things the attention-span-challenged person should NEVER do

Published on February 7, 2004 By mignuna In Humor

my attention span is unreliable.

it is also dependant only on MY level of interest in the current happening/ and/or it’s events/participants. how rude. anyway, as a result, many inconvenient things happen to me, which probably serves me right. i could avoid most of them if i took my own advice, but i don’t. here it is anyway:

10 things the attention-span-challenged person should NEVER do:

1. assume you didn't put your keys in the toilet

2. buy anything now that you need later and assume you will remember that you bought it AND where you put it

3. do the cleaning in pants that need washing and put all the little “bits” in your pocket to put away later

4. make "a mental note"

5. check out movies from places which allow multi-night checkout at no extra fee on the premise that you can “watch it tomorrow night"

6. drive a car that does not have things to prevent you from locking yourself out with the headlights on

7. join a book club that automatically sends you a "featured" monthly selection if you don’t post back a card

8. look at the books that you pass by in the library as you are heading to get the one you came in for

9. tell anyone "i'll call you back when i’m done with this call”

10. take a side link in a web page that has nothing to do with what you originally were doing

Comments (Page 1)

HughAhrdum

on Feb 15, 2004

First of all, I myself have to an extent done all of these, but number eight put me in stitches… Or did it?

mignuna

on Feb 16, 2004

hehe ... hugh, glad to know you're out there suffering with me

. minguna.

Gene Nash

on Feb 16, 2004

>>7. join a book club that automatically sends you a "featured" monthly selection if you don’t post back a card

Why can't I convince Columbia House DVD Club I went on-line and cancelled those 10 DVD's I had to send back. It was their fault. Really. Throwing out my membership was entirely uncalled for.

>> 8. look at the books that you pass by in the library as you are heading to get the one you came in for

The good thing is I tend to forget I went there looking for a specific book to begin with.

>> 10. take a side link in a web page that has nothing to do with what you originally were doing

That reminds me... didn't I come in here an hour ago to do something to my blog?

How about: "I can set this on the stove for just a second while I grab that." Followed by the inevitable. "Do you smell smoke?"
Yeah, then there was the time I needed to get something from the back of the refrigerator so I took out my cup of Pepsi brought home from Taco Bell and set it on top... you know kind of on the crack of the freezer door. Imagine my shock when I opened up the freezer a couple of hours later and was Pepsi bombed.

Wait a minute... where'd I put the cat? Do you smell smoke?

mignuna

on Feb 16, 2004

smartaz ... i think we were separated at birth

. your pepsi disaster sounds like what i once did to a wasp. i'm scared of them, so i imprisoned it between the (open) window-glass and the screen ... supposedly waiting until my hubby could get home and chase it outside.

... needless to say, an hour later i shut the window. i only remembered the wasp was there when it launched up my skirt like a spaceshuttle and stung my ass about 6 times.

so much for planning.

dharmagrl

on Feb 16, 2004

I think i'm kin to you in some way too.

I did the classic put-the-cup-of-coffee-on-the-roof-of-the-car and drove out of the street with it still there, merrily waving back at the people who were trying to flag me down..and i thought they were just being friendly!

I'm good at putting something i need in a place so obscure that I think I'll remember it's there (like my passport in the silverware drawer) - then promptly forgetting where I put it.

Vampire Princess

on Feb 16, 2004

Hehehe - I often go into my room to get one thing, come back out here to the computer, only to find I got completely the wrong thing. I have not, as yet, Pepsi of coffee-bombed myself, but I'm still young, right!?!

JillUser

on Feb 16, 2004

I once went to do something outside, put the cordless phone on the bumper of the car and forgot about it. My hubby went to get something from the store and we never saw that phone again

I get most of my exercise going up and down stairs because I go up, forget what I went up for, go back down, remember, repeat.

imajinit

on Feb 16, 2004

ha ha!

after reading this post, i went and checked the stove to make sure i had turned all the burners off! i was just sure that i had left one on... hehehe

mignuna

on Feb 17, 2004

dharmagrl, vampire princess, jill, imajinit ... welcome to the family. what can we call our "disease" ... how about "whatwasidoing-itis" ?

on Nov 04, 2004

Funny blog, sucky spam!

historyishere

on Nov 04, 2004

- Put off posting in a blog that has been bumped by spam should be on that list.

historyishere

on Nov 12, 2004

-Try to watch a three-hour documentary about navel lint....

dharmagrl

on Nov 21, 2004

I wish the spammer had a short attention span....

iamheather

on Nov 21, 2004

Add to the list:

Fluff the clothes in the dryer because they have wrinkles. You will always come back later and hang them...fluff them again.
Look at future listing of shows you want to watch during the week in the TV Guide.
Leave the TV on while trying to finish reading a book.
Buy Christmas presents in July.

mada_ecks

on Nov 21, 2004

i've got one. Try to make Crystal light, because the'd forget that two tubs make 1 gallon. instead, they would and two tubs for two quarts. My rommates ADD. and he fucks it up everytime.

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