Post your most recent "brain on autopilot" moment

[NuclearNed]

Normal morning: The regular guard at the entrance of our facility checks my id.
regular guard: "Have a great day"
me: "Thanks!"

Today: A new guard at the entrance of our facility checks my id.
new guard: "How are you doing today?"
me: "uh, Thanks?"

 

[pontifex]

i posted this in another thread recently:

I was in line to get lunch at work (work had sandwiches and other food brought in) and one of my co-workers says hi and asks how i'm doing. I say "you?", meant to say "good, and how about you?". just got ahead of myself.

 

[clamum]

Originally posted by: pontifex
i posted this in another thread recently:

I was in line to get lunch at work (work had sandwiches and other food brought in) and one of my co-workers says hi and asks how i'm doing. I say "you?", meant to say "good, and how about you?". just got ahead of myself.

I've done that before, haha.

 

[hiromizu]

Yep this morning when I went to Starbucks to get some coffee.

Counter girl "What can I get you today?"

Me "Yea I'm gonna swipe...."

 

[sdifox]

truely autopilot. I was supposed to take wife wife somewhere, but I was taking the same route to work for the first part of the trip. I ended up at work...

 

[evident]

i have 3 floors at my work. i work on the 3rd floor

when i get on the elevator, i push 3. sometimes there are other people there that get off at the second floor. i always walk out at the first elevator stop lol

 

[Snapster]

Originally posted by: sdifox
truely autopilot. I was supposed to take wife wife somewhere, but I was taking the same route to work for the first part of the trip. I ended up at work...

Still on autopilot ?

I've done the "yeh, you" in response to the how are you, thinking of something else :s

 

[dlock13]

I was talking to a friend the other day, and she says, "Have you seen so-and-so?"

I say, "Really?"

Then I think and say, "Oh.. I thought you said, 'you haven't seen so-and-so." It was a little awkward. Needless to say, the conversation died quite abruptly after that.

 

[Beev]

Originally posted by: pontifex
i posted this in another thread recently:

I was in line to get lunch at work (work had sandwiches and other food brought in) and one of my co-workers says hi and asks how i'm doing. I say "you?", meant to say "good, and how about you?". just got ahead of myself.

I used to do this a lot to one of my clients. He'd always ask "how are you?" and I'd just reply "how are you?" Broke myself of it now, though.

 

[bucwylde23]

Originally posted by: evident
i have 3 floors at my work. i work on the 3rd floor

when i get on the elevator, i push 3. sometimes there are other people there that get off at the second floor. i always walk out at the first elevator stop lol

haha, that happens a lot at my office. I've only done it a couple times, but it happens pretty much every day where someone gets off the elevator with me and you see them kind of awkwardly look around and try to hide the fact they got off on the wrong floor.

 

[legoman666]

Originally posted by: chrisg22

Originally posted by: evident
i have 3 floors at my work. i work on the 3rd floor

when i get on the elevator, i push 3. sometimes there are other people there that get off at the second floor. i always walk out at the first elevator stop lol

haha, that happens a lot at my office. I've only done it a couple times, but it happens pretty much every day where someone gets off the elevator with me and you see them kind of awkwardly look around and try to hide the fact they got off on the wrong floor.

whenever i get off on the wrong floor, i just keep going and wait for the elevator to close and call another one, rather than turn around and get back in.

 

[MovingTarget]

I recently placed a bottle of dishwashing detergent in the refrigerator for no particular reason. I didn't realize it until I had shut the door to it. I guess that I had though it was a gallon of milk or something at the time.

 

[slayer202]

story from a friend of mine...

He was at subway, and the guy was making his sandwich. He wanted some cheese, and he wanted to say "throw some cheese on that bitch", but instead, he paused after "on that" and then said "bitch" really delayed, making it sound like he called the guy a bitch instead of the sandwich

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: evident
i have 3 floors at my work. i work on the 3rd floor

when i get on the elevator, i push 3. sometimes there are other people there that get off at the second floor. i always walk out at the first elevator stop lol

I had a doctor's appointment awhile abck and his office is on the 3rd floor. I was in the elevator with a nurse and she was going to the same floor. I hit the button for 3rd floor and it opened, we both walked out, looked around, looked at each other said "oh, this isn't the 3rd floor", got back in and went up another floor. somehow it stopped on the 2nd floor and we didn't think to look at the floor number.

 

[TheTony]

Giving my ticket to the ticket-taker at the local theater:

Them: "Enjoy the movie"
Me: "Thanks. You too."
<pause>

Me:

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Originally posted by: slayer202
story from a friend of mine...

He was at subway, and the guy was making his sandwich. He wanted some cheese, and he wanted to say "throw some cheese on that bitch", but instead, he paused after "on that" and then said "bitch" really delayed, making it sound like he called the guy a bitch instead of the sandwich

:laugh::beer:

 

[Jeff7]

<Cites thread as containing numerous examples of why small-talk can be utterly useless.>

 

[dpert1]

This morning on my way to class i left my dorm room and halfway down the hall realized i forgot my hat. Went back in for it, checked computer, left room w/o hat. Realized it at the same spot I had before, went back into room, checked computer again (Hi, my name is Dave and I have an addiction), walked out w/o my hat to the same point again... Got it that time.

 

[PimpJuice]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
<Cites thread as containing numerous examples of why small-talk can be utterly useless.>

small-talk > akward silence

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: TheTony
Giving my ticket to the ticket-taker at the local theater:

Them: "Enjoy the movie"
Me: "Thanks. You too."
<pause>

Me:

When I worked at a theater, sometimes I was standing at the ticket-taking booth. Heh, yea got it all the time. After that I always look at them and smile and they laugh and walk past laughing at themselves. A lot of the guys had made the ticket taking more fun for themselves by saying different things that either invoked laughter or confusion and that 'fear of the weird kid' moment.

 

[anxi80]

?see you later, brian!?
"take... luck! take luck and care. take...care of the luck! good luck, take care of the luck you might have, if you have luck, take it, care for it."

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: anxi80
?see you later, brian!?
"take... luck! take luck and care. take...care of the luck! good luck, take care of the luck you might have, if you have luck, take it, care for it."

haha, i do that occasionally too. one that happens often is "thanks too" instead of "thank you" or "thanks, you too"

 

[hellokeith]

This morning I remember driving down to the access road and seeing that the highway was backed up, so I decided to take my residential route. The next thing I remember, I am at the end of the residential route getting onto the highway.

I really hope I wasn't auto-pilot driving 45mph through the school zone.

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: anxi80
?see you later, brian!?
"take... luck! take luck and care. take...care of the luck! good luck, take care of the luck you might have, if you have luck, take it, care for it."

haha, i do that occasionally too. one that happens often is "thanks too" instead of "thank you" or "thanks, you too"

most of my trip ups, I have no clue what I actually say. What connects my mouth to my brain seems to get shorted out sometimes, and I just kind of stammer or attempt to make words.. and my brain is trying to say something but my mouth just has no clue. But also, my brain doesn't really tell me what it's trying to say, and someone will stare blankly at me and ask what I said.. and I'm like 'I have no clue'. I'll also just kind of sit there other times, and go 'what the hell did I just say?', to which the other responds 'I dunno..', and I'm like 'me neither. let's try that one again.'.

I've had that problem my whole life. lol a lot of people tell me I talk way too fast. It's funny, when I try and talk slow so others can understand, I often get the words out, but it's so hard to focus on what I'm trying to say for that long, that sometimes I completely forget what I was trying to say.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: clamum

Originally posted by: pontifex
i posted this in another thread recently:

I was in line to get lunch at work (work had sandwiches and other food brought in) and one of my co-workers says hi and asks how i'm doing. I say "you?", meant to say "good, and how about you?". just got ahead of myself.

I've done that before, haha.

LOL...this happens to me more frequently then I'd care to admit.

Me: "Hey, how's it going?"
Other Person: "Not bad, how are you?"
Me: "Pretty good, and you?"
Me: *senses something out of alignment but its to late*
Other Person: "Uh....good."