Nincompoopish/ditzy behaviour.

Eve_Dublin

Today, for about the 10th time this year so far, I absent-mindedly took out my front door keys instead of my monthly travel pass to get through the turnstile on the Metro (it doesn't work...don't try).


Last week I dipped my bookmark into my coffee instead of a biscuit in a cafe (not tasty).


Caught myself saying out loud a few weeks ago, "Now, what else do I have to do?" in a public place surrounded by people.


Almost used nail polish remover to remove eye-make up recently as well.

And I'm always wearing my clothes inside out and not realising 'till later in the day.

My head is up my arse and in the clouds 90% of the time. Fact.


This is the story of my life. Anyone else prone to this kind of nincompoopery?

im invisible

poop

biko

I almost hit another driver on the M50 typing this post.

MickySticks

I tried to ring a friend the other day.... with the sky remote. :rolleyes:

Captain Graphite

Luckily I only tend to do those kind of things when I'm stressed (or drunk). Last year right before an exam I was getting coffee, opened a sachet of sugar and proceeded to pour it straight into the bin instead of into my mug. Was a waste of good sugar, that.

sinjin_smythe

you are a woman, it is in your nature

token101

I'm constantly throwing spoons in the bin when I'm finished stirring coffee/tea with them.

Superbus

Nincompoopish? That word is rather uncromulent.

Siuin

Wore my glasses into the shower a fair few times, and because the recycling bin is beside the laundry basket I've thrown a fair few knickers into it XD oops

Eve_Dublin

Superbus wrote: »

Nincompoopish? That word is rather uncromulent.

It's a great word. Uncromulent is fairly decent too.

earpiece

Not me... but my mother about a month ago rang to say she and my dad would stop by on their way home from my sisters - - - - she rang back 5 minutes later and said they wouldn't be calling by - because they came on the train!!

Eve_Dublin

earpiece wrote: »

Not me... but my mother about a month ago rang to say she and my dad would stop by on their way home from my sisters - - - - she rang back 5 minutes later and said they wouldn't be calling by - because they came on the train!!

Brilliant!

Shryke

A couple of times I've taken out my keys and then unlocked my car. After unlocking my car I put my keys back in my pocket and get into the car and go to start it.

mackg

Captain Graphite wrote: »

Luckily I only tend to do those kind of things when I'm stressed (or drunk). Last year right before an exam I was getting coffee, opened a sachet of sugar and proceeded to pour it straight into the bin instead of into my mug. Was a waste of good sugar, that.

token101 wrote: »

I'm constantly throwing spoons in the bin when I'm finished stirring coffee/tea with them.

I've done both of these recently.

My big one is leaving the house, getting half the way up the road and the not remembering whether I closed the front door or not. I go back check leave again only to once again not be able to remember whether the door was closed or not

There is also the never ending search for where I left my glasses.

I also had a terrible habit (which I have thankfully broken) of going duhhhhhh when I was trying to think of something.

Finally around an hour ago I was making a hot dog, got mustard on my finger, got distracted by a cat in the garden then proceeded to rub my eye with my mustard covered finger.

Snowie

was re-setting my mums phone its got buttons I touched the screen

Ted_YNWA

Have often take out swipe card for work to open front door of house.

The Snipe

Few months back, opened a box of fags walking down the road with a friend, borrowed his lighter, and as we were standing near the bin, I went to put the plastic into the bin, but threw in his lighter. And held onto the rubbish.


Which would be grand, if he didn't want to smoke one too!

I poured a dollop of milk onto a bowl of cheesecake instead of into my cup of tea.

SteoL

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Have often take out swipe card for work to open front door of house.

I've done the opposite- took house keys out instead of swipe card in work

MungBean

Walking on a treadmill and got an itch so lifted my leg to scratch it, didnt end well.

Fizzlesque

I was making a packet white sauce and it was quite lumpy, so I took out the vegetable colander to strain it, and proceeded to pour all liquid down the sink and retained all the lumps in the colander.

One rainy day I was at home, and I went downstairs to get a glass of 7-up. As I picked up the fizzing glass of 7-UP, I wondered to myself if the rain had stopped yet, and when I felt a few drops of 7-UP fizz land on my hand I thought 'no, still raining'. It took me a few moments to realise (a) I was indoors, where it doesn't rain, and (b) it was the effervescent bubbling of my drink that I was feeling, not dancing drops of rain.

Another time, this time in the late evening, I was heading up to bed so I decided to call my cats in for the night. So off I went out the back and started calling them. When they didn't appear I turned to go back inside and there stood my two cats, bleary-eyed and confused, wondering why I'd roused them from their cosy snooze-spots, in the same room I'd been in all night, and called them out into the back garden.

I'm sure there's more that I just can't think of right now, because I regularly hear myself say 'ya big eejit' about myself when I've done something that is nincompoopish in nature.

Susie_Q

Worst instance of sheer nincompoopery (kudos OP) was queuing in a shop for about 15 mins, by the time I got to the top of the queue I forgot why I was there. Had to slink away awkwardly in front of loads of pissed off people... half an hour later I remembered I was after a box of matches. Lots of duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh going on there.

keithb93

I put my bowl of cookie crisps into the fridge and put the milk carton in the bin before.

Ted_YNWA

SteoL wrote: »

I've done the opposite- took house keys out instead of swipe card in work

did that as well ..

keithb93

keithb93 wrote: »

I put my bowl of cookie crisps into the fridge and put the milk carton in the bin before.

Opened the press with the glasses, took one out, stuck the milk into the press and walked off with an empty glass the odd time...

token101

mackg wrote: »

I've done both of these recently.

My big one is leaving the house, getting half the way up the road and the not remembering whether I closed the front door or not. I go back check leave again only to once again not be able to remember whether the door was closed or not
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Every single time before a night out, I'll be outside the door, but I have to go back inside my house and check the back window and the kitchen sockets. It's like mild, manageable OCD.

Lately, everytime I walk the dog he comes back with dog sh*t all over his paw. When I'm cleaning it off, he always looks pissed off and kind of gives a look at me as if to say 'Well it's not my fault, you're holding the f***ing lead'

I'd a really bad habit for a while of dumping relevant post by getting distracted reading junk mail leaflets. I'm reasonably confident I dumped a grant cheque in the UK doing this. Took 6 weeks to get reissued

EdenHazard

im ditzy by nature but i gets ramped up by 10 when I wear headphones...sounds waves interrupt my

Stuff I've done,
walked into revolving door window more than once(so sore)
put milk bottle into microwave
salt into coffee/tea
hopped out of my dads car at traffic lights on main road, walked away with door open
way more but i can't remember

Eve_Dublin

These stories are feckin' gas...delighted I'm not the only one.




Thought of another one. Used to live in London and had been living in a new flat for about 6 months. One day I was coming home from work from the Tube station and forgot where I lived. Wandered around for a good 10 minutes trying to remember where the feck I'd misplaced me gaf.

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy-arama!!

Defiler Of The Coffin

Wore mismatched shoes to school once.

Misused an air hose once

WindSock

I had spent a whole day this one time painting christmassy pics onto several windows in a hospital. Anyway by the time I was finished I was in a mad daze, went to the local shop to pick up something and couldn't get out the door. I was there for ages pushing against it, astonished that it wouldn't open for us.
The girl at the counter and another bloke were saying something but it went completely over my head until the bloke eventually walked over and pulled the door open for me

languagenerd

I'm always doing stuff like that.

In school, I was forever trying to open my locker with my house key (had them on different keyrings and all, so there was no excuse). In college, I've been late for a tutorial because I was sitting with one equally-lost friend in the classroom one floor above the one we were supposed to be in (Where is everyone?! It can't be just the two of us, someone else has to show... And it's gone 5 past now, he's running late, isn't he? ).

I walk into coffee tables all the time if I get distracted by the TV, the window or someone else in the room. We had the same coffee table in the same place for about 5 years (right in the middle of the room, too), and I'd walk into it at least once a week. Was delighted to discover that our new, smaller one fits in a corner instead!

Once typed "boats.ie" instead of "boards.ie" and was confused as to why it wouldn't work.

Today I spent ages crawling on the floor looking under shelves etc. for a missing scissors... only to find it on my desk, which is right inside the door.

And, not quite the same thing, but I recently said "Oh, fuck off!" to a book in the library because it wasn't about the topic I was researching...

humbert

I've nearly driven myself batty looking for my glasses only to find myself wearing them.

MagicMarker

I poured milk into a bowl before the rice krispies!! :eek:

confusticated

Can't find my phone, look all over the house for it, in the end in desperation I pull my phone out of my pocket to ring it.



and have actually dialled it once

Teyla Emmagan

Have thanked the ATM a load of times. Generally in front of about 15 people

Ben D Bus

I was doing the ironing. The phone rang. But they were very good about it in the burns unit

The Snipe

The ammount of times I've looked like an idiot where I needed to get milk or bread, and walk to the local shop. Walk in the door. Forget what I had to get, and then proceed to turn around and walk back out.

Twee.

Assembled some cereal and then put the milk away in the press for the bowls.

Brother locked me out of the house one day, was on the phone to my ex, he said "Just ring him to let you in", checked my pockets and yelled "But I haven't got my phone!"

Skylinehead

Always get a mini-panic looking for something (usually phone), frantically check pockets/bag/everything....it's in my hand.

Laura_lolly87

I was on my way to college on day and I could not remember if i had turned the hair straightner off. I texted my neighbour and asked her to look out her window and see if my house was on fire. I asked her if she would phone the fire brigade if it was

Rocky_Dennis

Yesterday evening, I went to the off licence, paid for my drink and cigarettes with my laser card and walked out of the off licence without my card and my purchases.

Last week I went into the chipper and asked for a regular burger with ketchup, onions and cheese. Assistant says to me "that's a cheeseburger luv"

I'm away with the birds at the best of times

GLaDOS

More than once I've been looking for my glasses while wearing them.

ConmanTheKiller

About a month ago, I decided to make a cup of tea. So I got the milk, sugar and tea bag ready. Boiled the kettle and then proceeded to pour its contents into the sugar bowl.

I did it again this morning.

Went to a cafe, got a coffee, went over to the condiments table (you know, the type with a hole in the middle that's a bin), took two sugar packets, shook them, ripped off the tops, tenderly poured them into the bin and put the packets in my coffee.

Daisy M

I call my children by each others names, even calling the boy one of the girls names. On occassion I call my youngest daughter by my younger sisters name (I think I am stepping back in time there) I have also gotten up and headed in the direction of my bedroom except I am heading in the direction of the bedroom in my home house where I havent lived in 20 years. Also this is the worst, I have gone to grab the sky remote to rewind a real life situation and felt disapointment when it wont work:o

Chuck Stone

Have walked away from shopping after paying for it at the till in the supermarket.

Left the car in town and got the bus home once.

Went to the kitchen tap to get a light for my cig once (when I used to shmoke).

What frightens me is the ones you'll never know about. I've driven through a crossroads a couple of times and had a nagging suspicion that the lights were red after a few seconds - they probably weren't but you never know.

Palytoxin

If I'm walking along on my own, thinking away about something, I always get this feeling that I just said my train of thought out loud, and then I'm not sure if I did or not, and then I have to check are there any other people around that might have heard me and think I'm crazy :pac:, and sometimes while I'm thinking I move my mouth as if I'm saying the words, without knowing it, catch myself doing it, and then check again if anybody is giving me weird looks

beks101

I do these kind of things constantly.

Got into a lift this morning, waited a minute, walked back out assuming it was out of order. Then realised I hadn't pressed the button.

Took the right bus in the wrong direction to a friend of mine's house, didn't realise until I found myself in a ghetto on the other side of town.

Tried to take money out of an ATM with my shoppers points card.

Spent two hours looking for my work pass before giving in, cancelling it and ordering a new one...found it in my pocket five minutes later.

I've lost count of the amount of walls I've walked into while texting on the go.

And I've had to cancel two passports on this gem: putting something *REALLY IMPORTANT* in an unusual, private place that 'I couldn't possibly forget' - only to completely forget where that place is and end up losing it forever.

Oh and having to return to the house every day to make sure I've switched off my hair straightener - which I always have. I've started to say out loud 'you are unplugging your hair straightener now Beks' every time just so I actually remember when I'm halfway down the street and start to panic.

Taco Corp

I often go looking for my glasses.....when I'm wearing them

admiralofthefleet

the odd time when im still half asleep ive put the coffee jar into the fridge and the milk into the press.