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

[PyongyangKipperbang]

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!

@Nietzschethehiker

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.

My DH is the same 😄 he knows exactly what the thing in the thingy is at all times and loves my lists of to do and to get in order of the day

I sometimes accidentally say "Sainsbury's" instead of the word I'm looking for if it begins with 'S'. No idea why, it's bloody embarrassing too!

My OH's brain has fucked off on a permanent basis...

@RiverLola

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 think I was spoilt I used to work with a guy who always knew what the Do dah and the who ja ma flip was. When he got transferred to another branch he couldn’t understand why they didn’t use the same terminology. But the stair thing I have noticed recently alright going up seem to have forgotten how to come down but I am 55.

@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.

I am far from bilingual, but when I'm in one of the countries I speak some of the language for, my brain often pulls out a word from one of the other languages I speak some of - it's as if it goes "Meh, that's a foreign word and it means the same, it'll do, I can't be arsed finding the right one" (e.g. on one occasion I was buying stamps in Italy, my brain offered me timbres instead of francobolli.)

I do this and have done for years, I constantly get the washing machine/tumble dryer/dishwasher mixed up and also I can never seem to call the correct DC's name, so I just say them all!
The worst one though was when I was sitting my history A Level exam and I forgot how to spell the word "the" - it's surprisingly difficult to write an essay without using the word "the", never mind write one without "the" under exam conditions too

My friend once forgot the word muslin when asking her DH to pass her one, and came out with 'danger blanket'.

Now forever known as danger blankets in both our houses.

The pedal thing! I get it too and I drive an auto so only have to choose between two. I've been driving for 23 years.

@ElvisPresleyHadABaby

I sometimes accidentally say "Sainsbury's" instead of the word I'm looking for if it begins with 'S'. No idea why, it's bloody embarrassing too!

That is a bit funny though.

@MilesJuppIsMyBitch

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.

Twice I have carefully stacked dirty plates into the oven instead of the dishwasher!!

The PPs who said they can’t walk on stairs if they think about it, reminded me of a silly poem I heard as a child:
A centipede was happy quite
Until a frog, in fun
said “Pray, which leg comes after which?”
This raised her mind to such a pitch
She lay distracted in the ditch
Considering how to run!

Tried to ask my friend what I needed to put into the sat nav and I just said ‘what put in?’.

‘Clicky make fire’ was a lighter once.

I had a stroke in July, and my brain now doesn't work as quickly as it used to. I often struggle to find the correct words for things. In a shop recently, I asked where the paint nails were - I meant nail polish

Me and DS1 have a mong running joke about our favourite brain fart moments.
Our current favourites are "Japanese people are in japan" and "hot water is hot"
The Japanese one I was trying to tell him something about elderly people in Japan and it came our as Japanese people are in Japan, and the hot water one I tried to explain that washing your hands with soap and hot water will help kill covid but I just said hot water is hot. Like duhhh

Long* OMG worst typo ever 😬

I can't think of any right now but yes I do this all the time!

@Vispa

Yep me too. Recently couldn't remember the name of the bagpipes, the only words I could get out were "haggis band" I'm Scottish. Glad it's not just me!

@Vispa

'Haggis Band'!! This literally made me laugh out loud. Twice. Still grinning. Just had to comment - thank you, I've been in an unnecessary mood this week and this has just cheered me up

When buying my first new car one of my wishes was that it had a rear wiper. Couldn’t remember the name so they have become wish-wash wiper

I sometimes think postcode when I mean car numberplate, and advertisement (for a place name) when I mean signpost.

I quite often start a sentence then forget what I was trying to say, DP must be fed up of me looking blank then saying "I'm sorry, I'm not sure where I was going with that". 43 so I suspect peri menopause, but I've always momentarily forgotten words to a lesser extent.

Love horse of holding!

My DD (7) was faffing about with her school shoes this morning, I asked what was wrong and she said ‘the shoe carpets are all creased up’, meaning the insoles

Loving these. My brain has never quite recovered after chemo and I often struggle to find the right word, I am sorry but it is so nice to know it’s not just me!

I do this all the time, I think DH thinks I'm a bit mad....

I also has an "episode" once, where I just couldn't speak properly and called a colleague by a different name and started feeling very peculiar and my BP went through the roof! My colleagues thought I was having a stroke, it was quietly terrifying!! Went and had a brain scan and it turned out it was an Ocular migraine - totally weird experience!

Have had a few since but now it's only my vision that goes weird

Menopausal brain fog almost ended all sanity as I knew it.
It would go something like " can you pass me the thingy off the do da please "
One of " those efforts, whatsits " was another.
In a temper I told my DH to get fished instead of get fucked.

Way before the internet I forgot how to write the letter K
It just looked wrong, no matter what I did