Periodically I email myself things from my work account to my personal account (which my phone receives as well). About 3 seconds later my phone makes a noise and I instinctively pick it up to see what it is… It’s yourself, stupid! I just sent it there!
What thing do you do, and after you have done it you feel stupid? And yet you keep forgetting and do it again.
P.S. I am trying to keep this thread a little light-hearted, so try to keep down the references to beating your wife or hard drugs.
I’m glad I’m not the only one. My phone is set to refresh email every 15 minutes, so there can be a little delay before my phone buzzes. But, still, sheesh. I look at it and do a mental :smack: every time. Another one is when I’m paying bills online, and I know I’m going to get a confirmation email as soon as I hit submit. Yet, there I am, thinking, “Oh goody, an email!” as soon as the phone gets it.
Another phone thing … the ring tone on my phone used to be the same as a character’s phone in a TV show, and I would check my phone every time it rang on the TV, even when it rang multiple times per show. There was even an episode where the gag was that the character’s girlfriend kept calling to nag about something, and so there were about 15 phone calls in a row … I checked my phone every time.
When cooking, if I am checking on a dish in the oven, I will use pot holders to get the hot dish out and remove the lid. Then, I stir or add seasonings or whatever the task was with the food … and pick up the lid again WITHOUT the pot holder, like somehow it miraculously cooled down to room temp in the 20 seconds that passed.
After learning to type on a manual typewriter back in the dark ages, I still expect the shift key to unlock the caps lock. This is after using a computer at work for many years.
When I’m reading a long thread in progress, I sometimes get impatient, and scroll to the end, expecting to find an answer or a conclusion. Then I have to remind myself that threads don’t work like that.
I’ve lived in this house for almost 10 years and at least once a week I flip the right switch instead of the left switch to turn on the kitchen light. The porch light does illuminate where the switches are but… I have did this even when the living room light is on and the switches are plainly visible.
I also messed up and hung the windchime on the chain that is for the light vs the fan (ceiling fan light) but I make that work by reminding myself that I did it that way because we never change the light settings while we may turn the fan on/off/faster/slower and I didn’t want to hear all the jangling. I came up with that after the fact :o
I put washed clothes in the dryer, turn it on and then forget about them. When I go to get them out they are all wrinkly from sitting in the dryer so I turn the dryer on to fluff them up and get some of the wrinkles out. Then I forget about them again. I have done this more times than I can count, sometimes fluffing them 3 times probably 4 on occasion.
When I’m either tired or distracted, I often try to use my touch tone desk phone at work as a calculator, or attempt to make phone calls on my calculator.
Swipe my credit card through the lab card access reader. Then I stand there and keep swiping it back and forth, wondering why the door isn’t opening. Or swipe my school/lab ID through the credit card slot at the checkout counter. I don’t do it every time, but even occasionally is more than often enough…
I don’t use a DVR anymore since I cut cable. But when I did, I would often forget that I can FF through the commercials.
I’ve stubbed my toe on the same corner bed post at least a few thousand times.
Sometimes when I drink, I like to head into the kitchen and see what I can cook up. When I do, I often wake up the next morning with the roof of my mouth burned to a crisp. Because apparently, when I cook while buzzed, I can’t be bothered to cool off the boiling stew on the stove that I’m taste testing.
When alone, I forget to unlock ALL the car doors when I unlock the driver’s. I end-up having to walk-around and re-open the driver’s door to hit the “unlock” button. Errrrrr.
This. I use my bright blue debit card and my bright blue transit card multiple times every day. About 50% of the time, I use the correct card first.
I also do the email thing. A big part of my job is sending out emails, so I am constantly sending test emails to myself to make sure they are working. And every single time, I check to see what new email I have received.
Use my work key to try to open my front door, and my front door key to try to open my work file cabinet. They are on entirely separate key rings, stored in separate pockets of my purse.
I put one of those high-tech/military/sci-fi looking switch protectors over mine, so you have to flip the cover up before you can turn on the disposal. It was the only cure.
I constantly, every time, always…settle back in a comfy place, open a book…and realize I didn’t switch to my reading glasses. So I gotta get up again and… Phoomph.