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What absent minded things have you done recently?

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MyPinkTraybake · 19/09/2025 20:54

I've gone to cook some pasta. It's not difficult. It's egg filled pasta plus water. It has a butter with it.

What I've done is put the pasta in a saucepan, scraped the solid butter from its pot with some effort, and attempted to mix it with the uncooked pasta with a wooden spoon over a hot stove. For some minutes.

Before realising that perhaps removing this buttery mess and adding some water to cook the pasta would be useful.

Help me feel better 😂

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CoffeeLipstickKeys · 19/09/2025 21:01

Put my keys in freezer when putting away frozen items
Then spent hours looking for said keys
Keys now have an air tag on them

BeMellowAquaSquid · 19/09/2025 21:03

This week I put a wash load on as I was doing the school lunches, I put a whole tub of clover in the washing machine didn’t realise until I heard the clunking of the washing machine

GlowWorm13 · 19/09/2025 21:10

Yesterday we had fajitas and everything was on the table except the wraps. They had been on the counter minutes before but were now nowhere to be seen. I went around and around in circles trying to locate them. Meanwhile, Ds dropped his knife on the floor and went to get a clean one out of the cutlery drawer and there on top of the cutlery were the wraps! I had got the scissors out of the drawer to cut open the salsa packet and instead of putting the scissors back in the drawer and the wraps on the table, I’d put the scissors on the table and the wraps in the drawer! Fgs.

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autienotnaughty · 19/09/2025 21:11

Couldn’t lock my locker at the gym and my pound wouldn’t come out. Got a member of staff, I’d put the pound in a locker 2 doors down.

Lost my gym card, found in 5 days later. Went to the gym, this was the card I lost 3 months ago.

TheNightingalesStarling · 19/09/2025 21:13

Not me... DD lost her tie. Ended up giving her money to buy a new one at school on the way in.

She found it halfway through the day in her pocket!

Motherofalittledragon · 19/09/2025 21:15

Lost 3 months supply of my HRT patches!

UtterlyOtterly · 19/09/2025 21:19

Put my Nectar card into the ATM outside the bank. Or tried to... Went into the bank to tell them the ATM was jammed. Nice young man kindly explained the problem (but probably laughed his head off after I went).

clinellwipe · 19/09/2025 21:26

Forgotten how to use the zip on my coat after not wearing it over the summer - took it to a tailor as I thought the zip was broken as I couldn’t do it up, she straight away demonstrated how to use the perfectly functioning zip 🫣 She laughed and told me I need some coffee (had gone in with my toddler and baby)

Pengane · 19/09/2025 21:29

BeMellowAquaSquid · 19/09/2025 21:03

This week I put a wash load on as I was doing the school lunches, I put a whole tub of clover in the washing machine didn’t realise until I heard the clunking of the washing machine

😅

CoffeeLipstickKeys · 19/09/2025 21:51

BeMellowAquaSquid · 19/09/2025 21:03

This week I put a wash load on as I was doing the school lunches, I put a whole tub of clover in the washing machine didn’t realise until I heard the clunking of the washing machine

lol, I have a very visual sense of humour I’m seeing that clover clumping about like a yellow brick

SecretNameforMN · 19/09/2025 22:01

I went out to get some cash from the machine.And whilst I was out decided to do a couple of other little errands as well. When I got back home , I realized that I'd forgotten to get the cash out!

squashgummies · 19/09/2025 22:04

A friend of mine once walked to the petrol station to fill up her car 😂

DinoLil · 19/09/2025 22:08

Noooooooo!!! These are hilarious! And are making me feel so much better about my life!!

CoffeeLipstickKeys · 19/09/2025 22:11

Had a whole queue of exasperated commuters behind me as I repeatedly tried to swipe out with a nectar card. Complaining loudly when staff arrived that the barrier was faulty. Until he said really SLOWLY that’s a nectar card as if I was really fick

autienotnaughty · 20/09/2025 06:47

I have on more than one occasion looked for my phone, whilst talking to someone on my phone!!

BeMellowAquaSquid · 20/09/2025 10:43

CoffeeLipstickKeys · 19/09/2025 21:51

lol, I have a very visual sense of humour I’m seeing that clover clumping about like a yellow brick

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My towels are ridiculously soft!

nosleepforthewickedx2 · 20/09/2025 11:03

My sister was on the wind up and text me saying she had lost her phone and could I ring it for her please….what did I do 😂 only realised when she answered absolutely pissing herself

Catpiece · 20/09/2025 11:12

Put a John Frieda Frizz Ease in the salad drawer of the fridge when I was unpacking the shopping.

Echobelly · 20/09/2025 11:13

Was on a weekend away abroad last week with a friend and we were visiting the mountains. I had an odd feeling of 'what did I do with the car keys?' as I put my coat on and thought nothing of it and went for lunch and then wandering for a few hours.

Got back to the car. No car keys. Panic. I go to a shop where they might have fallen out of my bag, but if they're not there or the car park - after I go I message my friend to ask car park attendent - they could be in the train we took right to the top or back or somewhere by the lake there.

Not at the shop. Friend calls me - car park guy had them, they were on the ground by the car, I must have dropped them while putting on my coat. 😳I tried to give him ten euros to say thanks, but he refused it. I had a feeling they'd turn up but was wondering what the hell to do if not, as we hired the car in a place some distance away.

TheNightingalesStarling · 20/09/2025 11:22

Echobelly · 20/09/2025 11:13

Was on a weekend away abroad last week with a friend and we were visiting the mountains. I had an odd feeling of 'what did I do with the car keys?' as I put my coat on and thought nothing of it and went for lunch and then wandering for a few hours.

Got back to the car. No car keys. Panic. I go to a shop where they might have fallen out of my bag, but if they're not there or the car park - after I go I message my friend to ask car park attendent - they could be in the train we took right to the top or back or somewhere by the lake there.

Not at the shop. Friend calls me - car park guy had them, they were on the ground by the car, I must have dropped them while putting on my coat. 😳I tried to give him ten euros to say thanks, but he refused it. I had a feeling they'd turn up but was wondering what the hell to do if not, as we hired the car in a place some distance away.

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A few years ago, DH managed to leave our car keys in the roof box lock in the car park of a heritage railway. We saw our open roof box from the train as we passed by two hours later.
The guard on the train was able to tell us our keys had been retrieved and were in safekeeping in the gift shop and to just enjoy our trip. They knew we would be somewhere on the network

Strangers can be amazingly kind.

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MyPinkTraybake · 20/09/2025 21:00

GlowWorm13 · 19/09/2025 21:10

Yesterday we had fajitas and everything was on the table except the wraps. They had been on the counter minutes before but were now nowhere to be seen. I went around and around in circles trying to locate them. Meanwhile, Ds dropped his knife on the floor and went to get a clean one out of the cutlery drawer and there on top of the cutlery were the wraps! I had got the scissors out of the drawer to cut open the salsa packet and instead of putting the scissors back in the drawer and the wraps on the table, I’d put the scissors on the table and the wraps in the drawer! Fgs.

Ah the cutlery drawer is one of my where did I put that places 🤣

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MyPinkTraybake · 20/09/2025 21:09

squashgummies · 19/09/2025 22:04

A friend of mine once walked to the petrol station to fill up her car 😂

This is brilliant 🤣

I live opposite a supermarket. Not done it for a while but when I first got my car, if I was coming home from somewhere and popped to the supermarket, I'd forget I had the car and walk home 🤣 First time I did it, I was shocked when I went to get in my car in my underground carpark two days later and discover an empty space. Then, the part of me that knows what I am like, said OK we are just going to have to think back to where I left the CAR. The big object that is my car. Walked back to the supermarket, it was late and there it was, the only car. Never got a fine. Have done it twice since 🤣

The worst was when I parked it on the street as I'd mislaid my fob, forgot, then didn't use it for a week and went back to find a colourful array of parking fines.

Oh and when I first got the car, I'd been letting neighbour use my space, gave them a weeks notice so I parked mine at the station and bought a week ticket. Only to find that instead of entering my car reg in the box for the ticket, I'd entered ..yes... my post code. It clearly said car registration 🤣 When I wrote back to them they took pity and let me just pay an admin fee for the fine.

However things are improving!

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MyPinkTraybake · 20/09/2025 21:10

Catpiece · 20/09/2025 11:12

Put a John Frieda Frizz Ease in the salad drawer of the fridge when I was unpacking the shopping.

I am imagining this on salad 🤣

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UpHillVerySlowly · 20/09/2025 21:11

House in a pickle, work being done. I grabbed the builder's phone as well as my own and took it to the shops with me! Had to phone DH to tell him to explain to rather annoyed builder. Doh!!

bakingmad123 · 20/09/2025 23:32

Put the yoghurt pot in the sink and the spoon in the bin…put the cheese in the cupboard and the foil in the fridge 🙈 (both of those just today)