand side all day long and I wouldn't feel as strange as facing that step thingy.

Hahah I know! The not having a bathtub one is now becoming VERY common in new or newly renovated homes and apartments - so many people seem to hate or never have baths, so they're having that whole are replaced with GIANT SHOWERS that you could honestly fit 3 or 4 people in!? It made house-hunting a very irritating task, 60% of the places I liked had no bath.

half flush doesn't do shit

also I will never ever become accustomed to the habit of calling a toilet a 'bathroom'

half flush doesn't do shit

Well of course not that's what the full-flush is for.

hahaha. wait a minute doesnt ever bathroom have at least a sink?its ridiculous not to have a drain in the floor 4 sure

A+ pplains

that's the punchline veg

half flush doesn't do shit

Well, indeed.

DOH XPOSTARGH

Wait yeah bathrooms have sinks. I thought pp was saying toilet rooms dont (and in many places, even in the UK, thats a seperate room)

im trying to remember....i dont think they did have a sink. i know one did and my friend's scottish boyfriend used to pee in the sink ALL THE TIME so maybe better off without?

Maybe it's just the toilet and the shower being separated.

no i think youre right about the sink. that must be one germy door handle

Yeah I was a bit skeeved by sinks in toilet-only rooms in UK places I was in. Seen it a bit here but usually only in those kind of "tacked on" toilet rooms at the back door/laundry of an old house.

Ive never seen a drain in the floor aside from retail/gym type place - no homes!

No sink? Then where do you wash your hands?

Obviously our bathrooms have sinks! Our *toilets* often dont.

It makes sense to have the 'loo in its own little room if you think about it. That way if someone's showering/doing makeup/wtf ever you can still go.

But you touch door with pee hands ;_;

Sorry I'm drunk and being dramatic. No offence! That's just what doesn't make sense to me. The showering/peeing bit is a perk though.

Well think about it - any public loo you use has a stall door that everyone's touching after peeing, before hand washing...

I suppose :P

GEEERRRMS EVERYWHERRRRE

so, to bring this back on topic, that makes being forgetful good! You dont worry about such things ;P

Yay!!

you'd think that the simple task of going downstairs to fill up the big water bottle and kettle i have in my room would be hard to fuck up, right

GOD

i came back upstairs without EITHER of them. went back downstairs, the kettle was in my food cupboard and the water bottle was outside on the picnic table. i'd also forgotten to put away the packet of crackers i'd got out to snack on.

as i was coming back upstairs i managed to drop the water bottle, and it transpired that i'd also forgotten to screw the lid back on properly

nearly just gave up on the day then and there, should probably go back to bed just to be on the safe side

i had some time this morning so i got off the uptown train at 72nd to swing by trader joe's and pick up some stuff. i normally do this after work, so without thinking, when i returned to the subway, i jumped on the downtown express train and wound up back at times square. this is the second time i've done that!

does anyone else get that thing where you remember all the little things you have to do ALL IN ONE GO and it stresses you out so much but you're in the middle of something else and then like literally a second later you've FORGOTTEN THEM ALL AGAIN and then half an hour later you remember them again but you're in the middle of another thing but it's compounded by the knowledge that you already remembered and then forgot and then you basically want to die

HOW do people organise themselves?

I try to write them down. I function better with a list

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Yeah, that pretty much describes every one of my days. And I have no idea how people organize themselves. I've become convinced that your brain has to be primed for organization at a very young age in order for it to make sense to you, and mine very much wasn't.

xp ^^^ I write everything down. I'd forget it all otherwise.

the times when my memory kicks in tend to be times when I have no pen, paper or even phone handy. by the time I've got something to make a list on I've FORGOTTEN EVERYTHING AGAIN :(((((((((((

I basically forgot to organise an eye test for a YEAR despite numerous reminders from my opticians. Finally got round to it when I was running out of contact lenses. Turns out my records have been DELETED and it's going to be the most tremendous faff getting new ones and I ONLY HAVE FIVE PAIRS LEFT :(

iPhone + Notes + trying to remember to check the notes + semi-regular sitting down with all the notes and crating a todo list = uh, wanting to die :(

I sit in front of a computer for about 12 hours on weekdays, I ought to be able to keep better notes

Instead, I tend to write everything in a small, easily lost notebook

I've tried all kinds of organizational systems and note-taking systems and nothing has ever really taken. HOWEVER, recently I happened upon the idea (specifically with respect to getting some of my writing thoughts in order) of using index cards. I constructed this cardboard sleeve that holds a bunch of index cards so I can carry them around with me and when I think of something, I write it on a card and then put it into the appropriate order in the "deck". It's so simple but it's really been quite a profound break from trying to transcribe my completely non-linear thoughts into linear lists in notebooks and such.

putting my fb post from the other day in here for posterity:

OMG you guys, I was so ticked at Taco Cabana a month ago when I got home and found out they'd shorted me a burrito. They didn't. I just found out it was in that little crevice between my passenger seat and the door. Eew.

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I just have to remember to actually use this new system and to write things down, which is a whooooole other obstacle.