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Kit-Cat Club
17:20 / 19.02.03
... you have actually left the house before realising that you have put your dressing gown on instead of your coat. At least I found out before I got to the Co-op. Anyone else find that their brain goes AWOL? Regularly?
 
 
Bill Posters
17:46 / 19.02.03
Happens to me all the time. I am particularly proud of ordering a Big Mac and fries in Burger King once, though I will say in my defense* I was not entirely sobre at the time.

* See that? See that? American imperialism's what that is. Sorry, back to topic...
 
 
Mourne Kransky
18:01 / 19.02.03
Since I moved to London, I have on several occasions dashed to work and, half way through the morning, been told by someone that my flies are undone. Could be the early stages of Alzheimer's, I suppose. Could only be rampant exhibitionism if I was aware of the revelatory crotch situation.

When I was very short of cash recently, I spotted a particularly cheap and very large pack of Iams Cat Food in the supermarket and, although the cats seemed none too keen, times were tight and for several days I fed it to them and they just had to like it or starve. I realised why they weren't keen and it had been surprisingly cheap after about three days when I became aware of the picture of a dog on the front of the packet. *cheeks burn with shame*

Those are recent examples. If you have a week to spare, I'll tell you about all the other stuff. Like burning right through the top of the fridge with a boiling kettle. Melting the kitchen utensils while attempting to make toffee. Turning an expensive and treasured pair of leather boots into bombay duck when I decided to dry them out in the oven. Leaving the dog tied up outside a shop in the afternoon and not noticing till bedtime. Burning down a cornfield and setting fire to the kitchen (twice) and my folks' living room (but that only once). Numpty, me.

In short, you are not alone Kit-Cat. And, in any case, you should be cultivating an eccentric academic image, should you not? Don't you get classes in that at Oxbridge Academy?
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
18:09 / 19.02.03
Well, yes, but there are limits. I did once go out to a gig wearing odd boots (one of which had a heel half-an-inch lower than the other - very Marilyn, I don't think) - but a big white dressing gown? Not till I'm at least sixty...
 
 
Baz Auckland
18:30 / 19.02.03
I thought I found drugs at work the other day, until I ran up to a friend to show them, and realised it wasn't "e", but a "m" on a "m&m" I was holding sideways.

I've gone through the "turn on the wrong burner and set something on fire" way to many times. Kettles, stereos, etc. have all been melted.

It does give you great stories to tell, eh?
 
 
Mourne Kransky
18:35 / 19.02.03
Only if you are not actually incinerated, I suppose. When I worked in Casualty, people would come in who had done just the same stupid things I had, but a capricious Fate was not on their side. But we won't go there. Must say, since I laid off the hash, there haven't been so many of those dicey mishaps. But still lots of embarrassing ones.
 
 
Re-Set
20:21 / 19.02.03
This moning I tossed a lighter in my mouth and tried to light it three times with my cigarette.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
20:47 / 19.02.03
I have a regular habit of unwrapping food then putting the wrapping to one side as I chuck the food in the bin.

A friend once managed to go to work having only shaved half his face. The other half still had foam on it, too.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
20:56 / 19.02.03
Well, I just managed to delete a "you owe us money!" letter from my lawyers. Even though I'd looked at it (though not the attachments, as I was terrified) in passing through a webmail backend (ergo, no "would you like to send a receipt?" questions), I was doing several other things at once, and spam-weeding was one of them. So, obviously, an email from "Theresa" with no subject line that's 104k is gonna get fritzed.

Sigh. I fucking SUCK. And hopefully will not be reposessed.
 
 
the Fool
00:33 / 20.02.03
This week I had a major HIV scare coupled with the realisation that I've lost up to $5000 worth of software that belongs to work. The software is all my web-editing stuff which got de-installed from my pervious computer when my new fangled one arrived, meaning I can't do my work. So I'm fucked basically...

At least the initial blood test came back negative.
 
 
aus
03:55 / 20.02.03
I realised why they weren't keen and it had been surprisingly cheap after about three days when I became aware of the picture of a dog on the front of the packet.

That's very funny! I love it!
 
 
Hattie's Kitchen
06:25 / 20.02.03
Twice in the past month I've gone to a cashpoint, pressed the button to withdraw some dosh, taken my card out and walked off WITHOUT taking the cash...and on both occasions some kindly stranger has come chasing after me to hand me the money. Either I've got some really good karma right now or people in Crouch End are surprisingly honest. I still feel like an utter cock though.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
06:49 / 20.02.03
If it's any consolation, Hattie, that kind of thing seems to happen in phases. I did it three times in a fortnight a couple of years ago, and was beginning to worry that mayble I just couldn't be trusted to operate an ATM any more. But it passed.
 
 
.
08:42 / 20.02.03
Funnily enough, if you leave the cash in the slot too long, the machine snatches it back into it's gut anyway... Whether it goes back into your account or not I have no idea.
 
 
A
08:44 / 20.02.03
Bill Posters, you very nearly reenacted a verse from Run DMC's hit tune You Be Illin'. If only you had been in Kentucky Fried Chicken.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
11:01 / 20.02.03
Kat, this kind of stuff happens to me all the time as well. But then that doesn't surprise you, does it.

Done the cashpoint thing several times, am always amazed at people's honesty.

Last week I managed to get into town before noticing that I had odd shoes on. Same shoe, just different coloured versions. Duh.
 
 
that
11:23 / 20.02.03
I'm the complete opposite with cash machines. I have this irrational fear of someone getting my receipt. I never actually get receipts but I wait a few seconds after the money's come out just to check I didn't accidentally get one, before I walk away.

It being that I have one pair of shoes, one pair of trainers, one pair of walking boots, the chances of me accidentally putting two different shoes on are slim. And my dressing gown is sky blue, and my coat is dark grey, so unless it was very dark I'd have some trouble managing to mistake one for t'other. I actually very rarely do stuff like that, but then I do hardly ever leave the house so I don't get much opportunity and my body issues are such that when I do leave it I'm bloody careful about what I'm wearing. Going out is a huge undertaking for me.

I have, however, left my purchases at the till more than once - I get all flustered and nervy and there we go...
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
11:30 / 20.02.03
Oh, it wasn't a case of mistaken identity - my dressing gown is white, my coat is a sort of grey pretend tweed affair - my mind just took a holiday for five seconds and the damage was done. I think it's what they call 'force of habit' half the time, and half the time (like the odd boots episode) just complete absence of mind. Today I poured orange juice into my coffee mug (which had the instant coffee granules in the bottom, obviously) - that was a taste sensation, I can tell you.
 
 
Bear
11:34 / 20.02.03
Same as E. Randy Dupre I have problems with putting food in the bin. Have also been known to put my dinner into a sink full of soapy water!

There's was also that time I put the dog lead round my neck and the dog took me for walk around the park, boy was I embarrassed..
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
11:35 / 20.02.03
Kat: could be worse...

Hope you've never accidentally made gravy instead of coffee. That's *lovely*, that is.

I have an almost-constant thing of putting sugar/tea bags in the fridge, then not being able to find them...
 
 
that
11:38 / 20.02.03
Y'all sound highly stressed, hence the absentmindedness. You should go on holiday. Or embrace it entirely and start a new trend.
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
11:40 / 20.02.03
No, but I did once stick my butter-knife into my tea. And I have also been known to clean my face with nail varnish remover - it's, erm, astringent...
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
11:41 / 20.02.03
Not stressed in my case, Chol, just dim, I suspect. (or constantly tired. fucked sleep patterns.)
 
 
Loomis
11:53 / 20.02.03
Re having someone run after you to let you know that you've left cash in the machine, I'm surprised that you didn't bust out the mace. Recently the lady ahead of me dropped a glove as she went through the barrier at the tube station and when I retrieved it and ran after her and tapped her on the arm she jumped a foot in the air with the most stricken expression on her face, evidently convinced that I was after her briefcase.

I should've mugged her just to reassure her that everything was as it should be.
 
 
rizla mission
13:43 / 20.02.03
Regarding tea related mishaps, has anyone else accidentally made a coffee-tea hybrid?

Put instant coffee in the cup, forget by the time the kettle's boiled, stick in a tea-bag, and.. ar, crikey!

It's kind of good, actually..
 
 
w1rebaby
14:44 / 20.02.03
I do this shit all the time. This morning, I tried to turn off the radio by turning off the heater. I made coffee, put it in a travel mug, checked the mug twice, made sure I had it in my hand as I left the door, and when I got to the lift? No coffee. I have no idea how I left it behind, I think I was distracted by the fact that the paper had arrived.

I forget about cooking food so often that I almost always cook casseroles and stuff, so that an extra half hour doesn't entirely kill them. Last night I managed to not only let the water boil down on some catfish I was poaching, but then let the water boil down again on some noodles. I was on the Gamecube, though.

I used to write what I was supposed to be doing on post-its and stick them around my monitor at work. That's okay, as long as you remember to put the right things.
 
 
Saint Keggers
14:50 / 20.02.03
I ran out of coffee!
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
15:34 / 20.02.03
Oh, and Xoc... I've also done the "dog tied up" thing. Twice. Worst moments of my life, and not something I talk about often. But being the cute little monster she is, I think she's forgiven me.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
15:57 / 20.02.03
when... You lose a phone the same day you're given it. And that's your third one in a year.

went to get a pair of replacement glasses a couple of months ago. Met some friends for lunch, then realised that the optician was round the corner, so having ordered, popped off.

Once there had a nightmare, they couldn't find my glasses, couldn't find the receipt, i'd paid 80quid and couldn't prove it. You know what's coming don't you?

Was in the wrong opticians.
 
 
that
16:19 / 20.02.03
I couldn't possibly leave my dog tied up. He'd turn the pavement into the Texas Chainsaw Massacre for one thing (he doesn't like very many people - interesting to see how it goes when my CPN does home visits). And now he has a little friend it's less painful leaving them on their own in the house. And he's hardly ever alone anyway, 'cause I'm always here.
 
 
William Sack
16:27 / 20.02.03
My mother used to put a pair of back-to-front Y-Fronts on our dog when she came into season (with her tail popping out of the hole.) I once let the dog out in the garden without taking off her pants. She trotted back in a few minutes later with a turd bouncing around in the pants.
 
 
Hattie's Kitchen
16:58 / 20.02.03
I can't stop the laughter, just the image of a dog in y-fronts was enough, but the turd...
 
 
Mourne Kransky
17:14 / 20.02.03
Yep, done the cash machine thing. At least twice and when I could ill afford it. But once took a huuuuge wad of cash out to pay for our share of Ganesh's sister's graduation dinner and, being pissed, walked off and left it. But impoverished Dundee University student pursued me done the street with it, God bless him.

Also restores my faith that I have lost my phone three times over the past year, always in London, and it has always been returned to me by civic minded types.

One thing you'd think I'd learn instinctively not to do is sweat over a hot stove, cooking with chili, and then absently wipe dry an eye socket. Or worse, nip through to the toilet... *aieee*
 
 
telyn
21:39 / 20.02.03
I can't remember the idiotic things I do, but I remember the things I can't do. Like speak, properly or maybe at all. Suddenly I lose the ability to hold a normal conversation without being flustered, or I manage to convince the other person that I don't like them when really I do. Intensely irritating. Bah humbug. Who needs speech anyway?!
 
 
Spatula Clarke
22:43 / 20.02.03
Speech/memory short circuits can be a right pain. Get halfway through a sentence, suddenly lose a word. Spend five minutes trying to explain to the listener what the word you're looking for means. Feel deeply stupid, shut up.

Remember word five hours later while lying in the bath.
 
  

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