What dumb things do you do again and again?

Bingo. I am constantly spilling that thing to the floor when I move around in my chair. I know I’ll be so farging pissed if it gets broken, but I have no one but myself to blame. The rage I feel as it rattles to the ground…

And night after night I fall asleep on my couch (loveseat size so I am a lumpy pretzel) with the TV and light on, when I really should be getting a good night’s sleep in my darkened bedroom.

Um. I fall in love with women who couldn’t care less about me and I tell women I love them about five minutes into knowing them.

I swear I’ve stopped though. I just did it a lot.

Dude, that is so me! I even got a lanierd?laniard?lanyard? whatever you know that long key chain thingy; still didn’t help. I also bring in a load of groceries then close the door behind me when I go to get the rest.

I do that sort of thing, but with men (I’m a girl!! :smiley: )

I’m always losing my car keys. I have yet to take the advice my mother used to give me as a teenager which is: Find a place that you like and get into the habbit of putting them there everytime you come home!

I’ve been late to work because of this…

BTW: same with my work badge… (sigh)

I always seem to get sunburned several times during the summer. I seem to always forget to bring along some sunscreen if I’m going to be out and about during the day. You think I’d remember–I’m rather fair-skinned, and skin cancer runs rampant in my family.

I never bring a list to go grocery shopping. Of course, it always seems like I end up forgetting one thing or another, and end up having to go back the next day.

Logging onto the SD message board even if it’s really late and I need to get to sleep.

Other dumb habits:
Watching the news: CNN or local news. (I don’t get the Fox news channel…)
Breathing.
Dating.
Getting into mini-argument with my little brother (twelve years younger).
Getting up in the morning.

I heard she faked it. :slight_smile:

I forget to put down remotes and such when I raid the fridge, go to the bathroom etc. This may not sound bad but when I lose them I tend to find them in strange places. I’ve had to get the TV-remote from the fridge countless times, a friend of mine found my cordless mouse in the freezer… well, you get the idea.

I never realise when I’m being hit on until about a week later. I also forget to call girls for weeks on end - this is not helping my lovelife.

Every month I decide to pay some bills “in a week”, when I think I will have more money. I never do. If I had a nickel for every lawyer I’ve yelled at over the past few years…

Two months ago I set my alarm clock 15 minutes early to make me get out of bed on time.

I have been fooled by this every single morning since.

I read the (Irish) Sunday Independent. When will I ever learn? :smack:

Every clock in my house is set to a different (earlier) time, but I consider this to be a sensible thing to do. It means that I’m only ever slightly late, rather than extremely late.

Other things:
Bending over to get something from my bedside table and banging my head on the overhanging wall. It’s been there for 3 years, why do I think it will have moved?

Hoping that if I avoid things they will go away (but this sometimes works, so I persevere).

Thinking that the “Oh yeah!” factor in relationships will outweigh the “Aargh! Oh shit!” factor (same disclaimer as above).

Pretending that eating chocolate will not lead to self-loathing.

I procrastinate.

I can’t stand it when people don’t speak correctly, such as saying nu-cu-lar instead of nu-clee-ar. But I, the great pronouncer and big word user, can’t say the word “throw.” I leave out the R. I say “thow.” This also happens with through and threw. So I’ll be talking and suddenly my co-workers are laughing at me again. Apparently I say the word throw (thow) just all the time so I sound like an idiot.

I had something really really important to ask the dopers. It was going to be great! I needed an explanation for something and thought of posting. Now I have no earthly idea what it was. I also keep forgetting people’s names.

:smack:

I was going to post this ages ago but put it off.

Also, I’m rather apathet

I wait til the last possible moment to pay a bill. Even if I have the money avaiable.

I always always always walk out the door without bringing my lunch. I realize it when I get to the end of the driveway.

I am trying to train myself to think “Wait, do I have my lunch?” when I see the doorknob rather than when I see the mailbox, but it’s not going well.

Maybe I should just install a mailbox by my door.

Flammable and inflammable, I relearn this one the hard way at least once a year.

Aluminum is NOT magnetic, that does NOT mean that its not conductive too.

Once a week I test the limit of how much hot things need to coolcan be before I can handle them, especially food and car parts.

I take extremely big bites of extremely hot things without letting them cool off. Like when a waitress brings me an eggroll at a chinese restaurant, I automatically take a big bite out of it and burn the hell out of my entire mouth. WTF? It just came out of the deep fryer!!!
I also do this with pizza rolls, grilled cheese sandwiches and hot chocolate.

But is not the safe place actually the logical place? I’m sorry I’m confused.