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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2009 13:33:04 GMT
Did the food shop today, had to go back in though after loading the car, as I'd forgotten the kitten food. Then went to get petrol and tried, not once but twice to park on the wrong side! Why couldn't I remember what side my car fills on? I've had it since March last year! Put in £30 instead of the £40 I meant to put in! Drove out onto the main road, and actually remembered that I had to take my daughter's packed lunch to school as she forgot to make it this morning. But I had to turn round as I had also forgotten to go to another shop to replace my son's brand new and now lost football! Does anyone else have days like this? It drives me mad with frustration at myself. My mum says has this saying "What it is to have a memory, some of us shall never know.". So I guess it must be hereditary but I really wish I could just have a functioning usable memory. Perhaps just for a day.
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Post by jules on Jul 1, 2009 14:22:52 GMT
Hi Tammy, Don't even worry - I was getting petrol yesterday the cap rolled off down the forecourt and got stuck in a grid I dropped my keys then the petrol cap again - dooh. Trying to be low profile and collect myself, I need not have worried the girl in front of me tried to drive off with the petrol nozzel still in her car and took half the pump with her !!!! My son loses eveything - he coat this week - You're not alone - honest ADHD or not. Buy a filofax - then you can have a diary, adresses and notes for everything - it's the only way I can function. When it feels that mad but some music on or just laugh. Jules
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Post by passenger on Jul 1, 2009 21:14:36 GMT
When it comes to higher beings having a laugh at your expense I don't think they care if you have ADD or not. I used to catch a lift in to work with a non-ADDer in a car that looked like he'd been given by a scrapyard and dared to drive it in public. He filled 'the beast' with diesel before he picked me up. I commented on how sickly his car sounded and in his usual manner he just brushed it off and said it was nothing a good blast down the motorway wouldn't cure. It managed 16 miles before labouring into another petrol station all the time I was asking 'are you sure you didn't put unleaded in by mistake'. He was adamant that he would not be that stupid. However, just incase, he topped it up to the brim with diesel, paid, lost the keys and found the keys in the ignition, went to start the car but it was having non of it. We started to push the car off the forecourt and managed to snap one of the petrol filler nozzles with the open driver's door. Its easily done! Anyway, after 45mins of waiting and a flat battery Mr.RAC happily informed him that he'd put unleaded in by mistake and that the whole tank of fuel needs draining and disposing. Expensive. Whilst we were getting a tow home a work buddy phoned up and asked for our butty order for later that morning. Which was unusually thoughtful. Things were starting to look up! Anyway, he dropped his car off and I took him to work in mine. As we got into the office we were met with deafening silence, which was short lived and everyone burst out laughing. He took it on the chin. At last the butties had arrived. But blow me, his wasn't there! The only time a butty has ever been forgotten to be put in the bag and it was today and his arf arf. Needless to say he wasn't a happy bunny. His day didn't get any better. A couple of things I learnt from that one - God has a wicked sense of humour and a diesel car can indeed run on unleaded for 16 miles! Also, if youv'e lost you car keys, check the ignition first. BTW I thought you could fill either side at most petrol stations these days.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2009 21:24:48 GMT
Every car i have owend or borrowed or company has issuied i still forget what side filler cap is on even on my car now that i have had for severn years
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2009 22:22:05 GMT
If the car has a petrol pump as a fuel sign then the convention is that the handle is on the side that the filler cap is.
It's a convention. Don't blame me if your car manufacturer doesn't follow it.
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Post by boo on Jul 1, 2009 22:39:19 GMT
OMG Jules thank you i have been so down today, and your post made me laugh out loud, i mean really..... just sooooo funny ;D xx
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2009 22:49:57 GMT
I have these days every day tammy. My god, thats about half an hours worth Still, you gotta laf. Most of the time the things I do are funny. Like forgetting where I am driving every 5 minutes lol. And I am not jokin, its brutal.
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Post by andy12345 on Jul 2, 2009 4:40:18 GMT
Downstairs...hmmmmm what did I need. Wander around for 5 mins,hmm. Back upstairs. something else to remember, 10 days later, oh, I will look that up in firefox now. Email notification, read email...hmmmmm, something I Was meant to do.......so.write it down or use phone voice recorder, notepad(more likely the most pathetic piece of paper that can hide itself) then forget to look at phone and cant find paper. out of sight......
Making a long-winded, far too detailed point in a conversation, only to forget what the hell I was talking about before the point is fully made. The pain.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2009 7:50:47 GMT
Thanks everyone, its good to know that I am not alone.
Jules, I already have a filofax... and a calendar, and I use the calendar on the pc, and sometimes the reminder on my phone, and also I get people I have appointments with to phone and remind me! But my memory can still thwart them!
I had an appointment with school week before last and they phoned to ask where I was, I was sat at home getting bored but had forgotten the appt. So they rebooked it for later that day, but I still forgot it, they phoned again to ask where I was but luckily I was in the town, shopping, where the school is so I could rush down there.
Oh and madscot, its not so much that i forget where i am driving, more like i change the route in my head a dozen times, and end up taking an amalgamation of them that takes twice as long as driving straight there would've taken.
Andy, am just glad I don't have stairs here, at the previous house I remember so well, going upstairs and forgetting what it was I needed there. But then that was when I pregnant and that is known to muck up a woman's memory!
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