VegemiteGrrl's Home for the Absent-Minded

Dumped the remains of bag of what I thought were ice cubes in my iced tea; slurped with gusto. Not ice cubes; onions.

hahahaha oh no!

irl lols oh no

Onion tea soup, eh? That's strongoesque.

Worst part is that I like eating ice, and the onions looked like perfect chewing ice.

once in elementary school i was supposed to go out to recess but i couldn't find my snowboots (wisconsin in winter) and was looking frantically for them, eventually enlisting the teacher's help to scour my locker, the areas near my locker, the lost and found etc. recess was over by the time i realized that i was wearing my snowboots.

the most disastrous example of an onion/iced-tea mixup i've ever had is when i accidentally used trumpet valve oil as contact lens rewetting drops.

Terrible!

As a former trumpet player and vision-challenged person: lol.

oh my je55e you are killing me, lolololol

thank god I made this thread

story is even funnier if you imagine they were whole onions

reminds me of this classic routine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ2ow5lo4VQ

lol to both things

took a lot of replaying to translate that video to English

in one of my college houses, apparently I was so notorious for leaving things out/around that my roommates just started putting them in my room. Like I'd find a bottle of barbecue sauce on my desk, or a loaf of bread on my window sill. Thing is, being absent minded, I would assume I had just absent-mindedly put it there.

Of course then there's the time I unstrapped the baby in her high chair and walked into the kitchen with her sitting there unstrapped. thank god H was sitting there to catch her/yell at me.

i've always felt that absent minded people are the best people.

Until they leave the bathtub running in the upstairs apartment and it overflows.

i put a still-hot pan on a wooden countertop in my apartment in copenhagen, leaving a very visible ring that, for some reason, the landlords never made me pay for. i like to think of it as the distinctive mark i made on that country.

absent minded people are the best people to put your ipod through the wash

i lost seven cellphones in high school

yeah i guess absent minded people do cause inconvenience to people.... but they don't mean anyone any harm.

it's the thought that counts when the dishtowel is on fire again

put a still-hot pan on a wooden countertop

just put one on a cutting board the other day

ahh, you're lucky it was just the cutting board! this countertop was seriously ruined; i don't even want to think about how much it would have cost to replace.

Ketchup in backpack; wallet in fridge.

Looking above I seem to have a lot of condiment-based mishaps.

Incidentally my friend Rebecca wrote an AMAZING blog post on the unintended consequences of absent-mindedness. This is haunting:

http://playgroundconfidential.com/2013/03/21/when-it-rains-it-pours/

"I forgot to use a condiment" is not an excuse

Making coffee this morning, I nearly poured milk into the kettle.

Not sure if this is absent-mindedness, but -- last night I broke wind while walking out of the office, and was so embarrassed I sat down immediately at my desk and pretended to do work for ten minutes. Nobody mentioned anything.

Leaving the office, I was so distracted I crossed the street without looking and got side-swiped by a motorcycle driving on the wrong side of the road. Just missed me by inches. So basically, yesterday I almost died because of a fart.

did the "putting electric kettle on the stove" thing yesterday.

In someone else's absence, I've unexpectedly inherited a work task which would be very easy and potentially disastrous to screw up by missing something out of a labyrinthine assortment of contradictory spreadsheets. Like, if I get this wrong some of our stock will become permanently unorderable and there'll be a complicated nightmare of trying to recall things which will already be out in the wild.

I know absentmindedness is not necessarily the same as disorganisation (I've got both btw) but I'm here thinking "I can't even remember not to leave my housekeys in the door or in the fridge, and someone expects me to get this right?"

Might be time for you to suggest to your boss that this highly susceptible to error procedure is revised.

I think the long-term goal is that I revise it myself, but I'm taking advantage of nobody actually telling me that outright to put it off for a while, since I don't feel like I understand the procedure well enough

(but nobody else does either, any more - the person who devised it has left, and the person who's been doing it since then is absent "indefinitely" but she didn't seem that comfortable with it and seems to have put some contradictory information in)

I have the exact opposite project - my boss is making me work an insanely over-complicated spreadsheet that will literally be of no use to anyone whatsoever -- except, of course, my boss, who will tick it off their to-do list, then move on to their next poorly-thought-through project

Spent nearly a minute after work today rifling through my backpack, disgustedly looking for my book which was crooked under my arm.

aw that gives me a warm feeling of nostalgia <3

I didn’t have time to plunge it right away so I just left it. Sometimes you need to let it sit for a while anyway, y’know? And then it will flush.

Honestly this isn't really "absent mindedness" it's avoidance and laziness.

Like, it takes 5 seconds to plunge a toilet, and no, I am not aware that letting it "sit for a while" is a method of unclogging a toilet

wait where are you quoting that from?

huh, uh, wait a minute, what thread linked this blog:
http://playgroundconfidential.com/2013/03/21/when-it-rains-it-pours/

lol, wrong thread, so appropriate

lol

oh wait no, it's totally this thread, sorry:

Incidentally my friend Rebecca wrote an AMAZING blog post on the unintended consequences of absent-mindedness. This is haunting:

http://playgroundconfidential.com/2013/03/21/when-it-rains-it-pours/

― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, April 22, 2013 6:22 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a friend of mind is absent-minded, like really absent-minded, and he just lived through something that might make him be less so. basically, dude was going out, he locked the door and then left the key in the door. somebody broke in (well, turned the key and opened the door) and took tons of stuff and now he's struggling with insurance issues because there are no signs of break-in etc.

Oof.

i went through a couple of months when we moved into our house where I was constantly leaving the keys in the door. usually from unlocking the door and entering the hosue, so keys were in the door while we were IN the house.

but

ugggghhh

i did that at least three times in the last place

twice overnight

Luckily, we have two doors (and a postage stamp-sized foyer in between) to our apartment because I have to take the keys out of the exterior door to use them on the interior door, where I leave them dangling in the door knob until the next time I am frantically searching for my keys.

That's the trick, really. Live in apartments that don't open directly to the outside.