Absent-minded? Share your tales here.

[ClaesGefvenberg]

Are you absent-minded? Speaking for myself, I have on occasion been nicknamed the professor, not due to my brilliant intellect but because of my tendency to amuse (and sometimes not) family and friends by landing myself in awkward situations when my thoughts have been elsewhere. :blush: This thread is for those of us who have such tales to share... Our own or those of our friends.

As for you who are not members of this club: Please bear with us, and have fun reading about our mishaps and perhaps our measures to avoid forgetting things

I suppose I'll have to get things started with an example of my own:

First a classic from when I lived closer to he city: I had been in doing a bit of shopping and walked home carrying some pretty heavy bags. Not until I had settled down with a book did I realize that I had forgotten a minor detail: My car! I had gone to town in my car and left it there...:blush: So, I had to confess the mishap to my wife who just went :rolleyes: and asked me to take the trash out on my way to get the car. I did, and went to get it. When I got home, I went in and said hello to my wife who promptly asked me why I was carrying the trash bag into the house again. I honestly thought she'd never stop laughing that time. :redface:

/Claes

[sprinks]

:lol:! Oh dear! :p. One thing I did a few years ago comes to mind... I was sitting at the kitchen table eating dinner, and I was rather distracted, and went to reach for my glass to take a drink, but somehow picked up the soy sauce bottle and drank it! :sick: My stomach was so sore for the rest of the night. And my dad hasn't let me live it down.
But funnily enough he did a similar thing a short while back, we were eating lunch and we had these wrap things, and he had one to the side but it was sitting in a cup so all the fillings didn't fall out onto the table. So he went to get his drink but picked up the cup with the wrap in it and went to drink it! :lol:

[Madhuri]

The front door of our house has a latch like this on its front side:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/57/219004188_5ff9cffafe.jpg?v=0

A few years back, I had a job where I was to report for work at 6:00 AM, which means I had to get up really early. That particular day, I guess I was very sleepy, and even after a shower my sleep didnt go, I was in a hurry to get ready and leave. While leaving the house I was so absent minded that I locked the door from outside. When my parents got up, and had to go out, they were not able to open the door. Then around 9, our maid came, and she opened the door for them. My poor parents, I had locked them inside :lol:

I didnt realise what I did. When I came back, my father asked in a very angry tone -- Did you lock the door from outside? I was like -- Me? locking the door? What for? And I was thinking -- Oh no, today is the lecture day, it seems. Then he explained the whole incident that had happened, and I laughed so much :lol:

[kasie]

This goes back to the long-ago days when we had milk delivered to the door. I don't know if I was absent-minded or just tired, like Madhuri, but one night I set off for bed with a clean milk bottle to put outside the door for the milkman to collect in the morning and the radio so I could listen to the late night news while having a bath. I started to fill the bath, went to the front door and put the bottle outside. When I came back to the bathroom I could not make out why it was so quiet and why there was a milk bottle on the shelf - went back to the front door and there was the radio happily burbling away to itself on the doorstep. Oh, and my neighbour from the flat upstairs who had just come home was standing in the porch looking down at the radio with a rather bemused expression. He went on giving me wary looks for some time after that. :)

[ClaesGefvenberg]

I was sitting at the kitchen table eating dinner, and I was rather distracted, and went to reach for my glass to take a drink, but somehow picked up the soy sauce bottle and drank it!
My poor parents, I had locked them inside
went back to the front door and there was the radio happily burbling away to itself on the doorstep.:lol: :lol: :lol: That is exactly the kind of stories I had in mind. More please...

Oh, and here is a little episode told by a coworker of mine:

To get his trash collected he has to put the bin at a nearby road, a couple of hundred meters from his house: This he usually does in the morning, before going to work: He simply hooks it to his car and leaves it there, and then collects it when he gets home. Right. Off he goes one day, in a bit of a hurry and half way to work, doing 110Km/h, he notices an increasing noise behind him. What he had been hearing was the wheels flying off the trash bin... There was also some rather violent flapping from the lid and there was rubbish all over the road behind him. :lol: Absent-minded? You bet!

/Claes

[wilbur lim]

Greetings ClaesGefvenberg!
I would to share my absent-minded day.It has hitherto happened while I am at school.
You may conceive that I might have not paying attention at class or had forgotten to bring my homework.Well,this is too corny,and well,that's not what I am endeavouring to say.
It is I,writing some sentences like 'How great thou art' and other nonsense on my friend's dairy book ,under the desk of the table.My form teacher realized that and she thundered at me to hand her the book.Her unblinking eyes flashed with wrath...
I endeavoured to elucidate that I was bored.But she,well,I don't want to cite anymore as this is would be humiliating...

[Virgil]

What a great idea for a thread Claes. I hve to admit I've got many I could give.

But let me give you the most serious one. This happened last February I think. I actually included this in my blog as an entry. Where I work the parking lot is enclosed by a curb that goes around it except for two openings, one at each end. That Friday in February I wanted to get out fast and go home. I got in my car and I was eating an apple and the sun was relatively low in the sky and directly into my eyes and I was to make a right turn once I exited the parking lot, but instead of going to through the exit I veered to the right anticipating the right turn. The car went smack into the curb and came to a sudden halt and the air bags deployed, pow, smacked me right in the mouth. I didn't know what happened. It was like one second I was moving and the next the world was vibrating and I smelled the propellant that deploys the bags and I was completely stunned. :lol: No harm done, no damage to the car, except for the air bags, which cost me $2000, and no harm to me except my pride. :blush:

[SleepyWitch]

back in highschool, we had an exam in Latin where we had to learn about some Roman philosopher/ orator or other. On the day before the exam I was really anxious and decided to go for a bike-ride to take my mind off all that Latin.
but I kept reciting the biography of the philosopher to myself as I peddaled along and my sleeve got caught on the handlebar. I fell off my bike and hit my head on the pavement. ouch!

[Pensive]

I wonder if this comes in absent-mindedness but I guess I can include it in that. We had this history exam where we were asked that who was responsible for Jallianwala Bagh massacre and I who had explained the whole event to girls in my year just in the morning, and had narrated it for my father the day before that, while answering the questions felt at that time I knew nothing. I just knew there was a 'D' in the name so absent-mindedly, I wrote down the only foreign name with a 'D' present that I could think of instantly without giving any second thoughts and that was 'Herald'. :p If it were Dyair or even Dyes the teacher might have forgiven me, but I mean come on for Herald (instead of Dyer) you are going to get a zero. :(

And then there was this question where we had to name a Pushto poet. Two invigilators were talking to one another and one of them mentioned the words 'Khan Baba' and I who was bothered by their talks had this 'Khan Baba' all in my mind. And funnily the Pushto poet I wanted to name was 'Rehman Baba' but in all the absent-mindedness I wrote down 'Khan Baba' for it. Again, I was not going to get any mark for that. :(

Oh and once we were to tell the properties of blood capillaries. Instead of writing 'they are one cell thick' I wrote down 'they are one cm thick' because I was busy thinking about the next question where we had to do some measurements in centimetres. :p

Hmmmm and it often happens to me that I have the pen in my own hand and am searching for it in the entire house. :p In school during break time sometimes I take a walk in the school-ground and occupied in my thoughts don't hear the bell that rings telling us break is over. Will have to say am pretty much absent-minded. :p

[InspireMe]

this instantly reminded me of an occurrence that happened when i was a kid. my family and some friends were on a bus in korea. after a long ride we finally arrived to our bus stop. we piled out and were walking away when suddenly my mom says, "where's ryan!?" (my older brother who was about 5 or 6? i can't remember) it turns out my brother was absent-minded and didn't notice we all got out! and apparently all of us were also absent-minded to not realize he wasn't with us! luckily he got off before the bus went too far! it's funny to think back on now.

[Virgil]

back in highschool, we had an exam in Latin where we had to learn about some Roman philosopher/ orator or other. On the day before the exam I was really anxious and decided to go for a bike-ride to take my mind off all that Latin.
but I kept reciting the biography of the philosopher to myself as I peddaled along and my sleeve got caught on the handlebar. I fell off my bike and hit my head on the pavement. ouch!

Well, that explains a lot of things. :p ;)

[Shalot]

I put a $20 instead of a $5 in the parking lot pay thingie. I had some $5's and a $20. I was in a hurry and thought I had pulled out one of the $5's. I rolled the bill up and put it in the metal slot.

Later, when I was going to get something from the cafeteria for lunch, I noticed that instead of having 3 $5's and 1 $20, I had 4 $5's. DOH :crash: :crash: :crash: :crash: :crash: :crash: :sick: :bawling: :sick: :redface: :eek: :brickwall :brickwall :goof:

[papayahed]

I am horribly bad at keeping tickets to concerts, shows, etc.. whoever I go with has to keep the ticket and give it to me in line just before we get to the ticket taker. A few years ago a friend was getting married in California. Two friends and I decided that since we were going all the way out there we might as well extend the trip and make it a weeks vacation. We had the week all planned out, my job was to get tickets to a San Diego Padres game which I did. I think one of my friends even asked if I wanted them to hold the tickets but I declined. Long story short we're in California with an empty ticket envelope and the tickets are back in Michigan sitting on the kitchen counter where I set them down so I wouldn't forget to pack them.

Luckily for me, I bought the tickets with a credit card and all I had to do was provide the credit card and ticket people were able to reprint the original tickets.

[ClaesGefvenberg]

Long story short we're in California with an empty ticket envelope and the tickets are back in Michigan sitting on the kitchen counter where I set them down so I wouldn't forget to pack them.A coworker did the same thing when he was going for a business trip... Slight commotion at the airport, of course, but his real problems started when he got back:

He had been forced to call for help and asked the person helping him not to tell anyone.... Yeah, right. :brow: The result was that everyone knew about it, and he found his room room plastered with poster size copies of the tickets he had left on his desk :lol:

Before you ask: No, it was not my doing, even though I must confess that I was strongly in favour of the gentle "reminder".

/Claes

[Janine]

Ok, I have some good ones. This was the most traumatic I think. I was going to make dinner one night and took out fish bought that day - however, I noticed right away it smelled way too fishy, so I decided I had to take it back to the grocery store. I also had to stop at the pharmacy for a prescription. Now picture this - both of these items were in white plastic store bags - so I just throw them both on the seat of the car and proceed to the grocery. I go in with the bag and never look in it and take it to the front counter, explaining that the fish smelled badly - they did not even open the bag to check and refunded my money - a mere few dollar. Later that night I noticed this horrid smell in my upstairs and all night the smell got worse and worse. Now I went to bed and then it all dawned on me...I got up in a panic and checked the prescription bag and you can imagine what I saw inside the bag - duh...to my horror I realised I had taken the prescription to the grocery, thinking it was the fish! Luckily this story does not end tragically. Of course I could not sleep at all that night and next morning called the store, fully expecting they would say they just tossed the rotten fish (my medication) in the dumpster or garbage disposal. At first they said they did not have it and then later they called to my relief and said they found it; some kind soul had retrieved it and put it into a store safe. I was lucky that time! Whew!

Once when my son was really small, maybe not quite two, he was toddling around behind me, as I was dusting the house living room and then I went out onto the porch to get something and the front door closed and locked behind me. I told him to stay there and he was really good and did so. Luckily I found something to pry appart the door molding and take the glass out of one of the panels; then I could reach in and unlock it. Another time I got locked in the bathroom while my son slept in his crib in the afternoon and I had to yell out a tiny window "help! help!" until a neighbor who was gardening heard me and came with the landlord to get me out. Maddie, these kind of go along with your funny 'lock' story.

I am sure I have tons more stories I can share - I am very absent minded and often so; I will have to recall them. This is a fun thread and great idea, Claes. It is good to laugh at one's self and our own antics!;) :lol:

[Bakiryu]

Well, I have a tale too. Something that happened to me on account of being absent minded and near-sighted :D

I went to my cousin's house for Thanksgiving, they mentioned they had installed a new door like this: http://all-americanexteriors.info/wp-content/glass-door.jpg
of course I forgot about it.

After a while we all went outside and started talking, I decided to leave, turned around, moved forward and Bam! Smashed my face against the door!

It even left marks where it hit :lol:

(perhaps more embarrasing it's that this has happened to me twice!)

[barbara0207]

After a while we all went outside and started talking, I decided to leave, turned around, moved forward and Bam! Smashed my face against the door!

It even left marks where it hit :lol:

You're not the only one, Baki, same thing happened to me. Embarrassing!
And when I read all the hilarious stories on this thread, I must admit: that could have been me.

Last week I wanted to go to the doctor's in my car. I had an appointment and was a bit late already. When I got to the car, I noticed that I didn't have my car key. I went back into the house and looked for it at its usual place - it wasn't there. I started a frantic search. At last I looked at my left hand: the key was there. It had been in it all the time I was searching. :alien:

[papayahed]

oh, i thought of another one!! It's in the same vain as the first:

I was traveling for work. My flight was at 6 am the following morning so the afternoon before I printed out my boarding pass, the directions, my hotel reservations, and car rental reservation. I know I put all that stuff in my bag plus some paperwork. That night when I was packing I could only find the paperwork. I get up a few minutes early to swing by work to get my boarding pass. I go to work and tear my desk apart and couldn't find the pass. I realize I've spent too much time at work and I'm dangerously close to missing my flight. Luckily, my airport is small and there isn't a line at security. I was a wreck by the time I got to the airport the bagagge guy printed out my boarding pass for me. I made the flight and all was good (Luckily a coworker had all the directions). The day I got back to work I went to get safety glasses for a visitor and there was my boarding pass and the rest of my info sitting on top of the box of safety glasses in the supply closet.

[Virgil]

You're not the only one, Baki, same thing happened to me. Embarrassing!
And when I read all the hilarious stories on this thread, I must admit: that could have been me.

Last week I wanted to go to the doctor's in my car. I had an appointment and was a bit late already. When I got to the car, I noticed that I didn't have my car key. I went back into the house and looked for it at its usual place - it wasn't there. I started a frantic search. At last I looked at my left hand: the key was there. It had been in it all the time I was searching. :alien:

I've done similar Barbara, on more than one occaision. :blush:

[ClaesGefvenberg]

It is good to laugh at one's self and our own antics!;) :lol:I agree, and I intended to start this thread long ago, but... I forgot :blush:

/Claes

[blackbird_9]

In addition to running into screens and glass doors, I have a multitude of moments like these. A more recent one for example would be something that happened in my english class a few weeks ago. Our professor was dictationg a poem which we were supposed to be copying, and one of the words in the poem was mignificence. For whatever reason, I heard "magnifigence". Because of this, I confused the two words thinking that magnifigence was not only a real word but that it was the word for magnificence (does that make sense?)... Anyway, I spent five minutes trying to figure out why I couldn't spell it right and why it looked funny until I finally gave up and turned the paper in. It wasn't untill half way through class I realized that it was magnificence and not magnifigence... yeah...

There was also a time where I was at a speach and debate tournament doing prose interp. During this one serious part of my speech, I was supposed to be talking about a song by Billy Holiday when I accidently said "Billy Eliot." After that, all I could think about was that picture on the cover of the DVD with him jumping up in the air. It took all my will power to not burst out laughing.

[lugdunum]

:lol: This is a funny thread... I'm sooo relieved I'm not the only one being so absent-minded.

In my case I don't know if you can call it absent minded or simply being a complete dork, but here's my (latest) embarassing moment...

I went to my usual breakfast place one sunday morning, (and I swear I didn't have any kind of hang over), I walk to the counter and order a coffee. While they're preparing the coffee, a friend of mine shows up and we start chatting right there at the counter.
After about a couple of minutes, my friend grabs a stool and sits down still talking to me. I still can't explain what happened, I was probably really absorbed in her story and went to sit down as well... except that there wasn't any stool behind me and before I knew it, I was laying down on my back on the floor.... :lol:

[Taliesin]

My philosophy teacher once, at the middle ofa lecture, put his hands into his jacket pockets, took out two little socks and said.
"Damn, my daughter went into the kindergarten without socks, apparently"

[Pensive]

Well, I have a tale too. Something that happened to me on account of being absent minded and near-sighted :D

I went to my cousin's house for Thanksgiving, they mentioned they had installed a new door like this: http://all-americanexteriors.info/wp-content/glass-door.jpg
of course I forgot about it.

After a while we all went outside and started talking, I decided to leave, turned around, moved forward and Bam! Smashed my face against the door!

It even left marks where it hit :lol:

(perhaps more embarrasing it's that this has happened to me twice!)

:lol:Bumping into doors/walls/people? I have gone through these all myself too. :p

Remembered another occasion where 'absent-mindedness' is probably to be blamed. Our Biology teacher was not present and luckily we got a lesson's break just after we had our Physics lesson. We were studying fission and fusion reactions then and I couldn't help my mind wandering towards creating a scenereo after a hydrogen-bomb would have been used and imagining all the destruction that would have followed it.

Occupied in my thoughts I couldn't notice a friend coming towards me. She is pretty talkative (heh yes, there are many people in my year who happen to be very chatty, not that they can beat me into it but then we are having no races here to show-off my wonderful talking skills and so I choose to remain quiet often :p) and then she started, "Erm, the school function is coming near and I am confused about what to wear."

Hardly getting any of it (after all I was concentrating on my favourite hobby perhaps - imagining), I just hmmmmm-ed.

"Maybe I should wear that green coloured shalwar-qameez I told you about."

Again too busy to notice what I was doing I said, "No"

"Then how about my black skirt?"

"Erm, I don't know," was my response.

"Yes, my skin-colour is darker, black wouldn't suit me the way it suits you so maybe I shouldn't wear it" (she is very much conscious about skin-colour)

"Exactly"

A bit hurt, she left the talk regarding her dress and asked me what I was going to wear.

As if it under some stance, absent-mindedly, I said, "Nothing really"

"Alright" Now I could see her smiling a bit as well.

"Well, you don't have to worry about colours at least. They all suit you," she proceeded.

"Yes, yes, they all suit me," I repeated.

And then suddenly it suddenly came coming to me what the hell I had been saying and I had to face real embarrassment but thankfully my friend realised I was under one of my 'tances' when noticed me get alert like that and probably didn't feel the hurt any longer, especially when I said, "Don't be silly about the skin colour. Black really suits you well too." :D

[ClaesGefvenberg]

And then suddenly it suddenly came coming to me what the hell I had been saying and I had to face real embarrassment but thankfully my friend realised I was under one of my 'tances' when noticed me get alert like that and probably didn't feel the hurt any longer, especially when I said, "Don't be silly about the skin colour. Black really suits you well too." :D:lol: :lol: :lol: Absolutley brilliant :thumbs_up :thumbs_up :thumbs_up

/Claes

[kasie]

Had a phone call from a friend this morning during which I happened to say how much I had been enjoying reading a certain book.

'Oh,' she said, 'have you read that? Only I was going to lend it to you.'

Me, wondering what she was talking about: 'You did. It's your copy I've been reading.'

Friend: 'Really? When did I lend it to you?'

Me: 'Last week. Last time I saw you. You gave me a big bag of books.'

Friend: 'I did? Thank goodness for that. I couldn't find that bag of books anywhere, been searching high and low for it, was getting really worried about it.'

Me, after a moment digesting this: ' It must be our age....You know, if we had a couple more brain cells between us, we'd be really dangerous.'

Friend: 'We would, too.'

As another friend often remarks: 'Truly, they walk among us...'

:D

[Annamariah]

I keep forgetting things all the time: I go to a room to get something and leave without it, because I can't remember what I was looking for; I've left my keys hanging on the lock far too many times (thank goodness no one's ever stolen them); I forget to put the food I just bought into the refrigerator and stuff like that.

Perhaps five years ago I was shopping for Christmas presents, and as usual, all the shops were pretty full of people. I was in a toy shop looking for a plastic model of an airplane for my brother, you know those that you build and paint. I chose one, but since I wasn't in a hurry, I decided to look around for a moment. After a while I realised that I had walked out of that shop, carrying the model kit I hadn't paid...

Well, my conscience would have never left me alone if I just took the model without paying it, and luckily I managed to sneak back into the shop and pay for it without anyone noticing that I'd already accidentally almost stolen it :blush:

[Petrarch's Love]

:lol: Thanks for starting this thread, Claes. It's made for a really hilarious study break this afternoon. I've had many, many absentminded moments, including finding my wallet in the freezer, loosing inumerable objects on the bus, having to replace several gas caps on my car (after forgetting to screw the thing back on after fueling), and misplacing my ipod by closing it inside a very large book, which I then put back on the shelf. The worst I can think of just now was from one afternoon when I was completely absorbed in reading Ariosto. I had just been cleaning up the apartment and ironing out the skirt I was going to wear to class, with the book propped on the end of the ironing board, when I noticed I had to hurry so I wouldn't be late. I grabbed my coat, got down the elevator and about a block down the street before I realized that, though I had on my blouse and heels and hose, I had neglected to actually put on the skirt I had so carefully ironed! Luckily I was wearing a long enough coat that no one could tell, and I went right back to make myself fully decent. I was a little late to class, but luckily none of the students realized exactly how absentminded a professor was teaching them. :blush: :lol:

[ClaesGefvenberg]

I was a little late to class, but luckily none of the students realized exactly how absentminded a professor was teaching them. :blush: :lol:Well, it could have been far worse: Imagine not realizing something like that in time...

Anyway: Our production manager told me a great one: He had a lot on his mind one evening when it was time to take his dogs for a walk. Off he went, still lost in his thoughts. A mile or so later he noticed the he had brought the leashes. The dogs, however were nowhere to be seen. He had to go back home and face two very bewildered looking dogs and a family literally rolling on the floor laughing their heads off.

/Claes

[Niamh]

I am very absentminded. I do so many really stupid things!
Ever put the butter into the dishwasher? i have. do it all the time. The milk sometimes almost ends up in the crockery press. I've gotten into baths and then realised i forgot to take my socks off! The most frequant things i do are;
Start to walk to a friends house or a certain shop in work, and because i'm away with the faeries most of the time, i've walked past my destination alot!
walk around work not realising my trouser leg is stuck in my sock.
walked around, serving customers, talking to staff or at home talking to my family with out realising that a few of my shirt buttons have opened and my bra is showing!
gone for a shower and realised after i got out that my towel was still sitting on my bed. (bathroom is down stairs!)

[Janine]

Me too, Niamh; I hear you!

I most recently reached for the hairspray and instead got the can of bathroom foam cleaner, you can imagine the rest....

[SleepyWitch]

Oh my God, PL, the story about the skirt is hilarious! :lol:


a couple of weeks ago, I was going home from uni. I took the train from Erlangen to Fürth and then walked home from the station. 100 m from the front door, I realized that my keys were gone. I kinda had this coming because I'm very neurotic about my keys and fumble them like every five minutes to make sure they are still there. I was in a trance that day because a "friend" had been given me a lot of sh!t and I'd kinda "dumped" her and felt very guilty about it. Anyways, I walked the way to the station back and forth a couple of times looking for my keys. I distinctly remember playing around with them and tossing them in a flower bed. But no matter how hard I looked, I couldn't find them.
So I had to sit outside the front door and wait for my hubby to come home. He had a copy of his keys made the following day.
But the problem was, that one of the ones I lost was the key to the student helpers office at univ. I'd kept my key although I don't work at univ any more. I signed a slip saying I'm responsible for that key etc blabla. So I asked a friend who works at univ what to do about it and she said not to mention it to the secretary and if she (the secretary) should ever remember that I stil had the key I should say "Are you sure? I thought I handed it back in!".
Today, a friend who works as a student helper phoned me on my mobile and told me he's got my keys at the office!!!! I have no idea how they got there and neither does he...
:confused:
I really think I need to have my head checked!

[lugdunum]

It's amazing the amount of time we, absent-minded people, can waste just by trying to find things we've misplaced, forgotten, etc. How much time have I spent looking for my glasses when they were either on my nose or on my head. :D


Talking about keys, here's another story:

When I was a student I worked one summer in a hotel in the French Alps at about 3 hours from my parents's place.

One day, my mother who'd left on holiday somewhere calls me and tells me that she thinks she's left the iron plugged (being absent-minded is a family thing as you can see;)) and can I please go and check.

I told her that I would ask for a day off the next day and go.

So the next morning I get into my car and drive the 3 hour journey to her place. (It should be noted that this drive included about an hour of mountain roads with sharp turns, NOT the typical highway drive).

When I finally got to the building I got out of the car and ....realized I'd left the keys in my room at the hotel. :flare:

I had to drive all the way back, come back again just to find the iron perfectly unplugged and put away.... :bawling:

[SleepyWitch]

I had to drive all the way back, come back again just to find the iron perfectly unplugged and put away.... :bawling:

hahahah :) and if she had left it on, the house would have burnt down by the time you reached there anyway :D

[Petrarch's Love]

Well, it could have been far worse: Imagine not realizing something like that in time...
/Claes
:lol: Yes. I felt much better about my own absentmindedness a month or so later when a friend of mine (not surprisingly, a fellow graduate student) confessed that she had done the exact same thing by forgetting to put her blouse on after ironing and didn't realize it until she got to the conference she was attending. She had to try to act as nonchalant as possible while keeping her wool coat on the entire time in a very well heated building. At least she wasn't the presenter. :p


Oh my God, PL, the story about the skirt is hilarious! :lol:


Glad my absentminded shame could provide some entertainment. :D

[SleepyWitch]

:lol: Yes. I felt much better about my own absentmindedness a month or so later when a friend of mine (not surprisingly, a fellow graduate student) confessed that she had done the exact same thing by forgetting to put her blouse on after ironing and didn't realize it until she got to the conference she was attending. She had to try to act as nonchalant as possible while keeping her wool coat on the entire time in a very well heated building. At least she wasn't the presenter. :p

OMG... couldn't she have sneaked out and bought a blouse or called a friend to bring her one?

[Sweets America]

A little thingy happened today. :blush:

This morning I had to wake up early to go to work. I was quite tired, you know, doing things mechanically. At some point after I had showered and dressed, I felt that my panties felt strange against my skin. Was not sure why. Unbuttoned my jeans, looked at the panties, found them strange looking too, but was still not sure where the uncanny feeling came from. I was still rather tired so I said whatever and went to work.

At noon, I went to the bathroom at work, and all of a sudden I realized the problem. I had put my panties the wrong way: I had put one leg where my waist should have been and so on, so the panties were all turned over. :lol::blush: :blush: Well, I could not change anything at work, so I kept the panties like this all day. :D

My panties are now back into place, thank you. :)

[Madhuri]

An incident that happened today.

I had to go to the other section of my office. There was a security guard sitting at the entrance. He asked me -- Madam, do you have a camera in your mobile? (for some security check). My head was so full of thoughts while I was interrupted like that that I was saying one thing and thinking of something else. I said -- Bhaiya (brother), I dont have mobile in my camera :lol: Then I realised what did I say; the guard and I started laughing :)

[novelsryou]

:lol:! Oh dear! :p. One thing I did a few years ago comes to mind... I was sitting at the kitchen table eating dinner, and I was rather distracted, and went to reach for my glass to take a drink, but somehow picked up the soy sauce bottle and drank it! :sick: My stomach was so sore for the rest of the night. And my dad hasn't let me live it down.
But funnily enough he did a similar thing a short while back, we were eating lunch and we had these wrap things, and he had one to the side but it was sitting in a cup so all the fillings didn't fall out onto the table. So he went to get his drink but picked up the cup with the wrap in it and went to drink it! :lol:


That's funny. I have to be careful when I'm working in the garage, especially when I have an open beer and other chemicals open on the workbench - I've caught myself reaching for the mineral spirits more than once.

[formality hater]

When I first started using cellphone,a terrible problem came my way.I tried to send messages to my one particular friend and they kept coming back to me.Every now and then I would go running to its beep only to discover my earlier sent messages displayed on the screen! I was annoyed so I went to my father for help.He checked my mobile and only a few seconds later was laughing his heart out.
"You seem to remeber your own number very well!"He said with mocking seriousness.
I was dumbfounded and from that day onward resolved to avoid that embarrassing gadget I knew nothing about!

[wilbur lim]

Absent-minded,I must confess,should be removed from humanity,for being absent-minded will bring trails and tribulations sometimes.

One solution is not to have consternation and be beleaguered,a calm mind is vital no matter what.If absent-mindedness is a whirlwind and an unforeseen one,you must overcome it no matter what.The Lord will trail you,ensuring no absent-mindedness is present.

[kilted exile]

I have told this story before in the dark recesses of the forum, but enough of you folk are new(new counts as anything short of a year) so might not have seen it.

When I was 6 or 7 I took swimming lessons at the high school nearby, was the only pool nearby (a certain MT had got rid of funding so most school pools got done away with) it had big glass windows where folk could look in. In my excitement to get started my lesson (ah the impetuousness of youth) I kinda forgot to put on my swimming trunks before leaving the change room. Didnt realise until the laughing & pointing started, then turned tail and ran back into the room. Never returned & still cant do what most would consider swimming.......

[papayahed]

I'm not sure if this is absentminded or just self centered. Either way we have to hop in the way-back machine to around the time that Metal church was one of my favorite bands ~1989.

Metal Church was touring with Anthrax, small concert halls. My friends and I bought our tickets and were all excited to see Metal Church, at the time Anthrax was just ok. We thought we had plenty of time to catch the show and we were in no hurry to see Anthrax who of course was the opening act. We got to the show just in time to see Metal Church say "Thank You and Goodnight" Unfortunately the billboard charts and my personal taste were not on the same page and Anthrax was way more popular then Metal Church and was indeed the headliners for that particular show.

[manolia]

Some times when i close a door i forget to remove my fingers :(
It has happened a few times and right now i have a really black thumb..and it hurts :( :lol:

I always lose various items especially my sunglasses..one time i was hopeless and decided that i lost them for good and then opening the fridge to fetch some cold water i found them right there :lol:

[ClaesGefvenberg]

In my excitement to get started my lesson (ah the impetuousness of youth) I kinda forgot to put on my swimming trunks before leaving the change room. That reminds me.... A friend of mine did a similar thing when we were learning to swim, but this story has a different twist: He was in a hurry too, but he did not forget his swimming trunks. He left his buoyancy aid in the changing room and jumped straight into the large pool and proceeded to swim its entire length before he realised his mistake. At the same time he realised that he actually knew how to swim... fortunately.

/Claes

[1n50mn14]

Oh my God, these are all great.

My dad has just moved into a new house, and my sister and I had bunk beds. Anywho, the bathroom and our bedroom and our brothers bedroom were all on the same floor. I came out of the bathroom late one night and stood at the door to our bedroom, looking in, going 'OH my God, where did the bunkbeds go??? Where is Jessy? Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God! Okay... it's okay... maybe they just changed it around a bit during the day... oh my God, TIME WARP! It's okay..' I looked back at the bathroom to make sure it was still there so I could backtrack if I had stumbled upon some alternate reality, but then realized... I was standing at the wrong door, looking into my brother's room. XD

[imthefoolonthehill]

It was simple: I was invoking the intermediate value theorem, and forgot to establish continuity. Oh, silly me.

[Joreads]

[QUOTE=Niamh;609148]I am very absentminded. I do so many really stupid things!
Ever put the butter into the dishwasher? i have. do it all the time. The milk sometimes almost ends up in the crockery press.


I am glad I am not alone. I have found cleaning products in the fridge and all sorts of things everywhere else. I am really absentminded most of the time. Sometimes I find myself walking into a room and I have no idea what I am doing there:lol:

[Kafka's Crow]

Went to pick my two kids from school, left one in his class and did not realize that I had only one in the car till long after reaching home!!! (how the school administrator was laughing when I went back to get him out of the school office where he was kept as classrooms were closed and teachers had gone! She is my next door neighbour now and we still laugh talking about that day!)

Once found myself going 'upstairs' on a descending escalator at Heathrow Airport (of course I was not making any progress but you should have seen the onlookers and their amusement and my embarrassment!)

Bought a new car and a new house back in 2004. All the stuff was boxed and piled up downstairs and as I went out for school run, it started raining. I jumped in the car hoping that rain water would not get in the car, left the front door wide open (yes in London, the burglary capital of Europe). Luckily the house was neither burgled nor flooded when I returned after more than an hour. You could see my laptop and iMac just sitting across from the street. My local thieves must be very unlucky!

[ClaesGefvenberg]

Maybe it's time to revive this old thread? I just heard a new one from a coworker:

Just like yours truly he uses a bike to get himself to work, and he is every bit as absent minded as I am. There is one difference, though: He drops one of his kids off at the kindergarten every morning... Well, almost every morning. :lol: One day apporoaching the plant and already with his mind set on some project here at work, he suddenly heard a tiny voice behind him:

- Um.. Daddy, why are we going this way to the kindergarten today? :confused:

He made a U-turn back to the kindergarten, dropped his heir off and arrived rather later than usual... :rolleyes:

/Claes

[Nightshade]

:lol:


I discovered I had shelved my mising jeans on the books shelf and my book was in my jeans draw :rolleyes: