Funny absent minded things we do (Con’t) | ADHD Information

That's better than going to school with pajamas on and having to go back home. heheNeed your opinion....I started this (con't) Topic cuz other one has 11 pages. What do you think? Add to that one, or add to this one?

I just put my coffee in the frig to heat it up.    How long do you think it will take? GypsyWomyn38456.5003356481How about turning up at work with one black and one brown shoe, also waving my car keys at the electronic lock at the entrance to my office, and waving my electronic key at the coffee machine in work.  The last two happen regularly, the first doesn't happen anymore as I now keep every pair of shoes I own in a different room of the house.  Oh yes, and regularly phoning clients and forgetting why I phoned them. 

One time I went to class with 2 different shoes on!  They were both nikey tennis shoes(I have about 4 pairs) and they were kinda similar.  I was sooo embarassed.  I recognized that I did this when I seen my professor subsequently looking at my feet.  I just left in the middle of class ansd went home.

Oh, and about the fridge thing, I couldn't count how many times I would find my cereal or bread in the fridge!

There's lots of funny things I do, but one really annoying one is I can never keep track of what I spend my money on. I am better if on payday I transfer most of it to pay bills, and then live on for the next fortnight. At least it goes somewhere useful.

I take out thinking it will last me X days, and the next minute I have none left and no idea where it went.

I thought of one... I constantly, in fact at least a few times a week, pack my bag with specific items to take with me, but when I get out I realise I have not brought the thing, even though I remember making a point of packing that item.

I really do pick it up, put it in my bag, but somehow it's not in the bag later and I didn't put it in there properly, I just thought I did. 

 

That's a good one Mark!

How many of you have taken a HUGE tin of chocolate drink powder, put some in a glass and then poured the milk into the tin instead of the glass. AAAaarrgghhhh!

 

One morning a few years back, I came home after a big night out and my mum was already up vacuuming at 6.30am.

I didn't want to get in trouble for drinkinhg, so I quickly brushed my teeth and grabbed the bottle of Listerine, and took a big swig out of the bottle. After about 2 seconds I spat it out in horror.

When I looked at the bottle I noticed how similar Listerine is to generic brand Antiseptic Liquid!

It pretty much burnt off every taste bud in my mouth and I couldn't taste anything for 3 weeks until they started to grow back again. Even a Mars Bar tasted like Vaseline for a while.

I'm still living it down...

 

Exactly as sonya_h except instead of milk and orange juice, custard on my dinner, gravy on my dessert.  Then result was not pleasant.

 

ELIZA: speaking of cereal, have you ever poured and nice bowl of cereal with "milk".....accept after you tasted it, you realized you poured orange juice into your cereal and milk into your glass?oh, oops...i just read your post chocoholic!!! we are more alike than ever!1

[QUOTE=sonya_h]speaking of cereal, have you ever poured and nice bowl of cereal with "milk".....accept after you tasted it, you realized you poured orange juice into your cereal and milk into your glass?[/QUOTE]

When I was a kid, I tried that out of desperation. I wanted a bowl of cereal *really* bad, but we had no milk. I figured that orange juice, while not ideal, would be an acceptable substitute. It wasn't.

Tap water is also not a suitable substitute for milk in cereal.

Mmmmm, my oj sure tasted good this morning with the milk I poured in that was supposed to go in the cereal bowl sitting right beside it. (actually, it was nasty- dont try it!)

This was an absent-minded episode caused by alcohol, not ADHD, and it happened to a friend.  The guy returned from the pub after a night on the ale, and fancied a bowl of cereal.  OK, he pours cereal into a bowl, adds milk and sugar, and starts to eat... spits it out

You'd be surprised how much 'Kit-e-Kat Munchies' dried catfood can look like a box of cereal after a few pints of Theakston's Old Peculier...

(I know it's nothing to do with ADHD, but I still laugh at this even though it happened 20 years ago).

Mark -

Mark Goode38459.2979166667I've been doing OK for about a week on my Straterra. Seemed like a wonder drug. THen on thursday I think it wore off. That morning I left the house in my dog walking clothes, forgot to eat breakfast, forgot my cell phone and forgot to give my daughter her Adderall. If she hadn't spoken up I would have gone to work in sweats and hungry. So I turn the car around and go back to the house and forget my phone a second time.  I have visited this post a few times and forgot what I was going say.

that's funny Kay's mom!

Yesterday morning I left my house and got out to the car and then I realised I left my phone behind, so went back to get that, and also found I had left my watch, diary and lunch on the bench too!

I'm on Strattera too, hadn't started working for the day yet, obviously!

[QUOTE=Reizende]That's better than going to school with pajamas on and having to go back home. hehe[/QUOTE]

Haha. I did that once. I walked right into my prof's office.
I went to work one time with the hot rollers still in my head. I realized it half way there and just played it off cutsie and with charm. Thankfully the people were cool about it.

I've locked my keys in my running car.

A big thing that I have worked VERY, VERY hard at often not doing if that's possible is NOT KNOWING WHERE I PLACED MY CAR KEYS and I have got to go some place. One thing I've started also doing aside from having ONE PLACE to always set them, if I can remember to do that, is I give myself good time to make sure I know where they are prior to needing them.

How many of us have misplaced our cell phones. That's not so bad as we can call it to hear where it might be but what about those times where we've shut it off for awhile THEN have to look for it?   I thought all women kept a spare set of keys in thier purse!!
 
Twice in the past year, I've locked my keys in my car while I was pumping gas. 
I would take my keys out, set them on the passanger seat, grab a pile of trash to throw out, pump gas, go to pay and not have my purse or keys.  I blocked access to the gas pump--the gas station attendents were eager to help me break into my car!!  After the first time, I put a hidden key on the outside of my car too!

If I were a guy, I would HAVE to have a 'man purse' or at least a back pack or briefcase! talking to myself in my head:  "Don't forget your coffee mug and lunch...don't forget your coffee mug and lunch...don't forget your coffee mug and lunch..."


10 minutes on the highway:  "SH*T! I forgot my coffee mug and lunch!"
[QUOTE=Jillette]   And today I topped yesterdays. After leaving the police station for my stolen liscense plate I locked my keys in the car. I am glad I always carry a spare set. LOL[/QUOTE]


Holy cow! I thought I was the only person who carried a spare set of car keys in their purse. Like a ditzie ritual I had for when I would lock myself out of the car, as I've done more then once.

I was so glad to see you do that too. Makes me feel better and like I don't have a secret to be embarassed about.

I love it when I leave the house without putting on deodorant--I keep some in my glove box.

 I also (less frequently thank god) forget to put on a bra.  I should keep one of those in my glove box too I suppose. 

 I like to put a blob of shaving cream on my palm to shave my legs, then I promptly  lather it up and massage it into my hair—on my head. I’ve also put shampoo in my arm pits to shave the pits!! Sometime I’m out in public wearing a pretty little skirt when I realize I’ve only shaved ONE leg!!

 I misplaced my dog’s leash a few weeks ago--finally had to go buy him another—I still haven’t found it.  I checked the freezer, dog food tin, filing cabinet, laundry basket—all the usual places.

So I take my kids to the pediatrician yesterday, and get ready to write the check for the copay. Only I blank out between realizing I need my checkbook and doing the writing.
When I come back "to," I find that I'm standing at the counter with my pen poised carefully over the baby wipe case I've gotten out of my purse trying to figure out why the heck I'm getting ready to write on baby wipes. Got a really wierd look from the office assistant. Hey Sakura, I also keep deoderant in the glovebox. Is that smart thinking or what- we're geniuses!!

And Jillette, I went to a park for an hour stroll with the baby, and came back to find my van side door wide open w/ a load full of brush blown in there by the wind. Glad it didnt rain! I didnt feel too bad though, bc I went to by the library drop box a few days later and there was a van sitting in the parking lot, lights on and door wide open. I called the library and asked them to let the patrons know- figured it was someone just like me.  And today I topped yesterdays. After leaving the police station for my stolen liscense plate I locked my keys in the car.  I am glad I always carry a spare set. LOLwhat's wrong with cereals ??

i've done a lot of silly things but i never got in trouble with my cereals Just today since I drive around doing homevisits most of my days I had to go to the bathroom so bad i stopped at a supermarket to use theirs and when i returned to my car I realized i left my door wide open.  I am glad nothing was touched or it would be my neck confidentiality law.