Most Ridiculous ADD storys you have

[entrepreneurKid]

What are some of the most Ridiculous things you've done that you can say was ADD related?

For me,

Went to the Gas station, paid for my Gas & then just drove off without pumping Gas. Believe it or not, that's happened more than once.

Leaving my driveway, and without even thinking- just making random turns without even thinking of where it is I need to go first. I will make a left, then a right (Out of habit or something.) & be heading in the opposite direction of where I need to go.

Getting on the wrong free way! (Many Many times!)
And Merging onto the wrong freeways too.

Missing my Exit!

Missing my Turn!

Driving on auto pilot, just not even thinking.. just driving in a certain direction out of habit. Just making all kinds of turns, or just driving straight for a while & just be like day dreaming or something, tapping on the steering wheel. And when I snap out of it & realize I've been just driving without thinking of where I'm going, I can't even remember "The drive" that I took to get where I was. Like all those turns I made, all the driving I did to get to where I was- I almost can't even remember it! Weird!

I have went to a drive through, bought food.
Then went to another restaurant's Drive through- thinking I called in an order. Then realize I already had food in the car hahaha. Happened more than once!

Planning my day- on paper, & then just leaving that paper at home.
After I spent some good time writing that thing up.

Here goes a quick story of me doing a few of those things in one day:

I leave for work, I'm all the way out of Gas. I'm starving, & I need to be at the office ASAP. So I plan to Pump Gas, then order food from the place next door, then hop on the free way- & get to work. All these stops are on the same street- even the Free way entrance. All on the right hand side, easy stops.

I even planned it out on paper.

Left the paper at home,
Passed up the Gas station,
Went to get my food- realized I still needed Gas.
Flipped a U turn,waited at the light for a Left turn into the Gas station.
Paid for my Gas,
Left the Gas station with out pumping my Gas.
Get on the freeway,
Drive all the way to work- park my car, & then realize I didn't pump gas.
Yell at myself, then laugh & start my car back up.
Get back on the freeeway- go back to that gas station, pump my gas.
Then get back on the free way, head back to work
Get off the free way, Left hand turn into this Burger Joint across the street from the office, pull into the Drive-thru, wait like 5 minutes for my turn. When they ask what I'd like to order I say "It's me, I placed an order." They said "You did???" (I order there all the time.) Then I look to my left, & see that I already picked up food from that place next to the gas station.
Laugh, shake my head- wait like another 10 mins to get out of that drive through, even showed the guy what I did, we both laughed.

Anyway, what could have only took me like 15 minutes, wound up taking like 2 hours or something.

Gotta get back to work, I'm Distracted right now haha. On an ADD forum

[Nnnnnn]

lol, I, too, get lost in my daydreaming ! I walk straight, then i'm like: where am i going ? I'm always on autopilot.

[stef]

I actually got lost on my way home from last Thursday. I was thinkingthinkingthinking about something that happened at work and walked straight past past our building, I was almost at the end of the park, and no idea how I had gotten there.

[blgw99]

Walking into stuff constantly is a pretty obvious one.

Forgot my purse with money (lack thereof, tbh) and ID on public transportation when trying to get off at the right stop to go to the airport. I was flying home from vacation, in Greece, it was Sunday night, so it was not like the police were going to help me. Went into ultimate hyperfocus, got it back in forty minutes and I did not miss my flight after all.

Oh - almost got ran over by a zooming sports car before I even realized my purse was missing.

[pechemignonne]

I decided I was going to go to a friend's birthday dinner, even though I hadn't seen them in years and it was all the way across town. I didn't have a lift and the public transport would have taken over an hour, and I was already late (of course) so I decided to treat myself and take a cab (probably a 25$ cab ride, and I was going to take public transport home). But I had no cash, so when we got downtown I asked the cab driver to stop at an ATM.

It was then that I discovered that I had left my bank card at home.

I was literally around the corner from the restaurant, and I had to turn around and go home. It cost me almost 50$ for an evening of driving back and forth in a taxi, and then I had to explain to my friend why I didn't show up at their dinner.

[ADHDTigger]

Open the garage door, get in the truck, start the truck. Cr@p! forgot _____ (fill in the blank). Run inside and get it. Hit the garage door button again... thus closing the garage door. Congratulate myself for noticing that BEFORE trying to back out.

Open garage door.

Back out of the garage. Hit the button on the remote to close the garage door. Sit in driveway and watch the door close. Finish pulling out of driveway and head off to wherever I'm going.

Make a right hand turn about a mile down the road and go back to the house to make sure I closed the garage door. Head off to wherever I'm going.

About a mile before I reach my destination, wonder if I closed the garage door.

*sigh*

[Spacemaster]

I could probably spend all day thinking of examples, but this one is a favorite:

Sent on a run to the gas station to buy beverages.
One person wanted red Gatorade. I spent 5 minutes staring at 3 different red Gatorades, trying to figure out which one. So I just guessed.

Here's where it gets good:
walked out of the store, sat down in the passenger seat, waited for the driver for a couple seconds and then realized that I drove there ALONE! Now what do I do? Do I get out and walk around to the driver's seat, so everyone can see? Or do I try to jump into the seat from the passenger's side and try to crawl over all my crap in the middle?

I got back to the house, and turns out Gatorade was wrong. It was supposed to be Powerade. They only have ONE red Powerade!

:P!

[.Hope.]

I should invest stock in post-it notes because my house looks like a memo board on certain days.



Running around looking for my shades before realizing they're on my head.

Getting my oldest son ready for school before realizing it's a Saturday.

Every time I get ready to leave the house without fail I have to run back in at least twice because I forgot something.


My husband and I just have to chuckle at it though because if it's not me doing something then it's him or our oldest boy.

[Redrightnow]

Several years ago, I had a random thought I wanted to tell someone in school carpool line and I hopped out to tell her. But I'd trained myself to lock my cardoors automatically when getting out of the car. So, without thinking, I did. I was locked out of my running car in the carpool line. So embarrassing. My husband was out of town so I had to call a lock service.

While I waited for the lock guy, it was getting dark, everybody from the school left-- after offering help but I was like, "No, this is no big deal at all. We're actually enjoying ourselves." One of the teachers gave me some bananas for my kids. It was fall, so it was warm, at least.

Now I have a really compulsive method for when I get out of the car to pump gas, etc. I roll down the driver's side window and hit the lock button then the unlock button and put my keys in my pocket.

[DanaDane]

On my way home from work, left the highway to buy some food in a Drive In. Got the food. Went back on the highway. Drowe for 30 min. before I realised I was driving back to my workplace.

After moving I cut'nt find my new house the first week.

Had a quite bad bumper accident (one in many) with my car. Had it driven to the garage. In the meanwhile, my inlaws lent me their car. After a few days I had a bumper accident in that too...

Watering the horses. Forgetting to turn of the water. Flooded the stabel... two times in a month.

Visited my sister. Sat several hours in the couch with out noticing it was a new and totaly diffent one than the old.

Had my shirt on in side out all day with out noticing.

Forgetting my work-computer at home several times in a moth...not beeing able to do any work a all (IT- supporter) ...luckily my husband cut bring it to me.

Forgetting my own wedding day...starring surprised at the bouque of roses on the dinner table. Forget the date evry single year!

[ginniebean]

I went to a restaurant with my family last night, ordered, completely forgot I had ordered, asked my family what I ordered, they came up with three things I had considered. The waitress came by and asked me what I ordered and I told her we were just trying to figure that out, seems she didn't find my order eventful either.

I had to get the menu and figure out something.. still not sure what the original order was.

[sighduck]

This threads full of stories like that

http://www.addforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=107235

[spotter]

Left my infant daughter sitting on the counter (in her car seat) of a house I had visited with a realtor. I had to call the realtor to let me back into the house.

Called for my toddler son when I was holding him in my arms.

Forgot to go to a concert in which I was a soloist.

Drove round and round the gas pump wondering why my gas tank was still on the wrong side.

Drove to work with my daughter still in the back seat.

To name just a few

[entrepreneurKid]

spotter, yours are the most similar to mine hahaha. They made me laugh, good enough to tell my GF about.

Got anymore?

They seem to be pretty extreme like the ones I have..

thanks.

[tired1823]

One time as a lifeguard I had to participate in a swimmeet. I'd been on the swim team when I was little but they always made me nervous. As an 18 yr old, I was back on the starting block. I'd actually been swimming in meets that whole summer though and was pretty calm and collected. Nevertheless, I dove in the water and started doing freestyle instead of breaststroke for the first few strokes. Then I tried to play it off for the rest of the event. Everyone was like wth. Hahaha