Joke 'um Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 Plugging in the toaster-oven. Wondering why the coffee still ain't done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-BAR #18287 Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 You make me feel better, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 A few weeks ago I punched the start button on the coffee maker and then sat down to check my email. A few minutes later I thought that the coffee maker was unusually quiet. Checked it. I had put the grounds in the basket, had put the full carafe of water on the heater rather than pouring it into the maker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 Thank God, I'm not the only one with temporarily recurring idiocy (TRI). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 You say these things like they are bad. What is the problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 I have been doing something new. If I unload groceries I make it a point to go make sure the trunk is closed. I have also been checking that I have closed the garage door even though I know I closed it. I double check the front door locks. Because, I am getting more absent minded. More than normal. I think it’s more like I have a lot more on my mind so I get distracted more easily. Last week I left my garage door open. I was getting ready for bed and something told me to check. Duh... I left the trunk open on my car. I pushed the “Lock” button on my fob and I didn’t hear the familiar horn beep and when I looked I found the truck standing open. I left the front door unlocked last week overnight. This is totally not the way I do things. So I am self consciously making sure I double check things. Hell, I missed two meetings this week with my boss’ boss’ boss. Which might not be a bad thing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gateway Kid SASS# 70038 Life Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 6 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said: A few weeks ago I punched the start button on the coffee maker and then sat down to check my email. A few minutes later I thought that the coffee maker was unusually quiet. Checked it. I had put the grounds in the basket, had put the full carafe of water on the heater rather than pouring it into the maker. BTDT myself. Last weekend was my wife's turn to make breakfast. She got up early and carefully poured a carafe of cold water into the coffee maker and punched the button. I got out of the shower expecting the wonderful aroma of brewing coffee..... nothing. Checked the machine and had a perfectly filled carafe of boiling hot water, no grounds had been harmed in the making of that pot of coffee. Regards Gateway Kid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwater 53393 Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 I was trying to think of a word a while ago. Turns out it was .......... VOCABULARY!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 its the cabin fever from the covid incarceration and we have only to look at the ongoing government overreach to place blame - im good with that for now , long as restarting my coffee keeps working as it has - i need my coffee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 I lock my doors when I'm ready to settle down for the night. I wind up checking the side door at least twice knowing FULL WELL I locked it! Oh well can't be too safe huh? I just hope one of these times I don't unlock the darn thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chantry Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 You know it's bad when you need to drink coffee in order to make more coffee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Duncan Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 When you're old your memory is the second thing you lose!!!!! I don't remember what the first thing is.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg Hair, SASS #29557 Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 19 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: Thank God, I'm not the only one with temporarily recurring idiocy (TRI). Makes me feel warm and fuzzy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 20 hours ago, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said: I have been doing something new. If I unload groceries I make it a point to go make sure the trunk is closed. I have also been checking that I have closed the garage door even though I know I closed it. I double check the front door locks. Because, I am getting more absent minded. More than normal. I think it’s more like I have a lot more on my mind so I get distracted more easily. Last week I left my garage door open. I was getting ready for bed and something told me to check. Duh... I left the trunk open on my car. I pushed the “Lock” button on my fob and I didn’t hear the familiar horn beep and when I looked I found the truck standing open. I left the front door unlocked last week overnight. This is totally not the way I do things. So I am self consciously making sure I double check things. Hell, I missed two meetings this week with my boss’ boss’ boss. Which might not be a bad thing... Might not be a bad thing Pat. You could wrangle an early retirement on medical grounds!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 14 minutes ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said: Might not be a bad thing Pat. You could wrangle an early retirement on medical grounds!! Probably not...he’s as absentminded as I am and he knows it. He told me not to worry about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Four-Eyed Buck,SASS #14795 Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 I have to go back and double check doors and lights in the barn/club house. Just want to be sure I did it. Have left them on before Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 we unplug stuff like the coffee maker here too , just prudent i think , but one has to double check he has the right one or we wait longer for our coffee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. O. R. Vet Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 My almost daily comment to someone is "I don't have alzheimer's but a pretty good case of 'part-timers' ". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Dog Doug Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 I spent my last 3 working years at 5 star hotel half my AC and room refer repairs where really tuff ! Plug the unit in and push the GIFI button Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 I reckon the previous comment about how much we've got going on is a factor. One of the fellows at work said "I forgot to do this or whatever it was, then he did it, and I said no, you forgot nothing, you just now remembered it -- you're doing fine, trust me -- if you consider the tens of thousands of individual decisions we have to make in one day's time, and the hundreds of thousands of bits of information we have to process in one day -- why, one slip like that is not to be worried about! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 BRAIN FADE ? AIN'T got one , at least I ain't gonna admit to having one , folks will want me to do things for em CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 brain ? or, fade ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixgun Sheridan Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 Once I put the milk back in the closet where the cereal goes. I was only around 40 at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozark Shark Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 On 12/19/2020 at 1:20 PM, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said: I have been doing something new. If I unload groceries I make it a point to go make sure the trunk is closed. I have also been checking that I have closed the garage door even though I know I closed it. I double check the front door locks. Because, I am getting more absent minded. More than normal. I think it’s more like I have a lot more on my mind so I get distracted more easily. Last week I left my garage door open. I was getting ready for bed and something told me to check. Duh... I left the trunk open on my car. I pushed the “Lock” button on my fob and I didn’t hear the familiar horn beep and when I looked I found the truck standing open. I left the front door unlocked last week overnight. This is totally not the way I do things. So I am self consciously making sure I double check things. Hell, I missed two meetings this week with my boss’ boss’ boss. Which might not be a bad thing... I'm seeing a fair amount of what you describe in my team members. I think it's fatigue from working under these odd conditions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 1 hour ago, Ozark Shark said: I'm seeing a fair amount of what you describe in my team members. I think it's fatigue from working under these odd conditions. That could very well be. I am seeing it at my work as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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