When your brain just switches off

LoveLamps

Undoubtedly there's been threads similar to this, and to those who care, I'd like you to know that I don't.

Anyway, got any tales of when your brain just switched off?

Was in McDonald's on O'Connell Street after a concert one night, and I had been drinking. Forgot to get a drink so went downstairs to get one, queued up (a good 10 mins) asked for a bottle of water, paid the nice lady, received my change, lady went to get water, I walked off happy as Larry back up 2 flights of stairs, sat down and realised I never actually got my water.

Went back downstairs and was greeted by the lady shaking her head smiling. Nice woman.

Well folks of AH, after scanning this forum for more than a few mins I think quite a few of you should have a tale to tell here!

joebloggs32

LoveLamps wrote: »

Undoubtedly there's been threads similar to this, and to those who care, I'd like you to know that I don't.

Anyway, got any tales of when your brain just switched off?

Was in McDonald's on O'Connell Street after a concert one night, and I had been drinking. Forgot to get a drink so went downstairs to get one, queued up (a good 10 mins) asked for a bottle of water, paid the nice lady, received my change, lady went to get water, I walked off happy as Larry back up 2 flights of stairs, sat down and realised I never actually got my water.

Went back downstairs and was greeted by the lady shaking her head smiling. Nice woman.

Well folks of AH, after scanning this forum for more than a few mins I think quite a few of you should have a tale to tell here!

I forgot what I was going to post!

I went into Burger King a few weeks ago and asked for two cheeseburgers off the euro saver menu.

Was only afterward, I remembered seeing the paper crowns lying about ...

PizzamanIRL

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Stavros Murphy

Might be quicker if I list the times my brain switched on ..

orangesoda

I drove to the nearest town (15 minute drive) to buy a soda, i had some great metal music on the radio and was having a great time listening to it, i had driven there and back and realised that i forgot to go to the shop

Aphex

I don't know how many times I've opened the fridge to put the bread "back"

chops018

Aphex wrote: »

I don't know how many times I've opened the fridge to put the bread "back" in

Giggidy.

Sir Arthur Daley

Going to the Van for material or tools and forgetting what you went out for, and when in conversation with someone and end up talking about a person and not able to remember their name.

Birdster

I was getting ready to go to work, put the make up, put the runners on, checked handbag, out the front door and while I was locking it I noticed I still had my pj bottoms on...........

Yes I put my socks and runners on and didn't take any notice of Minnie Mouse.......at least I wasn't half way down through Rathmines when I noticed..

Canard

Spent a period of a few weeks at the start of the year in an absolute daze. Ended up leaving one of my lectures without my really nice jacket and when I went back it was nowhere to be found.

The Antigay

>tfw no brain

Stavros Murphy

I go to Tesco to get the shopping somtimes. The Missus times it and rings me as I wander aimlessly around, knowing full well I have no idea WTF I'm there for, despite being told three times before I left.

.Henry Sellers.

My brain switches off when I lock the back door before going to bed, I have to check it about five times to make sure I actually locked it. Better go check again just to be safe.....

wil

what does the switch look like?

Sir Arthur Daley

wil wrote: »

what does the switch look like?

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LynnGrace

Can relate to most of these.
I opened the fridge one morning, to place the phone in it. I have no idea why. Should add, I copped what I was doing, and didn't actually put the phone in.

shanered

I hate it when my Brian switches o
ff.

Scotty P

Put €7 in the parking machine for almost three hours of parking last week and as I was paying for food a few hours later, after seeing a film at the cinema, pulled out the parking slip people generally place on the car's dash.

Miraculously though, I wasn't clamped.

Andrewf20

A few years ago while typing an email, I forgot how to spell the word "make". Un-feckin-believeable. I was there going - Mac, Mace etc. . It came to me about 2 mins later.

Also, after making a cup of tea combined with daydreaming, im afraid to admit to putting the milk in the press and the sugar in the fridge (almost). By the time I go to place the sugar beside the yogurts I spot the error of my ways.

seagull

Having family breakfast way back when. My dad asked me to pass him the salt. I was daydreaming, and passed him the sugar. Even better, he then proceeded to put sugar on his egg. I wasn't the only one not properly awake that morning.

Pumpkinseeds

I've lost track of how many times I've gone upstairs or into the kitchen for something and forgotten that I'd actually gone there to do something.

Put on the washing the other night and then realised I'd forgotten to put the detergent ball in.

Have walked away from the till after paying for phone top up but walking off without waiting for it.

Went to the pharmacy for painkillers and dressings yesterday, forgot the painkillers:(

There are just too many incidents to remember.

WilyCoyote

Almost daily occurance here. In the past few weeks have lost/mislaid my temporary tooth and wedding ring. Frequently up and down stairs after getting up - forgetting something. Pour boiling water on teabag in cup and go to put milk in 30 mins later. Locked keys in truck a few months ago - had to ring specialist to recover them.
But then, I've always been scattered in that way

Sorry, what was the question?

Cork selfbuild

Trying to lock the house with the car key, the button not the actual key...

Butterface

I put shower gel in my hair instead of shampoo recently. The bottles are the same colour!!

Oh and I often come out with a "thank you" to the ATM when it gives me my money.

Muise...

I listened to the stationmaster telling me which train to board, but my lefts and rights and tops of the platforms all fell asleep, and I embarked on a 500m journey to a shunting yard, to be met by laughing men in high-vis vests. Then I had to explain myself to the bus driver whom the laughing men arranged to take me to meet the train further down the line, very loudly over the engine and the radio, to the amusement of the passengers.

I had a job interview with a well known financial institution a few months ago. They asked me about my Masters dissertation....do you think I could remember what it was about, let alone the title of it? Not at all!

Needless to say, I did not get the job.

cruais

Pouring some tea. I filled the whole mug with milk and a drop of water.

Just completed a 14 hour shift

mfceiling

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

I go to Tesco to get the shopping somtimes. The Missus times it and rings me as I wander aimlessly around, knowing full well I have no idea WTF I'm there for, despite being told three times before I left.

I'm the spa in tesco talking to myself....trying to replay the conversation that took place 3 minutes previous in our kitchen.

castletownman

Was at a wedding a few weeks ago and in the jacks the sinks were in a mini-section separate from the toilets. So you walk in the door to the "sink area" and go through another door for the "toilet area". Anyway, in I walk at some stage during the night as I was bursting for a number 2 after the meal earlier on. On my merry way back out, and feeling a few pounds lighter, I was wondering why there were two women washing their hands in the lads sinks.

Turns out I never realised I was dropping what was an epic load in the ladies jacks. I scadadalled to the bar in mortification and laid low for the rest of the festivities.

kowloon

I put one of those frozen uncooked pizzas into the oven onto the rack in the same way you would a regular frozen pizza. Looked a bit like this.

Stavros Murphy

mfceiling wrote: »

I'm the spa in tesco talking to myself....trying to replay the conversation that took place 3 minutes previous in our kitchen.

Yet I can reel off a materials list for a job that runs to three pages and remember every price, dimension and hour for the last six months. Can't remember tea-bags, milk and eggs. I reckon it's a form of builders autism.

mike65

Taking milk of the fridge turning round putting milk on counter top, turning back and opening the fridge to take the milk out.


A bit too often for my liking!

magicmushroom

I regularly have a bath/shower, get dried, go to put on deodorant and realise I have only shaved one armpit - it's always the same one that I forget.
I also shave my legs, wash my hair etc then think - better shave my legs - go to do it and they're already done.

I seem to only lose my brain when bathing

e_e

The morning I tried to put my underwear on over my pyjama bottoms.

e_e

Also I believe the technical term is "brain fart".

Muise...

e_e wrote: »

The morning I tried to put my underwear on over my pyjama bottoms.

Superhe_ero!!!

ivytwine

Once, when I was about 17, I ran myself a bath and forgot to put in the plug. It took me ten minutes of staring at the water rushing down the plughole before I realised there was something wrong with this picture.

Got killed by my mother for wasting hot water too! :pac:

languagenerd

I got asked my age by a barman last week when I wasn't expecting it (was with my family and went to get a whiskey for my gran) and just completely blanked. Stared at the barman for a few seconds, considered it and blurted "21!".

I'm 22 and have been for quite a few months now.

Nailz

After a night out I had a friend call me saying that he had lost his phone and was wondering if I saw it anywhere.

Then I asked him what he was calling me from; I'll never forget his reaction!

ElleEm

Birdster wrote: »

I was getting ready to go to work, put the make up, put the runners on, checked handbag, out the front door and while I was locking it I noticed I still had my pj bottoms on...........

Yes I put my socks and runners on and didn't take any notice of Minnie Mouse.......at least I wasn't half way down through Rathmines when I noticed..

I did similar where I got fully dressed and ready for the day and left my house with no shoes on! The cold hard ground swiftly reminded me of what I was missing!

LizT

Was heating my lunch in the microwave one day, one of my collegues asked me to put her lunch in for her when my one was finished. Put it in, set the time and was about to press start until she shouted into me "You might want to take the metal spoon out first"


Can't count the amount of times I've put the coffee into the fridge and the milk into the press before realizing what I've done. I've also pulled a tray out of a piping hot oven only to drop it because, surprise surprise, it was hot.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

i've often taken a half drank mug of coffee and just dropped it into the bin instead of the sink

silverbolt

dont know if its quite the same thing but i used to work in a call centre where we had a mandatory legal script to say on each phone call. Every phone call went pretty much the same way.

I learned it off so well that one time i took a call and dozed off, i read pretty much the entire script and only realised i was asleep when i said something mid sentence that had nothing to do with the topic at hand (dont rmember what it was now) but the customer went "what" which jolted me out of it.

GalwayGuy2

I boil the kettle, take out the milk, and then almost put the kettle back in the fridge

elfy4eva

kowloon wrote: »

I put one of those frozen uncooked pizzas into the oven onto the rack in the same way you would a regular frozen pizza. Looked a bit like this.

Similar moment here, I stuck a normal frozen pizza in and accidentally turned the grill on instead of the oven (electric combi oven/grill) Grilled it for 20 minutes with the oven door closed.

TheBody

I drive throught two towns on my way to work. The amount of times I pull up at work and have no recollection of stopping or even seeing any of the traffic lights. It scares the hell out of me!

chupacabra

Dog barking. So I try to turn him down with the tv remote.

LizT

TheBody wrote: »

I drive throught two towns on my way to work. The amount of times I pull up at work and have no recollection of stopping or even seeing any of the traffic lights scares the hell out of me!

That's only happened to me once, was driving home from town. There's a few different ways I can go, got back into the house and could genuinely not remember which way I took home. It really freaked me out actually, never let it happen again, it's far too scary.

changepartners

I went through a phase a few months ago of going about putting my shoes on before my trousers. Seems to have stopped now-

Muise...

TheBody wrote: »

I drive throught two towns on my way to work. The amount of times I pull up at work and have no recollection of stopping or even seeing any of the traffic lights. It scares the hell out of me!

My sister flew home from the US for my grandfather's funeral, and just about made it on time, having been delayed by red tape about her visa. She dashed out the door of Shannon airport, hired a car, tore up the road to Galway and had a panic attack in Gort wondering what the fcuk had happened to Ennis. She was full sure she was losing it untill we eventually told her they'd opened a by-pass the previous month. She's so cute when she's freaking out.