Another "Oh Crap!" day!

Sometimes I'm really surprised at how bimbo I can be. Taught my student the word 'absent-minded' the other day. She asked me for an example. Couldn't think of anything except... "Well, I'm an absent-minded person" followed by a rant of reasons of why I'm absent-minded.

Yesterday, woke up sleepily at 7am to get choc milk from the fridge, and found that the carton of white milk on the top shelf had leaked overnight to the bottom shelf (the carton was leaning sideways and was pretty full). And of course, even though I only had 20 minutes to get ready and chomp on breakfast, I couldn't leave the milk lying splattered on the bottom shelf. I had to clean it up. So I did. Then I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to stop the milk from leaking. So in my mind, I thought "Oh, just pour out enough milk into cups then you can lean it down sideways like last time but it won't be so full that it would leak out of the cover." So I did that, poured milk into the biggest cup I had, but the carton was still too full, and still leaking. And we didn't have enough space in the fridge for multiple cups of milk.

So I stared at the fridge for the longest time, and thought "Oh, I'll stand up the carton of milk on the bottom shelf." But nope, it didn't fit. Even thought of moving entire shelves up a rung to make room for the carton on the bottom shelf... but didn't do that coz it took up too much effort (plus it was a rather stupid idea!) Finally, I just gave up, and leaned the milk the same position as before but on the bottom shelf, and then I put a paper towel underneath it to collect the leaking milk. I even considered trying to plastic wrap the cover area of the carton with a rubber band around it but neck of the carton was too shallow (plus it was also a stupid idea!).

Finally, when I came back after a loong day, I complained to my roommate about the milk leaking and about how I did not know what the heck to do with it. He looked at me strangely and said "What do you mean you didn't know what to do with it? Just put it standing up on the top shelf. It fit on the top shelf standing up!" And I looked at him blankly and said "It did? Why didn't I try that? I tried fitting it in all the shelves (middle and bottom) but not the top!" In my mind while problem solving, I kept thinking, I shouldn't put it on the top shelf coz it's going to keep leaking to the bottom and that was what I was trying to prevent. So I didn't even think of trying to fit it standing up on the top shelf.

What can I say about myself and what goes on in my head? Sigh. Nothing.

Because of my Super Fail milk crisis that morning, I forgot that I had to dress up for clinic in the evening. So I wore jeans and got to the Preschool and had an "Oh crap!" moment aloud. After preschool, walked really fast 20 minutes along the highway all the way back to my apartment, with the laptop for clinic coz I was too caught up with myself to ask my friend to take it back to the department for me. Sweated all the while walking because of course, it had to be hot and of course I had to be wearing two tops.

Ended up driving to campus, and being 15 minutes late for tutoring.

Then at the end of my day, while walking to catch the bus, I realized "Hey! I drove. My car is at the parking garage! I don't need to take the bus!!!" The day would have been soo  much worse if I actually took the bus back, walked into my apartment and realized that I left my car on campus.