What th...

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I just got back from the corner store, where I went for a pack of cigarettes. I had thought I had a pack in my coat pocket, but when I went downstairs for it, the pocket was empty (well, it was full of a lot of junk, but no cigarettes). So I headed out.

Luis (I’m no longer patronizing Mike’s, unless I happen to be in that shopping plaza, because he stopped carrying Mavericks) said, “You were in here yesterday! You smoked a whole pack since then?”

“I think my brother-in-law must have snagged them last night while he was watching basketball. He did the same thing last year.”

“Well, I hope he pays you back!”

“He will! He did last year.”

Arrive back, sit down at the computer and find…

…an unopened pack sitting between the monitor and keyboard.

Now when the heck did I retrieve them, and why didn’t I remember having done so?

When I was a kid, I read a story about a farmer who was watching his crops wither during a drought. He peeled a potato, or started to, then put it on the kitchen table and went outside again. Later, he came back and found the now moldy potato on the table, wondered vaguely what it was doing there, and threw it away. “What a silly,” I thought. “Why would anyone peel a potato and then throw it away?”

Now I understand. I think I need to take a break from war coverage.

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Once found one of my sandals in the freezer compartment of my fridge. I must have had it in my hand as I was trying to get something out, put it down (ew) and forgotten it. I spent ages looking for the darned thing, too.

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That’s okay, Rilchiam - I can top you and BadBaby on this one… I once found my whole purse in the refrigerator. And a full glass of :: eek :: moldy tea in the vacuum closet. The purse I found the next morning… the tea, well - you’d think I’d have noticed a missing glass?

Go figure.

But I’m much better now… really! :smiley:

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The day after a marathon cleaning session, I opened the crisper drawer of my refrigerator and spied two pairs of my husband’s socks, neatly folded, nestled next to the tomatoes. I immediately ran to my bedroom and opened his sock drawer, where I found the avocado I had been planning to have for lunch.

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Ermmm … Isn’t this called “sychronicity” or something? Or is it just a weird kind of “Conservation of Irreducible Lunacy” sort of law?

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I think it’s mostly called Brain Fart.

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More importantly, was the avocado still good? ; )

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It’s the same kind of auto-pilot functioning that results in coffee in the juice glass and juice in the coffee cup.

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The avocado was fine, since they’re normally not refrigerated anyway. I’m still trying to figure out why the tomoatoes were in the fridge, too, and why I even bothered to look there for foods I normally don’t refrigerate!

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LifeOnWry

Reminds me of the button: “If this is a tampon behind my ear, what the heck did I do with my pen?”

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[mild tangent]
While not as talented as y’all, I suffer from the “Where’d th…” syndrome.
For instance, last night as I laid down in bed, I realized I was holding the remote for the living room tv. Where’d THAT come from?
I have sat down to dinner only to find that I have poured myself two glasses of milk? hunh?
[/mild tangent]

But the What th’ syndrome exists around me also. I have (on more than one occasion) hopped in the shower, tried to rinse my face but THEN and ONLY THEN realized I was still wearing my glasses (this is AFTER washing hair, etc etc).

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Well, this isn’t something that I have misplaced, but I once got to school and reached into my backpack to pull out my calculator. Instead, I found the bone my dog had been chewing on. I still haven’t figured out what she dropped that to pick up…

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Drove home from work one day.

About an hour later, I couldn’t find my car keys.

My brain said… “Well, I must have left them at work…”

Um…well… maybe not…

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Y’all are hilarious! And you make me feel better.

I have worn glasses since I was 14 months old. I have them on all day and I take them off only just before I turn out the light at night. They are the first thing that I reach for in the morning. Even while I had contacts, I would forget and put my glasses on.

One morning I woke up and didn’t find my glasses at my bedside table. It is hard to search without my glasses so it took a very long time to find them. Even then, it was by accident. They were in the lower cabinet in the bathroom – right next to the trash.

Beats me!

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Nothing really to add, except to say that I was laughing so hard that I had tears rolling down my face.

I always say, “The faster you go somewhere, the sooner you forget why you went in the first place.”

Actually, now that I think about it, I have found a book in my freezer before. I have a bad habit of reading while I do stuff around the house. I was getting an ice tray from the freezer, the phone rang, and my book disappeared. Go figure.

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Occasionally I leave stuff in weird places. Sometimes I accidentally put the milk jug in the cabinet, but I usually realize my mistake pretty quickly.

I have a vague grade-school memory of accidentally taking the salad tongs with me to my seat after going through the lunch line. I think I threw them away because I was too embarrassed to go take them back to the salad bar.