Stupid Things...

Try to follow me on this. It really happened: I keep a lamp in the living room on at night in case my elderly mom gets up. (She has dementia.) I don't want her falling because it's too dark. However the lamp keeps me up so I keep my bedroom door partially closed which makes my room cooler since the heat does not disperse as well. I decided I would turn off the lamp and turn on the exhaust/light over the range in the kitchen. Now my kitchen entry is in the middle of my living room wall. A chair and lamp are on the left and a large framed mirror hangs on the wall to the right of it. As you enter the kitchen you face the double window on the opposite wall and behind you will be the wall with the front door from the living room.
So: I turn off the lamp and head to the kitchen, in the dark, to turn on the range light. As I get to the kitchen entry way I see a sillouette of someone standing in front of the kitchen window. I panic. Frozen I yell "Who are you? What are you doing in my house?" They say nothing. I start to back up and notice they are backing up, presumably I thought, to head out the back door. My heart is racing as I reach for the wall switch that I know is by the front door to turn on the overhead light. But the switch is not there. Instead I feel the chair and realize my error. I was not standing in front of the kitchen entry way. I was standing in front of the mirror and was viewing my own sillouette, from the front door window, being reflected in the mirror. So I then walk into the kitchen (ignoring my sillouette) and turn on the range light and head into moms bedroom to make sure my screams didn't startle her. She was awake but more dumb founded then scared. I asked her if I startled her and if she was okay. She said she was fine and asked "when's breakfast?"

It's not just you. Since I was a kid, I've gotten left and right mixed up and still do. Dunno why. Also, sometimes I get scared or shocked up "things" on the ceiling, which are actually the insides of light bulbs.

I hate when I try to undo the draw string on my pyjama bottoms and I somehow find that I did an impossible double knot . How did I do that ? I’m an adult. I can tie the bow but then when I untie it it’s some triple knot that I need my swizz army knife to untangle

Two weeks ago, I was done folding laundry, going to put used socks in the clothes bin. Instead, I ended up going to the restroom, and for whatever unforeseen reason, decided to toss my foot wear into the toilet! Was I daydreaming being part of the NBA Jam or something? Haha! (^o^)''

Our brain plays tricks on us all the time. Ever try to read black letters on a white background from far away? It looks like black beady dots moving.

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Can you top this?

The first time I met my now-daughter-in-law, I was returning from a bike ride around the block, killing time until she and my son arrived. They walked out to meet me as I approached the end of our driveway...and I did a face-plant while getting off my bike. 😳

DAAAMMMNNN! I've done ALL of those, and more!

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PS Sometimes I can't find something no matter how hard I try. Then later I find it in a place I ALREADY LOOKED! My theory
is that the object was temporarily beamed up to the Mother Ship, and then later beamed back down.

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A stupid thing I've been doing more and more lately is go to YouTube with the intent on looking up something very specific, get distracted by a video featured on the home page, watch 17 suggested videos stemming from the first one, then leave YouTube having completely forgotten to look up what I went there for in the first place.