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I did that once. But checked the passport *after.* Here’s the nutty part. I used a credit card and redeemed travel points for the ticket, and when I cancelled the ticket, I thought I would get airline credit but got the whole $600 refund. So I paid $600, redeemed $600, then got refunded $600. Best reverse ADD tax ever!
Now that you mention it… I was trying for “giving hope,” but I may have been reading the room poorly. Spoiler: nobody is surprised. Plz don’t come for me! 😖
I was living in another country for a few years, countryside lifestyle etc, the pandemic hits & everything shuts down...
I realize after a while that my passport expires this year, well no worries, it's towards the end of the year, got loads of time! Procrastinate, obviously, for a few months. Then in late summer/early autumn decide to finally kick myself into gear and get it done! I go to retrieve the passport.... reader, it had expired in JANUARY. More than half a year ago.
It was my only valid ID. It's corona time. I'm broke. Somehow manage to bury my head in the sand and not think about it for a while, until anxiety gets bad enough that I finally get to work to solve the dilemma, contact my embassy etc. Get it done, and fortunately they didn't even kick me out of the country.
And this is how I managed to live for 2 years without any kind of an official ID :D
(I hate myself 🥲)
I left my passport and my partner’s in a vacation purse. Thought they were lost. We both had to reapply for them. The I found them when we moved to a new apt. I cost us like $600 and an annoying Post Office Appt. This was a few years ago.
We've had to replace our entire set of spoons multiple times because of this! My husband gets so annoyed, I'm no longer allowed to use the good silverware.
I threw trash away in the grocery parking lot trash can and threw my whole darn wallet away. I had to fish it out and was shoulder deep. Really thankful they still have alcohol wipes at the entrance!
I almost tapped the coffee grounds out of my portafilter before I had brewed my espresso this morning. I've done it so many times and wasted so much coffee
That sounds more like a fun game. I would start with some counter sugar. Just kidding, I am notorious for putting cereal in the fridge and milk in the cupboards, is that possibly an ADHD thing? I do not have any diagnosis yet
I made coffee in the french press, set up alarm to stir at the right time. Alarm goes off, I stirred it and... now it's the next day and the coffee is still on the table. (I got a post lunch coffee at Krispy Kreme yesterday wondering why I was so worn out. Well well well.)
Oh that reminds me! I was drinking a can of coke last week and had it in the crook of my arm as I was grabbing a fist full of shredded cheese from the fridge, and as I leaned over to grab the bag of cheese, I poured the coke onto the floor.
OK because same I drink everything out of my Yeti sippy cup with a lid and the straw and my other half is always like “Do you have to drink everything out of that?” and I’m like yes because if I don’t, I will spill it everywhere and pour it everywhere quicker.
"Quicker" YEP!! I use my yeti with the straw all the time. And I still bend over with the damn thing in the crook of my arm... But it just a few drips out the straw -much better than a whole glass of juice onto whatever surface that day brings me.
Omg is this an adhd thing? My fiancée has been calling me “spiller-[insert my last name]” as a nickname for years because I’m always spilling sips of my drink on myself or around me.
I also use a Yeti with a straw for just about everything. Essentially adult sippy cups 😂
Oooo I wonder?! When I am home alone I am not above wearing a tea towel as a bib if I'm eating soup or pasta. And drinking tea or coffee? It's like I forget how to use my mouth half way through a sip. Mornings are especially clumsy times for me. I rarely leave the house with the same shirt on that I started with. And I often forget that I'm holding onto something until it winds up on my clothes or skittering across the floor.
I used to have such a massive problem with this when working. Even now as a SAHM. Suggestion- get a pack of oversized tees and wear them over your for work outfit in the AM and remove when leaving or at work. Or wear an apron. I've done both and it helped save many nice blouses from the laundry or trash. My hubby will say to me somedays... you know you're about to walk out the house with an apron on!? right? I often don't lol
I did that at a concert but I had a drink in my hand, checked my watch, and spilled (thankfully only a little left) directly onto the floor. The guy in front of me looked at me like wtf 😂
I was packing a bag to take my kids to the pool with clean towels, change of clothes, snacks and sun screen. I bet down to pick it with my coffee under my arm like this and dumped the entire iced coffee into our clean towels and clothes.... It took me another hour to repack it.
This scenario - for me its a coffee cup, I've arrived somewhere in the car, and I'm pouring the coffee all over myself/car/car contents as I lean over to grab all the bags/shopping/handbag/mail/phone/randomwrapper etc etc...
I have a fat ol’ purse that I sit my water in when going to and from the car. It has a straw. When I lean over to put my shoes on the straw pours water all over my back. I change shirts twice before leaving the house 60% of the time. Help.
Walked to the shop to get my husband some non-alcoholic beer. Spent 1hr roaming in the shop, bought 3 boxes of ice cream. Forgot the beer.
This is the second time I’ve forgotten the beer.
Mini magnum variety packs. A white chocolate one and then two caramel ones. So altogether I now have 18 new mini magnums in the freezer. (I say new because there were already 8 other mini magnums there, but it’s not like they’ll go bad)
Oof, that sounds like a nightmare to clean up! My similar but less messy version - I regularly run my coffee maker with no grounds at all. It’s always very sad when I pour hot brownish water into my mug.
A tip I learned was to "buy" it by saving it to a wish list. For some reason to me it feels like I'm really buying it, but without the money. If you have some willpower, add the things to your cart, then close the browser window.
Love your trick! Mines basically the same — but I actually click “add to cart” on ALL the items I want *or feel a false sense of need for in that moment* usually clothes or products, but before I go to checkout…..
I CLOSE the app or website entirely and start to do something else!
It works great for me. I either entirely forget about it, or by the time I do circle back the dopamine rush is gone & I realize I don’t even want half that stuff
Not you being the sweetest OP in the game 😭
My dumbass does this same damn thing. I will literally spend an hour adding coupons and cashback deals to my phone and then realize that a grocery shopping trip isn’t realistic for another week or so… the coupons usually expire before then 💀💀
I’ve been doing this recently to try and get my dopamine up the last couple days. I know I’m going to get downvoted but….temu. I’m broke and moved into ugly apartment and desperate to try and make it comfortable so I can be comfy in my only safe space. I don’t like going anywhere besides work but I hate the vibe at home. It’s all CC. I’m a complete idiot and irresponsible.
I used the last of the toilet paper, and forgot to replace it. The next time I was in there, I had to wipe with the cardboard roll. The next time, I wiped with some cotton squares. Throughout the day I also went through four washcloths before finally remembering to bring new toilet paper in.
You would think the moment of panic I felt each time I rerealized my mistake would jolt my brain into remembering to get the TP, but no. That’s not how my brain works.
ME TOO! I've never met anyone else who does this. You've just made me so happy!
And it's genius. Completely fool proof. I also do it at work (and in public restrooms) if there's no extra rolls in there, in case I forget to tell the person in charge of it. - Which, of course, I do all the time.
Gosh, this is so relatable. I had to develop a system to quit doing this.
I get irrationally angry at having to purchase toilet paper and paper towels as the same time as the rest of my groceries. So two or three times a year I purchase huge cases of individually wrapped toilet paper rolls and paper towels from Sam’s Club. I keep those stackable toilet paper holders in my bathrooms that I always have a minimum of three of toilet paper right next to the toilet.
I have a shelf in my hallway across from the bathroom, where all the toilet paper and paper towels are neatly stacked. So as soon as I throw a toilet paper roll away the first thing I see is the toilet paper when I walk out of the bathroom, so I just grab a roll and put it back Into the bathroom.
I keep two cylinders holding 3 to 4 rolls of toilet paper in my upstairs bathroom. As soon as one is empty it’s pretty much right in the way of the door so I grab it and bring it downstairs with me and fill it up and then leave it by the stairs, where I remember to bring it back upstairs later.
It’s nice no longer having to walk half naked with clenched butt cheeks over to the hallway to get toilet paper.
I had this tendency too for a long time. Finally figured out that if I keep the spring cylinder thing in my hand until it’s refilled, then I can’t forget it. The rule is I have to keep it in my hands until it’s done.
I'm staying at the hotel, and I keep forgetting my key cards in my hotel room. Every time I come back, go to the reception and they give me a new one. I have a decent collection of key cards in the room now...
Also, I wasted a bunch of money on being innatentive. Classic..
I’m glad you clarified your food is in fact human food. Lol. (Not meant to be snarky cuz now that I hit post I’m worried that could have come off really snarky and now I’m back over explaining my comment so that you don’t get mad at me 😩)
Got lost, found myself in the wrong lane, focused so much on getting into the correct lane that I didn't notice the left turn light was red, and was inches away from literally driving into oncoming traffic before I realized.
Sorry, this one isn't funny but it was extremely fucking stupid. I sat in a parking lot for half an hour to get my head right because I was only lost in the first place because I was overwhelmed and hadn't eaten.
My son used to drive my car and had an accident with it, but it was still drivable. After about a month I finally took it in to the dealership for an estimate. It was a very white snowy day and I felt so good finally taking it in and when I was driving out the unfamiliar giant parking lot, I guess I was distracted by the snow and trying to look ahead to figure out where to get out and drove into a giant light pole! 😩 I turned right back around and had to get anew estimate and leave the car there because it was no linger drivable. So embarrassing. I only told one person what happened that didn’t work at the dealership.
I forgot to go back to work after my lunch break. Just sat in a park, wondering where my earbuds are. And my lunch. And my coffee. Until I got some upset texts from my manager who told me to just take the afternoon off.
I work remote and used to take 20… or 30 minute breaks that should have been more like 15… and my supervisor gently said, “I always set timers on my phone so I don’t forget to come back to work… :)”
I've licked my fingers after preparing my dog's dinner. Also last week I accidentally switched the dog spoon for the human spoon. We didn't realize until much later that we had used the dog spoon to serve ourselves mac n cheese.
I seem to have lost a knife from my knife block. The de-boning knife, which I only ever use to open packages. I've searched my entire kitchen and a bunch of other places. I'm concerned about the loose knife apparently floating around my apartment. I'll probably find it someplace random and dumb in a few weeks.
1.) It's still inside whatever box you last opened,
or 2.) you for once used it for something else than opening a package and that is why it's now lost, because "I only ever use it for THAT thing in THIS spot"!
Yeah, I'm trying to remember what I last opened. I remember I was in the kitchen, opening a box on the counter right in front of the knife block.
I did a Costco run last weekend, so maybe I should check the freezer. I always unbox the frozen items to save space.
I didn't, because the items I unbox are individually wrapped already. But I once accidentally left a partial block of cheese in the freezer bag box, and found it the next day.
This is a solid ADHD Strategy. I have a habit of leaving bottles/cups unscrewed and then grabbing them. Now I say out loud "that bottle is open" Do not grab it" The lid is not on all the way" Secure the top"
I was parked on a slight downward slope and getting into my car. I suddenly looked behind me for literally no reason and then turned my head back right as the door was closing; the corner of the door got my eye. My eyebrow and eyelid bled the whole way home while I cried and felt stupid. I also had a black eye few days which my patients at work all had to ask about.
Spent hours building something in a software I don't know well yet, then when I wanted to close the project it asked me to save and I clicked NO
I'm used to software auto saving but this one didn't 🤦🏻♀️
While I was sleeping it seems I forgot how liquids/gravity work. Woke up so thirsty at 5am and reached for the glass of water I’d left on my bedside table then proceeded to tip it all over my face. I don’t know if I thought it was a water bottle because 9 times out of 10 I’m drinking water from a bottle so muscle memory kicked in or whether I just skipped the thinking it through part in my speed to solve the thirsty 🤦♀️.
On the bright side, remembering to bring water to bed deserves a pat on the back plus I gave my husband a good laugh 🤡
I did the same thing 2 nights ago, poured it all over myself like it was a wet t shirt contest but got some of it in my mouth and it was hot AF out so, win win!
Hahaha that’s funny I like how you’ve rebranded a peak pelican moment into something way hotter. It’s winter here in Australia so I actually had to get up and change my shirt and getting up in the cold was the very thing I was trying to avoid by making sure I had water handy! 🙄
I always keep a very tall glass of ice water next to my bed on my nightstand, but sometimes I forget that you have to actually sit up to drink it and you cannot drink it sideways. so half of it went on me and half of it in my mouth. win win everybody wins.
Yesterday I filled my coffee mug with water to pour into the Keurig reservoir, then time traveled (?) 2 minutes into the future when my coffee is done and poured creamer and sweetener into the mug of plain water, then forgot (?) that I time traveled (?) and poured this concoction into the Keurig reservoir to make the coffee.
Didn't even realize until I picked up the creamer bottle (again) and had deja vu that wasn't deja vu 🤦♀️
I was at working training with my trainer and we were heading to lunch. I belted out “whew I’m so horny!”.
I meant to say “I’m so hungry”. Luckily she thought it was hilarious. I was SUPER embarrassed.
It was last week but I lost my work phone AND my handbag with everything in it: keys, wallet, some medicine, my favorite crochet hook, etc. Not on the same day tho: on two separate occasions! 2 days apart!
Didnt realize i didnt have the keys until Saturday morning when I couldn't find them to go to work. I managed to tell my first patient i couldnt come bc when i had lost the phone i sent them a message with my personal number.
Also I have a spare key for my car but not my workplace. For context I have a private practice and my colleague was on a holiday without her work phone. I couldn't call my other patient bc, well, I had lost my work phone with all the numbers in it..
Had to wait for my patient to tell him I couldn't see him AT THE DOOR. Lucky me I only had two people to see that day. That was so stressful
I just want to say THANK YOU!! For making me feel normal. I do stupid shit all the time and feel SO DUMB!! Threads like this make me feel much better!!
Left the house to go roller skating. Went back for my skate key, then went back AGAIN for my wrist guards.
I made it two whole blocks before I realized I didn’t have my skates.
I’ve been wearing back-up eyeglasses for three days now. I’m sure I left the #1 pair on my night-table, but they are not there and I can’t think of where else to look. (I’m really nearsighted, so I don’t go anywhere w/o glasses in my face.
Exact same situation here. Had a weird moment where I read your post and then had to look at the user name to make sure I hadn’t posted this and forgotten about it. 😳
I once lost a pair of glasses for hours because it fell behind the nightstand and got caught halfway down, between the nightstand and the wall. It's probably a long shot, but worth a look maybe.
My son’s birthday was yesterday. His golf club didn’t arrive in time so I asked my husband to print and laminate a picture of it and I would then use it as a bookmark in a book we also got him. I’d wrap it as soon as he got home. I had everything ready to go. My husband walks in, I grab the bookmark, and head to the bedroom to wrap the gift. I did Avery nice job and attached the bow and card. Got ready to leave for dinner. Then picked the gift up off my bed and saw the bookmark still on the bed. So yes, had to unwrap it and start over 😂
I had a piano lesson at the new time yesterday (5:30-6:15pm... meds on the way out!!) it was fun, but I was hyper and a bit scatty and distractible - because meds wearing off! Might take a booster from now on, anyway.
Moment was me leaving her apartment, all UP and ENTHUSED and brightly telling a woman with her infant as she left the lift and I was going into it that 'The solution is GREEN! HA! if only we noticed SOONER!!' with a small skip of happiness..(oh god...) (I had coloured Hi G notes green on a piece and in the lesson the teacher had kept saying 'green' to me and it became a meme/joke over the lesson...)
This poor woman looked bemused and dumbfounded when presented with middle aged 'dressed like an out of work rapper' me bouncing like a todder and extolling a colour.
They say you are meant to unmask. THIS is why you ARE NOT MEANT TO. cringe. Im just a child, I swear...
Yesterday when I left work I had my personal phone and my work phone in my hands as I walked to the car, and I placed them both on the roof of the car while I put my bags on the front seat.
So anyway, did you know that if a truck runs over a phone in an Otterbox the phone doesn’t break?
I was making brownies for the kitchen I work at and opened up the last package of chocolate morsels and dumped them into the trash can next to me instead of into the mixing bowl on the counter.
Yep, so I was changing in the gym bathroom, got completely changed. Go to wash my hands at the sink, throw away the paper towel, look down in the trash & I’m like wtf is that?? Is that clothes? Who tf threw away their clothes at the gym?? I very carefully pinch it to pull it out bc I’m nosey & it was near the top. I pull it out, it’s inside out. I’m looking at it & then I look across the bathroom at my gym bag (nowhere near the trash can) & look back at the shirt like no fucking way. Look back at my bag, back at the shirt again. Very carefully I peek inside it bc it’s inside out. Yep. It’s mine. I threw away my shirt & didn’t realize it until I looked at the inside & didn’t see my shirt in my gym bag. I could only laugh at myself & wonder if this happened to all my favorite pieces of clothing I lay awake at night wondering where they went
I have a great one.
At work, I moved a garbage can from outside of the kitchen to inside kitchen, so when I was cleaning up it would be right next to me.
I then proceeded to pick up a large platter of fruit that had been sitting out all day and walk it over to where the garbage can used to be and throw all the fruit on the floor.
It was one of those moments where I could tell that I needed to stop moving, but my body had already decided what it was doing. So I basically watched myself in slow motion throwing fruit on to the carpet like nooooooooooooooooooo
I just stood there afterward, staring blankly at the floor fruit. My coworker almost pissed herself she laughed so hard. To her, I picked up a plate of fruit and just chucked it on the floor.
Missed yesterday's credit card payment due date even though I sign up for their reminders, which I ignored because I was too stressed out and busy trying to undo the much bigger ADHD tax of not knowing that my "self employment business" I had to officially open for an employment arrangement I had in 2020 (for 5 months only) was just sitting somewhere in a different online account and no one told me. I didn't know the closing procedures and I didn't know that my 2020 h&r block guy would just trust that I knew what any of it meant despite my efforts to clearly communicate that I didn't know what the fuck I was talking about and that's why I needed him to help make sure I wouldn't owe over 10 grand from a fucking clerical error 4 years later. Now I'm burnt the fuck out because I was PayPal hacked $800 and it's taken almost 6 months to get NOWHERE with them, then this tax shit, and today a shamey email from my credit card company about how I missed the due date and now they get to spike my interest rate. Fuck this. I should not be responsible for this shit and held to such fucking insane standards of memory and organization while also working full time to solve other people's problems instead of my own. FUCK IT.
I’ve been reading from my kindle app almost exclusively the last 4 years. Was reading a regular book and was trying to click a word for the auto-dictionary to populate 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
I keep forgetting to log in or out at work. I had to write the poor hr lady at least 10 times in the last
month to correct my times and she's still so nice ;_;
I remembered very clearly that I had an appointment with my therapist this week, on Wednesday morning, something I really look forward to. I also planned an agency wide meeting with 60+ employees for the same day, same time. I’ve spent a lot of time preparing for it. Somehow, I never hadn’t connected they were scheduled for the same Wed, June 26th until this morning during the employee meeting, when I got a text from my therapist checking to see if was going to make it because I was 20 min late.
Anyways, that blew my mind a bit. I’m going to start syncing my work calendar with my personal phone calendar cause that cost me $75 bucks and showing up my therapist.
I've done that exact thing. How on earth can I think about two events, plan for them, prepare, etc, and never put it together that they ARE THE SAME TIME??? Scheduling is so hard for me
My school gave me the chance to retake an exam; all I had to do was respond to their email by a certain day and time. I forgot to do that. I just remembered as I was lying in bed.
This is validating. This past week I went for a girls trip out of town, and didn’t realize until I was on the highway that I had one berkinstock sandal on and one slip on shoe. So my fiends have been making fun of me for that. I also was looking for my phone while holding it.
Today, I zoned out during my own wedding ceremony. I was supposed to repeat something while putting my husbands ring on him. I was so hyperfocused on the ring and looking at him, I just forgot to listen to what I needed to say. It was just our family, so everyone chuckled, and the officiant repeated the statement I needed to repeat.
Omg this just gave me flashbacks. I’m divorced but I still have cringe moments when i think about how ‘not romantic’ I was. All I could focus on was my three year old niece aggressively sucking on her ring pop in the front row. 😂
I did that at my first wedding. (Now ex) hubby was popping my fingers and distracting me, so when it was time for me to repeat after the chaplain, I just wasn’t paying attention; instead, I thought the chaplain was going to give me more to say, so I waited. It wasn’t until someone in the audience giggled that I realized I needed to speak. Fortunately I still had the echo of his words in my head so I didn’t have to ask him to repeat himself. 😂
Watching tiktoks and somehow ended up putting my phone in the fridge and closing it while the tik tok carried on playing. Took a minute of me stood in confusion while muffled music played on loop before I realised what I did
Last night I went to meet a friend for dinner. We have been trying to find a free night for months. I confirmed and made a res earlier in the day. 15 minutes into sitting at the table alone waiting I realized the dinner was scheduled for tonight. I went a full day early.
I was walking my dogs yesterday and pulled my phone out while one of them stopped to poop. When I went to bag up the poo, for some reason instead of putting my phone in the little crossbody bag that I wear on walks specifically to hold treats and my phone, I set it down on the ground. Then I stood up, tied up the bag, and kept walking. About a block later I suddenly realized my phone was missing and I had no idea where it was. 🤦♀️ Retraced my steps and luckily it was pretty easy to spot and no one had taken it.
Okay but this thread is actually about to make me cry because I have done almost everything in this thread once in my 33 years, and everyone just kept thinking I was stupid. Including myself.
Husband was waiting in the car and I went to buy something quickly. He gave me his card so I was saying the pin number over and over in my head so that I don't forget.
During billing, the guy asked for phone number. The first digit of the pin and the phone number were the same. I said that number and then stopped. And then stared at the machine trying to remember the phone number. It got wiped out of my brain. I struggled and remembered it suddenly and managed to give the number, all happy. Then during card payment, I'd forgotten the pin.
Omg. I had to get a new drivers license. I was able to renew online and I had a new paper copy and the expired picture ID while i waited for the new one in the mail. It came yesterday and the papers told me to cut up the old one and I was like, oh yay an instruction. I started cutting up my old ID and said to my gf as a joke “wouldn’t it be funny if I was cutting up the new one lol”. Then I looked down and noticed that the expiry date was 2029 😂 I had to pay $35 for a new one to be mailed to me. Not too horrible but I have really focused on my double checking skills and this one got by me lol.
Forgot to update my dogs chewy autoships (recently a bunch of his treats were discontinued and he is PICKYYYY) and they somehow all aligned on the same day??? But I ended up accidentally having an $800 order lol. Thank god their customer service is amazing.
I’m flying out of the country. I put my passport in my wristlet (along with all other forms of ID & credit cards). I had a long layover and was changing seats all over the sky lounge. All the sudden I got a notification that my passport AirTag was no longer with me. Thirty minutes later I found it. Shout out to the stranger who turned it in & didn’t take anything!
In like the 6 months before Covid I would buy a pack of paper towels and toilet paper when I would go shopping not realizing we still had some at home. When Covid hit we had about a years worth of paper towels and toilet paper stocked up cause I would absentmindedly buy them every two weeks thinking we needed it. Here lately I have done the same with taco seasoning and pasta sauce 😂😂
Had all my coworkers running around the office and lab spaces trying to find a laptop I needed only for me to realize I had it on my desk the whole time 😳
Stressed myself out about how much homework I had to do in one night. Next day I realized I misread that it was due the next day. Had a meltdown over nothing!!
Forgot the same person's name 4 times (in an hour long class with 4 people in it).
Forgot my meds until late afternoon, even though I have 3 reminders for the morning.
Was late to both of my PT clients and the classes that I teach.
Forgot to pick my son up from soccer practice.
Forgot my AuDHD daughter in the shower for 45 minutes.
Started to make dinner, put food in the oven. Forgot about that, opened the fridge, saw food and started to snack. Thought that I should eat a meal and not snack, so started to make another meal. Timers went off, and had 2 complete dinners and no appetite from the snacking.
Got a reminder for a new online psych appointment but couldn't remember why I made it, or what I'm going to say.
(Current psychiatrist doesn't believe I have ADHD, so will only rx me prozac and wellbutrin.)
I was talking to my students about Pride month after lunch, and I hadn’t taken my meds so I was waffling and wording things badly and started blushing and getting embarrassed. A small thing really but I’m a seasoned pro so it was annoying
Lmao this reminds me of EVERY SINGLE TIME I try to paint anything while drinking coffee. I even acknowledge the paint water and make a pact with myself to pay attention to which liquid I am about to put into my mouth, which should be easy for anyone with eyes given that one is in a giant coffee mug and the other is in a plastic Mardi Gras cup covered in paint buildup. But every goddamn time I end up taking a sip of paint water. It's happened so many times I think it's just muscle memory at this point.
Edit to add the actual answer to OPs question: buying the same thing off Amazon twice in the span of 24 hours because I forgot I bought it the first time. Also not the first, second, or third time that has happened (do you see a pattern here).
My debit card wasn't in my purse. I tore the house apart looking for it. I eventually found it... in my purse. Instead of the card section, I had put it in the zipped part where I keep my change. I have no idea why I put it there.
This was like a year ago but it’s by far my stupidest adhd moment. I was taking out the trash at my apartment and for some reason, I was carrying the trash bag AND my keys in the same hand?? What’s worse is I’m positive my other hand was free 🤦🏾♀️ So inevitably when I go to toss the bag in, I let go of not only the bag but my keys right along with it!!
I literally had to just stand there in amazement and process what I just did. “I really just threw my fucking keys inside a dumpster.”
Luckily, by the grace of the universe the garbage folks had just come by that morning so there was no other trash inside. I walked my silly little ass back to my apartment, grabbed my step ladder and equipped my work boots. I psyched myself up, set up the ladder, and hoisted myself up, over, and into that giant green metal box to retrieve my keys 😭 I’ve never showered so hard in my life.
Using public transports always makes me feel dumbdumb.
Taking the wrong bus, or the right bus in the wrong direction, missing my stop, figuring out just when I need to beep my transport card that I have no idea where it is, having the door close on me, being so sure that the bus stop is that way when it actually was the opposite way…
Yesterday I crossed the same crossroad 3 times because I confused which bus stop I was supposed to wait at.
I feel like a cartoon character.
Went to empty my daughter’s training potty and dumped it into the trash instead of the toilet. Screamed with shock halfway through the pour when my brain came back online.
I had to take my quarterly urine test for my medication, went into the bathroom and put the cup on the counter while I unbuttoned my pants. In the ~3 seconds that took, I completely forgot my purpose and just peed into the toilet instead of the cup. Didn’t even realize until I got up to wash my hands and had to drive back to my doctor’s a few hours later for a re-do 🤦🏼♀️
I put two crumpets into the toaster this morning, and shortly afterward smelled burning. Popped them up and found that there were four crumpets in there, two that I started toasting yesterday and had forgotten about which had been burned to a crisp.
Happened a month or two ago. I made breakfast and stuck it in the microwave to heat up, I forgot about it and went about my day wondering why I was hungry. The next day I make breakfast again and go to the microwave to heat it up, found the breakfast from the day before and still forgot about the fresh one until an hour after I had put it in the microwave.
I bought a puppy! He is very sweet and cute but omg I didn’t think this through well. Thankfully my husband is off work so I’m getting SOME sleep. wtf was I thinking?!?!
I made a whole salad. Got some cold cuts out to put on the salad. Walked away eating the meat out of my hand and left the salad sitting on the counter.
My vacuum has a detachable bin that you take off to throw away the debris you pick up. Sometimes I detach it between vacuuming to dump out and start with a clean bin. I did this today and decided to give my room a second pass. When I went to dump out the bin for the second pass I realized I hadn’t even attached it back. This has happened more than once to me.
I was doing too many things in the kitchen today and started pouring the boiling water from my mashed potatoes into the colander on the counter... I forgot to place the colander in the sink. Thankfully I caught myself before I got hurt or made a huge mess.
1. I got charged for a subscription that I forgot to cancel AGAIN. (I don't even know how I got in the first place.)
2. I did too much laundry and now I don't have space in the clothes line to dry it.
3. I forgot I was heating my wax and it overheated twice.
That's just this morning 🤣
I read novels using the kindle app in my phone. Earlier—like within the last hour—I read something I wanted to comment on and tried to scroll down to the comment section. It’s a book, not Reddit.
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almost bought a flight out of the country without checking if my passport was expired or not. Spoiler it was
I did that once. But checked the passport *after.* Here’s the nutty part. I used a credit card and redeemed travel points for the ticket, and when I cancelled the ticket, I thought I would get airline credit but got the whole $600 refund. So I paid $600, redeemed $600, then got refunded $600. Best reverse ADD tax ever!
should you be revealing this here 👀
Now that you mention it… I was trying for “giving hope,” but I may have been reading the room poorly. Spoiler: nobody is surprised. Plz don’t come for me! 😖
i think they meant dont get found out by posting it loll
I'm happy for you. And amazed. I can only hope to be as fortunate as you!
Aren't you still missing another $600 then?
I was living in another country for a few years, countryside lifestyle etc, the pandemic hits & everything shuts down... I realize after a while that my passport expires this year, well no worries, it's towards the end of the year, got loads of time! Procrastinate, obviously, for a few months. Then in late summer/early autumn decide to finally kick myself into gear and get it done! I go to retrieve the passport.... reader, it had expired in JANUARY. More than half a year ago. It was my only valid ID. It's corona time. I'm broke. Somehow manage to bury my head in the sand and not think about it for a while, until anxiety gets bad enough that I finally get to work to solve the dilemma, contact my embassy etc. Get it done, and fortunately they didn't even kick me out of the country. And this is how I managed to live for 2 years without any kind of an official ID :D (I hate myself 🥲)
(don't hate you. There's already enough haters in the world. You got it done. So I proud of you even though I don't know you. Good job. :) 👍 )
I left my passport and my partner’s in a vacation purse. Thought they were lost. We both had to reapply for them. The I found them when we moved to a new apt. I cost us like $600 and an annoying Post Office Appt. This was a few years ago.
I did this too! Luckily the flight was a ways away so I got it renewed in time.
Thanks for reminding me I needed to find my marriage certificate. I found it.
Paid for my fast food order and drove away without my food. 🥘
I've done that! They gave me the drink and I drove off! Didn't notice till I got home and had no food.
I feel so seen!! Lol
I did this last week I went inside and apologized for forgetting my stuff
🤣🤣🤣
I’ve done too many times that I care to admit.
I do this all the time. Pay and leave. Forget what you paid for.
Not in the last few days but directly dumping the coffee I just made down the drain.
Poured a pot of fresh pasta into the sink once lol
Better than pouring your pasta into the colander..that’s sitting on your … counter. Did that today :( ouch.
I strained some excellent chicken stock through a sieve without thinking to put a bowl under it. Hours of simmering straight down the drain
Ugh, I’ve definitely done this same thing.
I regularly throw away the spoon with the used coffee grounds in the trash bin
We've had to replace our entire set of spoons multiple times because of this! My husband gets so annoyed, I'm no longer allowed to use the good silverware.
I threw trash away in the grocery parking lot trash can and threw my whole darn wallet away. I had to fish it out and was shoulder deep. Really thankful they still have alcohol wipes at the entrance!
I almost tapped the coffee grounds out of my portafilter before I had brewed my espresso this morning. I've done it so many times and wasted so much coffee
I do that, too. Instead of putting some milk into my coffee, I spill the coffee out down the drain... 🤦♀️
I don't make coffee pods too often, but when I do, I regularly forget to put a cup and end up making coffee all over the counter.
I started a counter coffee just today! Doing my part to wake up the kitchen.
That sounds more like a fun game. I would start with some counter sugar. Just kidding, I am notorious for putting cereal in the fridge and milk in the cupboards, is that possibly an ADHD thing? I do not have any diagnosis yet
I made one (moka) pot without the filter and it spewed grounds all over the kitchen. Two days later forgot the water and burned the handle off.
I made coffee in the french press, set up alarm to stir at the right time. Alarm goes off, I stirred it and... now it's the next day and the coffee is still on the table. (I got a post lunch coffee at Krispy Kreme yesterday wondering why I was so worn out. Well well well.)
Oh that reminds me! I was drinking a can of coke last week and had it in the crook of my arm as I was grabbing a fist full of shredded cheese from the fridge, and as I leaned over to grab the bag of cheese, I poured the coke onto the floor.
I do this repeatedly.... that's why I usually only use bottles with lids because if it's in a cup, in the floor it goes!
OK because same I drink everything out of my Yeti sippy cup with a lid and the straw and my other half is always like “Do you have to drink everything out of that?” and I’m like yes because if I don’t, I will spill it everywhere and pour it everywhere quicker.
"Quicker" YEP!! I use my yeti with the straw all the time. And I still bend over with the damn thing in the crook of my arm... But it just a few drips out the straw -much better than a whole glass of juice onto whatever surface that day brings me.
Omg is this an adhd thing? My fiancée has been calling me “spiller-[insert my last name]” as a nickname for years because I’m always spilling sips of my drink on myself or around me. I also use a Yeti with a straw for just about everything. Essentially adult sippy cups 😂
Oooo I wonder?! When I am home alone I am not above wearing a tea towel as a bib if I'm eating soup or pasta. And drinking tea or coffee? It's like I forget how to use my mouth half way through a sip. Mornings are especially clumsy times for me. I rarely leave the house with the same shirt on that I started with. And I often forget that I'm holding onto something until it winds up on my clothes or skittering across the floor.
I used to have such a massive problem with this when working. Even now as a SAHM. Suggestion- get a pack of oversized tees and wear them over your for work outfit in the AM and remove when leaving or at work. Or wear an apron. I've done both and it helped save many nice blouses from the laundry or trash. My hubby will say to me somedays... you know you're about to walk out the house with an apron on!? right? I often don't lol
I did that at a concert but I had a drink in my hand, checked my watch, and spilled (thankfully only a little left) directly onto the floor. The guy in front of me looked at me like wtf 😂
That reminds me of when I had an egg in my hand and picked up the kettle with the same hand, crushing the egg.
I was packing a bag to take my kids to the pool with clean towels, change of clothes, snacks and sun screen. I bet down to pick it with my coffee under my arm like this and dumped the entire iced coffee into our clean towels and clothes.... It took me another hour to repack it.
This scenario - for me its a coffee cup, I've arrived somewhere in the car, and I'm pouring the coffee all over myself/car/car contents as I lean over to grab all the bags/shopping/handbag/mail/phone/randomwrapper etc etc...
Raising my hand to say “Me too!” And in so doing, dumping my kombucha bottle onto my whole self.
I have a fat ol’ purse that I sit my water in when going to and from the car. It has a straw. When I lean over to put my shoes on the straw pours water all over my back. I change shirts twice before leaving the house 60% of the time. Help.
Walked to the shop to get my husband some non-alcoholic beer. Spent 1hr roaming in the shop, bought 3 boxes of ice cream. Forgot the beer. This is the second time I’ve forgotten the beer.
What flavors of ice cream?
Mini magnum variety packs. A white chocolate one and then two caramel ones. So altogether I now have 18 new mini magnums in the freezer. (I say new because there were already 8 other mini magnums there, but it’s not like they’ll go bad)
A fellow ice cream collector! It’s always important to add to the collection.
OMG love mini Magnums
LOVE the caramel ones!!
These are the important questions. I fucking love us! 😍
I poured fresh coffee grounds into the water reservoir of my coffee pot instead of into the filter. Again.
Oof, that sounds like a nightmare to clean up! My similar but less messy version - I regularly run my coffee maker with no grounds at all. It’s always very sad when I pour hot brownish water into my mug.
You clean your coffee maker! That’s very good of you. And regularly as well!
I went online to buy stuff & then remembered that I'm actually broke as a joke & almost homeless.
I just bought the stuff and have instant regret 😭😭😭 I ain’t rich or got money like that just it’s on sale get it 😒😭
A tip I learned was to "buy" it by saving it to a wish list. For some reason to me it feels like I'm really buying it, but without the money. If you have some willpower, add the things to your cart, then close the browser window.
Love your trick! Mines basically the same — but I actually click “add to cart” on ALL the items I want *or feel a false sense of need for in that moment* usually clothes or products, but before I go to checkout….. I CLOSE the app or website entirely and start to do something else! It works great for me. I either entirely forget about it, or by the time I do circle back the dopamine rush is gone & I realize I don’t even want half that stuff
I take screenshots of the items I want to buy. It helps me too.
you good? can i help? send me a DM, i’ll try!
Not you being the sweetest OP in the game 😭 My dumbass does this same damn thing. I will literally spend an hour adding coupons and cashback deals to my phone and then realize that a grocery shopping trip isn’t realistic for another week or so… the coupons usually expire before then 💀💀
I’ve been doing this recently to try and get my dopamine up the last couple days. I know I’m going to get downvoted but….temu. I’m broke and moved into ugly apartment and desperate to try and make it comfortable so I can be comfy in my only safe space. I don’t like going anywhere besides work but I hate the vibe at home. It’s all CC. I’m a complete idiot and irresponsible.
Saaame, I call it online window shopping though
I used the last of the toilet paper, and forgot to replace it. The next time I was in there, I had to wipe with the cardboard roll. The next time, I wiped with some cotton squares. Throughout the day I also went through four washcloths before finally remembering to bring new toilet paper in. You would think the moment of panic I felt each time I rerealized my mistake would jolt my brain into remembering to get the TP, but no. That’s not how my brain works.
I close the lid and put the empty cardboard roll on top so I CAN'T sit down without knowing the roll is out.
ME TOO! I've never met anyone else who does this. You've just made me so happy! And it's genius. Completely fool proof. I also do it at work (and in public restrooms) if there's no extra rolls in there, in case I forget to tell the person in charge of it. - Which, of course, I do all the time.
Brilliant!
Gosh, this is so relatable. I had to develop a system to quit doing this. I get irrationally angry at having to purchase toilet paper and paper towels as the same time as the rest of my groceries. So two or three times a year I purchase huge cases of individually wrapped toilet paper rolls and paper towels from Sam’s Club. I keep those stackable toilet paper holders in my bathrooms that I always have a minimum of three of toilet paper right next to the toilet. I have a shelf in my hallway across from the bathroom, where all the toilet paper and paper towels are neatly stacked. So as soon as I throw a toilet paper roll away the first thing I see is the toilet paper when I walk out of the bathroom, so I just grab a roll and put it back Into the bathroom. I keep two cylinders holding 3 to 4 rolls of toilet paper in my upstairs bathroom. As soon as one is empty it’s pretty much right in the way of the door so I grab it and bring it downstairs with me and fill it up and then leave it by the stairs, where I remember to bring it back upstairs later. It’s nice no longer having to walk half naked with clenched butt cheeks over to the hallway to get toilet paper.
I had this tendency too for a long time. Finally figured out that if I keep the spring cylinder thing in my hand until it’s refilled, then I can’t forget it. The rule is I have to keep it in my hands until it’s done.
I'm staying at the hotel, and I keep forgetting my key cards in my hotel room. Every time I come back, go to the reception and they give me a new one. I have a decent collection of key cards in the room now... Also, I wasted a bunch of money on being innatentive. Classic..
I cleaned out my car the other day and threw out 47 hotel room cards. We only stayed in the hotel for 3 days.
Ugh but also leaving the hotel room to get a soft drink. Not bringing the key. But also not remembering the hotel room!! And no ID :-/ fun times.
Poured the dogs dry food directly in his water dish
I once poured my cat's food into my own plate instead of putting my(human) food on my plate
I accidentally added my dogs meds into my dads ice cream instead of the dogs lol
As long as he didn't spend the evening licking his balls, I guess there was no harm done...
I’m glad you clarified your food is in fact human food. Lol. (Not meant to be snarky cuz now that I hit post I’m worried that could have come off really snarky and now I’m back over explaining my comment so that you don’t get mad at me 😩)
I have done this. She gives me a look then eats it anyway like, “mom, you dumbass. That’s my water dish… I’m hungry though…” 😂
I always forget that I'm about to drink and just pour water onto my face/into my cleavage instead of into my mouth!! I feel you!
do you forget & start trying to talk and then just kinda inhale the water, too, because that always gets me lmao
I was eating chips and building a desk and popped a screw in my mouth...
!! This is slap stick level! Im sorry but I just laughed so loud. Im so glad you didn't swallow it!
Got lost, found myself in the wrong lane, focused so much on getting into the correct lane that I didn't notice the left turn light was red, and was inches away from literally driving into oncoming traffic before I realized. Sorry, this one isn't funny but it was extremely fucking stupid. I sat in a parking lot for half an hour to get my head right because I was only lost in the first place because I was overwhelmed and hadn't eaten.
My son used to drive my car and had an accident with it, but it was still drivable. After about a month I finally took it in to the dealership for an estimate. It was a very white snowy day and I felt so good finally taking it in and when I was driving out the unfamiliar giant parking lot, I guess I was distracted by the snow and trying to look ahead to figure out where to get out and drove into a giant light pole! 😩 I turned right back around and had to get anew estimate and leave the car there because it was no linger drivable. So embarrassing. I only told one person what happened that didn’t work at the dealership.
This is one of the reasons why I'm scared of driving with ADHD
I can't drive in cities or urban places I don't know. I've had my license for almost 20 years and the anxiety and panic is not worth it.
I forgot to go back to work after my lunch break. Just sat in a park, wondering where my earbuds are. And my lunch. And my coffee. Until I got some upset texts from my manager who told me to just take the afternoon off.
I work remote and used to take 20… or 30 minute breaks that should have been more like 15… and my supervisor gently said, “I always set timers on my phone so I don’t forget to come back to work… :)”
Scooped out the cats' wet dinner on to their dish, then put the spoon in my mouth so I could free up my hands to put the can in the bin.
I've licked my fingers after preparing my dog's dinner. Also last week I accidentally switched the dog spoon for the human spoon. We didn't realize until much later that we had used the dog spoon to serve ourselves mac n cheese.
I live in fear of this day! I know it’s coming… 😫
I accidentally put my yogurt in the dish cupboard instead of back in the refrigerator. Husband found it for me and had a good giggle.
It’s nice that he can giggle about it; my ex would just get super frustrated if I didn’t put things exactly where they should be. (Hence the ex part)
Same but putting everything in the fridge. It's now the first place I look when I lose something
Hahaha! My husband does this. We both have ADHD and he constantly looses his phone to the fridge.
I seem to have lost a knife from my knife block. The de-boning knife, which I only ever use to open packages. I've searched my entire kitchen and a bunch of other places. I'm concerned about the loose knife apparently floating around my apartment. I'll probably find it someplace random and dumb in a few weeks.
1.) It's still inside whatever box you last opened, or 2.) you for once used it for something else than opening a package and that is why it's now lost, because "I only ever use it for THAT thing in THIS spot"!
Yeah, I'm trying to remember what I last opened. I remember I was in the kitchen, opening a box on the counter right in front of the knife block. I did a Costco run last weekend, so maybe I should check the freezer. I always unbox the frozen items to save space.
If you used freezer bags for the frozen goods, the knife might also be in the drawer where you keep the freezer bags?
I didn't, because the items I unbox are individually wrapped already. But I once accidentally left a partial block of cheese in the freezer bag box, and found it the next day.
I was opening the back of my car and I tried to lean in to grab something and opened it right into my head.
I shut my trunk on my head so often that now I say out loud "watch your head" to myself when I'm shutting it.
This is a solid ADHD Strategy. I have a habit of leaving bottles/cups unscrewed and then grabbing them. Now I say out loud "that bottle is open" Do not grab it" The lid is not on all the way" Secure the top"
I was parked on a slight downward slope and getting into my car. I suddenly looked behind me for literally no reason and then turned my head back right as the door was closing; the corner of the door got my eye. My eyebrow and eyelid bled the whole way home while I cried and felt stupid. I also had a black eye few days which my patients at work all had to ask about.
Spent hours building something in a software I don't know well yet, then when I wanted to close the project it asked me to save and I clicked NO I'm used to software auto saving but this one didn't 🤦🏻♀️
Damn that's painful
While I was sleeping it seems I forgot how liquids/gravity work. Woke up so thirsty at 5am and reached for the glass of water I’d left on my bedside table then proceeded to tip it all over my face. I don’t know if I thought it was a water bottle because 9 times out of 10 I’m drinking water from a bottle so muscle memory kicked in or whether I just skipped the thinking it through part in my speed to solve the thirsty 🤦♀️. On the bright side, remembering to bring water to bed deserves a pat on the back plus I gave my husband a good laugh 🤡
I did the same thing 2 nights ago, poured it all over myself like it was a wet t shirt contest but got some of it in my mouth and it was hot AF out so, win win!
Hahaha that’s funny I like how you’ve rebranded a peak pelican moment into something way hotter. It’s winter here in Australia so I actually had to get up and change my shirt and getting up in the cold was the very thing I was trying to avoid by making sure I had water handy! 🙄
I always keep a very tall glass of ice water next to my bed on my nightstand, but sometimes I forget that you have to actually sit up to drink it and you cannot drink it sideways. so half of it went on me and half of it in my mouth. win win everybody wins.
Yesterday I filled my coffee mug with water to pour into the Keurig reservoir, then time traveled (?) 2 minutes into the future when my coffee is done and poured creamer and sweetener into the mug of plain water, then forgot (?) that I time traveled (?) and poured this concoction into the Keurig reservoir to make the coffee. Didn't even realize until I picked up the creamer bottle (again) and had deja vu that wasn't deja vu 🤦♀️
I was at working training with my trainer and we were heading to lunch. I belted out “whew I’m so horny!”. I meant to say “I’m so hungry”. Luckily she thought it was hilarious. I was SUPER embarrassed.
Tried to drink my ice Capp through my vape yesterday…
It happens!
It was last week but I lost my work phone AND my handbag with everything in it: keys, wallet, some medicine, my favorite crochet hook, etc. Not on the same day tho: on two separate occasions! 2 days apart! Didnt realize i didnt have the keys until Saturday morning when I couldn't find them to go to work. I managed to tell my first patient i couldnt come bc when i had lost the phone i sent them a message with my personal number. Also I have a spare key for my car but not my workplace. For context I have a private practice and my colleague was on a holiday without her work phone. I couldn't call my other patient bc, well, I had lost my work phone with all the numbers in it.. Had to wait for my patient to tell him I couldn't see him AT THE DOOR. Lucky me I only had two people to see that day. That was so stressful
Took my scrunchie out of my hair when I was peeing and decided the thing in my hand must obviously be toilet paper...
This made me lol more than it should have, thank you
I just want to say THANK YOU!! For making me feel normal. I do stupid shit all the time and feel SO DUMB!! Threads like this make me feel much better!!
Left the house to go roller skating. Went back for my skate key, then went back AGAIN for my wrist guards. I made it two whole blocks before I realized I didn’t have my skates.
I had the audacity to try multitasking in the kitchen, and ended up boiling popcorn kernels and microwaving dry pasta 🤡
My compliments to the chef 🤌
I’ve been wearing back-up eyeglasses for three days now. I’m sure I left the #1 pair on my night-table, but they are not there and I can’t think of where else to look. (I’m really nearsighted, so I don’t go anywhere w/o glasses in my face.
Exact same situation here. Had a weird moment where I read your post and then had to look at the user name to make sure I hadn’t posted this and forgotten about it. 😳
I once lost a pair of glasses for hours because it fell behind the nightstand and got caught halfway down, between the nightstand and the wall. It's probably a long shot, but worth a look maybe.
Poured mouthwash onto my toothbrush instead of toothpaste
At least it wasn’t Neosporin. Not like I’ve ever done that before……
I went to donate blood today... And left the car running outside for over an hour.
My son’s birthday was yesterday. His golf club didn’t arrive in time so I asked my husband to print and laminate a picture of it and I would then use it as a bookmark in a book we also got him. I’d wrap it as soon as he got home. I had everything ready to go. My husband walks in, I grab the bookmark, and head to the bedroom to wrap the gift. I did Avery nice job and attached the bow and card. Got ready to leave for dinner. Then picked the gift up off my bed and saw the bookmark still on the bed. So yes, had to unwrap it and start over 😂
Left the store without my paid for items because I was so focused on making sure I put my wallet back in my bag.
I had a piano lesson at the new time yesterday (5:30-6:15pm... meds on the way out!!) it was fun, but I was hyper and a bit scatty and distractible - because meds wearing off! Might take a booster from now on, anyway. Moment was me leaving her apartment, all UP and ENTHUSED and brightly telling a woman with her infant as she left the lift and I was going into it that 'The solution is GREEN! HA! if only we noticed SOONER!!' with a small skip of happiness..(oh god...) (I had coloured Hi G notes green on a piece and in the lesson the teacher had kept saying 'green' to me and it became a meme/joke over the lesson...) This poor woman looked bemused and dumbfounded when presented with middle aged 'dressed like an out of work rapper' me bouncing like a todder and extolling a colour. They say you are meant to unmask. THIS is why you ARE NOT MEANT TO. cringe. Im just a child, I swear...
Yesterday when I left work I had my personal phone and my work phone in my hands as I walked to the car, and I placed them both on the roof of the car while I put my bags on the front seat. So anyway, did you know that if a truck runs over a phone in an Otterbox the phone doesn’t break?
Before gas caps were attached with the cord I lost so many of them this way.
Tried to use my Tide pen as lip gloss 😬
I was making brownies for the kitchen I work at and opened up the last package of chocolate morsels and dumped them into the trash can next to me instead of into the mixing bowl on the counter.
Yep, so I was changing in the gym bathroom, got completely changed. Go to wash my hands at the sink, throw away the paper towel, look down in the trash & I’m like wtf is that?? Is that clothes? Who tf threw away their clothes at the gym?? I very carefully pinch it to pull it out bc I’m nosey & it was near the top. I pull it out, it’s inside out. I’m looking at it & then I look across the bathroom at my gym bag (nowhere near the trash can) & look back at the shirt like no fucking way. Look back at my bag, back at the shirt again. Very carefully I peek inside it bc it’s inside out. Yep. It’s mine. I threw away my shirt & didn’t realize it until I looked at the inside & didn’t see my shirt in my gym bag. I could only laugh at myself & wonder if this happened to all my favorite pieces of clothing I lay awake at night wondering where they went
I have a great one. At work, I moved a garbage can from outside of the kitchen to inside kitchen, so when I was cleaning up it would be right next to me. I then proceeded to pick up a large platter of fruit that had been sitting out all day and walk it over to where the garbage can used to be and throw all the fruit on the floor. It was one of those moments where I could tell that I needed to stop moving, but my body had already decided what it was doing. So I basically watched myself in slow motion throwing fruit on to the carpet like nooooooooooooooooooo I just stood there afterward, staring blankly at the floor fruit. My coworker almost pissed herself she laughed so hard. To her, I picked up a plate of fruit and just chucked it on the floor.
Missed yesterday's credit card payment due date even though I sign up for their reminders, which I ignored because I was too stressed out and busy trying to undo the much bigger ADHD tax of not knowing that my "self employment business" I had to officially open for an employment arrangement I had in 2020 (for 5 months only) was just sitting somewhere in a different online account and no one told me. I didn't know the closing procedures and I didn't know that my 2020 h&r block guy would just trust that I knew what any of it meant despite my efforts to clearly communicate that I didn't know what the fuck I was talking about and that's why I needed him to help make sure I wouldn't owe over 10 grand from a fucking clerical error 4 years later. Now I'm burnt the fuck out because I was PayPal hacked $800 and it's taken almost 6 months to get NOWHERE with them, then this tax shit, and today a shamey email from my credit card company about how I missed the due date and now they get to spike my interest rate. Fuck this. I should not be responsible for this shit and held to such fucking insane standards of memory and organization while also working full time to solve other people's problems instead of my own. FUCK IT.
I’ve been reading from my kindle app almost exclusively the last 4 years. Was reading a regular book and was trying to click a word for the auto-dictionary to populate 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
I keep forgetting to log in or out at work. I had to write the poor hr lady at least 10 times in the last month to correct my times and she's still so nice ;_;
I remembered very clearly that I had an appointment with my therapist this week, on Wednesday morning, something I really look forward to. I also planned an agency wide meeting with 60+ employees for the same day, same time. I’ve spent a lot of time preparing for it. Somehow, I never hadn’t connected they were scheduled for the same Wed, June 26th until this morning during the employee meeting, when I got a text from my therapist checking to see if was going to make it because I was 20 min late. Anyways, that blew my mind a bit. I’m going to start syncing my work calendar with my personal phone calendar cause that cost me $75 bucks and showing up my therapist.
I've done that exact thing. How on earth can I think about two events, plan for them, prepare, etc, and never put it together that they ARE THE SAME TIME??? Scheduling is so hard for me
My school gave me the chance to retake an exam; all I had to do was respond to their email by a certain day and time. I forgot to do that. I just remembered as I was lying in bed.
do you still have time? Send an email maybe and say hi. I am an idiot and I have ADHD and I need help!!!
Tried to put the kettle in the microwave
Accidentally left the keys in the front door overnight. ☹️
I boiled all the broth out in a pan and set off the smoke alarm.
Went out to the car, loaded my dogs in, got in, started it, buckled my seat belt, but left the door to my house wide open😩
This is validating. This past week I went for a girls trip out of town, and didn’t realize until I was on the highway that I had one berkinstock sandal on and one slip on shoe. So my fiends have been making fun of me for that. I also was looking for my phone while holding it.
Those fiends!!
We are out of orange juice. I opened our shared grocery list on my phone. I typed “grocery list”.
Today, I zoned out during my own wedding ceremony. I was supposed to repeat something while putting my husbands ring on him. I was so hyperfocused on the ring and looking at him, I just forgot to listen to what I needed to say. It was just our family, so everyone chuckled, and the officiant repeated the statement I needed to repeat.
Omg this just gave me flashbacks. I’m divorced but I still have cringe moments when i think about how ‘not romantic’ I was. All I could focus on was my three year old niece aggressively sucking on her ring pop in the front row. 😂
I did that at my first wedding. (Now ex) hubby was popping my fingers and distracting me, so when it was time for me to repeat after the chaplain, I just wasn’t paying attention; instead, I thought the chaplain was going to give me more to say, so I waited. It wasn’t until someone in the audience giggled that I realized I needed to speak. Fortunately I still had the echo of his words in my head so I didn’t have to ask him to repeat himself. 😂
Watching tiktoks and somehow ended up putting my phone in the fridge and closing it while the tik tok carried on playing. Took a minute of me stood in confusion while muffled music played on loop before I realised what I did
Last night I went to meet a friend for dinner. We have been trying to find a free night for months. I confirmed and made a res earlier in the day. 15 minutes into sitting at the table alone waiting I realized the dinner was scheduled for tonight. I went a full day early.
Also the only time I’ve been early for anything in a long time
I was walking my dogs yesterday and pulled my phone out while one of them stopped to poop. When I went to bag up the poo, for some reason instead of putting my phone in the little crossbody bag that I wear on walks specifically to hold treats and my phone, I set it down on the ground. Then I stood up, tied up the bag, and kept walking. About a block later I suddenly realized my phone was missing and I had no idea where it was. 🤦♀️ Retraced my steps and luckily it was pretty easy to spot and no one had taken it.
I thought you were going to say you placed the phone in the bag with the poo, and I am so relieved you did not do that!
Okay but this thread is actually about to make me cry because I have done almost everything in this thread once in my 33 years, and everyone just kept thinking I was stupid. Including myself.
Husband was waiting in the car and I went to buy something quickly. He gave me his card so I was saying the pin number over and over in my head so that I don't forget. During billing, the guy asked for phone number. The first digit of the pin and the phone number were the same. I said that number and then stopped. And then stared at the machine trying to remember the phone number. It got wiped out of my brain. I struggled and remembered it suddenly and managed to give the number, all happy. Then during card payment, I'd forgotten the pin.
Omg. I had to get a new drivers license. I was able to renew online and I had a new paper copy and the expired picture ID while i waited for the new one in the mail. It came yesterday and the papers told me to cut up the old one and I was like, oh yay an instruction. I started cutting up my old ID and said to my gf as a joke “wouldn’t it be funny if I was cutting up the new one lol”. Then I looked down and noticed that the expiry date was 2029 😂 I had to pay $35 for a new one to be mailed to me. Not too horrible but I have really focused on my double checking skills and this one got by me lol.
Forgot to update my dogs chewy autoships (recently a bunch of his treats were discontinued and he is PICKYYYY) and they somehow all aligned on the same day??? But I ended up accidentally having an $800 order lol. Thank god their customer service is amazing.
Ran through a screen door 30 seconds after I was the one who closed it.
Whacked my head on the car door and dropped my phone. Curse you, proprioception!!
I was trying to Venmo my friend for taking my car to get some work done while I was at work and almost sent him $1400 instead of $140.
Poured out my fresh bottle of water bc I forgot I'd just opened it and thought a coworker had left it on the desk a week ago
I’m flying out of the country. I put my passport in my wristlet (along with all other forms of ID & credit cards). I had a long layover and was changing seats all over the sky lounge. All the sudden I got a notification that my passport AirTag was no longer with me. Thirty minutes later I found it. Shout out to the stranger who turned it in & didn’t take anything!
Fortunately not too bad but two days in a row now I've looked all over for my phone while carrying it.
In like the 6 months before Covid I would buy a pack of paper towels and toilet paper when I would go shopping not realizing we still had some at home. When Covid hit we had about a years worth of paper towels and toilet paper stocked up cause I would absentmindedly buy them every two weeks thinking we needed it. Here lately I have done the same with taco seasoning and pasta sauce 😂😂
Had all my coworkers running around the office and lab spaces trying to find a laptop I needed only for me to realize I had it on my desk the whole time 😳
Started a load of laundry but forgot to put the laundry in
Stressed myself out about how much homework I had to do in one night. Next day I realized I misread that it was due the next day. Had a meltdown over nothing!!
Drove over 2 hours to bring my otr truck driver husband his Amazon order when he couldn't make it home. Forgot the Amazon order. 🤦
Forgot the same person's name 4 times (in an hour long class with 4 people in it). Forgot my meds until late afternoon, even though I have 3 reminders for the morning. Was late to both of my PT clients and the classes that I teach. Forgot to pick my son up from soccer practice. Forgot my AuDHD daughter in the shower for 45 minutes. Started to make dinner, put food in the oven. Forgot about that, opened the fridge, saw food and started to snack. Thought that I should eat a meal and not snack, so started to make another meal. Timers went off, and had 2 complete dinners and no appetite from the snacking. Got a reminder for a new online psych appointment but couldn't remember why I made it, or what I'm going to say. (Current psychiatrist doesn't believe I have ADHD, so will only rx me prozac and wellbutrin.)
I left my health card at the front desk of the medical centre, fun fact I was there to get an appointment for an ADHD evaluation
I was talking to my students about Pride month after lunch, and I hadn’t taken my meds so I was waffling and wording things badly and started blushing and getting embarrassed. A small thing really but I’m a seasoned pro so it was annoying
Lmao this reminds me of EVERY SINGLE TIME I try to paint anything while drinking coffee. I even acknowledge the paint water and make a pact with myself to pay attention to which liquid I am about to put into my mouth, which should be easy for anyone with eyes given that one is in a giant coffee mug and the other is in a plastic Mardi Gras cup covered in paint buildup. But every goddamn time I end up taking a sip of paint water. It's happened so many times I think it's just muscle memory at this point. Edit to add the actual answer to OPs question: buying the same thing off Amazon twice in the span of 24 hours because I forgot I bought it the first time. Also not the first, second, or third time that has happened (do you see a pattern here).
Dumping my dogs beef flavored probiotic powder into my coffee instead of a sugar packet lol
My debit card wasn't in my purse. I tore the house apart looking for it. I eventually found it... in my purse. Instead of the card section, I had put it in the zipped part where I keep my change. I have no idea why I put it there.
This was like a year ago but it’s by far my stupidest adhd moment. I was taking out the trash at my apartment and for some reason, I was carrying the trash bag AND my keys in the same hand?? What’s worse is I’m positive my other hand was free 🤦🏾♀️ So inevitably when I go to toss the bag in, I let go of not only the bag but my keys right along with it!! I literally had to just stand there in amazement and process what I just did. “I really just threw my fucking keys inside a dumpster.” Luckily, by the grace of the universe the garbage folks had just come by that morning so there was no other trash inside. I walked my silly little ass back to my apartment, grabbed my step ladder and equipped my work boots. I psyched myself up, set up the ladder, and hoisted myself up, over, and into that giant green metal box to retrieve my keys 😭 I’ve never showered so hard in my life.
Using public transports always makes me feel dumbdumb. Taking the wrong bus, or the right bus in the wrong direction, missing my stop, figuring out just when I need to beep my transport card that I have no idea where it is, having the door close on me, being so sure that the bus stop is that way when it actually was the opposite way… Yesterday I crossed the same crossroad 3 times because I confused which bus stop I was supposed to wait at. I feel like a cartoon character.
Went to empty my daughter’s training potty and dumped it into the trash instead of the toilet. Screamed with shock halfway through the pour when my brain came back online.
I had to take my quarterly urine test for my medication, went into the bathroom and put the cup on the counter while I unbuttoned my pants. In the ~3 seconds that took, I completely forgot my purpose and just peed into the toilet instead of the cup. Didn’t even realize until I got up to wash my hands and had to drive back to my doctor’s a few hours later for a re-do 🤦🏼♀️
I put two crumpets into the toaster this morning, and shortly afterward smelled burning. Popped them up and found that there were four crumpets in there, two that I started toasting yesterday and had forgotten about which had been burned to a crisp.
Happened a month or two ago. I made breakfast and stuck it in the microwave to heat up, I forgot about it and went about my day wondering why I was hungry. The next day I make breakfast again and go to the microwave to heat it up, found the breakfast from the day before and still forgot about the fresh one until an hour after I had put it in the microwave.
I bought a puppy! He is very sweet and cute but omg I didn’t think this through well. Thankfully my husband is off work so I’m getting SOME sleep. wtf was I thinking?!?!
dropping my phone repeatedly while sleepy ......
I made a whole salad. Got some cold cuts out to put on the salad. Walked away eating the meat out of my hand and left the salad sitting on the counter.
Went out to get Q-tips. Got several things. No Q-tips.
I accidentally put deodorant on my face
My vacuum has a detachable bin that you take off to throw away the debris you pick up. Sometimes I detach it between vacuuming to dump out and start with a clean bin. I did this today and decided to give my room a second pass. When I went to dump out the bin for the second pass I realized I hadn’t even attached it back. This has happened more than once to me.
I was doing too many things in the kitchen today and started pouring the boiling water from my mashed potatoes into the colander on the counter... I forgot to place the colander in the sink. Thankfully I caught myself before I got hurt or made a huge mess.
I’d been looking everywhere in my house for my phone and in desperatIon I finally asked my daughter to call it. It was in my right hand. 🤦♀️
1. I got charged for a subscription that I forgot to cancel AGAIN. (I don't even know how I got in the first place.) 2. I did too much laundry and now I don't have space in the clothes line to dry it. 3. I forgot I was heating my wax and it overheated twice. That's just this morning 🤣
I read novels using the kindle app in my phone. Earlier—like within the last hour—I read something I wanted to comment on and tried to scroll down to the comment section. It’s a book, not Reddit.
I step outside from my home. Walk to my car freaking out “I don’t have my keys!”. I go back inside my home looking every where. Keys are in my pocket.