Have You Ever Confused Yourself?
By Janet Hunt
@jahunt (1380)
United States
May 3, 2016 10:28am CST
Please make me feel better by telling me I am not the only one who has ever done this.
So, let's say you are going to the grocery store and you have some items to buy. You are making a list but you don't want to write it down...just in case you should accidentally drop your shopping list and someone could perhaps see what you had written and you die of embarrassment or maybe somebody might be peering over your shoulder. Anyway, you get the idea!
What you do is, write it down in code, in something you will only know what it means.
The only problem is--you forget the code! 
Then you are standing in the grocery store like, what the heck was I talking about? What did I even mean here...LOL!!
Of course, you go home without what it was you were needing. Then, right as you are drifting off to sleep for the night, you remember what it was!
Then you are standing in the grocery store like, what the heck was I talking about? What did I even mean here...LOL!!
Of course, you go home without what it was you were needing. Then, right as you are drifting off to sleep for the night, you remember what it was!8 people like this
9 responses
@LindaCPearson (2240)
• United States
3 May 16
Well, I have never done that but believe me, I've done similar and worse things so don't feel bad. I think we all have our awkward and forgetful moments!
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@LindaCPearson (2240)
• United States
3 May 16
@jahunt I guess that should make me feel better??!!
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@jahunt (1380)
• United States
3 May 16
@LindaCPearson oh yes! It's always nice to have company! 
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@infatuatedbby (94914)
• United States
3 May 16
Happens to me too! I sometimes write for the moment then when I go back I'm like what did I write?? 
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@infatuatedbby (94914)
• United States
3 May 16
@jahunt yes you aren't I'm sure it happens to a lot of people Also
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@TheHorse (220266)
• Walnut Creek, California
3 May 16
I've sort of done this. I like to get dried mango at Trader Joe's. But for some reason, I sometimes forget that the little orange dried fruit I like so much is mango. The word "mango" just escapes me. So I'll just write down "kiwi" as an inside joke with myself. But I usually remember that "kiwi" means "mango" once I get there.
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@puddleglum (1380)
• United States
3 May 16
I used to abbreviate and make up odd shorthand when I took notes in college. What happened when it came time to study? You guessed it. I often had no idea what I'd written.
Sleep deprivation was partly to blame. Haha.
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@puddleglum (1380)
• United States
3 May 16
@jahunt I guess that's what we get for being clever.
I guess that's what we get for being clever.1 person likes this
@RichardMeister (5328)
• Otis Orchards, Washington
8 May 16
I'm sorry, but I have never been embarrassed by anything on my shopping list nor cared if someone is looking at it over my shoulder. I don't know why that would be any more embarrassing than someone looking in you shopping cart and seeing what you have. I will admit I've gone to the store to pick up a few thing and figured it wasn't enough to make a list. I'll get everything except one. Then I'll walk around the store looking like a goofball hoping I'll see what that one item was. Sometimes I figure it out, other times I just go home and as I pull into the driveway I'll remember.
