What utterly mundane, pointless thoughts took too much time in your brain today?
for me it was: I need to write a couple of 11am appointments in my calendar. I started writing so fast, that I without-thinking crossed the two 1’s of eleven and made them an H. So now I have “Ham meetings” in my calendar. Then I get the joy of finding them in my calendar, momentarily saying “hunh?!” remembering what happened and reviewing what a twit I can be…
Is this the worst mistake you’ve made today? Perhaps you’re being a little hard on yourself about this. After all, you are WordMan, not NumberMan.
A true obsessive would take ham to the meetings to rectify the error.
You think you’re a twit? Please.
I buy stamps with flags on them for “business” use, and whatever else they have for “personal” use, so I can keep track of them and still keep them in the same drawer. So when I go to the post office, I ask for “a book of flags and a book of not-flags, please,” with a little joking smile, and they understand and give me what I need.
So one day I’m in line at the post office, and I get up to the window and ask for “a book of stamps and a book of not-stamps, please.” :smack:
Last night I put my cell phone on the charger. This morning, on my way out the door, I thought to myself, don’t forget the phone!
I now have my cordless phone in my purse, and my cell phone is still sitting at home on the charger. At least I didn’t grab the remote control.
And yesterday in line at the Dunkin’ Donuts drive-thru, my turn came around and I said “Fill it up, regular, please.”
…which is exactly what I did a few years back. :o
snort O man - I gotta do that. “Is this the Big-Ass Ham meeting? I’m-a ready!!”
And trust me, this is not the stupidest thing I have done today, just the one I can’t get out of my head as just twit-like, simply because it happened three times and after each one I kept saying to myself “ah, c’mon, slow down and think…”
If you do take ham to the meetings, let us know what goes down!
Yesterday I answered the phone when one of my son’s toys made a squeaking sound. A squeaking sound, not even close to the ringing of a phone. :smack:
Mundane and pointless:
I have two movies overdue at my local video store, :smack:
I’m having pizza tomorrow with my family,
I’m going to a friend’s dad’s concert this weekend,
and I have money I need to deposit in the bank.
There you go. 
You should’ve handed her one of those Dunkin’ Donuts refillable to-go mugs as you said it. Then it would’ve made sense.
Two dumb things from my Fast food days…
Working at McDonalds I did this several times. I’d be wearing the drive thru headset and someone would pull up to the speaker. I’d click the talk button and say “Thank you for calling McDonalds, can I take your order?”. I don’t know who it confused more… me or the folks in the car…
The other one is one I think I have shared somewhere here before and is a great example of Pavlov style conditioning. After long shifts at KFC where I had to remove chicken from a fryer when a bell went off, I stood up during a test in school to change out the chicken because someone’s watch alarm had gone off! :wally
I am a Far Side cartoon.
I was going to the bookstore today. The doors have what look like push handles, but you’re supposed to pull them. There is even a little sign that reads, “Pull,” on each door. I’ve been going to the bookstore for three years now.
I pushed. Hard. Ow. :smack: