Welcome to Vegemite Grrl's Home for the Absent-Minded, where you can tell tales of putting milk in the pantry/driving to the store and then forgetting what you went there to buy/looking for your glasses for 20 minutes before you realize you're wearing them/etcetera without fear of reprisals*. *Polite and or incredulous laughing and headshaking are par for the course and to be expected.
I hope I'm not the only one who fills this full of tales. Oh I have so many. Here's today's:
I have a cool hoonjadoonja that I plug my iphone/ipod into so that it will play through the car stereo. It's awesome....Except for when I put my phone/pod in my pocket without unplugging it and go to get out of the car. That's when I feel a sharp tug and a) my phone flies out of my pocket onto the ground still plugged in, or b) the rest of the device that plugs into the console rips out and I notice a cord coming out of my pocket and go "OHH RIGHT".
Hangs head.
Welcome, one and all.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 7 June 2012 01:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
Recently my wife emailed me at work a digital photo of our utility drawer. Where I had replaced the scissors I had used to cut open a cheese package. And where I also placed the cheese.
― Soccer mom, hopeless and lost, in utter despair (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 7 June 2012 01:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
<3 welcome. You are among friend/s, Dan.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 7 June 2012 01:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
Today I let a no knead bread rise for 10 hours too long, then when I dumped it out on the workspace to salvage, discovered I had used twice as much water as called for. The white, pasty, wet gloop spilled all over everything.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 June 2012 02:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
Goes to supermarket to get one specific item I'm out of (toilet paper, margarine, water, coffee, stuff you need every day), returns with a car filled with everything on the shopping list, except that one thing I needed. But I did cross it off the list in the store. Why do I even make lists?
― StanM, Thursday, 7 June 2012 03:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh god I do that so much
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 7 June 2012 03:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
hi
― buzza, Thursday, 7 June 2012 03:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
Today I was in the kitchen holding the baby and trying to rinse a dish. Next thing I know I am in the bedroom and could hear water running because for some weird reason I forgot to turn of the kitchen faucet.
― *tera, Thursday, 7 June 2012 03:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
I shall try to spare this thread my continuing adventures in never being able to remember if I locked the front door, but I'm sure I'll have many other things to bring here :(
yesterday I forgot to check there was nothing sitting on top of the fishtank (which is too close to the wall to look behind and too heavy and full of fish to move) before opening it, and had to sheepishly ask if the birthday card I rescued just in time was the only thing that had been there, or if I had lost anything useful
― instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 7 June 2012 10:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
i do this all the time but last week outdid myself when i left the house to get a couple of essentials and somehow completely forget to go to the shop at all. i think i literally just wandered around for a bit listening to nicki minaj and got distracted by a market with nice food.
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Thursday, 7 June 2012 10:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
This one time after making a cup of tea I put the kettle in the fridge, and had to re-arrange quite a lot of stuff in there to make it fit.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 7 June 2012 10:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
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, 7 June 2012 12:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
I once somehow misplaced a pen in my pocket. Yes, in my pocket. I totally couldn't find it, so grabbed another pen and put it in there. Then at the end of the day, I found two pens in my pocket.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 June 2012 14:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
I've got one pen in my pocketAnd the other one...correction--two pens in my pocket.
― clemenza, Thursday, 7 June 2012 14:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
This one made me giggle like mad.
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Thursday, 7 June 2012 14:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
That's like me putting a coffee pod in the machine and hitting "brew" and not realizing I hadn't put a cup under the spout. Did that in full view of my manager once.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Thursday, 7 June 2012 14:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
I caught myself one morning about to pour milk in the water-tank of the espresso maker. O_o
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 7 June 2012 14:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
i love these. esp the cheese one.
― rayuela, Thursday, 7 June 2012 15:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
Mr Veg has this one particular look he gives me when these things happen. It's like a cross between abject concern for my mental health and sheer unbridled amusement at my ridiculousness.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 7 June 2012 16:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
Had to get up early today for work, closed (usually always open) bedroom door so wife could sleep in. After breakfast, remembered something I had to get from wardrobe, ran full-tilt into bedroom door in the dark, bent glasses/nose/knee. Now knee hurts in the cold, and I have become an old man.
― seven league bootie (James Morrison), Thursday, 7 June 2012 23:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
not to mention woke up your wife rather abruptly, I would imagine
― epistantophus, Friday, 8 June 2012 01:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh James owwww
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 June 2012 01:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
turned out she was awake all along
― seven league bootie (James Morrison), Friday, 8 June 2012 02:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
The best friends an absent-minded person will ever have are habits so deeply rutted, so acidly etched upon the brain cells as to be automatic, and utterly and mechanically reliable. For example, I trained myself never to close a car door unless the keys to the car are enclosed in my fist. I verify this over and over, habitually. Even when I am not the driver.
― Aimless, Friday, 8 June 2012 03:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
i can't even count the amount of times that i've frantically scrambled around the house searching for my keys before realizing they're in my back pocket
― J0rdan S., Friday, 8 June 2012 03:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yep aims I do that too, I developed a "look back at the seat I just got up from" habit when exiting trains/cafe seats/etc to ensure i dont leave behind bags or umbrellas. I put my keys in a spot, same spot, no matter what when I come home.
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Friday, 8 June 2012 03:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
That would be a better approach than my current 'keep everything in your pockets at all times, thus carrying 2kg of crap on your hips at all times' method
― seven league bootie (James Morrison), Friday, 8 June 2012 05:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
haha omg, im a fucking space cadet: after riding to work one day i took the subway home carrying my bicycle helmet, walked in the door and saw the empty spot on the wall where my bike usually goes and shouted "holy shit! where's my bike??". I set up for a performance that i completely forgot i was performing in. and i have (more than once) walked about 5 blocks from the house before i realized i was supposed to be checking the mail. fucking hippie parents man. they ruined me.
― ⦧(^_^)⦦ ♫ \(' )/ ♪ \(' o ')/ ♬ ⦧( ')⦦ ♪ ⦧(- ̺-)⦦ (dsvoris), Friday, 8 June 2012 05:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
dude...I so feel you on this.
I carpool with Mr Veg & usually have the car, but every now and then he'll drop me at work and take the car. Inevitably on those days I will grab my keys at lunchtime, walk all the way out to the parking lot where I usually park my car and then go 'where the fuck is my ca----oh wait I don't have the car today'.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 June 2012 05:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
My housemate forgot to go to one of his best mate's wedding. I think thats pretty stellar.
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Friday, 8 June 2012 05:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
I lose stuff all the time - when it comes around the time for hat and scarf, I will always go through 1-2 of both before they settle in 'on the inventory' and I know to check for them on getting up from wherever I've been. And then when it is no longer time for hat and scarf, there's a few weeks of occasional panic that I've left them somewhere, fading into more existential dread that I've left something somewhere, but what?
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 8 June 2012 05:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
my worst, most horrifying absent-minded moment was when I was immigrating to the States. I took a flight that had 24 hour layover in Japan, so that necessitated going through customs etc. So as I'm preparing to re-embark on my journey after the layover, I've gone through the security check where they've x-rayed my carry on luggage etc etc and I'm now standing in line at customs, holding my passport and boarding pass waiting to get my passport stamped.
As I'm standing in line I see a Japanese airport guard walking along the length of the room, holding up a black satchel. He's not saying anything, just displaying it, walking back and forth along the lenght of the room. He walks by again and this time I notice the bag and think, huh that's a similar bag to mine. I look down, and realize that I AM NOT WEARING MY CARRYON BAG IE BLACK SATCHEL HOLY FUCK THAT'S MINE and I bolt after the guard to meekly reclaim my important possessions. ie wallet money, phone, everything I own.
I still get a wave of nausea thinking about that.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 June 2012 05:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
Needless to say I'm ridiculously ocd about my belongings when I travel now
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 June 2012 05:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
ACE thread
on sunday I spent fully 15 minutes looking for the keys that were in my back pocket
― that's not kewell (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 8 June 2012 06:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh and the thing where I'll be looking for 'er indoors in a shopping centre/street and repeatedly not see her standing right in front of me (this happens weekly)
― that's not kewell (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 8 June 2012 06:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
your bag story is terrifying btw, the worst possible thing to lose at the worst possible time
― that's not kewell (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 8 June 2012 06:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh and yesterday I put a bottle of olive oil in a calico bag and realised 10 minutes later that I hadn't put the lid back on
― that's not kewell (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 8 June 2012 06:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
i don't know why but my most advanced displays of absent-mindedness involved bathtubs. I once switched on the tap to start myself a bath. While waiting for the tub to fill up I started doing other things and then decided I needed to do my grocery shopping. which took me about a half hour. I came back to a well-flooded apartment and some very angry neighbors. Another time, same thing, tub filling up and I start watching a movie. After a while I realised that the sound of water flowing that I was hearing did not come from the movie but from my bathroom where luckily the tub had only just a bit overflowed. And for some absent-mindedness that did not involve tubs, there's the day I went outside my flat to throw away the garbage. The door to my flat shut behind me. I then noticed I didn't have my keys. So I start knocking on the door hoping my flatmate hears me. Then after 10mns I remember that he's not home. So I go knock at our neighbor's place to see if I can hang out with him until my flatmate returns. Neighbor wasn't there so I spent 1 hour waiting outside my apartment only to see my flatmate return and open the door without a key. That's when I remembered that unless you used your key, the door isn't locked.
― Jibe, Friday, 8 June 2012 07:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh god your airport story VG
once when i was coming back from atlanta, i went through customs as normal, including taking my laptop out of my hand luggage for the scanner as is standard. got out the other end, got my stuff together, took the little train thing from customs to the terminals, settled down in the lounge and decided i had time to go on the internet and OMG WHERE IS LAPTOP. i'd just walked off from customs without it!!!! luckily i had enough time to take the train back, endure the mocking laughter of the officials as i reclaimed it etc.
yesterday i popped out to the shops, halfway down road realised i'd forgotten my wallet, duh. nothing new here. got home, decided to change my coat as well cuz it wasn't as cold as i thought it would be, left house again, got to the shop and realised i had STILL FORGOTTEN MY WALLET. goddddddddddd
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Friday, 8 June 2012 08:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
the whereabouts of my keys are also a permanent mystery to me - even though i actually HAVE a designated place i always put the fucking things all the time in order to prevent scenarios like, eg, having to cancel social engagements because i can't find my keys anywhere (this happens on a regular basis).
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Friday, 8 June 2012 08:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
My daughter, who's now 22, still remembers the trauma of us heading out to something important when she was about 7 and we were seriously delayed by my inability to locate my keys.
To this day, whenever I'm looking for something, she suggests 'the vegetable rack'
― Fine Toothcomb (sonofstan), Friday, 8 June 2012 08:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh man just remembered one from when i was a kid (around 8-9). I had football practice with my brother. once it was over, i walk back to school talking with a friend (that's a 15minute walk). when i arrive at school you're supposed to register upon arrival so i give me and my brother's name. the guy looks at me strangely and i don't understand why. then he asks me where my brother, whom i'm registering, is. he was by the football field patiently waiting for me to take him to school.
― Jibe, Friday, 8 June 2012 08:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
I left my passport by the sink in the airport toilets once. Got back to the gate where the plane was about to leave and realised and ran back to the toilets in a panic not even knowing if I'd had it when I went there. Luckily it was still there and the plane hadn't gone yet. If someone had nicked it, or even helpfully handed it in at some kind of central desk far away from my gate...
(I have hated airports since the time I missed my plane because the queue for the security scan was going really slowly, and there are no clocks or flight announcements in the security area so I didn't know my flight was being called, and anyway there were no staff around to ask to be let through faster. You don't get a refund for that, the staff just look at you like you're a moron and then you have to go and pay for a new flight. I still feel it was not quite my fault, but uh, I could have been checking the time more instead of just standing where I was told and assuming that since I hadn't heard my name on the completely silent tannoy it was all fine)
― instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 8 June 2012 09:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
xps I can't have a leather wallet like a grownup, I need one of those canvas skater type ones cos leather wallets don't have anything to attach one's keys onto and whenever they get seperated I lock myself out of places at basically the first opportunity
― geezargh butlargh (DJ Mencap), Friday, 8 June 2012 09:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
I have actually done the thing that you're really not supposed to be able to do any more - due to poor ticket checking on the part of the steward, got on the wrong plane and only realised when there was fortunately someone already in 'my' seat.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 8 June 2012 09:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
I've just this evening missed a flight to my parents place because I completely blanked on the concept that I was travelling to the airport in peak hour traffic, and didnt factor that in to my timing :( Fuckin.
I feel like a complete dickhead. Luckily they allowed me to move to the first thing tomorrow morming flight for only a small extra fee.
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Friday, 8 June 2012 10:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ive never missed a plane in my life, I'm always meticilously early to airports, so I am really mad at myself.
far out :(
― that's not kewell (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 8 June 2012 11:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
Put an electric kettle on the hob over christmas. Haven't had a hob kettle for about 5 years.
― owenf, Friday, 8 June 2012 11:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
has anyone else ever...forgotten to put their shoes on when leaving the house?
couple of years ago i was actually on the tube, one stop away from my house, when i realised i was still wearing my slippers. never felt so self-conscious as when i had to go back and shuffle home to put my shoes on :(
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Friday, 8 June 2012 13:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
hahahaha oh that's beautiful
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 10 May 2013 16:30 (1 month ago) Permalink
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.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 10 May 2013 16:31 (1 month ago) Permalink
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.
― nickn, Friday, 10 May 2013 16:43 (1 month ago) Permalink
oh yeah that's the worst.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 10 May 2013 16:44 (1 month ago) Permalink
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.
― go cray cray on my lobster soufflé (snoball), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 17:32 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
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 ;_;
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 18:30 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
oh and spraying hairspray under my arms back when I used spray deodorant
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 18:31 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
oh my lol
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 18:44 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
A few times I've nearly sprayed shaving gel on myself instead of deodorant.
― go cray cray on my lobster soufflé (snoball), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 18:47 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
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.
― go cray cray on my lobster soufflé (snoball), Saturday, 25 May 2013 17:18 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
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.
― go cray cray on my lobster soufflé (snoball), Saturday, 25 May 2013 17:19 (3 weeks ago) 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, 25 May 2013 17:37 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
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.
― Bob Bunsen (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 16:27 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
^^^ 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.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 16:59 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
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.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 18:53 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
I left my keys stuck in my front door lock for like 12 hours this weekend.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 18:56 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
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.
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 19:09 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
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!
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 19:10 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
I don't have roommates.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 19:15 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
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
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 21:13 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
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.
― THIS IS NOT A BENGHAZI T-SHIRT (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 22:54 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
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.
― Je55e, Thursday, 30 May 2013 22:45 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
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
― lipitor retriever (brownie), Thursday, 30 May 2013 22:54 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
congratulations
― the Quim of Bendigo (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 30 May 2013 23:43 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
that time i lost my favourite cufflinks for six months did not play out like a reward system fwiw
― the Quim of Bendigo (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 30 May 2013 23:44 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
what kind of fucked up rewards system makes you feel like a total moran i ask you
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 30 May 2013 23:50 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
looking for my glasses once a week (at least) is EXHAUSTING
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 30 May 2013 23:51 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
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.
― lipitor retriever (brownie), Friday, 31 May 2013 00:35 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
veg
um, veg
you're wearing them
― the Quim of Bendigo (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 31 May 2013 00:48 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
lol I wish
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 31 May 2013 01:05 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
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
― the Quim of Bendigo (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 31 May 2013 02:01 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
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.
― Random .mdb Memories (NotEnough), Friday, 31 May 2013 09:44 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
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...)
― susuwatari teenage riot (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 31 May 2013 10:09 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
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.
― go cray cray on my lobster soufflé (snoball), Friday, 31 May 2013 10:22 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
(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)
― go cray cray on my lobster soufflé (snoball), Friday, 31 May 2013 10:25 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
too triumphant
― go cray cray on my lobster soufflé (snoball), Friday, 31 May 2013 10:26 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Ah, you found the o.
― nickn, Friday, 31 May 2013 16:46 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
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.
― nickn, Friday, 31 May 2013 16:52 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
left one of the burners on my stove on all night, two inches from my dish cloth
:/
― lipitor retriever (brownie), Friday, 31 May 2013 22:42 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
hate electric stoves
― lipitor retriever (brownie), Friday, 31 May 2013 22:46 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
xpost you should take a picture of the locked door with a timestamp.
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Friday, 31 May 2013 22:46 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
yeah they are bad news bears for the absentminded
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 1 June 2013 00:28 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
How to combat absent-mindedness...I had to buy tracing paper on the way home last night for myself and a few other teachers (provincial testing). The store was less than 10 minutes from my school, but I'd managed to forget the previous night. So as soon as I got in the car, I started saying "Tracing paper, tracing paper, tracing paper" aloud for 30 seconds at a time. I'd stop for 15 seconds, then start again. I managed not to forget this time.
― clemenza, Saturday, 1 June 2013 00:37 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Anything more than one item or one stop, I don't go out without a shopping list.
― Thank you for talkin' to me Williamsburg (WilliamC), Saturday, 1 June 2013 00:40 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
I mean if you REALLY wanted to know whether you turned your stove off or locked your door, make a short checklist of the life-threatening essentials (stove, iron(as if), door, keys, wallet, whatever) and put 30 of them next to your front door. Then each day before you leave, check all those things ONCE and date each item. Then put the list in your pocket to look at later if you forget whether you did something.
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Saturday, 1 June 2013 01:02 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
otm
i will buy a date stamp. I will turn my apartment into a Duties and Tariffs Office Under the Public Concern of His Majesty King George III.
― lipitor retriever (brownie), Saturday, 1 June 2013 02:42 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Think of yourself more as a librarian of the necessities.
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Saturday, 1 June 2013 02:45 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
lose-y decimal system
― lipitor retriever (brownie), Saturday, 1 June 2013 02:49 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
This thread needs a patron saint--I nominate Uncle Billy from It's a Wonderful Life.
― clemenza, Sunday, 2 June 2013 12:40 (2 weeks ago) Permalink