What are some of your most scatterbrained moments?

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I thought of this topic when I was making sandwiches last night before bed. I made the sandwiches on a paper plate, and I picked up the plate to carry them into the sitting room. However, my attention had shifted, so all my brain knows is "I just made food. I just picked something up. This must be the food!" and I thus took a bite of the paper plate.

Another great one happened a couple of days ago. I was doing pullups, and my mind wandered. I got jarred back to reality when my head smacked into the ceiling. I actually measured it afterwards, and the ceiling is thirteen inches higher than the bar, so I'm not entirely sure how I managed that!

The final one that comes to mind now happened earlier in the semester when I went to brush my teeth. I picked up my toothbrush in one hand, but instead of picking up my toothpaste in the other, I picked up a red plastic cup, filled it all the way up with water, and only realized what was wrong when I started to pour the cup on the toothbrush.

Who else has similar stories? Try to keep them lighthearted!

Hmmm...I've opened a door to the wrong car once and sometimes forget what I'm supposed to bring or get (that's normal).

I've also bit my hand a few times or the fork when eating....somehow.

I've done many weird things through those moments.

When I was 20: Once while I was driving to get back home from the local pet shop and then found myself driviing down an unknown road at night.

The last thing I recall was thinking about something or another( I didn't and still dont remember) and turned the radio on to sample a few stations, and the next thing you know I was driving to find an intersection so I could see the street signs so I could then find a gas station so I could then buy a road map.

I was hours from home. At the time this incident led me to believe that I wasn't normal

When we arrived at a holiday resort, ,my friends clearly said "There's no Mcdonalds, KFC, burger king or Supermacs in this town", which was immediately followed by me saying "So, are gonna go look for a Supermacs?"

One time, I was making coffee at the clubhouse. Another member asked me why water was dripping into the coffee pot. I realized that I forgot to put the coffee grinds into the paper filter. I'm making the tea from now on. You guys can make your own damn coffee!

Man ryan, I used to do this often enough when younger. I'd draw weird looks or even lose credibility with these mental mistakes.

The irony is my executive functioning is better now than in my 20's.

The irony: I've read a few anecdotes of 'ADD executive dysfunction' getting better with age. The theory is that being a (non pervasive)developmental disorder itself lends to it a later onset development. I can testify to this. I'm still impaired though, and it is life time.

One morning I left the house to walk to the train station.Then I thought to myself "Blast ! I've forgotten my watch.I wonder if I've got time to go back for it ? ". So,I looked to see what the time was (at the watch,on my wrist) and decided I had a good 10 minutes to spare.
After a minute back in the house searching for my watch,it suddenly dawned on me what I was doing !

Another time I'd just finished my first day at a new job,when I said 'Good Night' and walked into a storage cupboard by mistake.

Hahahahaha, I've done something similar looking for my glasses. About five minutes into searching, I happened to glance in the mirror and saw them on my face.

When I'm conscious.

Recently, a friend of mine drove me home from a club meeting. I left my backpack in his car by accident, and he informed me of this a few days later. I had to go a week without my backpack before he returned it to me.

Most of my scatterbrain moments usually involve me leaving one of my belongings somewhere.

In second grade, I zoned out while I was taking off my winter coat and continued to strip in front of the whole class. I realized what was happening and stopped before I showed any underwear. The majority of the class just watched very amused. They laughed but for some reason never teased me about it.

One day, I wrote a number of checks all from the wrong checkbook. It was a closed account. I didn't even know I had any checkbooks left from that account. I realized it when I went to make a deposit at the bank. I had to go around town replacing all those checks with good ones. Only the grocery store wouldn't do it. They told me that the headquarters would contact me. I contacted them first but they wanted to wait for the check. They never contacted me. Instead it went into the State's Bad Check Program and I received a letter for that. In the Bad Check Program, you pay the amount of the NSF check plus a lot of added fees for the program. For a dumb error on my part, this was really outrageous. But I resolved to pay it to get this done with.... and then promptly FORGOT! Six months later, a Sheriff Deputy served me with a summons from the State Attorney's Office. Oops! So now I have a third degree misdemeanor for something that I tried to resolve one hour after it happened. I just stopped writing checks altogether. Too much trouble!

Then there's the standard and often routine of going to the store to buy one thing, and buying several things except for the one thing I went in there for. Or wandering the parking lot because I forgot which car I drove to the store so I cannot locate or remember where I parked, just repeatedly pushing the "lock/alarm" button and following the beep like a dumb game of Marco Polo.

i've walked into other people's apartments before. that's why i always lock mine.

A couple of weeks ago Lace-Bane only plugged in his guitar cable into his amp, but not his guitar and thought something was wrong so he cranked the volume to no result, he then realized the cable wasn't plugged into his guitar... so he plugged it in and still nothing happened (A bad response to begin with even without the next part ) which had him quite upset . Then he realized the amp was on standby (Tube amp) and foolishly flicked the switch off standby ... which mortified him and probably the neighbors with an explosive screech and howl from his amp

I wanted to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. At the time I had organic peanut butter, which had to be refrigerated. Of course, having been refigerated the peanut butter was quite thick and not able to be spread easily. I had a brilliant idea. I'll put it in the microwave, lid off, for about 30 seconds to soften it up. I proceeded to do so. After a few seconds I heard a strange buzzing sound. I looked at the microwave and, for the first time ever, saw weird lights dancing in the window. I stopped the microwave, opened it, and carefully removed the jar of peanut butter. Apparently, I overlooked the little bit of foil that was still around the rim of the jar after I first opened it. The plastic had melted and the peanut butter looked charred.

I did not have my peanut butter and jelly sandwich that day.

Hmm, other than wearing clothes inside out ? (Regular occurrence but embarassing to have colleagues point out your labels are on the outside)

I make a cup of tea, put the milk in, then go to put the cup of hot tea in the fridge... and the occasional box of cornflakes has made it into the fridge too. I'd not done it for a while until the tomato ketchup nearly went into the washing machine, that's a new one even for me

At college I once got convinced it was lunchtime an hour early & sat in a near deserted canteen, eating my sandwich & wondering where all the other people had gone. After an hour I realised I should have been in a class, so I turned up - just as everyone else was leaving - & said to the teacher 'you'll not believe this, but...' & explained. The teacher laughed, joking that I was right, she didn't believe it!

Fitting an x-dimensional brain into a y-dimensional spacetime doesn't work out well apparantly. That and living alone so you can be as wierd as you like and nobody points out which way gravity is working today

When I was little, our family had this TV that would turn on if you pulled the button and then turn off when you pushed it in. Well, the TV itself was broken because I loved the sound of that button so much.