[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
It would be a shorter list if I just posted the instances when I wasn’t an idiot.
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No kidding. My boss to a coworker the other day, overheard as I bumblingly exited a room: “Did she just walk into that door?” And I had. Right into it. I miscalculate doorways frequently (it’s not a physical defect, I’m just not entirely paying attention), open the refrigerator into my own face sometimes (once I did this with the car door, which really hurt). I’m that person who, when wearing a backpack, turns around and knocks furniture over with it (last week, also in front of my boss).
And then I have episodes of what I call “dorking out,” which when they happen (rarely, thank God) are extreme enough that even perfect strangers find it painfully embarrassing. My husband said of one such episode “I almost just left and never came back.” It involved a carwash. I couldn’t get the car in, even though I’m truly a competent driver and can easily maneuver and am perfectly intelligent and capable. But…not that day. Things just kept going from bad to worse.