Last night after my husband and son went to bed I decided to watch a movie. I popped my popcorn, sat down on the couch, and hit play. A few minutes into the movie I started to hear this weird humming sound. I muted the TV to make sure that it wasn't some sort of background noise. It wasn't. I checked on Oliver and Justin to make sure that it wasn't them making the noise. It wasn't. It kind of sounded like a vacuum cleaner, so I decided that it had to be the people in the apartment below us vacuuming. Why they decided to vacuum at 10 o'clock at night, I wasn't sure. But, oh well. It's their apartment. They can vacuum whenever they want to. Right?
I continued to hear this sound all throughout the movie that I was watching (The ENTIRE 2 hours). It's not that the vacuum sound was loud... It was just REALLY annoying! Now... I know that their apartment is the same size and the same layout as mine. Even if they decided to vacuum every single room in their apartment it would still take less than half an hour, MAYBE 45 minutes if they had to move a few pieces of furniture out of the way. So, for them to have the vacuum cleaner on for 2 hours straight the vacuum cleaner would have had to have been just sitting in the corner just turned on. Oh my god, I was PISSED! Why would anyone do that? COME ON! By this time it's midnight, my movie is over, and I'm about to go downstairs and yell at them.
As I'm walking towards the door, I notice that the sound gets quieter. So I walked back into the living room and found the spot where the sound was the loudest. It was the corner of the living room where all of my son's toys are piled. So I'm thinking, 'That damn vacuum cleaner must be right under me'! I decided to move the pile of toys off to the side so that I can get down on the floor and listen better (I plead insanity for that moment). As I move the pile of toys to the side, the sound follows them. This confuses me, so I began digging through the toys. Eventually, I found the culprit!
You know how some toys are battery operated? Well, if you leave those toys on for long enough (Like if you turn it on in the morning, forget that it's turned on, and throw it into a pile in the corner of the room) they will start making this humming sound... That kind of sounds like your downstairs neighbors are vacuuming.
Oh wow! I felt so dumb, for so many reasons! 1) This isn't the first time a toy has done that to me. It's not even the second. Oliver's toys ALWAYS get left on for too long and start to hum like that. 2) I have never heard a sound coming from the other apartments in this building, and my neighbors claim that they can't hear sound coming from my apartment either (Which is hard to believe with an almost 2 year old throwing tantrums and a husband who watches TV way too loud). So why would I randomly hear their vacuum cleaner? 3) I answered my own question! Who leaves the vacuum cleaner on for 2 hours? No one! No one in their right mind would ever leave the vacuum cleaner on for 2 hours!
And sadly, I have moments like this ALL THE TIME. I can not even count the number of times where I have been talking on my cell phone then (while still talking on the cell phone, which I am holding IN MY HAND) I start to search the apartment FOR MY CELL PHONE. And I don't mean that I just kind of glance around for my phone before laughing at myself... I full on search for it. The kind of search where I pick up the couch cushions to make sure that it didn't slide down into there. Usually, I get so frustrated that I actually yell 'Where the bejeezies is my cell phone'... To which the person on the other line usually responds 'Um... Aren't you talking on it'.
Oh, I've actually "lost" the clothes THAT I WAS WEARING!!! That morning I took off my PJs and kinda just kicked them into the closet. All day long I was wearing jeans and a t-shirt. Early evening I decided to do laundry so I took off the clothes that I had been wearing to wash them and put my PJs back on. Later that evening I decided to take a shower. I started to look for my PJs so that I could just put them on after my shower. I looked EVERYWHERE. I even walked downstairs and stopped the drier to make sure that they hadn't somehow gotten into the load of laundry. Finally, I turned to Justin and asked him if he had seen my PJs. He gave me a funny look and asked which ones. 'Well I only have one set of PJs! The big black t-shirt that I stole from you and the white and black checkered PJ pants!' ... 'You mean the ones that you're wearing?' ... Look down and sure enough, there they are. Safe and sound... On my body!
I've actually made tuna fennicine alfredo and forgot to add the tuna! I mean, come on! That's kind of an important ingredient!
One of my friends was making fun of me and she goes 'Tori, you're so b-l-o-n-d-e'. It actually took me a while to figure out what she was spelling! Oh, she got a kick out of that one.
The list could go on...
So I know that I can't be the only one out there like this. Please make me feel better. What are some of your humorous dumb/forgetful moments?
Thought my kids had ate up the cereal again and failed to mention it to me. Cant find the box. Go to the store, get new cereal. Come home, put some other items in the fridge, and low and behold. The cereal box is there. WHAT? then I open the oven to get the pizza plate out for snack time, in there is the butter. WHAT WAS I THINKING!
Tuna fettucini alfredo without the tuna?
How 'bout cornbread without the cornmeal? >.<
Now, I can rationalize that (in my own mind, at least) by saying that it was at a 4-H meeting, and there was more than one thing going on (distraction!!!). That I actually *did* measure out the corn meal, but set it on a counter that was not right there where I was working. And that my leader looked at the batter in the pan, and realized that something wasn't right, but it took her a few seconds to figure out what it was.
But still. Sheesh >.<
I'm sure I could add many other examples. My husband got all shifty-eyed when I asked him, lol.
But hey, I've forgotten most of them already!
LOL at LillyM - the website sounds like something I'd do.
My worst moment (that I can remember) came years ago, before I had kids. I was driving down the street, frantically patting down my pockets, looking for my keys....which were in the ignition.
lol ok so I am getting old, just turned 52 and thought my forgetfulness was my age catching up on me. Most of mine are forgetting why I went into a room, 2 or 3 times, forgetting whether I already took my meds or not, nothing really stands out like some of these stories. My favorite one was my Aunt though, she had just had her 4th baby and all her kids are very close in age. She went to my grandmother's house for a visit and my grandmother asked where the baby was. Turns out she forgot her home in the crib while getting the other three in the car to go.
I am sure if you ask my kids they would tell you a lot on the stupid forgetful things I have done, but right now, I just can't remember any of them..lol
