Everyday I do quicky little ADD things, but today's made me laugh out loud. I was making a bowl of chicken salad, and went to pour myself a glass of milk. Instead of pouring into the glass, I pour the milk into the bowl of chicken salad.

I'm my own source of entertainment. Do anything funny today?

Al
ps, just wanted to test my new avatar

haha, that's cute.

worst thing that happened today was that i almost forgot to eat breakfast. it's still early though.

sometimes i mistake the hand soap for toothpaste. luckily i've be able to catch myself, before i end up washing my mouth out with soap.

:D

OMG I have lost count of how many times i have did that..

I have had moments trying to brew coffee or tea forgetting to put in the water there by burning coffee pot...

clothes in the washer machine and dryer are better prossed when the machines are turned on...Who'da thunk it.

Oh yeah I am ready for marriage and being a house wife alright LMAO!

I like this thread.

I was trying to get a box of decongestant pills open but was fumbling with it, thinking to myself, "This usually only takes me a second ..." After I got it open, I read what it said: OPEN OTHER END.:rolleyes:

I had to laugh at that myself for that one. Story of my life...

How bout not remembering what happened that was funny this morning? (I swear it happened. Whatever it was... :o )

I've done similar things. While trying to prepare a baby bottle for my daughter and a Diet Coke for myself, I poured the Diet Coke in the baby bottle. I also did this with a bottle of antidepressants once. LOL Had the glass right there and instead poured the drink into the prescription bottle. How stupid did I feel calling the doc to get more?? ;)

Here's some more for yas.

Once I was working on one of my guitars and had a bottle of rubbing alcohol and a bottle of soda on the table. I took a swig of the alcohol.

Once when I had contacts, I put a few drops of cleaning solution in my eye instead of the lubircant....very painfull.

But my avatar is perfect because there's so many ways to screw up my coffee, and I do it often. I forget to put the pot...make a mess. Forget to add water, burn the pot. Forget to turn in on....have to wait. Forget to put lid on pot...brewed coffee never drops from top and I'm left with a filter full of coffee/grounds mess.

al

Thank you, thank you. Just what I needed- a good belly laugh. I've done so many of those things. I would unplug something so I can plug something else in and end up plugging the same thing in again and getting angy at the appliance because it's not working. Start a cup of tea in the microwave and forget the to put the water and teabag in the mug and one time I put the mug in the micro with the teabag and forgot the water.

This is me this morning:

Made some oatmeal this morning, reached over to cut some cinn-n-sugar in it .... ended up putting my coffee in it instead.

((and YES I was fully awake when I did that *lol*))

How about losing your car twice in one day ? :D

*makes fasttalkingmom the winner*

I haven't gone anywhere to lose mine today

OK, how about this one i did today. I have a remote unlock for my van on my keychain. At work there are electronic doors that you have to hit a button on the wall for them to open. I walk up to the door and push the unlock button on my remote. I don't think anyone saw me.


al

I leaned back in my office chair, and tipped over onto the floor.

I'm right at home here....how about putting the sugar in the fridge and the milk in the pantry? Dyslexic muscle memory.

Nice to know I am not alone with these goofy ADDisms! I have logged onto my husband's email and wondered why I didnt recognize any of the senders! I go to open my bookmarked sights and None of them were mine! I then look at the personal home page, and sure enough: "Hello Steve!" Woops, time to log out and go into my own!

And yes, I have put dish detergent in the refrigerator and yogurt into the pantry!

I have also put on my directionals, only to turn the Opposite way that I had the directionals on! The fellow drivers behind me and across the intersection must have loved me huh? Hmmm.... Could that be why I got all this obnoxious honking and dirty looks??? I wonder...;)

Pilot Patty

Oh man I ruined a few jugs of milk, meat or anything perishable because I put it in the pantry. I now have a running joke with my gf, I put random stuff in the refridgerator sometimes because well I do it anyways.
How about this one, how many of you wash your hair.... condition your hair... forget to rinse out the conditioner? A few hours in the day you wonder why your hair is so greasy?
Ooh heres a tip for the car thing.. I always park in the same place even if the whole lot is empty, people laugh at me when they here I walk to the end of the lot to get my car.......... but they laugh even harder when they found out I was about to call in to the police to report my car stolen.. :(

Today while washing the dishes, I had on hand down the drain to feel for obstacles, and the other hand heading for the switch for the garbage disposal. Usually I feel for stuff first, then head for the switch.

I'm sure non-adders do this stuff ocassionally, but I do these things on a consistent basis.

al

hmm
i put conditioner in my hair and i hadn't even washed my hair yet..and i remember thinking: ok cool now i can put conditioner on. i've washed my hair already..started putting it in..started washing my hair with it..halfway through i forgot it was conditioner and thought why isn't this shampoo working right? then i looked at my hands and realized i never washed my hair in the first place, and that i forgot i had conditioner in my hair and then thought it was shampoo....how ridiculous!
then: i hate it when i (this is so embarrassing for a woman) i forget to shave..yes.
i actually have forgotten...i'll plan to wear a dress or a skirt and i'll get out of the shower and put my clothes on, try to put lotion on and damn. i forgot to shave...then i have to go back and undress and shave i HATE THAT.
at work: i've called my clients for events
that have
already occured.
yah. sharp one eh?
thats what they're thinking i'm sure....they say "but it's past november 15th...?" oh yeah just checking to see if YOU OWN A CALENDAR.
i also innocently one day asked my husband what he wanted to do for his 30th birthday a few months ago.
he's 34.
i think he's still mad at me....

how about getting in the shower and 10 minutes later, while turning the water off, realize - whoops - forgot the lather and rinse part of the shower because i was working on some mental problem so hard......:o

Alkoz, I am concerned!!!:eek:

Please use a wooden spoon to check for obstructions in your garberator. Never put your hand down that sucker!!! It is WAY to easy to make a fatal mistake. Keep the spoon right there, so that you will never be tempted to use your hand.
Please. Ok?

I get to sleep in this morning. I usually get up at 5am. So, my alarm goes off at 6am and I phone my ride to tell her I won't be in the van today, as I am driving myself. We talk for a few minutes about this and that. I shower, do a load of laundry & dress. Then I wake my son, who says, "Mom, it's 3:30 in the morning!"

Hmmm... So this means I phoned her when? Eek! :o
The joys of being me.

Tuesday evening the Matco (Distributor of mechanic's tools) driver came by and I bought a telescoping magnetic pickup tool. Since this was at least the fourth one, I sternly warned the other 3 guys in the shop that they were never to touch it under any circumstances.
I used it once that night, and put it in a safe place.
Today I couldn't find it, and I know no one else ever used it.

My husband and I were leaving a store and the door say "Pull". So I pulled.......and pulled, and pulled. He starts cracking up and I realized it say pull on the OUTSIDE and I am reading it backwards!!!! I gave it a rather stern shove open and strided out the door. :D

Today I was putting up Christmas lights. My wife comes home and asks why I have the letter J in the window. I had to look at it for a minute before I realized I put the candy can upside down.

al

haha, nice...

I always put stuff in the refrigerator... whether it goes in there or not...

I've found my keys in the refrigerator like 4 times (it's one of the first places I look when I lose them, now)...


I guess I just start cleaning up my mess from "cooking" (making a PB&J sandwich or something simple like that), and have my mind elsewhere, and end up putting everything on the counter in the fridge

I have also put on my directionals, only to turn the Opposite way that I had the directionals on! The fellow drivers behind me and across the intersection must have loved me huh? Hmmm.... Could that be why I got all this obnoxious honking and dirty looks??? I wonder... That was you???? Just kidding....

I have much of the same coffee experiences as already written.

How many times have I walked into a room and then forgotten why I was there? Backtracking sometimes helps this.
Remote control in the fridge or bathroom and milk in the cabinet. Been there too many times.

My mother has a habit of checking her house before I drive away. That way she can find all my stuff that I forgot.

I usually only leave my house two or three times per trip out. I always forget something. The bad days are when I am half way down the mountain when I realize I forgot something else.

I did the conditioner prior to shampoo for the first time recently.

That does it for me for now.

I got a whole bunch from the past 7 months while I was in Germany -

The front door to my apt locked automatically if you let it shut; I took notice of that from day one thinking "oh man... this is gonna be the death of me." Well, sometime during my first week there, I went out with a bunch of students (I knew one of them, but the rest I was meeting for the first time) and on the way home someone happened to mention their keys. And I thought - "hmm... keys... omg... I forgot my keys!!" so I blurted out - "uh... speaking of keys, I think I locked myself out..." I ended up spending the night at someone's house who I'd just met, lol. how's that for a first impression?

In a matter of weeks I had a reputation with everyone for getting lost.. it didn't matter why I was "really" late - to them i'd gotten lost everytime.

I went to Berlin one weekend without booking myself a hostel until the day before, and no return ticket. (not that i'd forgotten, i'd just put it off until it was too late) I wasn't worried though becuase the ticket I was going to buy, you could buy it anytime, even right at the station. I ended up being in a different hostel than my friends, and they all thought I was crazy for going without a return ticket, but I think they secretly envied my "guts"... lol

On the way BACK from Berlin I was taking a different train than everyone else so I was alone, and I managed to miss TWO of my connections (both MY fault for trying to do too much before going to the platform...) I ended up having to spend the night in Nuermburg because the trains my ticket was valid on stopped running after a certain time at night. I had to be at work the next morning so I woke up at like 4 am, made the rest of the 2 or 3 hour trip, and walked straight into the office with my luggage and everything becuase I hadn't had time to stop at home. LOL!!! My boss didn't know though fortunately.
It was a worthwile experience though becuase on the 8 hour trip I met a man from Sudan and ended up staying overnight at his family's house, and even ate an incredible African style dinner at 1 in the morning! it was somthing I'll never forget even if it was perhaps a bit risky.

On another trip I ended up leaving my passport in a hotel - the hotel owner called the American consulate who in turn called my MOM back in America (who freaked out) when she called me at work I had no idea that i'd even lost it!!

At one point I had this plastic container of cookies sitting on a burner on the stove (stupid idea I know) well - somehow the burner got turned on even though I have no recollection of DOING it and I was living by myself at the time. (and I wasn't anywhere near the stove!) I smelled burning plastic.... I ended up scraping up plastic for the next half hour.

My solution with my house keys: I taped a bright highlighed sign to my door handle (on the inside) so that I'd notice it whenever I opened the door. It worked about 2 days and then I just ignored it... so I finally started hanging the keys on the door handle so that i'd feel them when I touched it. I also happened to have 2 extra keys so I gave them to my two next door neighbors (who were also interns at my company) - even with my "system" I managed to lock myself out 4 more times in the 3 months I lived in that apartment! My German friend also gave me an extra copy of his key "just in case" but he didn't need it even once. lol

I almost put my hand in the deep fat fryer today. Good thing i felt the heat otherwise i would be in the hospital for sure! I did however put the granulated garlic in the cooler today, instead of on the shelf with the rest of the dry spices.

Heheh I think I can relate to just about every one of these!!

When I used to teach (high school social studies), I had a habit of sticking my pens in my hair (long hair, usually wore it up in a bun or ponytail). By the end of the day, I'd have 5 or 6 pens sticking out of the top of my head and I'd be running around the classroom, accusing students of stealing my pens....
They'd just look at me, laugh, and pat the tops of their heads to remind me....

Yesterday I attempted to make coffee. I did everything I was suppose to. Half hour later, I looked over to see why I didn't hear it. I never turned it on.

Later that night, I left for work. I thought I had everything. 10 minutes from my house I realized I had forgotten my book and Trivial Pursuit. I got to work and found my book had been with me all along.

After being at work a few hours, I realized my cell phone was not with me. I had to backtrack and found it sitting in the office near the computer. I had taken it off when playing a game and never put it back on. I had dragged one of my employees with me in the search. I laughed and told her, "my phone isn't really lost, it is just part of the ADD thing."

My biggest mishap: When I was packing up my computer to move to college, I forgot a power cable--one that goes from the CPU to the outlet. I had to check my email from the lobby computers, or borrow a cable from my roommate's computer when it wasn't in use. For the first day I believed that I had brought it and it somehow fell out of my stuff on the ground, and was worried I'd never find it. It took a few days for the cable to get to me in the mail.

What really annoys me is when I lose things, and they're not even real things--like the shortcut icon for Firefox.

I hate losing things too. Most of the time the stuff comes back, but I am missing a ring that I so desire to have back. It was a very special ring. The worst part is that I know where I lost and know it was seen by others. The problem is that no one seems to remember where they put it.

I was lookng through an ADD store that was mentioned in another thread. I laughed out loud and told my husband about the Car Registration Wallet (http://www.addconsults.com/store/product_info.php?cPath=30&products_id=158&osCsid=eb3e15f74c448a7f4e6a807ec9a03a7c) that I found for sale. Years ago my husband gave me something similar. He specifically said, "put your registration in this." A while later, I was stopped leaving work. Do ya think that the registration was where it should have been. No way. I think I freaked the officer out a bit with my frantic search for the registration. After tearing apart the glove box by throwing everything in the back seat, I found the thing my husband gave me for my registration. I looked at the officer and said, "Damn my husband told me to keep it in here." I did eventually find the registration. And Yes I was only given a verbal warning. He did his job though. I went the speed limit from then on when leaving work. I use to pray that there would be a cop whenever crazy drivers passed me.

Omg! I love you all! You're just like me and you admit it!
Most people won't tell their goof ups, afraid of making themselves look bad. In comparison I just look that much worse then, because my goof ups are so obvious and in front of everybody. It's really nice to be among other people like me now.
I used to think I was just incredibly stupid. A few weeks ago I got diagnosed with ADD and that started my thinking to change about myself.
Now meeting all you is akin to finding out I'm an alien - the only one on planet Earth - and then finding my home planet and a bunch of alien friends. :D
My God, I wish we all lived together in a great big house! We wouldn't be mean to each other for our forgetfulness and silliness! We'd just laugh all the time and understand. sigh!
Let's form our own city and only let ADDers live there! :D
No...wait a minute...that might not work too well..... if everyone in town misplaces their keys no one would make it to work and none of the shops or factories would open.... No wait! We won't use keys because we won't have locks! And we won't allow fat fryers or garbage disposals! And we'll make all the pantries refrigerators too! And we'll all get coffee at Starbucks! heehee
Who's in??

I am so in, but.... The neat freaks can only visit my house once a month. I will take the dogs for a walk while they clean up my clutter for me.:p

I slept most of the day away, so I have only had one funky incident. I was bringing a cup to the sink and almost threw it away instead. Maybe the meds are working a little. I haven't accidentally thrown away pills in a long time.

Welcome E-girl. I was diagnosed with ADD a few months ago and felt the exact same way as you. Finally so much made sense to me.

Yay Emwell! That's two of us! We can start a city on two, right? :D

Well I'll certainly be there! I just hope we have lots of farmers 'cause I eat a lot. :D

I do that almost every day. I walk up to my front door and hit the unlock button on my keys over and over, waiting for the "unlocking noise". I do it when getting into friends cars also. My key box battery died once and my heart began to race, how would I ever get into my car if the clicker was broken!!??

My 19yr old son spent the night last night, and I decided to cook a big breakfest, and I did. He woke up on the coach and was makeing a phone call, (he was worried about a freind). I ended up taking him on to my sisters, its in the next town, was pretty much there when I remembered the food. I never fed him! He said he was hungry too. No doubt he smelled it, I don't know why he didn't say anything.. He is adhd also, so he just shook his head and smiled :rolleyes: