to think that I cant be the only person who's brain just fucks off occasionally?!

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I just asked Alexa to "Go down....two....volumes" and then started laughing at myself! Alexa, not unreasonably, said "Hmmm...I'm sorry..." :o

I had a friend years ago who couldnt get the word she was looking for and said she was looking to buy "you know... you hang stuff up on it.....a coat.....tree?" She meant a hat stand!

Oh absolutely. I mean I am of a certain age as well but in truth my brain legged it about 9 years ago in newborn sleep deprivation mode and apparently enjoyed its holiday so much its turned into a decades sabbatical. I can only hope it returns in the ten year mark next year but I'm not hopeful.

I regularly look at dp frustrated and ask him what word I am looking for and have forgotten. Scarily he often answers correctly.

I've begun buying three lots of one thing , because it gets stuck in my brain that we have run out but I forget I've replaced it (we currently have an inordinate amount of kitchen roll ).

Dp has now got into the habit of texting me anything he wants from the shop on the grounds that if he tells me as I leave the house ,I've forgotten by the time I shut the front door behind me.

Took me 4 days last week to remember he jad asked me to grab him a bottle of coke. I proudly entered the house offering the coke as I'd remembered and he just sighed and pointed out he had got it himself 3 days previously.

It's quite fortunate I remember to wear underwear at this point frankly.

I was talking to someone at work the other day and made up a word, something like re-reupholstered. It repeated the re anyway. I just got stuck saying it and must have said re at least ten times trying to get to the next bit of the word. I remember reasoning to myself as I said it ‘ok so re is first then another re and I’ve just said re so re again’. I was like a scratched CD

I was walking down the corridor at work (a special school) this afternoon. I've just gone back after a nasty bout of covid, and occasionally I still feel a bit spaced out. I suddenly wondered how it is that my brain/body knows up keep putting one foot in front of the other, despite the fact I've been doing it for around 36 years. Got back into the classroom feeling most bemused (and slightly off-balance.

And now I've typed that, I've forgotten the point of this thread. I'm going to assume I'm not way off the point, and go to bed. 🙈

Oh god yes! Thank god some friends, the occasional colleague and DH mostly understand me. Otherwise I just stand there trying to describe it with hand gestures. I must look like a seal having a seizure

Also hate stairs or even kerbs (curbs?? See!) with glasses and masks on. I take my mask off if I can’t hear something too 🤷🏻‍♀️

I’m 41, and pretty sure it’s peri menopause. And has been for as long as I can remember 🤦🏻‍♀️

Yes, but not just occasionally.

@GTAlogic

Yes I frequently do the same. Recent gems include "speed-keeper-samer" (cruise control) and "arm trouser leg thing" (sleeve).

😂 team ‘arm trouser leg thing’ here, but it’s close

I can’t remember any of mine atm, but a lot of people seem to be to me lately... I also say ‘hi’ or ‘hello’ to departing customers a lot occasionally

Oh yes, the more so as my menopause has progressed!

Does anyone else do that thing where they start a conversation and forget where the conversation is going when they're only part way through speaking?!

I do this when I am recovering from a migraine.

So hair washy stuff - shampoo.
Drink things - glasses.

There have been many others too.

I spent the morning doing photocopying at work and then went to a cafe and asked for 'a copy of the cheesecake please'.

Last summer I asked my son to get me the garden hoover out of the shed. He looked at me puzzled for a moment and then asked if I meant the Lawnmower

A while back I wrote 'sandwich making equipment' on the shopping list as I couldn't remember the word 'bread'

@AffIt

I am bilingual, and recently could NOT find the English word for 'lobster' in my head, so I did a sort of 'snippy hands dance' at my OH for five minutes.

SPOILER ALERT: not a crab.

Outstanding. Did you film it? :o🦞

Me too, my DH claims I have my own dictionary that he seems to understand.

Rush hour has officially been changed to rush time.

When the kids were handing me all their stuff on a walk recently, I said "I'm not the horse of holding". Obviously I meant clothes horse.

I sometimes forget which pedals are which when I'm driving. It's a split second thing and usually when I'm waiting at lights.

When I was 12 I forgot the word " we". I was a second year (year 8) showing parents round my girls grammar school on an open evening and the word for "we" just left my brain completely for the whole tour, so instead of saying things like "this is where we have science" I had to keep saying "the girls" like I was some kind of 1920s games mistress. "This is where the girls keep their PE kits".

@pixels123

Me too, my DH claims I have my own dictionary that he seems to understand.

Rush hour has officially been changed to rush time.

When the kids were handing me all their stuff on a walk recently, I said "I'm not the horse of holding". Obviously I meant clothes horse.

I sometimes forget which pedals are which when I'm driving. It's a split second thing and usually when I'm waiting at lights.

The pedal thing!! That happens to me too,I have a panic that I suddenly can't remember which is which, and what if I press the wrong one! I've been driving 20 years it's ridiculous, it's like it's so much autopilot that my brain wipes the info.

Also the horrible thing where you're part way through a sentence and forget everything you've said, and what you were going to say and the whole point of the conversation, driving me mad it's happening at least 3 times a day!

I came out of a supermarket yesterday which has a bus stop and a taxi rank outside. Very busy with people. It also has a few steps up to the pavement (or a ramp if you can be bothered to walk an extra few feet). I went for the steps.

I forgot how to walk up the steps so sort of shuffled at them.

Yes. I fell up the steps. In front of a crowd. Everyone just sort of sighed and pretended they hadn't seen me for which I was grateful.

Love this thread! Floor cardigan!!

My neighbour wished me 'Happy Birthday' I said 'Thanks..and you too!'

I'm a fellow word-loser. Also appliance-confuser. I tell the kids to put their plates in the washing machine at least once a week.

Also, if I'm doing something fiddly like trying to untie a knot, I have to shut my eyes, or I can't do it.

DH is bilingual and often forgets the english word. my favourite is 'the holey pasta water thing' - a colander and 'the washing machine that dries' for tumble dryer.

I'm less useful as I resort to unhelpful terms like 'thingamy' and 'who-ja-ma-flip'

I've just flicked the kettle on, put two slices of bread in the toaster, grabbed a plate, a knife a pack of Lurpack and just walked back over to the kettle waiting for the toast to pop up x

I am a lay minister and was taking a service in church once and leading the Lord’s Prayer (pretty basic prayer for Christians!) and forgot the words! I had to magic up a cough while the congregation went merrily on! It wasn’t nerves, just a (insert acceptable word) moment

I do this all the time, I'll be talking and forget the words. I forgot my clocking in number in work yesterday I've used it twice a day for years and it just went out of my brain. I remembered eventually.

I have always, for some inexplicable reason, got green and orange mixed up. I know which is which but confuse the words.

I do absolutely adore “horse of holding” though 🥰

In work I asked hey Google what the time was. We don't even have a Google device!