Back in the early '80s I worked at a school and volunteered for a crisis phone line, and I was always answering the phone wrong somewhere. The people calling the crisis phone line sometimes hung up before I could correct myself. The people calling the school never seemed to notice.
I went to buy a soda in the machine at work the other day and absent-mindedly tried to shove my debit card in the dollar bill slot.
Also on a business trip this week I couldn’t figure out why my hotel door wouldn’t open until I realized I was swiping the lock with my mass transit pass.
I do that nearly every day…
I was writing a shopping list, couldn’t remember how to spell paracetamol, so wrote down anything, and realised the pen didn’t have a spell checker…
No, but I once filled out a form and wrote my [then] online username at the top…
Did you ever knock over a drink next to the computer . . . then try to “undo” it?
The last time I forgot my phone at home, I reached into my bag to text someone about how funny it was that I forgot my phone. Then a few minutes later I reached into my bag to update Facebook about how funny it was that I forgot my phone. Then a few minutes later I reached into my bag to text someone else about how funny it was that I forgot my phone. And so on until I got to work.
You ever experience a power outage, and you know the power’s out. And yet every time you enter a room, you flick on the light switch?
ETA: D’oh!
At work, I was looking up a phone number on the computer, grabbed the handset of the phone and dialed using the numbers key pad on my keyboard. Better yet, I have also dialed the phone and used the numbers key pad to make the menu selections.
I might have told this story here before, but… last spring, just after Portal 2 came out, I was out walking the family dog when I passed by a blank concrete wall. I immediately thought “Oh, I’d better put a portal there, I might need it later…”
You know, some of this stuff would make for a really good stand up routine.
I have no idea what this means.
In WoW, the first time you get to an area you have to get there “the hard way” (walk or ride your mount) but most hubs have a “flight point” that you can get. Once you’ve acquired it, you can fly there from the other flight points that you’ve acquired, making it much easier to get around.
Well, that certainly clears things up.
I have a feeling in 10 years I may as well go live in a cave somewhere.
(I have kids, and I know what WoW is. Otherwise you may as well have responded in Swahili. But thanks.)
Many years ago, while working as a receptionist, I was typing up a letter my boss had written in his barely legible longhand. As I got to the end of the letter the phone rang and instead of greeting the caller with the name of the firm, I answered it with a cheery “very truly yours!”
I’m directionally challenged, so back when I played Everquest I would compulsively mash the “compass” button to keep my bearings. Turns out when you push on your steering wheel with the same finger, you don’t magically have a compass bearing pop up on the windshield.
A couple times at the gym, I’ve gotten a locker key, walked up to the locker room, and tried to unlock the (unlocked) lock on the outer door with it. :smack:
The morning after the Junior prom we were all severely sleep deprived and I finally drove everyone home. At one intersection, I made a cautious and perfectly executed left turn on red. (Luckily the streets were empty!)
Think about it this way. Say you start out in San Jose. You’ve heard of this town called “San Francisco,” and you’d like to go there, but none of the buses or taxis or any sort of public transportation will take you there until you’ve actually walked or driven or bicycled there yourself, talked to the person who’s in charge of public transportation, and registered yourself as having made it to San Francisco on your own. At that point you’re free to use the public transportation between San Francisco and San Jose.
Now, if you decide you want to go to Oakland, you’ll have to find a way there on your own before you can take BART. 
Make sense?
Yep. Thanks.
I remember back in the day, after a long day on MUDs, my mom came in. I responded:
say hi mom.
D’oh!
I have to admit, sometimes when I want to quit doing a meatspace activity, I start automatically trying to mouse up to the red X in the upper right hand corner. This…doesn’t work very well.
I do this at least twice a day; I often point my key fob or whatever it’s called and try to lock my door. When I get home, I do it again to unlock the damn door.
I was reading a magazine and came to a word I was unsure of, so I touched it with my finger and waited…and waited…