When your brain just switches off

LoveLamps · 19-03-2014 11:52PM #1

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 · 19-03-2014 11:55PM

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!

19-03-2014 11:55PM

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 · 20-03-2014 12:00AM

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Stavros Murphy · 20-03-2014 12:02AM

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

orangesoda · 20-03-2014 12:07AM

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 · 20-03-2014 12:08AM

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

chops018 · 20-03-2014 12:11AM

Aphex wrote: »

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

Giggidy.

Sir Arthur Daley · 20-03-2014 12:14AM

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 · 20-03-2014 12:15AM

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 · 20-03-2014 12:16AM

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 · 20-03-2014 12:17AM

>tfw no brain

Stavros Murphy · 20-03-2014 12:19AM

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. · 20-03-2014 12:33AM

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 · 20-03-2014 12:43AM

what does the switch look like?

Sir Arthur Daley · 20-03-2014 12:46AM

wil wrote: »

what does the switch look like?

http://sonnyholmes.typepad.com/.a/6a00e552250bc988340115713fcd8b970c-pi

LynnGrace · 20-03-2014 12:48AM

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 · 20-03-2014 12:50AM

I hate it when my Brian switches o
ff.

Scotty P · 20-03-2014 01:02AM

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 · 20-03-2014 04:03AM

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 · 20-03-2014 04:15PM

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 · 20-03-2014 04:21PM

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 · 20-03-2014 08:13PM

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 · 20-03-2014 08:53PM

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

Butterface · 20-03-2014 09:19PM

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... · 20-03-2014 09:38PM

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.

20-03-2014 11:31PM

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 · 20-03-2014 11:35PM

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

Just completed a 14 hour shift

mfceiling · 20-03-2014 11:36PM

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 · 20-03-2014 11:44PM

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 · 20-03-2014 11:55PM

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.

When your brain just switches off

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