Times your brain doesn't engage :/

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Thought I would share this with you -

I work in car sales and have done for years now, Citroen is one of our franchises and recently we have had delivered a brand new DS5 HYBRID electric thingy.

Anyway I jumped in the thing the other day to take it for a drive, pressed the button waiting for the engine to start and.. nothing... lights came on but nothing else...

i spent ten minutes pressing buttons, turning it on and off, swearing etc (with the rest of the sales team ****ing themselves at me) before realising that it's an electric car and the engine wasn't going to start no matter what I pressed :D

Anyone out there with similair stories of brain function failure..?
 
This is why you shouldn't post these threads as people like me will bring it up in 10 years time and you will still feel the pain of embarrassment.
 
Standing in front of a gas turbine electric generator I ask "So how is the steam made by the (rotating) turbine then?"... :o

One of those moments where as soon as you finish the sentence you realise what you just said...!
 
Went to fry an egg, but turned the wrong ring on, smothered the pan in lard, like, forcefully as I was annoyed it wasn't melting down to oil.

Meanwhile, other ring was boiling some water inside a closed pan, until the lid flew off, water everywhere.

:(
 
Waking up and putting glasses on head......being confused as to why my vision is the same as it is without the glasses.

Then realising I never took my contacts out before bed. Now thats a confusing moment.


Similar to the electric car thing is waiting a while for someone to get into the car (with the engine running) and turning the key to start the engine and wondering why it's making that awful noise :p
 
Just had one now actually, I was trying to restart the Squid service and was typing 'sudo squid restart' instead of 'sudo service squid restart', so it kept on throwing a message telling me that Squid is already running... "Yes, I know it's running... and I want it to restart" is what was running through my head, it did begin to frustrate me until I discovered what I was doing.
 
Making tea and toast.

End up taking the bread, butter and milk and shoving them in the fridge. Get back to take my tea and toast and realize what I've done. Derp.
 
just today i turned the kettle on put my tea bag in some sugar.. went to the tap and poured some water in my cup.. :/
 
Resident said:
Similar to this, I put my cup of tea back in the fridge and walked to my desk with the bottle of milk.
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Fridges seem to confuse people :) I've put a jar of instant coffee "back" in the fridge instead of the cupboard. I didn't notice until I went to make another mug some hours later and spent a little time wondering how on earth I'd managed to lose the jar of coffee from the cupboard.

A couple of summers ago I'd had a shower and washed my hair (waist length at that time) and was going to bed. It was hot, so I had some windows open. When I was closing the upstairs back bedroom window, I brushed against the curtain. A few seconds later, I freaked out at the slug on my shoulder...until my brain engaged and told me that it was rather more likely to be a strand of my hair.

It's a sign of genius.

Geniuses (Genii?) are known for being absent-minded, therefore being absent-minded is a sign of genius, QED :)
 
Angilion said:
Fridges seem to confuse people :) I've put a jar of instant coffee "back" in the fridge instead of the cupboard. I didn't notice until I went to make another mug some hours later and spent a little time wondering how on earth I'd managed to lose the jar of coffee from the cupboard.

A couple of summers ago I'd had a shower and washed my hair (waist length at that time) and was going to bed. It was hot, so I had some windows open. When I was closing the upstairs back bedroom window, I brushed against the curtain. A few seconds later, I freaked out at the slug on my shoulder...until my brain engaged and told me that it was rather more likely to be a strand of my hair.

It's a sign of genius.

Geniuses (Genii?) are known for being absent-minded, therefore being absent-minded is a sign of genius, QED :)
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Often I'm working on several projects at once and I'll go to do something menial like making a cuppa for myself and I'll either get to the kettle or actually begin preparing my cup and have an idea about a project and then think "what did I come here for" and go and action the idea only to get to my desk and remember that I wanted a cuppa.

Oh and I was once in the car about to depart when I suddenly panic'd that I couldn't find my car keys. It wasn't till I turned the engine off and removed them from the ignition, with the intent on going back in the house to look for them, that I realised. I actually facepalmed myself for that one.

If that makes any sense, not sure it does. I think.
 
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Sometimes when I read things my brain can't understand it, like really simple things. It's only started happening the last year or so but it's really frustrating.
 
I once found an ID card on the road outside of base (military) while on my way back from a run.

I didn't recognise the picture, so I handed it to the guard on the gate as I entered. I said "I don't know who's it is.", instantly feeling like an absolute chump :D
 
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