Mindless idiot

[Gizmo2]

Good Evenin Jim,
Prokop, dont be too hard on yourself, I have seen enough pictures of people driving off with their purse on the car !

I've never driven off with a cup of coffee sitting on the roof of the car either !

 

[czechsonofagun]

I've never driven off with a cup of coffee sitting on the roof of the car either !

Or sons boots

 

[EE_Bota]

Or sons boots

Or my voltmeter, kayak skirt, or anything else. That would be silly and forgetful, especially if the kajak skirt was brand new, never used, and a luxury. Even if the skirt was tight as a tick on the kajak cockpit, someone like me would never ruin a trip by driving back home without getting the boat wet, looking everywhere along the side of the road for a kayak skirt.

 

[Dennisfly]

I've left my share of things in the shopping cart too.

I once left a plastic case of sockets on the step bumper of my truck and drove 25 miles to work through stop and go and 60 MPH traffic. An hour after I got to work, one of the other employees walked in with the case and said, "I found this on the bumper of your truck".

 

[Wood_Butcher_Dav]

Guess I'm the benefactor of a "Mindless Idiot". While walking my dogs along a country road by my house, found a book filliped open and sitting upside down in the snow bank. Book on tractors 1908-1980, cool find. It had to have fallen off a vehicle after all the sleet and snow we just had. Warmed and dried up it is now my current bathroom book

Dave

 

[JB4310]

Guess I'm the benefactor of a "Mindless Idiot". While walking my dogs along a country road by my house, found a book filliped open and sitting upside down in the snow bank. Book on tractors 1908-1980, cool find. It had to have fallen off a vehicle after all the sleet and snow we just had. Warmed and dried up it is now my current bathroom book

Dave

We could turn this around to best finds

Had one recently, found a 20 foot pc of 2 inch pvc pipe on the side of the road, must of fallen off a truck. I know not the greatest, but I do use it

My old boss told me a good one, he lost a brand new 8ft fiberglass step ladder off the back of his truck, on a short stretch of highway. By the time he realized what the noise was, he was to far past it to back up, the next exit was just 1/4 mile up so he went and turned back around. By the time he got back there, it was gone! Some one had a good find that day.

JB.

 

[Jstpssng]

Back before wireless internet, I knew of a guy who was in a motel setting his computer up to use a dial up modem. "9" to get out, then "1800"... forgetting it was already set up to dial 1 automatically.

Fortunately he was monitering on the hand line, plus had the presence of mind not to hang up so he could explain when I

ER UH, he heard "911 operator, what is the nature of your emergency?"

 

[magicheater]

When I saw the title "Mindless Idiot" I expected the moderators to close it because we aren't suppose to discuss politics. :thumbsup::laughing:

And when I saw it, I saw two words, one describing the other. Absentminded however is a sign of genius!

 

[patrick_g]

this thread reminds me of a classic joke:
It seems that a university finished work on an English-Russian-English translation program and they were demonstrating it. an official stepped up and typed in the English phrase "Out of sight, out of mind". and the Russian equivalent was typed back at him. Now he typed in the Russian and indicated that he wanted an English translation. It came back "mindless idiot" !

That ain't the way I heard it! Out of sight, out of mind ==> Invisible idiot.

Pat

 

[magicheater]

Originally Posted by ragkar View Post
this thread reminds me of a classic joke:
It seems that a university finished work on an English-Russian-English translation program and they were demonstrating it. an official stepped up and typed in the English phrase "Out of sight, out of mind". and the Russian equivalent was typed back at him. Now he typed in the Russian and indicated that he wanted an English translation. It came back "mindless idiot" !

That ain't the way I heard it! Out of sight, out of mind ==> Invisible idiot.

Pat

That's a GOOD one, maybe that is how the cold war got started.