Truly M & P, but in case anyone wanted to know…I just went to microwave a bit of leftover pizza. I took it out of the fridge, opened the cupboard, took out a paper plate, put the plate in the microwave, and turned it on for 60 seconds. Microwave beeped, I opened it up…and there was my paper plate, now much warmer, but nonetheless having a notable lack of pizza.
So, with that in mind, do a good deed and post the stupidest thing YOU did today — it’ll make me feel a little better. :smack: 
Well, thus far I’ve done nuttin’ stupid, so instead, I’ll just point and laugh. 
Not today but yesterday. I put some unusually waxy cardboard boxes on the stockroom floor to take out to the trash. Warned my coworker about the slip danger (couldn’t bring them out right away). Went back into the stockroom with my hands full, stepped on the boxes that I just put there, and ended up flat on my ass. :rolleyes:
There was a thread recently on bouts with Alzheimer’s…but I forgot what forum it was in.
Where am I?
It must be the day for absentmindedness 
Ever come home to nice cold cereal in the fridge and spoiled milk in the cupboard? :o Or put toothpaste on your razor?
I went to the office nude from the waist down today. I forgot to put on pants!
No, that’s not true. I didn’t do anything absent-mi
nothing in the recent past, but when paying bills, I have been known to seal envelopes without putting the checks in. (possibly the main reason I switched over to on line banking)
Nothing stupid today (so far), but I’ve done similar things. I microwaved an empty cup, intending for there to be water in it. In fact, I’ve microwaved nothing at all, thinking that I’d put what I wanted nuked in there several minutes earlier. I’ve brewed a pot of curiously transparent coffee. Twice. I’ve left a pot of soup on the stove to cook, only to come back five minutes later to the understanding that heat should generally be applied if I expect it to do so. I’ve done that several times with a number of things. I’ve done this with things in the oven, too. I’ve dumped a pile of rice into a pot of sauce moments before realizing that I should probably have dumped it into the other pot instead. The one with the boiling water in it. Just a couple of weeks ago I was making pasta salad. I boiled the macaroni. I made the dressing. I took the macaroni, so boiled al dente and drained it. I put the macaroni in the dressing mix. I started mixing. I then realized it probably would have been a good and sensible thing if I’d run the macaroni under cold water, first. Hot macaroni salad is a very, very different beast indeed. It is not good.
On the bright side, I’m getting lots of practice time in for old age and Alzheimer’s.
I repaired a lamp today, and In addition to the ‘whoops, wrong order, have to undo what I just did and back up a step’ I also undid what I just did when It was unnecessary to do so.
Eventually, though, I got the lamp repaired. A three way socket that would only light if you balanced it juuuuust right between positions is now just an ordinary lamp again. Been meaning to do that for three years, now.
I sat down to dinner last night and discovered I was holding two forks. D’oh.
I dropped a closed can of diet soda on the floor. Then 15 seconds later I absentmindedly popped it open. End result: soda all over my pillow.
There are times I worry about finding out too late that I’ve put vaginal cream on my toothbrush but so far I’ve managed to avoid that scenario. (Though sometimes just narrowly.)
The only thing absentminded I did today was that I forgot to get some new earplugs when I was at the drug store. There’s something about that place. I almost always forget at least one thing when I go there, even if I only meant to pick up one thing in the first place. This time I did manage to get the other two items on my list though.
In other news, I really, really hate when I put something in the oven and find out an hour later that I forgot to turn the darn thing on. :o
A few weeks ago I managed to lock myself out of my apartment building. Upon checking my pockets for keys, I found a banana peel. My keys were safely stored in my kitchen trash can. :smack: I think I’m lucky to have remembered to put on pants that day.
Hahahaha! I thought MY story was reminiscent of a cartoon, but you clearly have me beat.
Seriously, what’s funnier than a banana peel?
:eek: Why are those even near each other!?
Maybe she brushes her vagina’s teeth too?
It’s not recent, but about 20 years ago, when I was in college, I was tearing my room apart looking for something. After about ten minutes, my roommate finally asked me what the heck I was looking for. “My mechanical pencil,” I told him.
His response: “You mean the one behind your ear?”
:smack:
Today’s oops:
I was working on the computer, and clicked the file menu option. Then I realized I didn’t want to do that, and rather than just let go of the button, I, acting on habit alone, selected close and shut down the entire application. Since it took me a good 5 minutes to get back where I was, I had a lot of time to think about my stupidity.
So, apparently, 20 years hasn’t improved my mind any.
A rubber chicken…
…don’t get me started about rubber chickens. They changed my life completely. I’m very sensitive about it.