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Nincompoopish/ditzy behaviour.

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  • #32
    humbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    I've nearly driven myself batty looking for my glasses only to find myself wearing them.


  • #33
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    I poured milk into a bowl before the rice krispies!! :eek:


  • #34
    confusticated
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,682 ✭✭✭confusticated


    Can't find my phone, look all over the house for it, in the end in desperation I pull my phone out of my pocket to ring it. :o



    and have actually dialled it once


  • #35
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,639 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    Have thanked the ATM a load of times. Generally in front of about 15 people


  • #36
    Ben D Bus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,181 ✭✭✭Ben D Bus


    I was doing the ironing. The phone rang. But they were very good about it in the burns unit :(


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  • #37
    The Snipe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,484 ✭✭✭The Snipe


    The ammount of times I've looked like an idiot where I needed to get milk or bread, and walk to the local shop. Walk in the door. Forget what I had to get, and then proceed to turn around and walk back out.


  • #38
    Twee.
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,721 Mod ✭✭✭✭Twee.


    Assembled some cereal and then put the milk away in the press for the bowls.


  • #39
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,009 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Brother locked me out of the house one day, was on the phone to my ex, he said "Just ring him to let you in", checked my pockets and yelled "But I haven't got my phone!"


  • #40
    Skylinehead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    Always get a mini-panic looking for something (usually phone), frantically check pockets/bag/everything....it's in my hand.


  • #41
    Laura_lolly87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 212 ✭✭Laura_lolly87


    I was on my way to college on day and I could not remember if i had turned the hair straightner off. I texted my neighbour and asked her to look out her window and see if my house was on fire. I asked her if she would phone the fire brigade if it was :o


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  • #42
    Rocky_Dennis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 433 ✭✭Rocky_Dennis


    Yesterday evening, I went to the off licence, paid for my drink and cigarettes with my laser card and walked out of the off licence without my card and my purchases.

    Last week I went into the chipper and asked for a regular burger with ketchup, onions and cheese. Assistant says to me "that's a cheeseburger luv" :o

    I'm away with the birds at the best of times :o


  • #43
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,251 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    More than once I've been looking for my glasses while wearing them.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #44
    ConmanTheKiller
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 147 ✭✭ConmanTheKiller


    About a month ago, I decided to make a cup of tea. So I got the milk, sugar and tea bag ready. Boiled the kettle and then proceeded to pour its contents into the sugar bowl.

    I did it again this morning. :(


  • #45
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,539 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Went to a cafe, got a coffee, went over to the condiments table (you know, the type with a hole in the middle that's a bin), took two sugar packets, shook them, ripped off the tops, tenderly poured them into the bin and put the packets in my coffee.


  • #46
    Daisy M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭Daisy M


    I call my children by each others names, even calling the boy one of the girls names. On occassion I call my youngest daughter by my younger sisters name (I think I am stepping back in time there) I have also gotten up and headed in the direction of my bedroom except I am heading in the direction of the bedroom in my home house where I havent lived in 20 years. Also this is the worst, I have gone to grab the sky remote to rewind a real life situation and felt disapointment when it wont work:o


  • #47
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Have walked away from shopping after paying for it at the till in the supermarket.

    Left the car in town and got the bus home once.

    Went to the kitchen tap to get a light for my cig once (when I used to shmoke).

    What frightens me is the ones you'll never know about. I've driven through a crossroads a couple of times and had a nagging suspicion that the lights were red after a few seconds - they probably weren't but you never know.


  • #48
    Palytoxin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 866 ✭✭✭Palytoxin


    If I'm walking along on my own, thinking away about something, I always get this feeling that I just said my train of thought out loud, and then I'm not sure if I did or not, and then I have to check are there any other people around that might have heard me and think I'm crazy :pac:, and sometimes while I'm thinking I move my mouth as if I'm saying the words, without knowing it, catch myself doing it, and then check again if anybody is giving me weird looks :D


  • #49
    beks101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,802 ✭✭✭beks101


    I do these kind of things constantly.

    Got into a lift this morning, waited a minute, walked back out assuming it was out of order. Then realised I hadn't pressed the button.

    Took the right bus in the wrong direction to a friend of mine's house, didn't realise until I found myself in a ghetto on the other side of town.

    Tried to take money out of an ATM with my shoppers points card.

    Spent two hours looking for my work pass before giving in, cancelling it and ordering a new one...found it in my pocket five minutes later.

    I've lost count of the amount of walls I've walked into while texting on the go.

    And I've had to cancel two passports on this gem: putting something *REALLY IMPORTANT* in an unusual, private place that 'I couldn't possibly forget' - only to completely forget where that place is and end up losing it forever.

    Oh and having to return to the house every day to make sure I've switched off my hair straightener - which I always have. I've started to say out loud 'you are unplugging your hair straightener now Beks' every time just so I actually remember when I'm halfway down the street and start to panic.


  • #50
    Taco Corp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,718 ✭✭✭Taco Corp


    I often go looking for my glasses.....when I'm wearing them :o


  • #51
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    the odd time when im still half asleep ive put the coffee jar into the fridge and the milk into the press.


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  • #52
    stacexD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 587 ✭✭✭stacexD


    Borrowed my dads car keys the other day when he was in Tesco so that I could get clothes out of the car.
    Drove off to Waterford with his car keys and no clothes... poor fella stranded in Tesco calling to see where I was!

    Oh and today my brother called me to ask how much something was, so I pulled the receipt out of my purse and threw the fiver that came with it on the floor cuz I couldnt check the receipt and keep the fiver at the same time... then realised what I did a few minutes later!


  • #53
    Red Hand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,983 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    Checking that something is switched off or locked and then forgetting immediately whether it is actually locked or switched off. Rinse and repeat several times.


  • #54
    Sindri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    One my mother happened to do.

    Her car was covered in snow and she felt the best way to clear it was with a shovel. :rolleyes:

    Scratched the whole thing up. (Idiot).


  • #55
    Dannyg90
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 102 ✭✭Dannyg90


    used to do this one a bit- concentrating on writing an essay in school when suddenly oh **** where's my pen? turn and start angrily asking everyone where's my pen and who took it, one min later i realise the pen is in my hand


  • #56
    Rega
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 784 ✭✭✭Rega


    Yesterday I did the shopping, paid for my parking ticket at the machine, went up to the car. NO TICKET. Emptied my wallet, pockets, even looked through the shopping. Then went back downstairs to the ticket machine to spot a nice couple putting my ticket on top of it. Sheepishly said "That's mine". The lady passed it to me. I just smiled and said "I'm a right fukking eejit" and away I went.

    My other little peccadillo is when I go to leave a shop or restaurant and the sign on the door says PUSH my brain seems to see that as a challenge and I will invariably pull the door first. Every. Single. Time.

    (I love the word 'peccadillo'!)


  • #57
    MrShine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48 ✭MrShine


    I've done so may of these things!

    Once, while half way through a pizza, I decided it was too spicy, and took off all the jalapeno peppers. I then realized I was in a rush to go out, and ran upstairs, gave my hands a quick rinse(not nearly enough), and put in my contact lens with the same hand I removed the peppers with. It was like putting needles in my eyes.

    Once, when I was 16 after two days no sleep and school, I groggily wandered over to my fridge, opened it, and came scarily close to urinating directly into it.


  • #58
    ArmaniJeanss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,892 ✭✭✭✭ArmaniJeanss


    I've apologised to lampposts for bumping into them.


  • #59
    skyflyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60 ✭✭skyflyer


    I almost try to say thanks to the driver when getting off the Luas, no matter what door I use. Luckily, I catch myself in time. :o Old habits...


  • #60
    MadameGascar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 247 ✭✭MadameGascar


    Walking through shopping centers or into shops when its been raining outside with my umbrella still up, and then when I realize I continue & try act like its supposed to be that way, like I couldn't have been arsed taking it down, so I don't look silly.


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  • #61
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    Fixing the internet on our aging desktop computer, using my laptop to google the solutions.
    Go to type something on the desktop, nothing comes up. After getting more and more frustrated with it I look down at my laptop screen and find a bunch of gibberish typed on it :o


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