Did I Really Do That?
By Val
@valmnz (17099)
New Zealand
October 15, 2015 2:58am CST
I drove to the Post Office this afternoon to pick up the mail from our P.O. box. I locked the car and strolled in to the mail box lobby with the key in my hand. That's when it happened, when my brain stayed in neutral and had me laughing out loud at myself.
You see, as I approached the mail box I pressed the button on the key, as if expecting to see the mail box open itself. I realised what I'd done straight away and was thankful no one else was there at the time.
Things become automatic sometimes, don't they? Key in hand, approaching target, we do things without thinking. I wonder what I would have done had that little metal box blinked lights at me advising it was now unlocked. 
Do you sometimes do things, silly things, without thinking? I'm sure I'm not alone.
Do you sometimes do things, silly things, without thinking? I'm sure I'm not alone.20 people like this
21 responses
@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
15 Oct 15
Oh lordy @jaboUK I haven't done that one yet but there's still plenty of time.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
15 Oct 15
I think many of us do similar things! You don't get mail delivered to your home there?
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@valmnz (17099)
• New Zealand
15 Oct 15
@AbbyGreenhill Yes we do have home deliveries, but as we have the box for our business, most of our personal mail now goes there as well.
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@allknowing (130292)
• India
16 Oct 15
We all do those things.This happened years ago. It was pitch dark on the road and we heard a commotion. I switch on our bedroom light to see what is going on there - husband teased me no end.
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@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
15 Oct 15
I am glad that my brain is so addled that I cannot remember all the times I have done something similar. It's a terrible thing to have your brain all wound up in thought and your body on autopilot but it's better than the other way around.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
15 Oct 15
i'd sure'd loved to've seen the 'xpression'n yer face, ms. val! how cute'd that be if'n the mailbox 'twas capable'f such? lil alarms goin' off if'n someone tried to pilfer from it. t'wouldn't surprise me if'n that kinda thingy weren't already in the works somewhere.
i do 'odd' schtuff quite oft myself these days. my brains been misfirin' fer the past week 'r so 'n this mornin' i couldn't figure out how to get the pasture gate open. ya know, the one i've been goin' through the past 30 odd years 'n sometimes 10 times a day'r more? yepperz, the horses were laughin' 'long with the pups.1 person likes this
@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
15 Oct 15
LOL @crazyhorseladycx , I can just see the horses tapping a hoof now.
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@Marilynda1225 (80172)
• United States
15 Oct 15
That definitely sounds like something I would do LOL
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@troyburns (1405)
• New Zealand
15 Oct 15
I'm sure I've done plenty of things like this, but I've been able to blank them out, thank goodness. I do remember a time when my mum put coal in the toilet though.
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@Tita417 (1228)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
15 Oct 15
One time I was talking to a friend and I couldn't finish what I was saying for three times I repeated the first sentence and just stopped and the third time my friend shook my hand and told me what happened and we just laughed and laughed about it and you what, I never ended what I was suppose to say I forgot hahaa
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@pcunix (210)
• Middleboro, Massachusetts
16 Oct 15
Like Anna, I've done that to try to get into our house and more than once.
It doesn't work 
@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
15 Oct 15
Oh wow @valmnz now that's a good one. I think I would have been laughing too.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
15 Oct 15
lol Yes I think we all get that brain in neutral once in a while. That would have been funny had it worked!!
@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
15 Oct 15
I have a smart phone and a touch tablet, every now and then I try to touch my pc screen to get it to do something, and then wondered why it wasnt working
