When your brain just switches off

everdead.ie · 24-03-2014 12:11AM

I once tried to put the milk into the washing machine.

Sir Osis of Liver. · 24-03-2014 12:29AM

I withdrew 70 euro at an ATM and walked away happy as larry not realising until about an hour later that I only took my card out of the machine and left the money.
ffs:mad:

Muise... · 24-03-2014 12:37AM

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

I withdrew 70 euro at an ATM and walked away happy as larry not realising until about an hour later that I only took my card out of the machine and left the money.
ffs:mad:

Meanwhile, on the 'when random awesome just happens' thread, someone is thanking the banklink and buckleppin' down the street.

deadybai · 24-03-2014 12:37AM

i usually have tea when I wake up and prepare it along with a bowl of cereal.

I constantly put the tea bag in the bowl and pour milk on top of it. I still make the tea in a cup. I only realise what ive done when i sit down to eat my bowl of cereal

24-03-2014 12:39AM

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

I withdrew 70 euro at an ATM and walked away happy as larry not realising until about an hour later that I only took my card out of the machine and left the money.
ffs:mad:

its possible someone could have handed it in at a garda station....maybe???

worth a try asking the station nearest the ATM.

RobbingBandit · 24-03-2014 12:45AM

Bank camera may have caught that it might have been swallowed back in by the machine, or someone got a present from the bank fairy.

whirlpool · 24-03-2014 12:51AM

Thank you, OP. This thread has made me feel so much less alone! My brain switched off about two years ago. Thought it was just me!

whirlpool · 24-03-2014 12:53AM

Jake1 wrote: »

its possible someone could have handed it in at a garda station....maybe???

worth a try asking the station nearest the ATM.

The same thing happened to me two years ago. I withdrew 40 euro (can't get the euro sign on my keyboard to work) from an ATM, and walked off happily. Twenty minutes later, I realised I had no 40 euro. I spent a half hour searching the streets to see where I'd dropped it, but it was nowhere to be found. Turned out that I walked off from the ATM without taking it, and the atm swallowed it back up again and put it back into my account for me.

WellThen? · 24-03-2014 01:00AM

.Henry Sellers. wrote: »

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.....

^^ THIS, every bloody night. With the cooker, the back/front door, unplugging things.

It's as if my brain switches off the first 5 times checking, and I can only REALLY check it the 6th time.

RobbingBandit · 24-03-2014 01:02AM

If no one was there after you that is how it works, the money sits there for a short amount of time and is then swallowed up, there are cameras built into each atm too so if you can remember the time and atm this happened at get your bank to check it out for you.

Sir Osis of Liver. · 24-03-2014 01:02AM

Jake1 wrote: »

its possible someone could have handed it in at a garda station....maybe???

worth a try asking the station nearest the ATM.

This happened during the celtic tiger years.
I didn't get too upset tbh.
At the time I was wiping my arse with 70 euro notes.

Youzername · 24-03-2014 01:08AM

One time on a Monday morning in work (after a bit of a heavy weekend, that is my excuse) I was talking to a client on the phone.

As the conversation finished she was saying goodbye, I'll talk to you soon an all that jazz.Without even realising, I replied and said something along the lines of, "yep yep, talk to ya later, love you too...." and then hung up. :eek:

I only realised when one of the guys in the office was obviously confused as he thought I was talking to a client and asked after he heard me saying that.

Dreaded the next time I had to speak to that client, but it was never mentioned :pac:

YFlyer · 24-03-2014 01:11AM

whirlpool wrote: »

The same thing happened to me two years ago. I withdrew 40 euro (can't get the euro sign on my keyboard to work) from an ATM, and walked off happily. Twenty minutes later, I realised I had no 40 euro. I spent a half hour searching the streets to see where I'd dropped it, but it was nowhere to be found. Turned out that I walked off from the ATM without taking it, and the atm swallowed it back up again and put it back into my account for me.

That was nice of him.

Sir Osis of Liver. · 24-03-2014 01:16AM

YFlyer wrote: »

That was nice of him.

The swallowing part or the reimbursement?

RobbingBandit · 24-03-2014 01:23AM

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

The swallowing part or the reimbursement?

ringadingding · 24-03-2014 01:25AM

Often get brain freeze when paying for something by laser / credit card, anything with a pin, especially in suoermarkets....

All is good, happy out, queue up, load the food, bag it up, time to enter pin
* brain freeze*

Just draw a blank!
Get out a 2nd card, fumbling , draw a blank.

The amount of times I've apologised, put stuff back, got 5 foot outside the shop door full of Shame and be like
" seven two nine six "

BetterThanThou · 24-03-2014 01:26AM

I stayed in a friend's house, got little to no sleep, after also getting little sleep the night before. The next day, around 12pm I was walking home, my home is about a 5-10 minute walk from his, I was pretty much a walking zombie at this point. About half way home, I spotted a patch of grass at the side of the road that seemed particularly comfortable, seemed like a good idea to take a nap there at the time, so I lay down, and was awoken about 45 minutes later by the friend who's house I'd left when he was on his way out.

YFlyer · 24-03-2014 01:29AM

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

The swallowing part or the reimbursement?

The reimbursement of course. He didn't had to swallow.

LynnGrace · 24-03-2014 01:33AM

Walked out of a pub, without paying for a soup and sandwich one day. Realised when about 10 minutes away, so went back and paid. They didn't seem too bothered.

ivytwine · 24-03-2014 11:48AM

Youzername wrote: »

One time on a Monday morning in work (after a bit of a heavy weekend, that is my excuse) I was talking to a client on the phone.

As the conversation finished she was saying goodbye, I'll talk to you soon an all that jazz.Without even realising, I replied and said something along the lines of, "yep yep, talk to ya later, love you too...." and then hung up. :eek:

I only realised when one of the guys in the office was obviously confused as he thought I was talking to a client and asked after he heard me saying that.

Dreaded the next time I had to speak to that client, but it was never mentioned :pac:

I'd often put kisses on the end of my messages, to my friends, parents etc. Except once I put on onto a message to my driving instructor

burnhardlanger · 24-03-2014 12:26PM

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

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tl:dr

burnhardlanger · 24-03-2014 12:30PM

Sending a "Nite Nite Love you loads xxx" text to your brother.
Damn smart phones.

24-03-2014 12:38PM

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

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

I made a coffee in a foam cup once in work, went to throw the stirrer in the bin... threw the coffee in instead
Went back for round 2!
Someone saw and all

ruthloss · 24-03-2014 12:43PM

I posted a pkt. of ham in the Postbox and took the letter back to my Mam and got a good few clatters for my trouble. (Ah, the good old days.):o

dgt · 24-03-2014 01:22PM

I'm there. Everything I hear is bla bla bla.....

Bliss

Muise... · 24-03-2014 01:56PM

bluewolf wrote: »

I made a coffee in a foam cup once in work, went to throw the stirrer in the bin... threw the coffee in instead
Went back for round 2!
Someone saw and all

:pac:

Friend of mine did that once with an apple. We were walking over O'Brien's bridge and she was twisting the apple around on its stem. When the stem came off she threw the apple in the river below and raised the stem to her lips, which were saying "oh..."

Ye'd make hilarious grenadiers!

PizzamanIRL · 24-03-2014 10:12PM

whirlpool wrote: »

The same thing happened to me two years ago. I withdrew 40 euro (can't get the euro sign on my keyboard to work) from an ATM, and walked off happily. Twenty minutes later, I realised I had no 40 euro. I spent a half hour searching the streets to see where I'd dropped it, but it was nowhere to be found. Turned out that I walked off from the ATM without taking it, and the atm swallowed it back up again and put it back into my account for me.

I wonder could you deposit like that? Withdraw 20, leave it there but place another 20 in with it and wait for the machine to take it back.

Actually no, this is Irish banks we're talking about. Not a chance.

Muise... · 24-03-2014 10:15PM

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

I wonder could you deposit like that? Withdraw 20, leave it there but place another 20 in with it and wait for the machine to take it back.

Actually no, this is Irish banks we're talking about. Not a chance.

Well, you always could use the machines designed for that purpose.

(in before bailout references)

24-03-2014 10:59PM

Picked up some lovely little apple pies in Marks and Spencer today, the ones with the lattice pastry. I put one in the microwave earlier to heat it.

Wanting to check if it was hot enough, I stick my hand in on top of the little pie and scald the feckin hand off myself, hot scalding apple stuck to my skin . The pain. :eek:

That will teach my brain to switch off...

MS.ing · 25-03-2014 06:49AM

LynnGrace wrote: »

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.

but you did look funny anytime you heard a phone ring during the day and you just poured milk in your ear for some weird reason. I laffed everytime

also,

when you go into a room and forget why you went in for :mad:

When your brain just switches off

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