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What are your best Total Brain Farts?

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QuimReaper · 02/07/2017 14:58

DH has just come home from a weekend away horribly sunburnt and I was looking everywhere for the aftersun which I distinctly remember buying last summer. I was a bit distracted rushing around trying to find it, and then at down at my computer and opened a browser window, and after a moment it dawned on me I'd been about to Google it. Yes, I was about to Google where in my own house I'd hidden with the bottle of aftersun Blush

In the same vein, a few weeks ago I was at my desk rootling through my handbag when I realised I'd forgotten what I was looking for. It wasn't until I went back to my screen that I realised I'd been looking in my handbag for a file I wanted to attach to an email Confused Blush

Technology seems to absolutely flummox me when I'm a bit distracted! I'm forever getting out my Oyster card to try and get through my front door or my house keys to try and use the card entry turnstile at the library Grin Please tell me it isn't just me who does these daft things?!

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Penguin27 · 07/07/2017 08:37

Grin thanks for that magenta!

I've got hundreds of these but I can't think of any right now... I'm pregnant and at the moment I forget the words for everyday items about 6 times a day!!

When I was younger we lost the tv remote for a few days... it turned up in the freezer?! Not sure who was responsible for that though.

IJustGotHitByADeer · 07/07/2017 10:03

While reading this thread last night there was a man on telly with a slightly irritating voice which was a bit off putting. So rather than turn the volume down I looked up and said to the tv "could you be quiet please, I'm trying to read" Blush

Also I'm relatively new to MN, could someone please explain what 'Angela Hernandez' is about? Thanks Smile

Redken24 · 07/07/2017 10:12

When I was pregnant can't remember how far maybe four/five mnths. Went to pay for petrol and a man said you go first I'm wanting ice creams made - so then I say oooooh DH d you want an ice cream to? It took me ages to realise why he called me cheeky. Mortified.

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QuimReaper · 07/07/2017 11:07

I've just been to retrieve Angela Hernandez for IJust and it's GONE! Shock

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SocksRock · 07/07/2017 11:50

Chatting to a friend - she said "I'm a bit sad, I can't really remember what I did for my 40th birthday".

Me "oh I know, it's horrible that, I can't remember what I did for mine either"

I'm 39

alteredimages · 07/07/2017 11:53

This one is a bit dark, but I went to phone my best friend who has just died to ask her whether she would prefer DH or me to attend her funeral and support her DH as we couldn't both make it.

It makes me look like a total idiot but I just can't quite grasp that she's gone. Sad

yaela123 · 08/07/2017 12:43

I told DS earlier today that it was too hot for oaty morning thing. Forgot the word for porridge. He must know think I'm mad!

Shitalopram · 09/07/2017 22:50

alteredimages I'm so sorry you've lost your friend, you were obviously very close.

It's not uncommon to ask advice from, or talk to, loved ones who have died recently. Perhaps it's shock, perhaps it's magic. Who knows. If it's comforting then it's good.

Shitalopram · 09/07/2017 22:52

Redken24 I don't get it? Am I dim?

blamethecat · 09/07/2017 23:15

I think she means the man let her go first as she would be quick then she decided to get ice cream too so took longer.

Redken24 · 10/07/2017 08:42

Yes that's what I mean but didn't get ice cream cause my dh was like err no! I didn't realise until about two miles away from shop that I was a bit of a tit 😂

CheeseAndOnionIcecream · 10/07/2017 17:54

Penguin My exDP took the remote control to work with him once,by mistake! probably thought it was his phone

CheeseAndOnionIcecream · 10/07/2017 18:35

OMG literally pissing myself laughing about texting the cat!

Knackerednursey · 10/07/2017 21:59

My best ever was walking into a full public pool with my kids and my handbag still over my shoulder, only noticing when I simultaneously saw a womans jaw drop and felt my handbag start to float beside me...

Knackerednursey · 10/07/2017 22:28

My best ever was walking into a full public pool with my kids and my handbag still over my shoulder, only noticing when I simultaneously saw a womans jaw drop and felt my handbag start to float beside me...

Standstilling · 11/07/2017 07:28

Anyone else remember the poster who went swimming with her family while pregnant and for some reason took the bottom half of her costume off while standing at the side of the pool with the kids? She only realised when her husband stage-whispered "your minge!" from the other side of the pool.

I thought that one was in classics too - will have a look.

MamaHanji · 11/07/2017 18:08

I literally just used olive oil instead of washing up liquid...that definitely does not work the same.

Evilstepmum01 · 12/07/2017 03:02

About 6 weeks ago at work I was trying to multitask, acknowledging a customer whilst speaking to my colleague and walking into the office.
Stepped up onto wheelchair ramp in front of office door, tripped up, tried to save myself, stepped into door, opened it with my head and the momentum of the trip pushed me into the office in a very neat forward roll, the door quietly closing behind me.
My colleague pee'd herself with laughter.

I will NEVER hear the end of it.

3luckystars · 12/07/2017 10:53

Oh the swimming pool stories are very funny!

SecretNutellaFix · 12/07/2017 11:40

I took the house phone to work with me instead of my mobile once

JamesSpaderMadeMeDoIt · 12/07/2017 15:33

Chatting to a good friend of mine and bemoaning the fact that I neeeded some sunshine and said "oh don't you hate it when you're all white and pasty?"

And not long after

Going on holiday with said friend and she had a date lined up when we got back. I said " ooooh perfect timing, you'll have a lovely tan for your date"

My friend is from Ghana 🙈

MrsD28 · 14/07/2017 17:39

While on maternity leave (and very, very sleep deprived) I nipped to the loo after having lunch with a mum friend in a cafe. But when I finished, I couldn't for the life of me figure it how to flush. I spent about ten minutes looking around the toilet cubicle in a panic - not only could I not figure out how to flush this particular toilet, but I also could not remember how toilets flushed in general, so I did not even know what I was looking for. What is worse is that I had used the very same toilet at the beginning of the very same lunch.....how had I flushed it????? I was almost in tears.

After ten minutes of increasingly frantic searching, I finally found the flush button. It was on top of the cistern, under a roll of loo paper Blush.

Clembarrass · 14/07/2017 17:57

I was out in town once with my toddler and new baby DC. Was browsing mindlessly amongst the aisles when I realised I had lost the pram. Looked round in panic and realised I didn't have the toddler either.
Started to run wildly round looking for them both, dimly wondering why someone was dragging me back by the hand. Tried to shake them off, because, after all it was an emergency.
Realised it was my toddler's hand I was holding Blush. I hadn't seen her when I looked before, presumably because she was obscured by the head of her baby sibling, sleeping peacefully in the sling on my chest Blush

FairVerona · 19/07/2017 22:20

I'd had a busy day at work answering lots of calls. That evening I went to call the cat in, opened the door and yelled the company name instead of the cat's name. Not sure if the neighbours heard but my sons were very amused.

LexieSinclair · 19/07/2017 22:22

I remember rummaging through my freezer for wrapping paper not that long ago.