Your brain fart(s) of the day

[Majingir]

Re: Your brain fart(s) of the day

Note to self, when baking things in an oven, don't put extra oil on it. Don't ask how I know the consequences...


I'm usually real careful/cautious about these types of things. But all it takes is 1 accident to throw me off/change how I do things in the future.

[l3ulvl]

Re: Your brain fart(s) of the day

Note to self, when baking things in an oven, don't put extra oil on it. Don't ask how I know the consequences...


I'm usually real careful/cautious about these types of things. But all it takes is 1 accident to throw me off/change how I do things in the future.

It's kinda weird you mention this because I just had my first small stovetop fire yesterday.

Went to boil water to cook some ramen for the first time in a long time, haven't turned my stovetop up to high since the last ramen time.

It starts smoking, but I think it's steam, I walk over like "really? it's boiling already? it's only been a minute"... I check and it's not boiling, and it's clearly smoke, but my dumb stubborn *** is thinking "well, the coil hasn't been on high in so long, it's just burning off randomness".

The smoke intensified and the focus became "ok, just wait til the water boils, then shut it off and figure this out after everything cools down"

and then POOF a flame bursts! This isn't a good spot for a guy with a panic disorder! I turned the knob off, took the pot off, and tried to smother the flame with a towel because my brain was trying to remember what to do with cooking fires, and "smother it!" was all I could think.

I squashed the flames, and had smoke everywhere and the alarm going off, and later remembered it's grease fires that need smothering, and my little fire would've been fine with a spray of the kitchen nozzle.

Not gonna lie, before I smothered it, there were terrifying thoughts in my head "is this how buildings burn down?" "do I need to call 911?" "what do I need to save first? Dog, phone, wallet, keys, and then what?"

It ended up way more dramatic than it should've been considering it was just because my food goop on the underlying metal tray that I hadn't cleaned up from the other night combusted from the coil being on high, but damn

[Majingir]

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Not gonna lie, before I smothered it, there were terrifying thoughts in my head "is this how buildings burn down?" "do I need to call 911?" "what do I need to save first? Dog, phone, wallet, keys, and then what?"

Mine wasn't as bad, but I was thinking similar thing, "So this is how buildings can burn down". I was more concerned a neighbor might call 911 or check in after hearing the smoke alarm, when I mostly had things under control.

I'm fine with the smoke(just open windows and put on the fan), it was the alarm going off and briefly seeing a fire is what made me worry. Thankfully that was the worst of it.

Even to start, when I saw smoke I didn't think much of it because smoke happens when things fall off and hit the bottom of the oven, or just dust burning. Early smoke for several seconds is fine. But then it started happening more and more before I realized this isn't gonna go away until I turn everything off and take everything out of the oven.

Thankfully things didn't go south

[Majingir]

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Not mine but still. Sure, they were trying to create conversation, but I'm sure it could've happened differently.

Context here is that I'm wearing clothes with a hometown sports team logo.

Person : Do you watch (team of the logo) games?
Me......um...ya......

I tried letting them off the hook by immediately jumping into a hot topic story about the team. Who knows, maybe that was really their plan all along.

[Majingir]

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Another "brain fart" from someone else I heard. I don't know if you'd even classify it as a brain fart or not.

I overheard someone shopping and thinking about buying a chair/table set for their (or someone elses) kid. They were about to buy it, but then read on the box "for outdoor use" and decided to not buy it, thinking that it meant you could ONLY use it outdoors.

[Caulfield]

Re: Your brain fart(s) of the day

Another "brain fart" from someone else I heard. I don't know if you'd even classify it as a brain fart or not.

I overheard someone shopping and thinking about buying a chair/table set for their (or someone elses) kid. They were about to buy it, but then read on the box "for outdoor use" and decided to not buy it, thinking that it meant you could ONLY use it outdoors.

lol
and god forbid you send a kid outdoors nowadays

[Majingir]

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I actually clicked on a link in a spam email on purpose.

I got an email on my phone about how someone tried logging into my Apple account(I have Android stuff, but in the past I had to create an Apple account for a job since the company only had Macbooks), and the account was locked for that reason. I usually trust my email spam filter, so if an item goes to my inbox, I often trust it is legit (minus some of the obvious spam emails). I was worried abit too because I don't give out my Apple ID so how could someone know about it. I did an IP search of where they claimed the person tried logging in from and it came up as a newspaper office downtown which had me worried even more. I clicked the link to login and change my password and thankfully the link didn't work or else I probably would have tried changing it.

It wasn't until I checked the email address before I realized it was fake.

I've never fallen for any of these spam emails before, but something had me thinking it was legit. Don't worry, this doesn't mean I'm gonna help out the Nigerian Prince who'll give me a $5M reward.

[Majingir]

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These brain farts are almost monthly now lol.

I dialed the wrong number (off by 1 digit). I looked at number pressing the call button thinking it was fine. It rang twice before I realized it was wrong number. I hung up before they could answer, but as soon as I did, they called me back.

Weird they'd call back an unknown number immediately. Hopefully they know they were just a wrong number.

[Majingir]

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Like I said, it's monthly.


On garbage day, the bins were out by the curb. In the evening I saw a bin was emptied so I went and moved all the bins back.

A few hours later I see a garbage truck come down the street, picking up all the bins on my side of the road.

Then I realized what had happened. 1 bin was emptied, but the truck for the other bin didn't pass yet and I never bothered to check if that one was emptied. Now I have to wait and hope the bin doesn't get too full between now and next garbage day. Basically a month of garbage will be in that bin.

[Blzer]

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I'm slow as hell. Watching a highlight of the Pads-Nats game and caught a glimpse of the out-of-town scoreboard where the Rays played the Red Sox, and the abbreviations were TAM and BOS. For the life of me, I couldn't realizing what the M stood for in TAM, thinking over and over about their team name and thinking if they somehow changed to the Manta Rays without me knowing. Then I spent a few seconds after and realized that the A wasn't a B, and then finally realized that it was just for Tampa.

I'm just so used to seeing the TB all of the time that the M threw me off way too much.

[l3ulvl]

Re: Your brain fart(s) of the day

I'm slow as hell. Watching a highlight of the Pads-Nats game and caught a glimpse of the out-of-town scoreboard where the Rays played the Red Sox, and the abbreviations were TAM and BOS. For the life of me, I couldn't realizing what the M stood for in TAM, thinking over and over about their team name and thinking if they somehow changed to the Manta Rays without me knowing. Then I spent a few seconds after and realized that the A wasn't a B, and then finally realized that it was just for Tampa.

I'm just so used to seeing the TB all of the time that the M threw me off way too much.

I do this a lot with positional listings, C is center or catcher, SS is shortstop or strong safety, I get confused easily

[Blzer]

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This happens much more often than it should, or than I like it to: forgetting items when leaving the house, specifically items that are particularly needed for that day, or will spoil upon my return (like food).

This morning, I devoted a great deal of time to possibly even hit some rush hour traffic just so that I could hard-boil some eggs. I kept the rest in my fridge, but I put two of them in a container and left them on the counter.

As I arrived at school, I reached in my bag to put the eggs in the staff lounge fridge, only for none to be there. They remain on my counter at home, and they won't be any good by the time I get home again.

Not only is it a waste of good eggs, but it kind of ruins my meal plan for the day. Ugh.

[Majingir]

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Not my brain fart but one of a guy I encountered.

I'm standing in an aisle shopping while this happened (lol yes, I still do SOME in store shopping).

Guy: Hi, do you know where (item) is?
Me: No, I dont work here.
Guy: I know but still, do you know?
Me: I dont
Guy: But do you have an idea of where it could be?

I don't know if he really understood that I didn't work there.

[l3ulvl]

Re: Your brain fart(s) of the day

Not my brain fart but one of a guy I encountered.

I'm standing in an aisle shopping while this happened (lol yes, I still do SOME in store shopping).

Guy: Hi, do you know where (item) is?
Me: No, I dont work here.
Guy: I know but still, do you know?
Me: I dont
Guy: But do you have an idea of where it could be?

I don't know if he really understood that I didn't work there.

I feel like he knew you didn't work there but assumed as a fellow Canadian that you'd be helpful anyway

[Caulfield]

Re: Your brain fart(s) of the day

Not my brain fart but one of a guy I encountered.

I'm standing in an aisle shopping while this happened (lol yes, I still do SOME in store shopping).

Guy: Hi, do you know where (item) is?
Me: No, I dont work here.
Guy: I know but still, do you know?
Me: I dont
Guy: But do you have an idea of where it could be?

I don't know if he really understood that I didn't work there.

I've been asked that before, I just say we're sold out, go to so and so other store.

But I can do that, I'm not Canadian lol