Please share your recent airhead moments

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I told my boss the other day that they should make gasoline candles because so many people like the smell of gasoline...

MadHops21

"Enjoy the movie!"

"You, too!" 

hellosweetie1015

ohannabelle said:

hellosweetie1015 said:

Last week, I realized that the K on Special K cereal is for Kellogg's. You know, the giant red Kellogg's K?

It took me fifty years. 

Stoopidest thing I've done all week? I got tangled up and stuck inside a bathrobe. Head and all. I had to navigate down the hall like that for help getting my arms out, because Moosey had headphones on and couldn't hear me.  This was not my fault. The belt was threaded through the sleeves in a weird way, and it got worse when I pulled it, and my head was in a sleeve, not the neck. 

Never mind, I can't even make it sound reasonable. But it was, and could happen to anyone. 

... I get stuck in hoodies all the time because my I forget my sunglasses are on my head.

See? It happens.

I am forever losing my glasses on my head, and breaking the little nose pieces off when they get stuck in my hair. 

Have you ever run around in frantic circles looking for your phone, and it's in your back pocket?  You can hear it ringing and it's right there but you can't see it anywhere? 

I've done this while actively talking to someone on it. Trying to leave, talking to Mom, "Where's my freaking phone?!?!"

"....Honey...." 

"Mom, I gotta go. I can't find my .... oh."

I have two degrees and a fair amount of common sense! I swear! *herp derp*

jennyleigh16

LadyMillil said:

jennyleigh16 said:

It took my coworker and I 15 minutes this morning to figure out how many ml of cleaning product to put in a 10L mop bucket at a 1:42 ratio. To be fair, we're Canadian and it was 5:30 in the morning.

What does being Canadian have to do with this? I'm Canadian and I make dilutions like that all the time no problem. Now, 5:30am being a problem I get. 

I forgot to get a muffin out of the freezer last night. I put it in the microwave to thaw it, made the rest of my breakfast, then couldn't figure out why my muffin was still frozen. I set the muffin inside but didn't actually turn the microwave on. 

It was an imperial vs metric conversion thing. Not to mention the dilution rate/ proportioning device and the bucket we were using were different units of measurement. And, you know, 5:30am.

banana468

One morning I was putting leftover lasagna in Pyrex containers for DH and I to eat for lunch. Mine was great. Then at 1 PM I get an email from DH,"Hey, I went to heat my lunch and I'm pretty sure you gave me yesterday's dirty lunch dish since there wasn't anything to eat. I'm not mad but does this mean that there's a serving of lasagna on the counter that I'll be throwing away? "

Two days later I realized that massive brain farts were the first symptom of my 2nd pregnancy.

FiancB

hellosweetie1015 said:

I was a lazy ass once and wanted to price running shoes without going anywhere. I'd heard Dick's Sporting Goods had a sale on, so I went to dicks.com to see the options. Dick's Sporting Goods' website is NOT dicks.com. Just so y'all know.

Ha! In a similar vein, when I was a kid I did horse 4H and my leader recommended a company with cheap horse stuff called Chick's. FTR, the website is chickssaddlery.com, NOT chicks.com. My first view of porn, hahaha

For some silly reason I have a harder time with metric conversions than others. I'll get used to it but in class we were practicing injections and med dosages and I was all ready to inject 50 mL instead of 0.5. Yeah better brush up on those. 

blabla89

banana468 said:

One morning I was putting leftover lasagna in Pyrex containers for DH and I to eat for lunch. Mine was great. Then at 1 PM I get an email from DH,"Hey, I went to heat my lunch and I'm pretty sure you gave me yesterday's dirty lunch dish since there wasn't anything to eat. I'm not mad but does this mean that there's a serving of lasagna on the counter that I'll be throwing away? " Two days later I realized that massive brain farts were the first symptom of my 2nd pregnancy.

If it makes you feel any better, I've done this more than once but with no excuse.

arrippa

ohannabelle said:

hellosweetie1015 said:

Last week, I realized that the K on Special K cereal is for Kellogg's. You know, the giant red Kellogg's K?

It took me fifty years. 

Stoopidest thing I've done all week? I got tangled up and stuck inside a bathrobe. Head and all. I had to navigate down the hall like that for help getting my arms out, because Moosey had headphones on and couldn't hear me.  This was not my fault. The belt was threaded through the sleeves in a weird way, and it got worse when I pulled it, and my head was in a sleeve, not the neck. 

Never mind, I can't even make it sound reasonable. But it was, and could happen to anyone. 

... I get stuck in hoodies all the time because my I forget my sunglasses are on my head.

See? It happens.

I am forever losing my glasses on my head, and breaking the little nose pieces off when they get stuck in my hair. 

Have you ever run around in frantic circles looking for your phone, and it's in your back pocket?  You can hear it ringing and it's right there but you can't see it anywhere? 

ashley8918

ohannabelle said:

Last week, I realized that the K on Special K cereal is for Kellogg's. You know, the giant red Kellogg's K?

It took me fifty years. 

Stoopidest thing I've done all week? I got tangled up and stuck inside a bathrobe. Head and all. I had to navigate down the hall like that for help getting my arms out, because Moosey had headphones on and couldn't hear me.  This was not my fault. The belt was threaded through the sleeves in a weird way, and it got worse when I pulled it, and my head was in a sleeve, not the neck. 

Never mind, I can't even make it sound reasonable. But it was, and could happen to anyone. 

You have no idea how much joy this mental image has given me, hahahaha.

jenna8984

@ohannabelle It's ok with the Kellog's K.........all of us who grew up in the 80's & 90's didn't understand why the Disney logo had a giant backward G.

kmmssg

Oh my where to start...

In the last month and a half I have:  1, made coffee and forgot to turn the coffee maker on; 2. Put water only in the coffee maker and turned it on; 3.  Put grounds only in and turned the coffee maker on.

A few weeks ago I was running back and forth between the house and car because I couldn't find my phone and I was running late.  Phone was in my hand.

I have some phenominal prescription sunglasses.  when I put them on colors stay true and they really are amazing.  (Keep in mind that every morning I drive directly East into the sun and back home is directly West, looking into the sun.

I put them on for the 55 minute drive home and got home at dusk.  Because these sunglasses are my prescription and so amazing, I forgot I was wearing them.  I got out of the car and my headlights hadn't turned off yet.  I noticed they seemed rather dim and not nearly as bright and asked DH to take a look at them.  You should have seen the look he gave me.

 

thisismynickname2

These are so fun to read, especially on a Friday morning!

This morning I put conditioner on my loofah instead of body wash. Eff it, it's winter and my skin's dry. 

theartistformerlyknownas

thisismynickname said:

These are so fun to read, especially on a Friday morning!

This morning I put conditioner on my loofah instead of body wash. Eff it, it's winter and my skin's dry. 

My last trip to the salon I accidentally bought two bottles of conditioner instead of shampoo + conditioner. Couldn't understand why my hair didn't feel clean, Oh, cuz you just wasted $20, asshole.

SBmini

This morning, I got everything out for a bacon, tomato and avocado omelet. I chopped up the bacon, fried it, added the tomato. Went to add the eggs.... we don't have any eggs. I'm having a smoothie now.

NowIamMrsKlein

jenna8984 said:

@soontobemrsklein I had to ask DH what a toque was. I was so confused for your entire post hahah 

hahaha! Thats awesome. I forget sometimes that we Canadians have different words for things.

ashley8918

SoontobeMrsKlein said:

jenna8984 said:

@soontobemrsklein I had to ask DH what a toque was. I was so confused for your entire post hahah 

hahaha! Thats awesome. I forget sometimes that we Canadians have different words for things.

Yup, just had to google because I had no fucking clue what this was hahaha.

NowIamMrsKlein

For all you non-canadians:

In Canada, toque or tuque /ˈtuːk/ is the common name for a knitted winter hat, or watch cap (also called a beanie); the spelling "touque", although not recognized by the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, is also sometimes seen in written English. The Canadian-English term was assimilated from Canadian-Frenchtuque. Toque first appeared in writing around 1870.^[6][7][8]

The fashion is said to have originated with thecoureurs de bois, French and Métis fur traders, who kept their woollen nightcaps on for warmth during cold winter days. Such hats are known in other English-speaking countries by a variety of names, including beanie, watch cap orstocking cap; the terms tuque and toque are unique to Canada and northern areas of the United States close to the Canadian border.

dcbride86

Remember when the Chilean miners were stuck in a mine back in 2010?  I heard about it at work, and decided to google it.  Except I googled "chilean minors".  I was terrified my boss would see it and think I was trying to traffick Chilean children.

levioosa

ashley8918 said:

SoontobeMrsKlein said:

jenna8984 said:

@soontobemrsklein I had to ask DH what a toque was. I was so confused for your entire post hahah 

hahaha! Thats awesome. I forget sometimes that we Canadians have different words for things.

Yup, just had to google because I had no fucking clue what this was hahaha.

I assumed it was some kind of jacket from the context, but a toque (toke) is something way different from where I am.  haha

SmileDamnit

I forgot Gus at home today. I have his leash, loaded the car with everything else for the work day, then got to the office, went around back to get him...and realized he wasn't there. DH texted to say he's been sitting at the back door all sorts of confused & pissy. Oops.

Kahlyla

levioosa said:

ashley8918 said:

SoontobeMrsKlein said:

jenna8984 said:

@soontobemrsklein I had to ask DH what a toque was. I was so confused for your entire post hahah 

hahaha! Thats awesome. I forget sometimes that we Canadians have different words for things.

Yup, just had to google because I had no fucking clue what this was hahaha.

I assumed it was some kind of jacket from the context, but a toque (toke) is something way different from where I am.  haha

Toque has more of an "oo" sound, actually.

theartistformerlyknownas

SmileDamnit said:

I forgot Gus at home today. I have his leash, loaded the car with everything else for the work day, then got to the office, went around back to get him...and realized he wasn't there. DH texted to say he's been sitting at the back door all sorts of confused & pissy. Oops.

Try not to do that with the baby!

amelisha

On the toque thing...I read a blog that recently referred to a photo of Justin Timberlake wearing a toque as "a toboggan-clad Justin Timberlake." I commented like "Uh...that's a sled. He's not wearing a sled. Did you mean toque?" and the author definitely did not respond. But I don't feel bad shaming her because seriously...toboggan-clad? Seriously?

My biggest airhead thing is that I leave the water running in the kitchen sink ALL THE TIME and just wander away. Then I'll ask FI what's making that loud noise. I really don't understand why I do it, or how it happens, but it's probably once a day. I have some kind of mental block about it.

PamBeesly524

Up until a week or so ago I'd only ever seen the word "paleo" as in "paleo diet" written out, never spoken, so I came up with my own idea in my head as to how it was pronounced.... I totally called it the "Pah-lay-o" diet a few days ago and my co-workers won't let me forget it. I'm a dummy.

Also my co-worker called someone this morning and instead of saying "Hi Sarah it's *name*" he said, "HI SARAH IT'S FRIDAY!"

So we're even I think.

kvruns

I keep a travel size dental floss at my desk and I took out a piece of it and instead of putting it back in the drawer I threw the container away.  I do this every once in a while with things, throw away the part I meant to keep and keep the part I meant to throw away.

FiancB

Basically did this in class today:

Then shortly after, this:

Over the damn chair I'd JUST gotten out of. 

Needless to say, no one wanted me for a partner today. 

southernbelle0915

lolo883 said:

SmileDamnit said:

I forgot Gus at home today. I have his leash, loaded the car with everything else for the work day, then got to the office, went around back to get him...and realized he wasn't there. DH texted to say he's been sitting at the back door all sorts of confused & pissy. Oops.

Try not to do that with the baby!

In high school sex ed, we were assigned those baby dolls that cry and you have to put a key in it to make it stop...all to basically send the message "you think this is hard you horny fucking teenagers, a real baby will ruin your life. RUIN IT!"

Anyway, I was coaching a soccer team at the time and left the baby in it's little car seat thing covered with a blanket at the field. Oops. When I came back and there were a bunch of concerned adults who glared at my when I just tossed the thing in my back seat without buckling it in and drove away. 

jenna8984

@fiancb that shit cracked me up!!!

As if I weren't having the worst day already....I go to get out of bed, step on the pillow on the floor, it goes sliding on the hardwood and I fell on my face. Literally cheek to hardwood. I have no idea what my hands were tied up in behind me but DH heard a bang and came running and I was like "I fell out of bed!". That has never happened to me, even as a kid in a low bed, it was pretty terriflying.

kmmssg

southernbelle0915 said:

lolo883 said:

SmileDamnit said:

I forgot Gus at home today. I have his leash, loaded the car with everything else for the work day, then got to the office, went around back to get him...and realized he wasn't there. DH texted to say he's been sitting at the back door all sorts of confused & pissy. Oops.

Try not to do that with the baby!

In high school sex ed, we were assigned those baby dolls that cry and you have to put a key in it to make it stop...all to basically send the message "you think this is hard you horny fucking teenagers, a real baby will ruin your life. RUIN IT!"

Anyway, I was coaching a soccer team at the time and left the baby in it's little car seat thing covered with a blanket at the field. Oops. When I came back and there were a bunch of concerned adults who glared at my when I just tossed the thing in my back seat without buckling it in and drove away. 

This made me snort as I was trying to drink my Diet Coke and look like I am really working instead of knotting.

SmileDamnit

lolo883 said:

SmileDamnit said:

I forgot Gus at home today. I have his leash, loaded the car with everything else for the work day, then got to the office, went around back to get him...and realized he wasn't there. DH texted to say he's been sitting at the back door all sorts of confused & pissy. Oops.

Try not to do that with the baby!

I know, right?! Definitely should NOT put a collar on the baby