VegemiteGrrl's Home for the Absent-Minded

Yeah,

1. Ugh, Twitter.
2. Double-tap home key. Slide Twitter app away.
3. Immediately open another application, in this case Twitter.

oh yeah, facebook and twitter are completely made for that

I've done both the "make coffee, but don't add coffee to the maker" and "make coffee using aeropress, but forget to heat water" lately

I puroed all these coffee beans into cofe grounds can instead of grinder adn hwo do IO get beans out of grounds now

I bought ice cream for the first time in a while yesterday. I’ve already put it into the fridge instead of the freezer twice already.
― mh, Sunday, 5 November 2017 23:35 (three months ago) Permalink

You're not alone. Did that last night, found it this morning. Au revoir, pumpkin spice ice cream.

drove all the way across town to return a library book
halfway there i realized i had left the library book at home

Yesterday I was texting my partner, except I didn't notice that she wasn't answering, and had a conversation with myself instead:

Me: I'm leaving work now, I'll be back hoe in thirty minutes!

[Waits five minutes, looks at phone]

Me: Oh, you're back in thirty minutes - me too! See you then xxx

[Partner continues not to respond]

Uh-oh, Chuck.

https://i.imgur.com/gmtjR5J.jpg

"Sorry. I'm late. Got here as fast as I could."

[Partner continues not to respond]

That feeling when you go to work every day and nothing ever changes should totally be named Sixth Sense Syndrome

misplaced a teabag in my house this morning--put the kettle on, went to my room to get something, realized I didn't remember what I was going to get, then returned to the kitchen, but the teabag magically disappeared. my girlfriend is going to dig it up in a very strange place, i'm sure of it.

years ago i unlocked our driveway gate to take out the garbage & couldnt find the padlock when i went back to close the gate. never did find it, god knows what i did with it :/

Once I asked B "who was it in that movie... you know, the one about the cop who is a robot?"

"...you mean Robocop?" he said with that familiar, exasperated patient look.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BOGU1NGM5ZjEtN2MyZC00MGM1LWExYTQtMzA5ZGZkNDQ3OGMxXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTY2MDA5ODI@._V1_.jpg

Inspector gadget?

You can sing 'he's a robot. he's a cop. he's a robot cop' to the Robocop music too.
This is the most reliable indicator of a great movie

Bought a takeaway coffee this morning, put it down on my desk and forgot to drink it. It's gone cold now :(

;_;

to the microwave!

walked out of my apartment this morning with my zipper down and two different shoes on

I always wear two different shoes - my feet won't fit into just one.

But I KNOW WHAT YOU MEANT.

I think my little brother used to do that intentionally for a while in the mid 80s.
Fickle fashion etc.

& odd shoes can mean odd shoe heights which makes it harder to walk at the best of times. I think shoe heels even on men's shoes vary quite a bit.
But apparently it looked 'different' enough to be worthwhile for him.

I think my little brother used to do that intentionally for a while in the mid 80s.
Fickle fashion etc.

kinda surprised this has never been a thing

look at her, she MATCHES

Just tried to plug my headphones into my (phone shaped) calculator.

gleep glorp

question: what are you doing with a calculator

never you mind

lol

I bought Prince Tronic at my daughter's school jumble sale about 12 years ago for $2, and for whatever reason I think it's a beautiful object. I work in science and have a semi regular need to divide this by that, etc., and to me it's a lot more satisfying to tap the buttons than do yet another thing on my phone. Also being early 80s tech, whenever you ask it to do something challenging like calculate a square root or a log, there is a pause of several seconds and I swear I can hear small noises of effort.
https://i.imgur.com/lD1uaGn.jpg

we were watching breaking bad today and a scene with skylar and baby was on screen. B lit up a smoke and i very nearly shouted “don’t smoke in front of the baby!”

That calculator is lovely, yes. Is there a general calculator thread? If not, there should be.

I still use calculators. They're like an app that I can hold in my hand!

Even my son, Sr. Fortnite de la iPad, likes to play on the calculator. Adding 12345678 + 87654321 and getting 99999999 never gets old, I guess.

1-2 times a week, I'll set something aside to bring to work (a book or beverage), get distracted, and be halfway on the commute before I remember it's still on the kitchen counter. When I get home today, there will be a blueberry Odwalla nicely warmed by the sun waiting for me.

was doing calc homework the other day and getting frustrated. answered a call on my celular. used phone as a bookmark after aforementioned call and couldn't find my phone for 2 days. i use calculators frequently these days btw

I'm not 100% sure, but I believe I just sat through my first parent-interview of the morning still wearing my Toronto Maple Leafs hat.

Don’t know if it has been mentioned on this thread yet that source memory is the first thing to go, or so they say.

Was trying to unlock my rental car but the clicker wasn't working

Then I realised I was pushing my thumb on a tube of chewing gum

Talk of what's 'the first thing to go' = automatic expulsion from this thread imo

agree

Lol, sorry, will return to lurking

Three times a day I wander around my classroom for four or five minutes trying to locate something I've set down--my clipboard, student work, my coffee, a red pen, etc. Yesterday I left the coffee cup in the supply cupboard. As I look for these things, usually muttering to myself, five students will come up to me in the interim with a question about something; "Hang on," I'll say tersely, as I wave them away before continuing my search.

― clemenza, Thursday, June 7, 2012 8:08 AM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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.

― clemenza, Saturday, May 25, 2013 1:37 PM (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If you do something and post about it here, and then do exactly the same thing and basically write exactly the same post a year later, would that be an example of absent-mindedness?

(I believe that's called "meta-absent-mindedness.")

I have been absent-minded since I can remember, it's ADHD, not senility.

(I would attempt to comment on clemenza’s post, except that I have no opinion about it)

I find random words and phrases pop out of my head way more often lately (I'm 40).

Last week I was talking to my therapist about eye doctors, and I was like "What's the proper name for the balls in your eyes?" and he was like, "Uh, eyeballs?"

Oh, now you're making it sound gross.

"Haha, you've got a pair of balls stuck in your face."

O_o

The ocular orbis, iirc

oops, sorry, that should have been orbis ocularis