Embarrassing/Annoying Moments in INTPism

[indie]

Let's make a list. Lists are fun.

1. Realizing that one's coat or jacket has been buttoned incorrectly for an unfathomable amount of time; "off-center" while said INTP has walked down or through a public area and completely unaware of aforementioned fashion malfunction.

2. Losing/forgetting something important. Like . . . the location of one's vehicular transportation. Getting ticketed and/or towed resultant from such forgetfulness.

[rhinosaur]

2. Losing/forgetting something important. Like the location of one's car. Getting parking tickets and/or towed resultant from such forgetfulness.
The other weekend I was at Duke, visiting my friend at the hospital. I parked my rental car in the wrong parking deck, then spent an hour wandering around a different parking deck looking for a car that wasn't mine. It was about 20°F, too.

But that's not really because I am INTP. *Denial*

Oh, and there's a bright side to the story. I spent so much time looking for the car that by the time I found it, the gates were open and my parking time was free. :)

[dunee]

3. Realizing you didn't actually change a class on your schedule like you thought, and now you are still registered for the place holder dud class (despite having not been to any of the classes), instead of the class you actually decided to take. However, add/drop period ended last week (f*ck!)

4. trying to boil h20 in the microwave for tea. Put H20 in the mug, set to 2 mins, walk out of the kitchen trying as hard as you can to remember to go back in, forget about it, go back 20 mins later, restart since its now lukewarm, continue for 3 hours until you give up on tea.

[Rice-Tactics]

Showing up to the wrong class at the wrong time and only realizing after 1 hour and 15 minutes.

[Oculus Sinister]

walking down a city street n ot realizing your fly is undone and your dick is hanging out of your open boxers. you might of been wearing a jacket can't remember.

misplacing the car numerous times but also double parking your car outside your g/f's and passing out only to have it towed

takeing 6.3 years to finish a major you absolutely fucking hate with all your god damn guts and glory

[Rajah]

I spent five minutes trying to open the front door of a car that wasn't mine. I was getting very frustrated b/c my key wouldn't turn the lock. I looked up, and the car's owner and his wife/girlfriend/mistress/whatever were just staring at me. All I could say was, "Oh.... um.. this isn't my car, huh?"

Even worse, his car and mine bore absolutely no resemblance to one another, save paint color.

[outmywindow]

Forgetting to add water to the bowl of Instant Thai you're making (with "Just Add Water!" emblazoned on the side of the plastic bowl...) and burning the fuck out of it in the microwave before you realize exactly why things are going wrong and what it is you're supposed to do to about it (stop the microwave, Claire). I'm telling you, burnt rice noodles smell like shit.

[abathur]

I've taken a test in a class that wasn't mine...

luckily it was another section of the same course. I didn't realize until I was on the way home and saw a clock.

[Madrigal]

How about looking all over the place for something that you're wearing? "Damn it I just had it in my hand!"

Or does that only happen to me. :unsure:

[bergenski]

Working at a hostel at night and going outside with another person and forgetting to change the switch that flicks off the locking system, thereby locking you and poor person outside all night, forcing you to sleep on a staircase that wasn't exactly comfy (or clean).

[s0978]

I don't really do this kind of stuff.

[Rajah]

How about looking all over the place for something that you're wearing? "Damn it I just had it in my hand!"

Or does that only happen to me. :unsure:Or sunglasses on my head.



s0532's so well-adjusted. :P

[Jennywocky]

I spent five minutes trying to open the front door of a car that wasn't mine. I was getting very frustrated b/c my key wouldn't turn the lock. I looked up, and the car's owner and his wife/girlfriend/mistress/whatever were just staring at me. All I could say was, "Oh.... um.. this isn't my car, huh?" Even worse, his car and mine bore absolutely no resemblance to one another, save paint color.

That reminds me of an INFP story.

My friend got out of the passenger side to use a walk-up ATM. He got his money, went back and hopped into the car, looked at his friend to say something... and realized the driver was a complete stranger.

While he was busy, his brother and friends had pulled the car away from the curb into a parking spot (it was at the mall) and the new car had pulled into the same spot. They were laughing like hell at him as he stammered an apology and stumbled back out into the street.

In his favor, though, the car WAS the same make and model.

An INTP could survive the indignity. I'm surprised my INFP friend wasn't scarred for life.

[bergenski]

s0532's so well-adjusted.
You don't have to tell her twice...or once...

[indie]

Or sunglasses on my head.



s0532's so well-adjusted. :P


Yeah, my examples are definitely _not_ typical for me. Background info on said events (linked - both 1 & 2 happened on the same day) is that I was going on an interview and was all kinds of anxious. Sometimes when I'm anxious my brain just does not function properly.

[Rajah]

Yeah, my examples are definitely _not_ typical for me. Background info on said events (linked - both 1 & 2 happened on the same day) is that I was going on an interview and was all kinds of anxious. Sometimes when I'm anxious my brain just does not function properly.Yeah, and I don't usually try to pilfer someone's car. ;)

Typical INTPish behavior for me is misplacing my keys (all the time), forgetting where I took my shoes off, failing to put away leftovers, leaving my son at day care... You know, little things like that.




;)

[Stoned_Rider]

- Never getting around to cancelling the monthly £3.99 direct-debit subscriptions that I don't use/need anymore, but still keep paying for. That's if I do notice them on my bank statements in the first place.

- Getting forced, one way or another, into spending time with some folks that I'd really rather not be spending time with. Despite my best efforts, I usually find myself simply unable to hide the fact that I'm hating every minute of it.

[MacGuffin]

s0532's so well-adjusted. :P
Yeah, and did you see her well-ordered minimalist closet?

I am beginning to suspect an SJ walks among us.

[Rajah]

Yeah, and did you see her well-ordered minimalist closet?

I am beginning to suspect an SJ walks among us.I have to admit, that closet was very impressive. I even felt a little jealous.

[Tayshaun]

Probably not the most embarrassing moments, but lacking of genuine bubbly enthusiasm when it would have come in handy has been a problem.

Throughout my childhood, any time I receive a gift, no matter how happy or satisfied I was with the object, It was hard to express the proper enthusiasm:
"- Thank you, it's great. :)
- You don't really like it, do you? you can return it if you don't like it...
- No I really like it, I can't imagine anything better. Actually I could have bought myself it if you hadn't given it to me.
- I'm sorry you don't like it...
- :unsure: , but I do..."

It could be genuine happiness being discredited because of the lack of bright eye-contact and physical signs of happiness a child usually displays. It could also be suspicion from the way my attention seemed to be focusing on wrong things, such as where the gift was manufactured. It could the fear that no gift can satisfy a child who seems so often aloof and retrenched in his thoughts. To be fair, I secretly never seemed to really enjoy receiving presents as most as other kids do, and I stopped looking forward to birthdays, Christmases after the age of seven or eight... I don't know what the hell it was, but it has provided many uncomfortable situations.

[MacGuffin]

I have to admit, that closet was very impressive. I even felt a little jealous.
Are you willing to go through life with only 4 sets of shoes?

[Rajah]

Are you willing to go through life with only 4 sets of shoes?
Like a true INTP, I really only rotate through 3 pairs at a time. I just have a bunch I never get around to throwing away...

though it would really hurt to actually throw them away!

[Ka.avik]

How about looking all over the place for something that you're wearing? "Damn it I just had it in my hand!"

Or does that only happen to me. :unsure:

No, no no, no.

When I was 4, and still wore glasses, just before parents & I got ready for our evening outing (shopping? don't remember) I piped up and said "wait; where are my glasses? I'm supposed to be wearing glasses."

We spent an hour plus, all three of us, turning over every laid-down thing, looking for them, and finally mom declared "forget it, we've run out of time, let's just go. WAIT! what's that on your face?" cue four year old facepalming, thinking I had seaweed stuck to my chin or something .... "you're wearing your glasses! C'mon!! let's go."

Things haven't gotten much better since. Never lost my car though. Fortunately it doesn't fit in my pocket, so if I go looking for it, I have a chance of finding it.

[panda]

Fuck, where can I see her closet?

[bergenski]

Yeah, my examples are definitely _not_ typical for me. Background info on said events (linked - both 1 & 2 happened on the same day) is that I was going on an interview and was all kinds of anxious. Sometimes when I'm anxious my brain just does not function properly.
Don't back off just cause goody two (er...eight?) shoes chimed in...INTPs are often not aware of their surroundings.

[Ka.avik]

It could be genuine happiness being discredited because of the lack of bright eye-contact and physical signs of happiness a child usually displays. It could also be suspicion from the way my attention seemed to be focusing on wrong things, such as where the gift was manufactured. It could the fear that no gift can satisfy a child who seems so often aloof and retrenched in his thoughts. To be fair, I secretly never seemed to really enjoy receiving presents as most as other kids do, and I stopped looking forward to birthdays, Christmases after the age of seven or eight... I don't know what the hell it was, but it has provided many uncomfortable situations.

yeah, that too. I know Christmas hasn't been "fun" since about 9, and even at seven or eight I thought the build-up was excessive. And not quite knowing how to take a gift -- instead of your case of pointing out "hey cool it's made in thailand!" I would immediately regale the gift giver with a history of where I had seen the toy before, and who else I knew already had one, and the circumstances under which they received the gift.

EDIT: but I would commonly look at that sticker, and think "wow; china is a long ways away. This thing has been in china, and I haven't." or, maybe "What does this cartoon character's action figure have to do with mexico?!? Why are they building this for us?" so, I hear ya' Tayshun
[/EDIT]

And really, I thought it was a nice gift, but I kinda got turned off on the high expectations placed on reception, so I slowly stopped caring. Now I pretty much don't participate. But I do get a box of granola on my birthday, which is nice. I guess the relatives just kept dropping their energy input until it seemed to them to match the response.



but it is good granola.

[kuranes]

4. trying to boil h20 in the microwave for tea. Put H20 in the mug, set to 2 mins, walk out of the kitchen trying as hard as you can to remember to go back in, forget about it, go back 20 mins later, restart since its now lukewarm, continue for 3 hours until you give up on tea.

Oh yeah, waiting for food to get properly heated is so boring that I often will add way more water than the dish really calls for ( to steam it under a lid ) so that if I forget to turn the flame down in time, I will have bought some time before it starts to burn. Of course this means that it takes even longer to cook, making forgetting it even more likely. Keeping the flame on low - same phenomenon.


Showing up to the wrong class at the wrong time and only realizing after 1 hour and 15 minutes.
I partied with a stranger in Montana one night, and the next day was "surprised" to meet him again in a diner. Yes, it was a small town, but it seemed quite a coincidence. I joked with him about it too, before we even left the diner, but I must not have been specific enough with my words, because he didn't tell me that he had never met me before until the end of that day. I guess he just thought I was an extremely gregarious sort and went along with it.

I've run along beside a bus too, insisting it let me on, chasing after it. When finally able to board, I sat back in "relief" and let my breathing go back to normal etc. whilst joking with people near me about the experience etc. and then....found out I was on the wrong one and had to try to persuade the driver to help me once again.

[s0978]

To Rajah & co- I will respond to your humorous prods later perhaps, but just now I really must finish recategorizing my expenses so that I can make accurate cash flow projections.

[Rajah]

To Rajah & co- I will respond to your humorous prods later perhaps, but just now I really must finish recategorizing my expenses so that I can make accurate cash flow projections.Not humorous! I'm truly jealous, and fessing up.



Edit: Except for my first post to you. Ahem.

[indie]

Don't back off just cause goody two (er...eight?) shoes chimed in...INTPs are often not aware of their surroundings.


Interesting take. Normally I tend to be hyper-aware of my surroundings when driving a vehicle. RE locations of directions, I think the only place I'm ever even remotely ISTP is behind a steering wheel in high-traffic: there's no room to langor in N for daydreaming while driving in crowded traffic. And I'm a pretty seasoned driver. :cool:

I parked my car in what I thought was a "safe" zone (one with parking meters which I fed precious quarters and nickles) because I was becoming frustrated and literally "going in circles" being unable to use my intuition to find what I thought was the nearby address/locale of my interview.

It's too bad the bloated bitch who interviewed me wasted my time requesting that I fill out all kinds of tax-oriented paperwork when she didn't even have a job to offer me upon my completion of the paperwork. It became obvious to me after about 35 seconds of the interview that she hadn't even read my resume or the "questionnaire" I'd filled out at her company's request.

Oh, sorry, I digress . . . this thread is going off-topic.

[s0978]

Not humorous! I'm truly jealous, and fessing up.silly Rajah, you too can throw away stuff you don't need and create adequate and convenient storage solutions.


Don't back off just cause goody two (er...eight?) shoes chimed in...INTPs are often not aware of their surroundings.

sure, keep using INTPness to make excuses, bergenski. But don't you think it's time you got over Hustler liking me better than you?

[panda]

No, seriously, where can I find this picture of your closet?

[s0978]

No, seriously, where can I find this picture of your closet?

gah, in here (http://forums.intpcentral.com/showthread.php?t=16558&)- now shh, stop derailing!

[outmywindow]

Like a true INTP, I really only rotate through 3 pairs at a time. I just have a bunch I never get around to throwing away...

though it would really hurt to actually throw them away!

You rotate shoes? I wear the same pair until they die an ugly death, then I'm off to purchase my one and only replacement pair. I've heard that this is a strange strategy, especially for a woman.

[panda]

gah, in here (http://forums.intpcentral.com/showthread.php?t=16558&)- now shh, stop derailing!
Thank you.

[bergenski]

sure, keep using INTPness to make excuses, bergenski. But don't you think it's time you got over Hustler liking me better than you?
It's not an excuse, it's a function. And it *is* time you overcame your passive-aggressive lashings-out, goody goody.

[MacGuffin]

It's not an excuse, it's a function. And it *is* time you overcame your passive-aggressive lashings-out, o schoolyard chick.
Post of the Day - Feb. 14, 2007.

[s0978]

It's not an excuse, it's a function. And it *is* time you overcame your passive-aggressive lashings-out, goody goody.


Post of the Day - Feb. 14, 2007.

*snort*

If you kids don't like wedgies, you need to stop shooting spitballs.

And macguff, I know you wanna be the toothbrush, but I don't wanna be the toothpaste. Maybe berg does.

[MacGuffin]

And macguff, I know you wanna be the toothbrush, but I don't wanna be the toothpaste.
You know I thought of so many responses from female ejaculation to menstruation, but I restrained myself.

You're welcome.

[rainfall]

I walked in the bathroom, and there were no stalls. Hmm, must be family bathroom I thought. So I took a piss and went out. On my way out, I realised what just had happened and briskly walked away as if nothing happened.

I was in line in store. There were two cashiers, a dude and a chick. It was my turn but I was spacing out, looking somewhere through the cashiers. The dude served the customer and was waving at me, while I kept spacing out. Then the chick served the customer at which point she was ready too. That's when something finally clicked in my head and I finally went to the cashier, the girl. The bastards could not stop giggling because they thought I just wanted to be served by the girl (she was pretty) while I mustered up as much seriousness (shut off feelings) so that embarrassment won't burn so bad. I fared pretty well actually, I was proud of myself.

The boiling water thing, definitely. I set something to be prepared, forget it and leave, turn it on again, forget and leave, untill I either stay right by the microwave or decide to starve. PC's and TVs and books make it worse.

[RottenApple]

The boiling water thing, definitely. I set something to be prepared, forget it and leave, turn it on again, forget and leave, untill I either stay right by the microwave or decide to starve. PC's and TVs and books make it worse.

A few weeks ago I nearly burned down my house when I heated up a pan of oil to fry a steak, and then got distracted by Supreme Commander (cool game BTW).
Sunflower oil creates black smoke and I had to re-paint my ceiling.

Dork till the bitter end....

[mancroft]

Getting a taxi home from a train station and then realizing that I'd left my car in the station car park.

Duh!

[Birdsnest]

In 8th grade halter tops were in. I wore a skimpy purple halter top and it slid over too far in music class, and the music teacher turned beet red and was trying not to stare, but was obviously flustered at something. I looked down, and the right boob was fully out. I am thankful only the teacher saw it, and I fixed it and tried to pretend nothing happened, but I was deeply embarrassed.

Another time, I jumped off a high dive, in some orange swim suit bottoms with white trim that were not super snug, & the impact of the water forced them half off in the pool. Thank god I could fix that under water, but I never wore those or dove with those again.

[Jennywocky]

In 8th grade halter tops were in. I wore a skimpy purple halter top and it slid over too far in music class, and the music teacher turned beet red and was trying not to stare, but was obviously flustered at something. I looked down, and the right boob was fully out. I am thankful only the teacher saw it, and I fixed it and tried to pretend nothing happened, but I was deeply embarrassed.

Another time, I jumped off a high dive, in some orange swim suit bottoms with white trim that were not super snug, & the impact of the water forced them half off in the pool. Thank god I could fix that under water, but I never wore those or dove with those again.

Ah, the pitfalls of being an INTP! (even if you're male?)

I think even an ISFP female would have been embarrassed. (Maybe not an ESFP, but all the others. :whistle:)

--

1. Being wrong about something I actually took a stand on, because I didn't know about a piece of information, but everyone else thinking I made a logic mistake.

2. Not being able to find a destination because I decided once again to "play things by ear," but there was some piece of information I overlooked that I really needed to know.

3. Leaving at the very last possible moment, because logically I could still get somwhere... then getting slammed by unexpected events.

4. Losing my car keys. Again. Because someone else organized them, rather than leaving them where I actually dropped them.

[rainfall]

In 8th grade halter tops were in. I wore a skimpy purple halter top and it slid over too far in music class, and the music teacher turned beet red and was trying not to stare, but was obviously flustered at something. I looked down, and the right boob was fully out. I am thankful only the teacher saw it, and I fixed it and tried to pretend nothing happened, but I was deeply embarrassed.

Another time, I jumped off a high dive, in some orange swim suit bottoms with white trim that were not super snug, & the impact of the water forced them half off in the pool. Thank god I could fix that under water, but I never wore those or dove with those again.

A multitude of morally wrong but still pleasant thoughts are traversing through my mind right now. :wub:

[airjaw]

I spent five minutes trying to open the front door of a car that wasn't mine. I was getting very frustrated b/c my key wouldn't turn the lock. I looked up, and the car's owner and his wife/girlfriend/mistress/whatever were just staring at me. All I could say was, "Oh.... um.. this isn't my car, huh?"

Even worse, his car and mine bore absolutely no resemblance to one another, save paint color.

:rofl:

[2ds]

I spent five minutes trying to open the front door of a car that wasn't mine. I was getting very frustrated b/c my key wouldn't turn the lock. I looked up, and the car's owner and his wife/girlfriend/mistress/whatever were just staring at me. All I could say was, "Oh.... um.. this isn't my car, huh?"

Even worse, his car and mine bore absolutely no resemblance to one another, save paint color.

:rofl:

I once walked into the kitchen, fliped up the lid on the bin and almost relieved myself in it before I realised what I was doing.... glad I stopped, it would have been very hard to explain to my mother....

[lbloom]

http://forums.intpcentral.com/showpost.php?p=437396&postcount=22

[Jennywocky]

:rofl:

I once walked into the kitchen, fliped up the lid on the bin and almost relieved myself in it before I realised what I was doing.... glad I stopped, it would have been very hard to explain to my mother....

And you weren't even drinking? That's very impressive!

I just noticed yesterday that the Steve Irwin avatar (wrestling the alligator) has TodayMe's face on it.

I've noticed it for the better part of a week, and thought that something looked odd -- that Steve didn't look quite right -- but didn't think much of it. Then I finally actually LOOKED at it.

That's usually what happens with me. I'll get a nagging suspicion something is off, but I won't figure it out until I actually focus on it.

[indie]

Yet another lovely moment of embarrassing/annoying INTPism upon which to report.

Background info: I currently take the bus and walk a couple of blocks to my place of work. This "walking" thing currently takes place on a sidewalk and traverses a path under some fairly abundant trees. . . particularly does this path take place underneath some abundantly shedding evergreen trees (coastal cypress trees, to be precise).

The other day, around lunchtime, I glanced in the mirror and realized that had a lovely, but quite large pine-needle branch of a shedded cypress tree stuck directly on top of my head. This lovely piece of organic matter had been stationed, tangled in my hair, for what amounts to about half of the day. . . all the while was I oblivious to the strange looks and shifty eyes and nobody even had the decency to inform me that I had a part of a tree stuck to and tangled in my hair! Indeed, it wasn't until my lunch break, in the restroom, washing my hands, and glancing in the mirror, that I noticed this foreign material upon my head.

I think. . .well, if I was an extrovert, one of my many extrovert friends would have certainly notified me of this humiliating factoid sooner rather than later. BUT, being the friendless, anti-social, silent INTP that I am, I carried on with this lovely green matter on top of my head all morning long, typing away at my desk, all the while unaware that those covert giggles and glances in my direction were at my expense.

[Utopmk]

walking down a city street n ot realizing your fly is undone and your dick is hanging out of your open boxers. you might of been wearing a jacket can't remember.


Yep. Plenty of people have seen mine. :mellow:

[Sackanaka]

Deliberating for over a month whether to post or not again since the reason for leaving half a year ago no longer exists, occasionally attempting to post and deleting it immediately, agreeing that it will not be for the better but by the same token I could truly lose nothing, admitting that there will be no perfect opportunity for re-entry and still deliberating to this second whether or not to hit enter while I ponder the repercussions and whether I spelled repercussions correctly until I look it up on dictionary.com.

Looking up "deliberate" first to make sure I used the word correctly. I did.

Same with repercussions.

And a nervous final look-over for editing.

[Sackanaka]

/me takes the cake and stuffs teary face, runningly

[WhiteRaven]

I finally have something to post in the all INTP subforum. After this happened at work the other day, I knew I was going to post it as it reminded me of one of the guys saying somewhere that he sometimes takes it out in the hallway at work on the way to the bathroom, not thinking of where he is. I don't remember where I read that, but when I got back and then remembered I wanted to post this I looked for the appropriate place and it is here!!! In the intp only place that I had to work for 2 years to get enough posts to be allowed into only to have nothing to post! Ok, well it is not that much of a celebration for you guys, you are old hat, but please don't take away my mirth.

Actually, I was going to start a thread called: "Thank God, no one saw me do that, or at least I don't think anyone did...", but this thread already covers it, I think.

I am teaching physics, and I usually fiddle with something or other. I had written a bunch of notes on the board and walked to the side of the classroom to let the students copy them. I was turning over what I thought was a piece of chalk in my hand and looked down to find I was holding the O.B. tampon (no applicator, similar in size to a small piece of chalk for those who don't know what they are) that I had put in my pocket that morning. I put it back in the pocket and zipppered it, making a mental note to remember what I had put there.

hehe, the next day I lost another one somewhere as it fell out of my pocket which did not zipper. I was just glad it was not in my coworker's car. It was probably on the floor of the meeting I was at or at the restaurant, but hell, I didn't see it so I didn't have to be embarrassed by it. I guess I should get a real purse. Fall is on its way, so jacket pockets are a better place for them.

(:

[gardnerj]

I farted on a girl once. She was sitting on me. My ESFP friend helped me feel better by roaring in laughter.

[teleforce]

about 80% of everything i post on this site.

[last_caress]

payed for gas and driven off without getting it at least twice.

[zserf]

I was at a competition once, and everyone was at the same hotel. So after the competition but before the banquet/sales pitch at the end, I went swimming and played cards with some people in their room. I left and went back to my room. Before I was about to go to the banquet, I realized that I couldn't find my shoes. I had left them in the other team's room because my feet were wet and I wasn't wearing them. So, I went to the banquet in socks. Then, after the banquet I went back to their room to try and get my shoes back. I was informed by a passerby that they had gone to get ice cream.

[Bking]

I would first put a medium size towel over around my neck before wetting my hair and fixing it to the way I liked it. That day in particular I was wearing a collard shirt. Well I did the normal routine and went to school. About 4 hours later i was sitting in my chair daydreaming and suddenly i noticed my collar seemed a bit uncomfortable. I reached around to the back and felt a damp medium sized towel still wrapped around my neck from the morning.
I cant believe I didn't notice a huge lump around my neck.

[md5fungi]

About once a year, I put a long-sleeved collared t-shirt inside out, and this usually happens to be a day where I make quite a few public appearances.

In high school, I used to mess up my schedule a lot in the beginning of a semester; I would frequently miss classes and go to incorrect classes. I remember once rushing to a class thinking I was late, and took a seat and began to take some sort of pretest that everyone else was doing. A couple minutes later, the bell rang, everyone started to leave, and I realized that I was actually quite early and sitting with the class before me. No one seemed to acknowledge this, and it almost seemed more embarrassing because of that fact.

Once in awhile I'll meet a breathtakingly attractive woman (with traits much sought after by the INTP male, e.g. glasses), and whether I decide to strike up conversation or am forced to, my words are punctuated by stutters, mumbles, and my message is generally indecipherable.

This one time, an INTJ friend and I pulled into a gas station to get some gas (I was driving). I pulled to the right of the pump, realizing that my gas tank is on the right of my car. I then took a U-turn, pulling to the right of the furthest row of gas pumps. I was again, to the right of the gas pump. My INTJ friend then said something to the extent, "It's too late, you already messed up twice. Let's try another gas station." And so we did...

[Jynweythek]

I once accidentally used the women's bathroom at a movie theater. I even remember noting the usual signs that I was in the wrong place (no urinals, a woman walking in front of me...), but I was in such a hurry to get back to the movie that I ignored everything else and only bothered to glance at the sign above the door as I was walking in, which was curved such that I could only see the "men" part of "women". There were even people giving me weird looks as I walked out (to which I replied with my own weird look as if they were crazy), but it didn't even click until I was going home.

[gardnerj]

I would first put a medium size towel over around my neck before wetting my hair and fixing it to the way I liked it. That day in particular I was wearing a collard shirt. Well I did the normal routine and went to school. About 4 hours later i was sitting in my chair daydreaming and suddenly i noticed my collar seemed a bit uncomfortable. I reached around to the back and felt a damp medium sized towel still wrapped around my neck from the morning.
I cant believe I didn't notice a huge lump around my neck.

I've been to school in pajamas--fourth grade.

I still go to class wearing the same shirt I slept in.

[pangolin]

3. Realizing you didn't actually change a class on your schedule like you thought, and now you are still registered for the place holder dud class (despite having not been to any of the classes), instead of the class you actually decided to take. However, add/drop period ended last week (f*ck!)

I had many dreams that I had done something like this during the last period I was in college.



4. trying to boil h20 in the microwave for tea. Put H20 in the mug, set to 2 mins, walk out of the kitchen trying as hard as you can to remember to go back in, forget about it, go back 20 mins later, restart since its now lukewarm, continue for 3 hours until you give up on tea.

1:20 usually works :wink:

[nullPointerException]

when i make a spur of the moment joke that nobody understands, or that I have to explain to them because -- thus killing the humour.

[zserf]

I do that all the time, making obscure references to things people have never heard of, and then having to explain it. On the other hand, it's awesome when someone knows what I'm talking about.

On an unrelated note, ever notice that reference has a lot of E's.

[avolkiteshvara]

A couple years ago i was at barnes & noble with girl friend. She went off somewhere for 10 minutes. Later I saw her from behind reading some book. I noticed she looked a bit plumper than normal. Came up behind her, threw my arm around her, patted her tummy, and asked what she was reading.

Then I looked her in the eyes and realized it wasn't her. Just some random stranger.

[nullPointerException]

A couple years ago i was at barnes & noble with girl friend. She went off somewhere for 10 minutes. Later I saw her from behind reading some book. I noticed she looked a bit plumper than normal. Came up behind her, threw my arm around her, patted her tummy, and asked what she was reading.

Then I looked her in the eyes and realized it wasn't her. Just some random stranger.

what was her reaction

[md5fungi]

A couple years ago i was at barnes & noble with girl friend. She went off somewhere for 10 minutes. Later I saw her from behind reading some book. I noticed she looked a bit plumper than normal. Came up behind her, threw my arm around her, patted her tummy, and asked what she was reading.

Then I looked her in the eyes and realized it wasn't her. Just some random stranger.

How fast did you run?

[avolkiteshvara]

I apologized and skipped out pretty quick.

I was afraid she might call the cops and try to say I groped her or something..............which I almost did before I realized who it was..........or wasn't.

[Kirai]

Using a glass, some cutlery, bamboo sticks, and a candle to bake a potato because I didn't have a stove at hand. Yay, grill.

Putting off my exams out of fear of failure - until all five of them were in the final week *headdesk*

Putting off assigned reading until the night before it was due, and then using MBTI to determine which section the professor was likely to ask questions about... and then reading the table of contents of that section and the wikipedia article.

And I always always forget birthdays (even my own).

[1104]

i had a doctor's appt and decided to take the bus. the trip required a transfer at a bus stop i'd never been to, but i figured i'd see it along the way. i got on at my normal stop, and spotted the mystery stop immediately after we got moving. i got off 30 seconds after i had boarded. the driver asked what i was thinking, and i mumbled stupidly "i didn't know where this stop was." i had ridden the bus 1 block.

i waited at that stop for my 2nd bus. it arrived as expected, but it was outbound for some reason. i just stood there while the bus held its doors open, hoping the right bus would come. then i thought, "if it's bus 7 that arrives at 12:58pm, then it must be the correct one." i changed my mind just after the doors were closed. i ran after the already-moving bus, and banged on the window. after putting the transfer in the wrong slot, walking up the aisle as everyone stared, then sitting down, i looked out the window and saw my proper bus heading in the opposite direction.

[quantumzero]

The other day, I was (dont laugh, Im probably twice you're age) writting a check and wrote the store name on the date line, void, wrote the date on the pay to the order of line, void, couldnt focus, it was like my brain would not function. It was like I was standing there blacking out, or shifting gears. help!

[1104]

i was at the farmer's market where a photographer displayed his work mounted on little cards. i said they were nice postcards. not really an INTP thing, just really really lame. :stupid:

[foodeater]

There's always at least one portion of my backpack left unzipped and I never realize it until I take it off for the bus or class

[BrownBear]

Showing up for the wrong class at the right time and only realizing at the end of the semester.

[1104]

the crotch of my pants is torn open. i heard a ripping noise last week and paid no notice. i've worn them twice to school since then.

[mancroft]

Asking a question and not listening to the answer.

I do this all the time.

Other people must find it very rude.

[kali]

Asking a question and not listening to the answer.

I do this all the time.

Other people must find it very rude.

God, this is me. In fact while they answer me, I start to answer my own question in my head. And then they look frustrated when I look vacant or ask them to repeat what they said.



This is sort of due to INTP forgetfulness - because I couldn't remember where I put the can opener, I spent 20 minutes trying to open the dog food can with a hammer and chisel. With success too! Messy, messy success!

[gardnerj]

Oops, my portfolio isn't due the day of the final -- it's due in 10 hours!

I am laughing.

[Phreon]

In all seriousness, an annoying moment for an INTP is when he or she finally realizes that for all the self doubt, most people actually are wrong most of the time, if not outright slow-witted.

Phreon

[sandwich]

Before running out to catch a bus (late, as usual), I pulled my jeans out of the dryer to wear. I go downtown, meet up with a friend, and while we wait for a different bus I feel something itch behind my knee. I felt around, with some strange looks from my friend, then realize that there is definitely something in my pants. After moving it a bit, a sock falls out of my leg. We laugh, the bus comes, and we continue to a concert. While waiting for the band, I feel something on my thigh, on my other leg. It's another sock, but they don't match.

[ApeTheDog]

Yes. All quite familiar. My variations on the same themes:

- boiling potatoes. 3 hours later scraping them off the pot, then throwing it away.
- going to school on my slippers because I forgot I wasn't wearing shoes yet.
- buying drinks. Being unable to find my money. Spending 20 minutes with opened cola, looking for my money. Returning cola. Finding money upon exiting theatre, somehow in my hands.
- coming home from a school trip where we had to change outfits - initially with someone elses shoes on, then when he found me on the bus with no shoes on at all.
- going to school, suddenly smelling cat piss when I'm sitting in class, then realizing the cat pissed on my sweater that morning.
- etc, etc...

I don't run into anything like this anymore but it takes effort. I grew into the routine of checking for things like keys and wallets still being in my posession when I have nothing to do. And I never walk into a store anymore without checking if I have my wallet on me.

[1104]

while waiting for my friend Ay to arrive, i was introduced to an exchange student, and we stood together chatting. Ay had actually been eyeing this guy for months. she already knew his name, where he was from, and had exhausted her connections trying to "run into him" somehow, and even so, still had never offically "met" him. funny it happened that i did before she..did.

so when she finally came out of the building to get me, in an attempt to be natural, she immediately extended her hand to the foreigner and asked, "hi, where you from!?" without first asking his name, or acknowledging me, or him doing anything to suggest he wasn't American. he managed to mumble "Norway" before she grabbed my arm and shuffled me away to her car.

more like a mistake to learn from than anything really interesting. i'd make a great SJ.

as for me, i left tater tots in the oven for over an hour yesterday.

[composer]

"Asking a question and not listening to the answer."

I do this all the time. Along with forgetting peoples names - even those I've seen every day for years.

"Throughout my childhood, any time I receive a gift, no matter how happy or satisfied I was with the object, It was hard to express the proper enthusiasm:"

Yes! I have a hard time 'miming' behaviors. Acting surprised, glad to see somebody, etc.

Let's see, frequently unzipped fly, clothing tags, not noticing holes in clothes, rips, worn out shoes ...

[zserf]

Asking a question and not listening to the answer.

I do the opposite. People ask me questions, which I then start thinking about, going over details and tangents and realizing after a while that I had forgotten I was supposed to actually respond.

[Yummy]

Not helping in the process of solving a problem and then notifying the other of the correct or best solution only after they've spent themselves applying the wrong or worst solution to the problem.

[1104]

two guys are playing badminton and i have to pass by. i walk around the game, behind one of the players, watching out the corner of my eye, and oh shit, the birdie is heading straight toward my head. though it wouldn't hurt, it'd certainly be embarrassing to get beamed square in the head, so i freeze, duck, yelp and throw my hand up in an attempt to block it. i wait, then look up. the other guy catches it as it falls, 6 feet short of where i stand.

[Zelda]

I wear mismatched socks often. I figure if you're wearing pants that cover the top of the shoe, people aren't going to notice. I've often worn things inside out or backwards, or missed putting makeup on one eye when getting ready in a hurry.

[kali]

I travelled past 7 freaken train stations today before I realised I missed my stop.

[Madrigal]

My glasses broke so I started using an older, less broken pair which I had to attach on one end with a rubber band. I didn't even bother to make it look decent and just left a huge knot there on the side of my face.

Forgetting I had them on, and of all places, I went to a winery and began asking about the prices of some of their best wines. *facepalm* The guy talking to me had this weird patronizing expression like he was trying to look normal. After he left me alone I realized I had them on, and took them off. By the time I got home, one of the lenses had popped out on the street.

I now have no glasses at all.

[mancroft]

Nice to see that you are still with us, Madrigal.

I always thought you were a champagne communist at heart.

[Madrigal]

Nice to see that you are still with us, Madrigal.
WHY DO YOU KEEP SAYING THIS :ph34r:

I always thought you were a champagne communist at heart.
It was red wine okay.

[mancroft]

WHY DO YOU KEEP SAYING THIS :ph34r:



Merely concerned about your welfare.




It was red wine okay.

As long as it was Petrus or Romanee Conti. You wouldn't want something too plebeian, I'm sure.

[mthomps]

Every single time I go out of my house I end up coming back inside AT LEAST ONCE to get something I had forgotten. Honestly, it usually happens more than once. My isfj mother constantly gets a laugh out of it.

[composer]

At work once a coworker begged me to buy a new pair of shoes. I didn't see anything wrong.

[kali]

My glasses broke so I started using an older, less broken pair which I had to attach on one end with a rubber band. I didn't even bother to make it look decent and just left a huge knot there on the side of my face.

Forgetting I had them on, and of all places, I went to a winery and began asking about the prices of some of their best wines. *facepalm* The guy talking to me had this weird patronizing expression like he was trying to look normal. After he left me alone I realized I had them on, and took them off. By the time I got home, one of the lenses had popped out on the street.

I now have no glasses at all.
aha, that happened to me, i taped my glasses together (after sleeping on them and breaking them) & I answered the door to a delivery man who probably had a hard time stifling his laughter.