I am very dumb. My wife understandably always locks the door, me being a big dummy always forgets to check the lock when I walk out.
What's a dumb thing you do?
Here's jude and duke keeping company and making me feel less stupid.
Forgetting about things in my schedule. Starting to use a calendar and planner much more often to keep track of everything. Is that a lock and key icon in the title or am I going even crazier than I already am?
Calendars are hard to consistently use. I have no idea how they've been so successful through the years. The lock/key is from my phone's keyboard (swiftkey) which automatically chooses an emoticon if it matches the word, by the time it posted i didn't notice.
I use mine primarily to remember when and where I have meetings, when which homework assignment is due, and when I have tests. I also keep track of which concerts I'm going to in the same calendar . I don't go quite as hard as 8bit in the calendar life, but I can see how that could be beneficial.
What lock and key? .... Yeah, I was wondering about that too. I don't think I've ever seen an image in a post before. Not a fan
The earlier I have to get up, the later I stay awake. I am a glutton for punishment.
Workdays mostly. I envy your passion for life. My best days usually start at noon. Lazing around in bed all morning is my guiltiest pleasure, especially with a book or tablet, or someone to share it with.
My "so much fun to be had in the day" was a little sarcastic, mostly I just end up doing something that did not need to be done instead of just getting a solid sleep. But yeah lazing around is my thing too, I could be convinced that there is an imminent nuclear attack and all I have to do to survive is get out of bed and I'd whisper to my alarm "Just 10 more minutes"
Just "duck and covers" man. It's not the end of the world.
In high school (And once, freshman year of college) I would routinely lock my keys in my car. Or leave the headlights on all day. Or something else silly that required either a very patient friend or my parents. Now, on instinct when I am getting out of a vehicle I grab for my keys and freak out if they aren't exactly where they should be.
I've gotten in the habit of doing the pocket pat check whenever I leave anywhere. Right front pocket for my phone, left front for my keys, back right for my wallet, back left for anything miscellaneous.
Here is something I learned from drinking: always keep your stuff in the same pockets and in the same order. In this way, you can easily check your wallet in the dark for how much money you have left, whether or not your keys are there, or if you brought a condom. Also, if you can, minimize how you do this check. Doing a self-pat can show pickpockets exactly which pocket you are most worried about and help them target you (if pickpockets are a problem where you are living).
Next Hubski meetup, if I find my wallet is missing afterward I'm gonna know where my first mistake was.
One time, I accidentally forgot my carkey in my car. I was a bank parking lot near my house. The car locked with the key still inside. I had to call Triple A because I didn't have a spare. I had the car for a couple of years and I never thought that I would lock myself out until that day. Now I am more careful with my carkey. I always make sure I have it when I leave my car.
I used to frequently leave my keys places. It happens much less now that I have a car. And shh, don't tell anyone, but where my parents live, we don't lock all of our doors - so I don't need to worry about getting locked out. HOWEVER, once upon a time, when I was starting a New Job, I was given my laptop (standard) and desk keys (which I had previously not used, being a primarily-work-from-home-r). Within about two weeks, I managed to forget my laptop at home. While I was able to work around it for the day, I was determined not to do THAT again. I adopted a new policy of locking my laptop in my desk overnight. (Perhaps negating the purpose of having a laptop, but when you tell me in the interview I can work from home and then tell me on the job I can't, I'm not inclined to bring the laptop home anyway.) Within a few days of adopting this new policy I managed to forget my desk keys at home. No one in the office had a spare. And, of course, my laptop was safely locked away. So for a day I had to kick mournfully at my desk, cursing myself for looking like an idiot, and use the super-old public buggy computer all day again. After that I started taking my laptop home and also stopped locking my desk. Amazingly, this was only the first time I managed to forget my laptop at home. The other time I "forgot" it, though. :) That was a different job. As for every day situations I frequently am not prepared for - I frequently have head colds and almost never have tissues or a handkerchief, let alone cold medicine/decongestant.