I have read in the news that following the attacks of September 11th that people are having a harder time staying focused and concentrating. Here’s my contributions:
I want a diet Pepsi. Get the glass, fill it with ice and sit down to pour the soda pop from the can into the glass. I’m pouring, and I get caught up in how pretty the brown of the soda looks as it hits the foam of the soda already in the glass. So I am mesmerized, and I keep pouring, and pouring…until there is soda and foam running down the outside of the glass and all over my desk. D’oh!
Driving to the grocery store. I need to run to the store 2-3 times a week because I’m always forgetting something. I usually take a shortcut that spares me the stoplights in town. I drive this shortcut 2-3 times a week. On this trip, however, I find myself out in the country…I forgot my turn! Who knows how far I would have gone out of my way before I turned back.
I was fixing my kids dinner and having a cocktail a couple of days ago. My daughter asked for chocolate milk and in the course of making it I managed to putting a heaping teaspoon of Nesquik into my vodka and tonic.
For a split second I considered drinking it anyway. Booze is expensive.
Last week I tried to back out of the garage when the garage door was down. That was an expensive mistake. The worst part is, I did it again this week. The way the guys yelled at me, you would think I was doing it on purpose.
Just think how much worse it could have been. Although if you have problems getting your kids to sleep at night…
I find myself posting truly inane messages here. Oh, and I’ve forgotten my youngest at school twice in the past month - but I blame the school for instituting early-release Wednesdays this year. Even though one of the days I forgot was a Tuesday.
I drove to the college campus where I teach, got there at 7:30 for an 8am class, and then realized that I had forgotten my rolling tote bag with my gradebook and all kinds of important stuff in it! I NEVER forget that thing!
So I called home and had a family member bring it, and in the meantime called the dept. and told them to post the door and tell the students I’d be 10 minutes late.
Now I just put it by the door next to my purse so I won’t forget it.
Sheesh!
OH MY GOD! YOU DIDN’T DRINK IT? what is WRONG with you?
last night, i made the mistake of rousting my sleeping 15 day old baby just as my wife and i were laying down to bed. i couldn’t resist giving him a hug and kiss on his little head!
took about an hour to get him back to sleep! (i’ve learned, but i know i’ll do it again! he is irrisistably cute!)
Well, it’s been 3 hours since your prediction and I’ve recieved a couple of e-mails… but I think it’s just cuz the mailer can’t catch up from all the posts during the day.
But hey thanks for excercizing your power like that, just to do a guy a favour. It was worth a shot!
I doubt my stupidity has anything to do with Sept 11th, I’m just a natural ditz.
Both of these happened yesterday.
I went to the carwash, to vacuum and wash my car. I dug out all the trash, threw a bunch of crap in my trunk, threw more crap in the trash. I vacuum my car. I go to move to the carwash portion, and can’t find my keys anywhere! I’m digging through all the stuff in the trunk, nothing. Look on the ground, nothing. Finally I resort to digging through the trash can…still no keys. I was beginning to think OI somehow sucked them into the vacuum hose. And then I see them dangling from the open trunk…oops.
I get home, go to take some of the stuff out of the trunk. Grab a handful, close the trunk, it bounces back open. I check and make sure nothing’s blocking it, it’s clear. I shut it again, it bounces back at me. I repeat this for awhile, nothing changes. Some guys surveying the road came over to help me…they had no luck either. I sat there for about 15 minutes, trying to get the damned thing to shut. Finally, I thought to check the trunk release, on a fluke. Sure enough, the floor mat had gotten pushed uner the trunk release, making it so that it was permenetly releasing. I moved the mat, and shut the trunk. Damn did I feel stupid…
In almost the same vein as Pammipoo. I recently locked my keys in my car … in the ignition. The car was turned off though, so there is still some hope for me yet.
