# Don't you hate it when.....

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-hate-it-when/79106>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 31, 2001, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-hate-it-when/79106 "2001-08-31T13:22:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Spyderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@Spyderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spyderman)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-hate-it-when/79106/1 "2001-08-31T13:22:21Z")

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…its right before bed and you think of a great question to ask the teeming millions (and possibly Cecil) but when you wake up in the morning, you can’t remember any of it?

poop

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**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-hate-it-when/79106/2 "2001-08-31T14:32:46Z")

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Some famous person, God knows who 'cause I sure can’t remember, got tired of having wonderful ideas in his dreams and forgetting them when he woke up.

So he decided to program himself. He put a pencil and a notepad next to his bed. “Write it down,” he told himself, again and again, just before he nodded off.

Worked great. When he woke up in the morning, there on the notepad, in scrabbly but readable handwriting, were the fateful words: “Write it down.”