# Mental Misfires and other opportunities to laugh at yourself

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-misfires-and-other-opportunities-to-laugh-at-yourself/637533>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 12, 2012, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-misfires-and-other-opportunities-to-laugh-at-yourself/637533 "2012-10-12T16:59:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-misfires-and-other-opportunities-to-laugh-at-yourself/637533/1 "2012-10-12T16:59:38Z")

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The other day I had some computer equipment loaded on a cart to deliver and set up. On the way out I stopped in the break room to grab a Dr Pepper. While doing that it occured to me that I would probably need a power strip to be able to plug everything in.

So I promptly open the freezer to grab one. :smack:

All the while knowing good and darn well we keep them in the crisper drawer. 😃

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**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-misfires-and-other-opportunities-to-laugh-at-yourself/637533/2 "2012-10-12T22:57:29Z")

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We’ve got this client - one of the 10% that generate 90% of the problems.

He selected ‘remember my password’ when he logged in to _one_ of his accounts with us and has spent several days ringing us repeatedly with demands that we reset his settings for that account, for all his accounts, for our whole system, for the internet!\* He stuffed up and it’s all our fault!!!\*

It was only after three days we worked out what he’d actually done, and it was only after I’d duplicated the error on our system and emailed our website support team that I thought;

“Clear the cache.”

Which is something I do every week.:smack:  
On both my home and work computers.:smack:  
For the last 15 years.:smack:

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**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-misfires-and-other-opportunities-to-laugh-at-yourself/637533/3 "2012-10-12T23:01:59Z")

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Lost my keys for 24 hours, _somewhere at home._

Found them the next day in the freezer.

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**Author:** ![Rich\_Mann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@Rich\_Mann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_Mann)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-misfires-and-other-opportunities-to-laugh-at-yourself/637533/4 "2012-10-13T00:37:25Z")

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My son has special needs. I took him to a clinic for therapy for his special needs. In the waiting room was a pile of a magazine for the parents of children with special needs. Across the bottom of the cover was a banner that read, “Your Special Needs Magazine.”

My brain insisted on reading ‘special’ as a noun and ‘needs’ as a verb. My special was in need of a magazine–after all how can you fire your gun without a clip. It took just a few seconds to re-parse the phrase in my head, but that seemed hundreds of times longer than it should have been.

And I haven’t even ever owned a gun.

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**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-misfires-and-other-opportunities-to-laugh-at-yourself/637533/5 "2012-10-13T00:55:55Z")

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> [@campp](#):
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> Lost my keys for 24 hours, _somewhere at home._
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> Found them the next day in the freezer.

Ha! We lost the clicker and couldn’t find it for _days!_ Finally turned up in my husband’s underwear drawer.