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22 February 2006

Signs I might be a bit distracted... →[More:]I was getting ready to leave for work this morning, and I gave myself the patdown to make sure I had all the essentials (wallet, cell phone, nicotine lozenges, etc)...

Oops, no wallet. Also, no pants.

I thought that only happened in poorly written television shows.

post by: mosch at: 15:45 | 13 comments

Signs I might be distracted -

I read patdown as pathogen.

posted by selfnoise 22 February | 15:50

Also, that was my ass you were patting.

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 22 February | 15:52

Ahahahaha!! As your surely-in-some-life/parallel universe sister, I feel that it's my responsiblility to tell you that I was once missed a class because I was frantically searching for the glasses that I was wearing.

posted by Frisbee Girl 22 February | 15:52

Also, I hope the source of your distraction is more positive than negative.

posted by Frisbee Girl 22 February | 15:55

Yesterday I told off my preschooler for not being able to find the bag that I had forgotten I'd picked up and was holding in my hand.

posted by tracicle 22 February | 15:59

I was once missed a class because I was frantically searching for the glasses that I was wearing.

I'm sure your professor understood completely, once you explained the situation.

Also, I hope the source of your distraction is more positive than negative.

It's been a craptastically tough week, but this morning was absurdly fantastic.

posted by mosch 22 February | 16:43

Do you say to yourself: "testicles, spectacles, wallet and watch"? This is the mantra I use during my patdown. I check for keys when I say testicles and a pen when I say watch, but I say it religiously.

posted by omiewise 22 February | 16:51

One morning I got up, ground some coffee, then put it in the soap dispenser of my dishwasher. Its a conundrum: how to make coffee before you've had coffee?

posted by StickyCarpet 22 February | 17:01

hahaha, stickycarpet!

I've had mornings like that, when you're just staring at the coffeemaker, with thick, dull thoughts in your head like "that's the uh, the thing that makes the, um, the coffee-thing, the, um, the button that..um, coffee...."

HA!

posted by Lipstick Thespian 22 February | 17:14

Today mosch is the honorary Minister Of No Pants.

posted by matildaben 22 February | 17:25

I've done that several times: putting my thermals on, then my socks, then my boots, grabbing my bag, rushing to the door, looking down, realizing that there are no pants on my legs.

It's a sign that you're truly living, mosch, really.

posted by cmonkey 22 February | 17:28

I can't say I've ever left the house with no pants (except when it was intentional). But yesterday I walked to work and on arriving realised I had forgotten to bring the key to my office. I couldn't go back home and get it either - my house key is on the same keyring.

posted by nomis 22 February | 17:31

Also, that was my ass you were patting.

I was wondering why it felt so good!

omiewise: sadly no. Perhaps I'd be better at the patdown if I had a rhyme.

matildaben: only one day? bah!

Dammit, I need to stop reading metachat in safari. it keeps on hiding comments from me!

posted by mosch 22 February | 22:57

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