VegemiteGrrl's Home for the Absent-Minded

the most O_O instance of that was when I was living in Melb, walking out of a bookstore on a busy street, after work so there's lots of foot traffic. I fumble to put my change in my purse and I go next door to a cafe. As I'm standing in line for coffee I look in my wallet and realize that i'm missing a $50 note. Fuck. I dropped it. Well, I should go look but no doubt it's gone by now.

I walk out of the cafe, and in the middle of the footpath (which is swarming with people), sitting on the ground in front of the bookstore is my $50 note.

THANK YOU BABY JEBUS OR SATAN OR ODIN

Ah yes there was the time I was going to a saint etienne gig, met up with some people at the pub beforehand, at some point realised I'd left my ticket at home. Fortunately it was only a 15 minute bus ride and there was more than an hour before the gig, ok a minor annoyance especially given it was raining, but y'know, grin and bear it. So I get the bus back home, find the ticket, put it in my pocket, get the bus back to the pub, check in my pocket again as you do - wtf. No ticket. Did it fall out? Did I hallucinate putting in my pocket? So I get the bus back home again, thinking "argh/wtf/you idiot" the whole way. Retrace my steps and there, in the gutter outside my flat flowing with rain water, is my ticket.

Another one, may not be absent mindedness but it still puzzles me to this day. Get the plane tickets from the travel agent, inside the cardboard wallet. Fold the wallet inside the paper itinerary, put the bundle in my jacket pocket. Get home, take the bundle out of my pocket, unfold the itinerary, get the wallet, open it up... no tickets. Nor were they still back at the travel agents.

Have also lost at least two passports, one just before going on holiday. It had been recently renewed and I still had the old one, now expired and with a corner cut off. Discovered you can still travel on them, in the EU anyway, if they're less than 12 months out of date. Only had one problem, boarding the plane back home the flight attendant thought this was not proper, but after a couple of minutes just let it go.

A couple times I have been pouring boiling water for coffee or tea and not even looked at the cup, and poured it a couple inches to the left right onto my hand. Fuck!

I once walked into a wall holding a glass and needed 10 stiches. I still can't feel half of my left pinkie.

I put stuff that doesn't belong in the fridge in it at least a couple times every week.

left the keys in a locked car with the engine runnning on more than one occasion

― that's why ZOG controls the radio (brownie), Friday, June 8, 2012 10:50 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I did this recently except I hadn't even locked it. I parked and then ran some errands only to return and find I wasn't able to find my keys. Only then did I try the door and was like oh hey I left them in here . . . and the car running too! :/

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, June 8, 2012 9:09 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I once realized at like 3 in the afternoon that I'd been walking around all day wearing two different (although v similar) black sandals.

A couple times I have been pouring boiling water for coffee or tea and not even looked at the cup, and poured it a couple inches to the left right onto my hand. Fuck!

I seem to have a problem judging short distances, too. And things like that happen to me more than occasionally, and it bothers me.

frantically dig through the dresser drawer for condoms, instead find cinnamon.
leave my car running for entire day in the school parking lot, burn much gas.
dry dishes, put them in the freezer.
oh look the burner's still on
oh look the foreman grill is still plugged in (yes i own and use one of these, shoosh)
say i'll call you back, forget until it's weird that i'm now calling you back

i've never lost lost my keys.

stirring a pot on my mum's electric stove, noticed the seal around the hotplate was corroded... so I touched it.

my fingertip turned white.

fyi i was a grownass adult when this happened.

I went to mess with some shit I was cooking in my stove in a dutch oven, took the metal-everything lid off with by bare fucking hand; how fucking damn dumb am I; god I fucking hate my dumb stupid self.

I mean fuck I turn into a self-loathing ding dong when I burn myself

all of you stop putting yr keys in yr back pocket

More than once I've worried that I locked my keys in my truck and realized they were between my teeth.

i burned my finger on a toaster oven once. my roommate saw me reaching out to pull out the metal shelf, said “don’t touch that”, i touched it, burned myself, and immediately said, “I DO WHAT I WANT"

he never tried to boss me around again

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

today my friend insisted on walking 30 blocks from jackson heights to woodside and when we were almost there i realized i had forgotten the keys to the place we were going.

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

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