anyone else ever done mindless things ?

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I always worry that I am going to mix up my check payments for my car, rent, etc. when i put them all in envelopes. I just realized that I mailed the wrong papers out in the mail today for signing up my son for baseball.(it is due tomarrow) I just found the papers on my computer desk. So I am wondering what papers i DID put in the envelope and mailed them.

wow, that sounds awful
Well, I'm constantly making mistakes so I know how ya feel.

Yeah, I mess up like that too. I mean, everybody messes up like that occasionally; but I think I do it a lot more than most people. You'd think I'd've learned organization by now.

I feel your pain. My job is an area where I make stupid, silly mistakes often. Very mindless. Believe me, I DO understand... sometimes I just feel brain dead!

I e-mailed the person in charge of the baseball registration, and asked if he would just write "return to sender" on it, and I would mail the correct papers out first thing tomarrow. He wrote back and said that it would be fine. TG. I really felt quite dumb and brainless.

and I am still trying to figure out what it was that I did put in that envelope and mailed to him. I hope it isn't anything that i need over the weekend.

Yes, I make mistakes like this sometimes. I think everyone does.

I have looked for my sunglasses while wearing them, for example.

And I too often worry about putting checks in the wrong envelopes, though to my knowledge I never have actually done so.

I do this a lot. What is really disconcerting is when you make a mistake like that even though you conscientiously are trying not to. It happens to me mostly when I'm sleep deprived, which is basically every single day!

Reading the word email in your post reminded me of another brainless moment of mine... a few years ago I receieved an anonymous email from someone in my office from the main printer/copier/scanner from my office's general email address (which goes to EVERYONE). It was rather rude, so I wrote back rudely, "BITE ME!" A couple seconds later I received my own email which said "BITE ME!" and I realized I had just sent this to everyone in my building, including all the company's Vice Presidents. I spent the next half-hour going office-to-office explaining myself.

You would be surprised how much of a mindless drone everyone can be all the time. People just do what they do without thinking or reason, people with ASD tend to have more thinking and reason behind what they do, but we are still mindless drones more often than not.

Example: At work, we have jargon used to describe how to make a drink, and when a customer orders something, most often the person at the till will tell the person making the drink exactly what the customer told him/her that he/she wanted. For example: I want a large cafe mocha 2 cream 2 sugar. Person working till will repeat this exactly most times, whereas it would make more sense to say "Large mocha double double."

And on a random note, outside my building someone is so drunk I can hear them throwing up.

Same here. My memory just doesn't function when I'm tired. I go into the kitchen to make a drink and by the time I get there I've forgotten whether my husband said he wanted one or not. Trots back along the hallway, asks again, goes back into the kitchen, forgotten again, decide if he wants one he'll have to make his own

I once posted an empty envelope to the gas company. I found the cheque and the payment form which should have gone inside under some other papers after I'd posted it.