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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, January 09, 2006 - 3:51 am
OK, this is one of those places you can share those trivial little things that you do daily that may frustrate the heck out of you, cause you think you must be the only one. Maybe, just maybe you'll find someone brave enough to say, "hey I do that too!!" I'll start it off.... 1: You walk in/out of a room, and take a swipe at the light switch, intending to turn it on/off without breaking stride. You miss, pause your stride, take another swipe, and miss again. So you back step a bit and take another swing at it. If you're really ambitious and confident, that third swing is executed as you begin to step forward again. And, of course, you miss again. So, you finally have to stop, turn around, face the light switch while standing still, and turn the blasted thing on/off!! 2: A variation of #1 is to try and pick something up off a table/counter in mid stride, with the same results. Sometimes that 2nd or 3rd swing at the item will send it to the floor, which may or may not lead to the next thing..... 3: You bend down to pick something off the floor, and as you straighten back up, you drop it again. 4: You drop something, and in an effort to not let it hit the floor, you make a swipe at it to catch it. Instead of catching it, you bat it into the air, where you make another swipe at it to catch it. Naturally, you don't quite catch it, and you bat it around a few more times, before you a)finally catch it, or b)more often than not, drop it anyway. If you're really talented, you can do this trick in combination with trick #3 and/or #2. 5. You're typing something, and mistype a word. So you backspace with your cursor to enter a missed letter, or fix transposed letters. But, you put the cursor in the wrong place, or hit the wrong key again when trying to type the right letter in. The more you try to fix the word, the worse it gets. After 3 or more attempts to fix the word, you give up, nuke the whole word and start it over from fresh!! OK folks, now lets see how many of us fess up to one of the five listed above. Or, maybe you can share some of your own tricks? 
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Monday, January 09, 2006 - 4:42 am
6. How about spending so much time trying to vacuum something up on the floor. No matter what you try it won't get sucked up. You even pick it up or move it so it is easier to vacuum. In the time you have spent on this one piece of dirt, you could of bent over picked it up, walked to a garbage, placed it in and then got back to vacuuming. But no, you are still fiddling with this piece of dirt on the floor as picking up the dirt is the vacuums job lol
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, January 09, 2006 - 4:53 am
#6. Yup!
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Jagger
Member
08-07-2002
| Monday, January 09, 2006 - 7:08 am
3 and 5 work happen all the time to me I don't vacuum so #6 isn't an issue for me, but I see my roommate doing that all the time. #7 Setting something down where it doesn't belong telling yourself you'll put it away the next time you go in that direction. Well about 15 trips later it is still sitting there and you keep looking at it.
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Monday, January 09, 2006 - 7:13 am
3,4,5,6 and 7 sound oh so familiar. #8 Striding into a room with purpose and confidence, only to arrive and forgetting what the heck for. Same goes for opening the fridge.
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Jagger
Member
08-07-2002
| Monday, January 09, 2006 - 7:35 am
Lumbele #8 happens to me on a daily bases both the walking into a room and the fridge. Or going back and opening the fridge again for about the 3rd or 4th time before finally realizing there is nothing in there to eat. Although I do have to say that bottle of ketchup and mustard start to look pretty appetizing the 3rd and 4th time around.
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Hypermom
Member
08-13-2001
| Monday, January 09, 2006 - 8:57 am
1, 6, 7, and 8. 8 happens every day. Those are my CRS or Grave's fog days. lol #9 Make a list for the grocery store. Get to the store and realize you left the list at home. Go back home to get the list. Start shopping, then go home. Realize you have forgotten an item or two off the list and give up!
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Jagger
Member
08-07-2002
| Monday, January 09, 2006 - 9:23 am
Hypermom been there, done that, although I have never gone home to get the list, I just try to remember what was on the list. How about going to the store for 1 thing, buy a bunch of different things, get home and realize you forgot the one thing you went there for.
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Bandit
Member
07-29-2001
| Monday, January 09, 2006 - 10:20 am
Done that, Jagger! It's the worst!
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Monday, January 09, 2006 - 12:30 pm
How about running around the house looking for something that you are already holding in your hand? 
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Irishtxgrl
Member
12-07-2005
| Monday, January 09, 2006 - 12:59 pm
Looking for your glasses or keys all over the place and then realizing they are on your head or face or in your hand the whole time
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Bandit
Member
07-29-2001
| Monday, January 09, 2006 - 1:55 pm
My mom does that all the time. So, now whenever she's "lost" her glasses, she does the triple pat. Pats the top of her head, then her eyes, then her chest (in case they're around her neck). She's a mess. 
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Spitfire
Member
07-18-2002
| Monday, January 09, 2006 - 2:02 pm
I have rimless glasses and am blind without them so if I set them anywhere and forget I have to get DH to find them for me or pat my way around the house. LOL
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Monday, January 09, 2006 - 2:26 pm
once i wrote my grocery list while wearing my reading glasses, so i wrote pretty small. at the store, which is 45 miles from home, i can't read the damn list and have to keep asking people in the store, "what does this say?" thank God, it wasn't my dh who was there without his reading glasses, because i often joke around and his shopping lists will include things such as, "sex on the kitchen floor". he never forgets anything on his list because he actually reads it, looking for the good parts LOL but he does often buy a lot more than i put on the list. "five-thousand sheets of fine sand paper, honey?" i'll ask. he will explain that you save 1/13 of a cent per sheet if you buy at least five thousand. it isn't important that we won't use five-thousand sheets of fine sand paper in our grandkids' lifetimes, and we don't even have grandkids... as for what's been posted above, i've probably done them at at one time or another, especially forgetting what i was getting in a certain room. sometimes i can back out and start back in and it will come to me, but not always. i am also famous for tripping or talking backwards if a good looking guy is around. which is not good if the guy is a fireman and you ask him about his new 'firetruck' in backwardese.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, January 09, 2006 - 3:16 pm
5, 6 ,7 (some items have remained parked for years), 8 and the forgetting the actual item you WENT to the store to get one
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Native_texan
Member
08-24-2004
| Monday, January 09, 2006 - 3:20 pm
All of the above. 10. Putting something where you won't forget where it is and, of course, you do forget.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Monday, January 09, 2006 - 3:38 pm
11. putting things on top of the car, forgetting they are there, and driving off.
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Justavice
Member
11-22-2005
| Monday, January 09, 2006 - 3:58 pm
12. Lose your car at the mall/store/just about anywhere you have to park, go inside and come out again.
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Mizinvanccouver
Member
02-22-2003
| Monday, January 09, 2006 - 4:13 pm
OMG!! Thank you everyone!! I have experienced nearly EVERY SINGLE ONE of your posts!!! I find these things happen more often when I have PMS which then throws me into a tizzy! LOL The shoppings ones burn the most though don't they everyone? Then it requires another trip to the store. Ok how about this one: 13) You keep reminding yourself to do laundry. So you do it but forgot to wash the one item which was important and WHY you need to do laundry in the first place. Or here's still on laundry 14) You do your laundry it's kind of late in the evening so you forget your laundry in the dryer. Next day you can't figure out where your clothes are until you've turned your room upside down looking for your things then it dawns you. lol
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Mameblanche
Member
04-13-2005
| Monday, January 09, 2006 - 4:21 pm
15) Taking something that is in a perfectly good place and putting it somewhere safer for safekeeping. Then you can't for the life of you remember where the heck that safer place is. Before my dad passed away (many, many years ago) he wrote down on a tiny piece of paper my grandmother's relative's names and where they lived in France. I kept it with his papers for years. One day, I decided that paper was way too important and ... well you get the idea. It pains me every time I think about it. To this day, I have never found it again. Sigh.
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Saxywildcat
Member
05-30-2005
| Monday, January 09, 2006 - 4:35 pm
1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 13
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Monday, January 09, 2006 - 4:38 pm
16) jumped out of bed (and gotten the sick to your stomach cuz you jumped too fast), put on the coffee while scurrying to get dressed, chugging the coffee and then realizing... ...it isn't a work day
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Mizinvanccouver
Member
02-22-2003
| Monday, January 09, 2006 - 4:54 pm
Oh Hukdonreality...I've done that...but not to the point of actually dressing. I got up and made breakfast ect ...then realized it! LOL Ok, here's another one... 17) You pack your gym bag and bring it all the way to work only to realize that you forgot one essential part of your work out gear, ie pants, shorts, shirt, shoes....(Maybe I do this on purpose on a subconscious level because I hate the gym?? Naw....I get too mad when this happens. lol)
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Jedisan
Member
01-11-2002
| Monday, January 09, 2006 - 5:47 pm
LOL love this thread! Landi - your #11 - when DH and I lived in Anchorage, we did this one time - As we were driving, I noticed people were waiving at us furiously - I just waived back to all of those people - LOL!! then I went to look for my sweatshirt, and low and behold, saw it in my rear view window laying on the street getting run over again and again. (we turned around and rescued my sweatshirt!!!)
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Jagger
Member
08-07-2002
| Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 6:09 am
The one of putting something somewhere where you won't forget it and than forgetting where it is. This happens to me ALLthe time. One of these days I will realize to just leave it lay where it is. Another one I do a lot, look for something that I know I've just seen but for the life of me I just can't find it when I need it.
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