When your brain just switches off

Stavros Murphy · 21-03-2014 12:23AM

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 · 21-03-2014 12:26AM

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 · 21-03-2014 03:06PM

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 · 21-03-2014 03:09PM

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

e_e · 21-03-2014 03:10PM

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

Muise... · 21-03-2014 03:10PM

e_e wrote: »

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

Superhe_ero!!!

ivytwine · 23-03-2014 11:14AM

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 · 23-03-2014 11:24AM

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 · 23-03-2014 11:33AM

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 · 23-03-2014 11:35AM

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 · 23-03-2014 11:39AM

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 · 23-03-2014 11:41AM

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

silverbolt · 23-03-2014 11:43AM

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 · 23-03-2014 11:43AM

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

elfy4eva · 23-03-2014 11:48AM

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 · 23-03-2014 11:51AM

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 · 23-03-2014 11:54AM

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

LizT · 23-03-2014 11:54AM

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 · 23-03-2014 11:56AM

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... · 23-03-2014 05:07PM

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.

Janedoe10 · 23-03-2014 05:15PM

Go out to car park after a days work and can't remember where I parked the car !

Muise... · 23-03-2014 05:21PM

chupacabra wrote: »

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

A few years ago I was messing around with Arduino, while very, very tired working for my Masters. My head was a pinball machine of switches and signals. Cycling home from the lab I got stuck at a red light and blinked at it in the full expectation it would turn green. I didn't get a First.

dmc17 · 23-03-2014 05:22PM

Getting takeaway coffee. The counter usually has a hole for a bin in it. I often take the sugar sachets, open them and pour them in the bin instead of into the coffee. Then hope nobody noticed

kowloon · 23-03-2014 06:38PM

I've put diesel into a petrol engine and not realised until I cut out on the road. I've gotten off a motorbike without putting down the stand, expensive mistake to make. Both incidents were close together and the same bike, a few years back now.

ivytwine · 23-03-2014 11:40PM

dmc17 wrote: »

Getting takeaway coffee. The counter usually has a hole for a bin in it. I often take the sugar sachets, open them and pour them in the bin instead of into the coffee. Then hope nobody noticed

Always do that in work. Manage to save the sugar just in time most days!

razorblunt · 23-03-2014 11:41PM

Reading a newspaper and stroking the page down in an effort to scroll.

SlipperyPeople · 23-03-2014 11:48PM

couple of times I've wanted to kick myself after cracking eggs into the bin and throwing the shell on to the frying pan :mad:

sopretty · 23-03-2014 11:56PM

Forgetting whether I've actually said something out loud in a conversation or whether I just thought it in my head.

Hence, my conversations are generally punctuated with 'What was I saying again.......?' Hoping their memories are better than mine!

If ever there was a candidate for Alzheimers, I'm it.....

pablo128 · 24-03-2014 12:05AM

I went into the jacks in work one day, in a world of my own. I unzipped the fly and started having a p1ss. I looked down, only to realise I was p1ssing into the bin! Cue having to quickly shuffle over to the urinal, with hot p1ss flying all over the place.

Red Nissan · 24-03-2014 12:09AM

LoveLamps wrote: »

nd I had been drinking. !

This is not an excuse, and is unacceptable and inadmissible for the thread title.

Drink disengages everyone's brains, every time ~ it IS the primary reason we, who drink, drink.

Start a SOmetin fuuun y nI diidd drinking theead,

When your brain just switches off

Comments