# What mistakes do you repeat over and over? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 29, 2009, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mistakes-do-you-repeat-over-and-over/512023 "2009-09-29T19:45:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kapri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kapri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kapri)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mistakes-do-you-repeat-over-and-over/512023/21 "2009-09-30T19:31:43Z")
> [@Rocketeer](#): > > Perhaps you should ask them? This brings up a whole other issue, one that perhaps deserves its own thread. I’m new here, though, and wondering if there hasn’t already been a “do men like it when women ask them out” thread before. ---
**Author:** ![TheMadHun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@TheMadHun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheMadHun)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mistakes-do-you-repeat-over-and-over/512023/22 "2009-10-05T00:25:28Z")
I always remember the wrong opening time for the library and end up circling back in an hour. Then right after I’m done and in my car I remember that I should have written down the hours while I’m here, decide (once again) that it’s okay I’ll look them up online when I get home and write them on my library card. And forget before I get home. And next time do it again. ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mistakes-do-you-repeat-over-and-over/512023/23 "2009-10-05T01:23:35Z")
In a buffet serving line, the silverware (often plastic) is usually at the start of the line. I remember to pick up a set about 3% of the time. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mistakes-do-you-repeat-over-and-over/512023/24 "2009-10-05T02:03:05Z")
I take clothes out of washer, put them in dryer, turn it on, forget them. Next time I open the dryer the severely wrinkled clothes are still there. I turn the dryer back on to fluff them up, go upstairs and forget about them. Again. Repeat. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mistakes-do-you-repeat-over-and-over/512023/25 "2009-10-05T02:04:49Z")
Trusting people to actually want what’s best, not just what’s best for _them_. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mistakes-do-you-repeat-over-and-over/512023/26 "2009-10-05T02:08:27Z")
> [@Never\_Say\_Dice](#): > > I always forget what to do with my pot after I fry hamburgers… I say smoke it. Every.single.time. ---
**Author:** ![Brainiac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8797f3/32.png) [@Brainiac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mistakes-do-you-repeat-over-and-over/512023/27 "2009-10-09T19:10:12Z")
I forget every time the trick to emptying my garden fountain to prepare it for cleaning. I know the wide siphon tube is involved and I struggle and splash and have a hell of a time, until I remember I have to plug one end until it’s in position or air will get in and ruin the siphon. ---
**Author:** ![RadicalPi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/radicalpi/32/9806_2.png) [@RadicalPi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadicalPi)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mistakes-do-you-repeat-over-and-over/512023/28 "2009-10-10T00:21:05Z")
I have an annoyingly constant tendency to forget that my physical and emotional state at a given moment is not necessarily the one I should be using to make my decisions. Like, I don’t feel like paying bills right now because I’m tired, even though they’re due tomorrow and I know that I will despise having to pay late fees. Or, if there’s a huge project at work, I’ll get so devoted to it that I won’t take five minutes to make social plans for the day its due, and then I end up sitting at home hating myself for having nothing to do. Or at parties, I avoid talking to women I might find attractive because it makes me nervous, and even though the nervousness always passes quickly and I usually end up enjoying myself. . . . You get the idea. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mistakes-do-you-repeat-over-and-over/512023/29 "2009-10-10T14:21:11Z")
I keep double posting. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mistakes-do-you-repeat-over-and-over/512023/30 "2009-10-10T14:22:27Z")
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**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mistakes-do-you-repeat-over-and-over/512023/31 "2009-10-10T14:29:00Z")
dating ---
**Author:** ![lezlers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@lezlers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lezlers)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mistakes-do-you-repeat-over-and-over/512023/32 "2009-10-10T16:14:06Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > I take clothes out of washer, put them in dryer, turn it on, forget them. Next time I open the dryer the severely wrinkled clothes are still there. I turn the dryer back on to fluff them up, go upstairs and forget about them. Again. Repeat. That’s pretty much what I do normally, not because I’m forgetting anything. “Hm, what to wear… oh, this is nice” slam dryer door, press start. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![hobscrk777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a6a055/32.png) [@hobscrk777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hobscrk777)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mistakes-do-you-repeat-over-and-over/512023/33 "2009-10-10T17:12:43Z")
I routinely start boiling some rice or beans, leave the kitchen temporarily, and then, within the span of 30 seconds, forget that the stove is on. I only realize my mistake when I hear the sound of the water furiously bowling over the top of the pot. The cleanup for this is an absolute mess. You’d think I would invest in a simple kitchen timer to remind myself, but somehow this slips my mind, too. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mistakes-do-you-repeat-over-and-over/512023/34 "2009-10-10T17:56:17Z")
Everytime i type a word that ends in “in” i add a g at the end of it. ---
**Author:** ![pharris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f1d935/32.png) [@pharris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pharris)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mistakes-do-you-repeat-over-and-over/512023/35 "2009-10-10T17:59:43Z")
I work at a cemetery, and most of the calls I get are from people asking for their loved one’s plot number. They KNOW they will need to write it down, but constantly, as I’m giving them the info, I am interrupted with “Wait a minute, let me get a pen.” This bugs me so much – I’ve ranted about it in another thread and I’m sure I will keep ranting about it (sorry in advance for that) I persist in believing that it will stop happening, but it won’t, and there is NOTHING I can do about it, short of hollering at them before I give the information, “DO YOU HAVE PEN AND PAPER???” I have to be very sensitive and empathetic in my job, but goshamighty, it would be so cathartic to one day just go off! (I’m new here, you guys are the greatest. Thanks for giving me an outlet!) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mistakes-do-you-repeat-over-and-over/512023.md?page=1)