Silly little things.

I do this too. I'll just do this thing first, then I'll go to the toilet. Go, you idiot! It takes two minutes! Do the thing afterwards.

I always try to control-z in real life which just makes me feel mentally challanged.

I guess so.

This is my life.

pointing the car door clicker at a *real* door that needs a key and wondering why the hell it's not opening.

getting the wash inside the washer and realize I don't have a quarter for the machine...go back upstairs, reach for the door only to notice the missing quarter has magically appeared in my hand. DOH! DUH!

The same thing happened to me last Saturday: I left the flat of a friend, then realized I'd left my bag there, went back to get it, and only when my friend said he couldn't see it anywhere did I realize it was in my hand. Usually I'm always forgetting the said bag in different places, so I think in this case my brain had already assumed this would happen, except that this time I'd actually remembered to take the bag with me.

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i know this one.

ID card hi-jinx: all the time, but office subway. So I try to wave my wallet at the turnstile and then WHUMP hit the bar, or get out my ID to swipe it at lobby security and then...uh, put it away like I meant to do that.

This is my work too. Lots of elevator-related embarassment. "Swear to god I know how to operate these things."

I also once got really irritable because the metro turnstile wouldn't take my...NY state non-drivers' ID card??

Not a day goes by I don't lament the lack of ctrl+F in meatspace situations (ex: can't ctrl+F to find friend in dark, crowded movie theater, must resort to loud whisper and ruin the 300 trailer for everybody).

nothing is broken by a miracle but i have a giant big cut over my little toe which i weirdly didn't notice AT ALL till the middle of the night in bed when i suddenly wondered why my foot was hurting so much and WET??

I have also stomped around the house going "dammit why can't I find my glasses!". While I am wearing them. :|

when i took the tube i used to get my work keys out to get through the turnstiles at the end and stand there stupidly with them in my hand wondering what to do, and try to get into my flat by waving my oystercard at it.

"at a key moment in the discussion my desk tipped over..."

Oh poor you, Mark, but the mental image made me LOL.

I am so glad I don't have an oystercard for this precise reason!

What I try to do is stick my ATM card into the turnstiles of the tube. Um, NO. I do not wish to buy this railway.

See also: mobile phone (had to retrieve it as was on the phone to exciting new romantic prospect at the time - let's gloss over why I was chatting to her while having a pee) and Paul Simon tape (which still worked - as did the phone, admittedly only for about 10 minutes).

Haw, I've done this on the Glasgow Underground. What amazed me was that my card went right through the reader thing and popped out the top undamaged. And it still worked in cash machines too! I sort of assumed the mechanism inside the turnstile was all bendy for paper tickets to whizz through, but apparently not that bendy, or else bank cards are indestructible.

Actually, I've done loads of the things on this thread (toilet roll down loo, etc). I R moron.

Also, once when we were almost at our housing estate, Mister Monkey said "what are you doing driving in here? We moved, remember?" and for a split second I believed him.