General Discussion

I found this reddit thread that just made me thoroughly lmao, so I thought I'd start one here. There has been one FR thread that is a little like it, but it was abandoned a couple of years ago.

The idea is that everyone has those moments where your brain recognizes a pattern in your behavior and then starts to fill in the blanks to get certain tasks done easily. For instance, you walk down a hallway and, without much thought, turn into the classroom/office/bedroom you normally go into. No thought required.

The problem comes in when your brain misses something in the pattern. One of the best examples on the original thread was someone taking off their belt at airport security and, instead of moving along in the line, they proceeded to lower their zipper as though they were in the bathroom.

So, I'll start with my own story, though it's not nearly as funny as others I've read:

I had recently moved to a new apartment complex after living in the last one for eight years. About a month after we'd moved, I went to a nearby grocery store to get a few things. Afterward, I turned the right direction to go to my new home, but ended up driving right by the new place and didn't realize my error until I was pulling into my old parking space, four miles away!

A few years ago, my phone ringing in the middle of the night. So I did the sane thing, picked it up and grogglily said Hello. No one was on.
No one was in fact calling me. It was the alarm, as it had been for years. Damnit. And not many people ever call me, so why the hell was that my first reaction. My tired brain is the worst.

Another fun thing is my internal autocorrect. I sometimes write entirely wrong words on accident and only notice much, much later. It's especially fun if it mixes English and German. This happens more commonly when tired.

It's also fun if you get up and ready to go to work, but then find out you've either gotten a day of or it's a holiday.
But even if it is in fact a workday, as soon as things get out of flow in my morning routine, things may be critical. Like sitting in the bus and thinking 'Damn, I really need to pee. How could I forget that'. At least I've so far always managed to wear clothes. My tired brain is amazing.

I went to school once wearing my shirt inside out all day. No one told me.

Gosh this was during last semester's finals week. I was going through a drive through to get some lunch (but not a drink because I already had one). I order and pull up to the window where the guy just hands me a drink because I apparently just ordered a drink and no food. I pay for it then park in the parking lot because now I have two drinks and no food. I can't go back through the drink through because he will know I was just there. Its very cold and raining so I'm not about to go in, that's how I gave up and just went back to campus to get food in the cafeteria.

I had a fever today so my whole day was on auto pilot.

First I accidentally set my alarm a half an hour early, so I accidentally left home a half an hour early. And I had no where to go for a whole half an hour so I just drove around the neighborhood trying to skid on the ice.

Someone asked for 'a couple' of things today and my question back to them was 'so, five or six?' not the usual 'one or two?' like I normally ask. Possibly because I just measured something six times before...?

I've been trying to buy ONE THING at my work for the past week, and I keep walking out before I remember to buy it. And I feel stupid walking back in, so I just go home without it.

Walked out of my kitchen today with about 20 toothpicks instead of a drink.

Today was an off day.

had a bowl of cereal on my left, a bowl of pasta on my right, and a carton of milk in my hand

poured the goshdarned milk in the diddly darn pasta

We used to keep grocery bags in a closet in the kitchen, and even though we've since moved where we keep bags for a long time now, I still find myself opening the closet when I'm looking for them.

Wherever I'm going downstairs I always make sure to grab a bottle of water before I do, and then once I go downstairs and see that I already have one (or two) down there from earlier.

90% of the time whenever I've just used the backdoor I lock it behind me immediately out of habit, even if my family or a family member is right outside and getting ready to come in.... Then I hear banging on the door and realize "oh..."