Autopilot

[bcholmes]

Ever have those moments where you suddenly snap out of it and you realize that you were kinda going on autopilot, but the autopilot system was failing 'cause you were just about to put the hair conditioner into the fridge?

Comments

[sonjaaa.livejournal.com]

Ya I do that stuff all the time! Except not autopilot. I'm just distracted by all my tangent thoughts and imagination. :)

[clawfoot.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. I put milk away in the cupboard once.

[beable]

I had a roomate once who would do things like putting her hair brush in the freezer.

And if I am putting more than one thing away on autopilot I will often end up with the things in the swapped places, or worse with things like "juice in the cereal and a glass of milk".

[50-ft-queenie.livejournal.com]

Yup. :)

[surelars.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to think of situations where I spotted it while it was happening. I'm sure there must have been some, but I can't think of any offhand.

I have lots of examples of discovering later that neurons must have ben misfiring pretty badly. I've always done that. I remember in high-school, I was doing math homework, had a sandwich, and then continued with the homework only to discover that the HP calculator (remember those?) was gone. I looked everywhere, but it was plain gone. I noted that I'd left the butter on a desk, took it to the fridge, and - surprise - there was the calculator where the butter was supposed to be.

[purpleiris25.livejournal.com]

Yeah, except it's not conditioner, it's a bag of baby carrots. Frozen solid, now. The scary part is that the misfiring was to the extent that I don't even remember doing it, but the young'uns, whose neurons are all youthful and spritely-like, deny all knowledge. Damn them.

[disastrid.livejournal.com]

yes. happened last week when i put a full pot of coffee in the fridge.

i thought it was just my mind turning to mush from the alien rays from the television.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

No.

However, I have on many occasions opened the fridge and wondered how the hair conditioner got there.