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Stupid Things...

posted 5 years ago by ShogunofYonkers (71689)
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...I do all the time

Ever engage the turn signal at the end of your own driveway? Who was I just signaling to? The Squirrels??

When you hear a phone buzz in a movie do you mistake it for your own phone and immediately assume it's bad news?

Have you ever walked into a room in your home and thought, 'Why am I in here? What did I want?'

Sometimes I ask the annoying chatty guy at work how his weekend went...
15 minutes later and I'm wishing I hadn't!

When the doorbell rings and I'm not expecting company I just assume the 'bad people' have finally come and it's time for the final fight that ends us all!

I constanly behave like I'm impervious to injury...I am constanly hurting myself:/

Do you often do really stupid things or is it just me?

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Have you ever walked into a room in your home and thought, 'Why am I in here? What did I want?'

All the time! The reason this happens is your mind often resets itself when you enter a new room.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (71689) 5 years ago

Maybe you're right...good theory!

But why is my stupid mind resetting itself everyday?
Ah, no worries, I'll have a walk outside for a smoke now and I wont remember this at all in 5 minutes😉

[–] MissMargoChanning (6630) 5 years ago

"But why is my stupid mind resetting itself everyday?"

Your mind isn't stupid. The longer you live, the more info you store. After a certain amount of time, we tend to run out of space..... therefore, we get a little bit spacey...
Forget that last part.... I spaced out.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (71689) 5 years ago

I find myself 'spacing out' more and more these days...
It's actually kind of pleasant!

[–] kspkap (13030) 5 years ago

Hmm 🤔? By jove you nailed it MissMargo! Good reasoning especially after New Year’s Eve!

[–] MissMargoChanning (6630) 5 years ago

Well, I'm actually feeling quite fine. We always make it a point to start our new year out right by never over drinking. I only had two of beers yesterday afternoon. We went to bed early last night as we usually do on New Year's Eve, so when I went into the kitchen this morning, I knew exactly what I went in there for...😉

[–] kspkap (13030) 5 years ago

Don’t ya get a smile on your face when can remember why you went into a room after getting side tracked? I sure do as I feel it’s an accomplishment!

[–] MissMargoChanning (6630) 5 years ago

LOL! It really is an accomplishment, isn't it? I always feel a sense of relief that I still haven't completely lost what is left of my mind.

[–] kspkap (13030) 5 years ago

I don’t think there’s much left of mine due to me having pickled it for so long using my red Solo cups!🥤🤯 I use to be able to multi-task in the kitchen, but no longer. I have a one track mind now...if even that. What clued me was when I lost my dish cloth I was using. “I just had the damn thing! What did I do with it? Oh well, I’ll just get a clean one.” Later I found it in the refrigerator! I can’t begin to tell you how many times I’ve had to dig through the trash for something I’ve misplaced!

Or when I opened those little creamers for my coffee. I’m supposed to open, pour the creamer into my coffee, then dispose of the little container. NOT open the creamer....then pour it into *the trash* along with the little container!🙇‍♀️

[–] MissMargoChanning (6630) 5 years ago

"All the time! The reason this happens is your mind often resets itself when you enter a new room."

Holy SHIT! That makes perfect sense. Thank you! Now I know the reason. I'm letting everyone know and I'm sticking to that reason!!!!

[–] kspkap (13030) 5 years ago

Oh, MissMargo, maybe in your case it could be a wee bit of the good stuff. 😳BTW, did you see my reply in the driving a stick shift thread? I wrote Columbo drove a Peugeot like my dad did. Also, was curious if you enjoyed “Columbo” last evening.

[–] MissMargoChanning (6630) 5 years ago

I always enjoy "Columbo". 😉

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

This happens to me a lot. And sometimes I even have to backtrack to the room from which I came from to remember what I wanted to do in the other room.

[–] Stratego (29246) 5 years ago

Going upstairs to get something and forgetting what it was halfway up the stairs.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

may be you were on your way to the washroom 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[–] Stratego (29246) 5 years ago

That would explain all the accidents, because the bathroom is not upstairs.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[–] mplo (2305) 5 years ago

I have, on occasion, walked into a room in my house and ask why I'm in there, and/or what do I want.

I occasionally ask the annoying, chatty person I see how his/her weekend went. Sometimes I regret it, sometimes I don't.

I live in an apartment building, so when someone occasionally knocks on my door, I sometimes wonder what I've done wrong and if it's bad news.

[–] andreaahr (2332) 5 years ago

I do dumb things all the time. One time, I poured water into my bowl of cereal instead of milk. I was not happy when I took a bite out of it....

[–] ShogunofYonkers (71689) 5 years ago

I once had a cup of cleanng solution for some metal I was polishing...set it down pretty close to my glass of orange juice...

Thankfully the chemical stench went up my nose before the solution went in my mouth
That would have been a ridiculous way to die, probably would have made the papers!

[–] andreaahr (2332) 5 years ago

Wow, that's crazy!!! I'm really glad you didn't drink the cleaning solution; that would have been horrible!!!!

[–] ShogunofYonkers (71689) 5 years ago

I'm going to be writing 2018 on all documents for the next several weeks...I screw up the year EVERY January!

[–] kspkap (13030) 5 years ago

Not to brag, but I just went into another room and actually remembered why I went in there.

It was the bathroom, but still....🙄

I can’t begin to tell you how many times I’ve jumped up to go to the door just to find out the doorbell was from the TV.🙇‍♀️ There’s an ad which has the same doorbell sound as mine.

I also hurt myself in stupid ways. The other night I awoke for a potty run and found out it pays to fully open the eyes....I had mine half open and ran smack dab into the door jamb!

When I visited my friend in Florida this year....another potty run was needed. I had forgot to turn on the night light which makes it difficult to see at night in her house. She lives away from any exterior lighting and with the window shutters closed it’s as black as the ace of spades. You guessed it! I got disoriented and ran right into the closet doors! Turned around and ran into the chest of drawers, then the bed followed by almost knocking over her lamp before finding the bedroom door! I never forgot to turn on that damn night light again!

[–] ShogunofYonkers (71689) 5 years ago

LOL! sorry for laughing sweetie but that was a pretty great slapstick description😂

Good God!! Be careful, you are as bad as I am!
I've got bruises I can't even explain from the middle of the night pee trips

[–] kspkap (13030) 5 years ago

Talking about bruises, I have unexplained bruises all over me. Odd ones though which I cannot explain for the life of me....are bruises on my inner thighs!! 🤷‍♀️

[–] ShogunofYonkers (71689) 5 years ago

Wow...at the risk of seeming fresh you may be having way more fun than the rest of us❤️😛👠

[–] kspkap (13030) 5 years ago

😂😘😏Ya think? Don’t I wish! If so, it’s like having a blast with the red Solo cups and not remembering the fun!

[–] SkyCoyote5150 (1121) 5 years ago

I don’t know if I’d call much on your list really stupid, just typical, silly mistakes we all make.

‘How was your weekend?’

Here’s a fun little game you can play; Someone asks how you’re doing or how your weekend went; start your response with "Wellll(really draw this word out, freight it with dire portents of stultifyingly long-winded dissertations. Even the toughest will begin to cringe by the one-second mark)lll, OK. How ‘bout you?” This can derail some folks a bit. The ‘facial expression change rate’ can be pretty entertaining. Then, there’s “How you doin’?”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffUDDYYIX04

I’ve been aware of how ‘pervious’ my body is since my early teens; that hasn’t stopped me from injuring myself more than a few times. Only bathroom incident involved foolishly leaving a tube of metal polish in unfortunate proximity to dental hygiene products. “Dafuq? Ptui! Gahhhh!”

[–] ShogunofYonkers (71689) 5 years ago

Ha!
Well done, I liked the link...I somehow manage to bump into guys like that all the time!

[–] kspkap (13030) 5 years ago

I’m aching from 😂 so hard! Perfect for this thread! “How ya doin?” Priceless! Now, I have to look up the fifty dollar word...”stultifyingly”.

[–] SkyCoyote5150 (1121) 5 years ago

Careful, it can be mind-numbing...

[–] kspkap (13030) 5 years ago

😳That whole sentence can be mind-numbing at my age! It’s sort of a tongue twister!😜

[–] TexasJack (12515) 5 years ago

On especially bleary-eyed mornings, I had a bad habit of putting shaving gel on my toothbrush. Yuck.

So now I have a beard. Problem solved!

[–] kspkap (13030) 5 years ago

😉 Good solution!