VegemiteGrrl's Home for the Absent-Minded

Most mornings I have to fight the urge to put the coffee I grind into my cup instead of the coffee maker.

I knew this would happen eventually (I figured I'd show up at the wrong school one day), but after two years of supplying up here, I totally forgot I had a job booked today. It wasn't till just before 9:00 when I realized (after sitting around last night, puzzled that a call never came in); the school's start time was 9:15, and I'm 40-45 minutes away. Frantically phoned the school, told them I'd had an emergency and would be there at 9:30. (So lucky it was the latest start-time possible.) Snow on the ground, of course--in another stroke of luck, the roads had been plowed. Got there just after 9:40. Told a little fib: said I had to rush out when my second alarm didn't go off, and I headed out for E_______, rather than E________, where I was supposed to be. Thankfully, they were cool about it.

Not expensive--I'll get paid--so I didn't post on the parallel thread I created. But this seems a lot more stupid than everyday absent-mindedness.

I bet that day off feeling until 9 felt pretty good tho

8:30 - 8:53 was paradise.

Worth the panic, tho?

The panic was pronounced. When I called the school, it took me three tries to get the number right.

(No call tonight for work tomorrow--maybe word's already out.)

B and I spent a week working on making a thoughtful and pricey set of gifts for my bff's 21st wedding anniversary.

Then promptly headed off to the party and left the gifts at home >:|

arg that suuucks :(

Came down to London for the office Xmas party. Left my laptop in the office because I didn't need it overnight. Forgot to consider that no-one would be coming in to the office on the day after the party, and I don't have a key. Perhaps more idiot minded than absent minded.

This thread tl/dr: I forgot my shit

Headed home from USA today. Somehow left my passport packed in my checked luggage, sailed thru security with my nexus card but had to put on some charm and a song & dance to actually board the plane.

Also left my jacket in the car of the dude who dropped me at the airport. Not quite sure how I’m getting it back.

Some classic HD absent-mindedness there.

that’s some gold medal shit, well done

My three year old daughter is following in my footsteps, she lost her Ashima train for a week then found it in the fridge. The answer is always “it’s in the fridge”. Keys, passport, credit cards, missing books: fridge.

She lost her shit? See

Just spent five minutes looking for gloves I was already wearing.

“it’s in the fridge”

Had a fun variation on this when I finally found my phone in the freezer the other day

something something “cold calls”

at this point i have lost three yeti mugs with my name engraved on them that people have given me as gifts throughout the years. i need all of ilx on high alert looking out for them.

absentmindedly walkedout to the trash can with my full bag of muesli ~and~ the empty jar of peanut butter

guess which one ended up in the trash only to get fished out 5 mins later

i got the mary hartmans reall bad doc

just tried to stick my headphones plug into my ear.

Gearing up for another marathon trip across the country. Can’t wait to see what I forget this time! Last weekend I went to the next city for a show and left my phone charger in the hotel room. Since I’ve got 3 flights (5 including layovers) I’ll have plenty of opportunities to lose all sorts of things!

Left my vape on the dresser and a travel mug fulla fresh coffee under the machine this morning. I hope they’re having a wonderful day off together while I work to support them.

Yesterday I took some pre-pandemic credit cards and student cards out of my overstuffed wallet and chucked them in the bin.

Today, I couldn’t find my wallet.

Did I put my wallet somewhere sensible? Of course not. After hours of searching, I found it in the obvious place, in the bin on top of my expired credit cards, and underneath two used nappies.

First post here, I think, but today I turned on the hot water to do dishes, and I always have to let it run a while before it gets hot, but this time it was taking a long time. "Did my water heater go out," I wondered, so I went into the bathroom and ran the hot water in the tub. It got warm after a while so I went back to the kitchen and discovered the running water was still was cold. I did the cognitive dissonance thing for a bit - hot in bathroom, cold in kitchen, but supplied by the same hot water heater, whahhh?. Then I noticed (of course) that I had turned the cold tap on in the kitchen, not the hot.

welcome!

Yeah.

I was pressure washing the siding this weekend when the hose from the washer to the gun went pop. Goddmamit, turned off the washer, turned off the water, disconnected the hose from the gun, disconnected the other side from the washer.

Found another hose from an older washer, but it only worked with the old washer. Whatever. Just wanted to finish up at this point. Dropped the old washer down next to the new washer. Switched out the plugs in the power outlet. Switched the garden hose from the water from the old one to the new one. Turned it on, started washing the mold off the siding again. Was pleasantly surprised how well it was doing when in a snap, it just stopped.

Goddammmit again! This is why I mothballed this piece of shit. No holes in the pressure hose. Power was still on. Garden hose still connected snugly.

Garden hose... after about 15 minutes, I went over and turned the water spigot back on. That... that did the trick, turning on the water.

there’s an onion in my bedroom that I bought last week

?????

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/026/155/maxresdefault_(2).jpg

Back on the non-costly thread.

Just before I left work today, I told the E.A. in the class my story about the hearing aids last night. Leave, back 15 seconds later: "As I often do, forgot my mouse--that explains a lot about the hearing-aids story." (Many teachers don't use a mouse, so I bring one with me.) Leave, back 15 seconds later: "Uh, maybe I should leave the yard-duty vest here."

Honest to god, if I knew how to animate, I'd be on YouTube with my own series yesterday: "Adventures of a Doddering Old Supply Teacher."

Spent 10 mins panicking last night cos my work laptop which had been right next to me on the couch all day suddenly wasnt there. Looked all over the room, only to eventually find it right where it'd been all along, next to me. A pile of paper on top of it was enough to make me go blind.

I swear, I'd fall for the Superman/Clark Kent thing.

I'm posting on behalf of Nikola Jokić.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/15/sport/nikola-jokic-loses-mvp-trophy-nuggets-parade-spt-intl/index.html

We had a rat in the house a few weeks ago, so I got freaked out earlier today, when I heard a scratching sound that wouldn't stop coming from behind the living room sofa.

I dragged my partner out of her office so we could try to figure out what was happening - another rat? a mouse? the radiator? the ice cubes my drink cracking? - but we couldn't work it out.

Five minutes later I picked up my iPhone and found the YouTube app still playing this video of John Romita drawing Spider-Man.

lmao

ha! i feel the rat paranoia - I'm still traumatised from when we had one (then another) for weeks!

hooboy - new highs reached yesterday

preparing a homemade espresso:
put the freshly ground coffee in the portafilter, attached the portafilter to the machine

futzed around with getting mug ready & fetching milk from fridge etc

removed portafilter from machine, went over to compost bucket & scooped out the grounds …

…as i noticed that the grounds were dry as in still fresh as in i had NOT pulled my espresso shots yet & had just dumped fresh unused grounds into compost for no reason

honestly wtf

i think i need to be put in a care home asap

Name of the home can be the name of this thread

Has anyone else ever experienced "object blindness" or "disappearing objects?" The phenomenon when something you had in front of you is suddenly not there when you turn back around, then you look around frantically for it, and you swear that you have looked in the same spot multiple times, yet after 20 minutes it suddenly "reappears" in the exact spot you swear you were looking at?

This has happened to me a few times in the last few months and it's really disturbing me.

Yes!

Srsly so glad you posted this because I have had multiple episodes of this in the past 6 months.

I am 49 and experiencing a not-fun menopausal transition fwiw. This is but one of many indicators that my brain wiring is on the fritz.

I get this a lot but usually when I find it it's hidden under something else, or somewhere unexpected and stupid. I'm currently happy to put this down to user error.

The other day though I came up into the loft to look for a fan my wife insisted was up here. Look all around, not on the desks, not under the desks, not on the floor, not on the sofa... after a few minutes she came up to find out what was taking me so long and picked it up straight away from the little wall that separates the stairs from the rest of the room, directly behind the sofa, at eye level, not hidden behind anything.

I used to get like "oh I put that somewhere really stupid," like leaving the stapler in the bathroom type stuff, but lately it's literally like "the mouse is in plain sight on the desk but I could not see it for the last 20 minutes, then it was suddenly there."

Pretty bad when logic starts overruling plain eyesight.

I was recently looking for this little red non-contact voltage tester. I found the contact voltage tester in my ELECTRIC TOOLS drawer, but no LRNCVT. Why was it not in there? I looked everywhere else, with that sad feeling in the back of my head that no, I wasn't going to find it anywhere else because it belongs in my ELECTRIC TOOLS drawer and that's where I would have put it.

Finally, on the fifth look, there it was, the LRNCVT, way back in the corner of its correct drawer. Wasn't even underneath anything either.

I am 49 and experiencing a not-fun menopausal transition fwiw. This is but one of many indicators that my brain wiring is on the fritz.

Apparently this CIS male is also transitioning menopause, if those are the symptoms.

MANopause

I have a variation on this, where I know the thing I've lost is in my bag, so I take every item out one by one until the bag is empty and -- nope, it's still not there.

Inevitably 20 minutes later I find it in the bag.

I am convinced my backpack is a tesseract.

My most troubling one was looking at my wrist, wondering where my watch was, getting distracted by something else, then returning to look at my wrist, on which resided my watch, as always.

I read something about occipital lobe changes in peri-menopause affecting visuospacial processing, but this seems next level. Should I even be driving a car?

I also can't remember how to spell shit. It sucks.

The other night, I could not remember the name of my father's wife.

In my defense, she is his fourth wife, and they've been married only since April, but still.

You get a pass on that one

I prefer the notion that it’s extra dimensional pranksters warping my car keys to their space then back again.

once after getting home from work I started absentmindedly yet methodically burying my keys in a pile of linen on the couch before I caught myself and went “wtf are you doing”