So I feel like every time I start a project, I end up needing the item I'm making, just to finish making it. I got home from work with a few hours of light left and I set out to install the bedlights in the bed of my truck. of course 8pm rolls around and I'm sitting in the bed of the truck with a flashlight trying to connect wires. You know what would've been real useful in that situation?? some bed lights....

It was the same thing when I was making the work benches in the basement. The entire time I was just sitting there thinking "this would be so much easier if I just had some f%$king work benches to work on.... haha

Even a few times before I had the truck you'd start working on the motorcycle, realize you needed something from the store, and of course you no longer have a running motorcycle to get to the store to get the part you need to finish working on the bike...

I have "Selective Blindness". 

Drop a screw or bolt right in front of me. Can't see it anywhere. Get another from the parts bins. Come back. its right there - in front of me.

OR I have a tool. Set it down. 5 seconds later I can't see it anywhere. Get another. Then find it right where I set it down.

"I know I have that part somewhere". Then I find it a few days later when I am NOT looking for it so I put it where I will remember to find it later - only to forget where I put it.
So lolo!

Quote from: adidasguy on March 16, 2012, 05:28:37 PM
I have "Selective Blindness". 

Drop a screw or bolt right in front of me. Can't see it anywhere. Get another from the parts bins. Come back. its right there - in front of me.

OR I have a tool. Set it down. 5 seconds later I can't see it anywhere. Get another. Then find it right where I set it down.

"I know I have that part somewhere". Then I find it a few days later when I am NOT looking for it so I put it where I will remember to find it later - only to forget where I put it.
So lolo!

irony FTL. riding the battlepig home from work tonight. day starts at 9am at doc. get out at 1215pm. anyways am riding the goped aroudn and say to self. " gotta watch out for water puddles. the ignition coil doesnt take to kindly to water. well at 10pm. route homeblocked by train. so i start goin to crossingnumber 2. racing train lol. i lose. i hit water hard. soaked coil. i wait idling for loco to pass. it does i go down hill. starts cutting out. plug is loose. i tighten it. got to refire. but figured. since i went coil it was done for night. irony is this. i tell myself to avoid puddles. to protect coil. well shes running at 13k rpms. and i hit a puddle. she makes me walk a half mile cause i got coil wet lol.

Quote from: adidasguy on March 16, 2012, 05:28:37 PM
I have "Selective Blindness". 

Drop a screw or bolt right in front of me. Can't see it anywhere. Get another from the parts bins. Come back. its right there - in front of me.

OR I have a tool. Set it down. 5 seconds later I can't see it anywhere. Get another. Then find it right where I set it down.

"I know I have that part somewhere". Then I find it a few days later when I am NOT looking for it so I put it where I will remember to find it later - only to forget where I put it.
So lolo!

Sounds a bit like me when I always lose my sunglasses only to realize they're on my head

Quote from: Twisted on March 17, 2012, 01:39:39 AM

Quote from: adidasguy on March 16, 2012, 05:28:37 PM
I have "Selective Blindness". 

Drop a screw or bolt right in front of me. Can't see it anywhere. Get another from the parts bins. Come back. its right there - in front of me.

OR I have a tool. Set it down. 5 seconds later I can't see it anywhere. Get another. Then find it right where I set it down.

"I know I have that part somewhere". Then I find it a few days later when I am NOT looking for it so I put it where I will remember to find it later - only to forget where I put it.
So lolo!

Sounds a bit like me when I always lose my sunglasses only to realize they're on my head

LMFAO yup been there. or the keys to bike /car or house, and theyre in your hand

Quote from: yamahonkawazuki on March 18, 2012, 10:05:59 PM

Quote from: Twisted on March 17, 2012, 01:39:39 AM

Quote from: adidasguy on March 16, 2012, 05:28:37 PM
I have "Selective Blindness". 

Drop a screw or bolt right in front of me. Can't see it anywhere. Get another from the parts bins. Come back. its right there - in front of me.

OR I have a tool. Set it down. 5 seconds later I can't see it anywhere. Get another. Then find it right where I set it down.

"I know I have that part somewhere". Then I find it a few days later when I am NOT looking for it so I put it where I will remember to find it later - only to forget where I put it.
So lolo!

Sounds a bit like me when I always lose my sunglasses only to realize they're on my head

LMFAO yup been there. or the keys to bike /car or house, and theyre in your hand

I remember watching a friends mom in high school searching for her glasses while wearing one pair on top of her head and holding a second pair in her hand.

Yesterday was working on a physiological psychology project was on the short term memory aspect of it. Within that 10 minutes I misplaced my netbook, notes, cellphone, and I think my brain too. I just thought it so funny how terrible my short term memory was while working on a project to boost it LOL!

Mary

today i was searching for my water, looked alover the shop. 10+ minutes. it ws in my hand. been having memory issues recently :/. shaZam! like this becoming more and more frequent lol. as long as i remember where my house is im good.