VegemiteGrrl's Home for the Absent-Minded

It's like having your foot in Uruguay.

To get into my place I have to go through two locked doors and one unlocked just to get to the elevator. the elevator.

(Which sometimes - in the spirit of this thread - I take to the wrong floor, where I try to unlock somebody else's door. So I scream "Sorry! Sorry! Wrong door! Sorry!!")

Our place comes closest to a door that opens directly to the outside in that there is not a common area. We just happen to have two front doors (I'm guessing it's a weather thing. A door that opens directly to the outside would make for a very drafty living room).

To get into my place I have to go through two locked doors and one unlocked just to get to the elevator. the elevator.

Does the theme from Get Smart play as you walk to your apartment?

Jesus Christ, my posts from ~6 pm are a mess, a mess.

In reference to the blog post I cited, I think there's an overlap between laziness and absent-mindedness at times, but there are differences too. Laziness is "I'll do it later" and then you "forget." True absent-mindedness imo involves doing things that are completely illogical in a way that is not actually one iota easier, even for the moment.

lol nickn

I yelled at the outside of my local bank building because they removed the ATM machine. Then I realised I was standing in front of KFC.

hahahaha oh that's beautiful

ground the coffee, put it in the filter, turned on the coffee maker...turned away to do some things and then ran back over to the coffee maker when I realized I hadn't filled it with water.

I've forgotten to put the carafe under the coffee maker basket after doing everything else both at work and at home. At home it'll just drain into the sink, but at work it went off the filing cabinet onto the rug. Oops.

oh yeah that's the worst.

Put shampoo on my sponge instead of shower gel. They're in completely different containers and the liquids themselves are different colours, but I didn't notice until after I asked myself why the 'gel' wasn't lathering up properly.

ugh I have done so many combinations of this mistake it's sad

best one was squeezing hair glossing cream into my hand and then rubbing it all over my face like moisturizer. i don't even KEEP it with the moisturizer, I had already moisturized, i was just staring at myself in the mirror like oh god is this what senility is like ;_;

oh and spraying hairspray under my arms back when I used spray deodorant

oh my lol

A few times I've nearly sprayed shaving gel on myself instead of deodorant.

I was fixing a PC earlier today, and I just realised that I left a torch inside the case - it was still switched on as well.

Oh and I just switched it back on to see how flat the battery was, and nearly blinded myself because it's still very bright.

Spent three minutes a few days ago walking around the class and muttering to myself as I looked for a cup of coffee I had just poured; found it in the supply cupboard with all the paper, pencils, and erasers. Class got a good laugh out of it.

spacing out in the shower I twice couldn't remember whether or not I'd already washed my hair. So I may have just washed my hair three times.

^^^ this. also the number of times I get out of the shower with conditioner still in my hair is...well, a lot.

my immediate short-term memory scares me sometimes. I'll lock the door to the house and as I walk down the steps I immediately think 'wait did I lock the door' and have to go back because that is not a thing that you go to work wondering about.

You just have more interesting things to think about than whether you locked the door. Right? Like trying to remember the last three words of the second verse of that song that popped into your head.

I left my keys stuck in my front door lock for like 12 hours this weekend.

Do you people not have roommates?? Who haven't killed you yet for no apparent reason?? The one day I left the iron safety gate open on our kitchen window, I got a mid-day text on my shopping trip from an unhappy roommate.

I left ONE out of three doors open while I did my laundry up the street and I got another lecture! Two out of three doors were locked!

I don't have roommates.

Mr Veg keeps me in check as best he can, mostly by sending me faintly amused/only-slightly-annoyed text messages.

We wouldn't have made it a year of being married if my bullshit annoyed him that much

I think he likes it because it's ammunition inevitable ribbing, lol

Ugh, someone(s) in my old building used to repeatedly leave the door to the building open (i.e. fail to shut it so it locked itself) in spite of multiple notes/signs. I don't wish it on anyone, but having a break-in cures you of that sort of absent mindedness.

The morning after I got back from an out of town car trip last month, I walked outside my apartment and found that I'd left my keys in the door, and beside the door, a bag of groceries, my jacket, and a 6-pack of beer. I was tired.

took me a half hour to find my glasses after I had set them down on the bed (why i set them there i dunno)

i think i read somewhere (ilx maybe) that misplacing something and then finding it again is your brain subconsciously setting up a type of reward system

congratulations

that time i lost my favourite cufflinks for six months did not play out like a reward system fwiw

what kind of fucked up rewards system makes you feel like a total moran i ask you

looking for my glasses once a week (at least) is EXHAUSTING

i need that chain for my glasses so that i'll just have them dangling from my neck like a constantly rewarding albatross. i still won't be able to find them. I've broken at least two pair by sitting on them.

looking for my glasses once a week (at least) is EXHAUSTING

veg

um, veg

you're wearing them

lol I wish

i suppose I should mention that time i sewed a button on my coat, and only realised exactly halfway through that the button was still on the table

Keeping my Five Important Items (work phone, personal phone, keys, wallet, work pass) on a shelf by my front door (and making sure that everything goes on the shelf whenever I come back) has been a neat solution to prevent me being a brainless idiot and forgetting where everything is strewn around my flat.

I had big problems with worrying that I hadn't locked the door (though as far as I remember I always had locked it), so now I put my keys on a shelf near the front door whenever I get in and picking them up is meant to be the LAST thing I do before leaving the house and I try not to put them in a pocket until I've locked the door. It worked for a while, but once any system becomes entirely routine I don't bother remembering whether I did it or not, so the doubt is creeping back.

Like those lab mice who run mazes and there's a ton of brain activity for a new maze and then by the time the maze is familiar there's not much brain activity and the mouse probably gets out and goes "did I go through a maze? also, did I lock my front door?" (did I leave the gas on? no, I'm a fucking squirrel, etc)

(I left the bath running for hours the other day and it didn't actually flood and I don't know if that's because it fills really slowly and I caught it just in time or because the little drainage hole saved me. but I thought of this thread...)

xp I have a set place on my desk for my keys, phone, wallet, watch, and glasses. If they're not in their designated places then they're either in my pocket (keys/phone/wallet) or I'm wearing them (watch/glasses). It took years and years of losing these items regularly before I came up with this system, or rather, made myself do this. Everything outside of those five items though, and it's anybody's guess.

(and in case I still sound to triumphant in that post, I too have broken a pair of glasses by leaving them on the bed and then sitting on them)

too triumphant

Ah, you found the o.

I've found myself wondering if I locked the door when I've gone on vacation because there's always a lot of back-and-forth carrying things to the car with the door still open and I get to thinking "on that last trip from house to car did I lock the door or was I still in car-loading mode?"

So I got to saying to myself "I am locking the door" whenever I'm leaving the house for more than just going to work type trips. But then the problem is that when I think back to remember if I said that and I do remember, I second-guess myself and start thinking I'm remembering doing that for a previous trip and didn't actually do it this time.

left one of the burners on my stove on all night, two inches from my dish cloth

:/

hate electric stoves

xpost you should take a picture of the locked door with a timestamp.