• @zerbey@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I pulled out of my parking lot at work, blinked, and suddenly found myself half way home with no memory of how I got there. I was so freaked out I pulled over to check my car for damage (there wasn’t any). My route home involved a highway and several stop signs and lights at very busy junctions, goodness knows if I stopped for any of them. Drove very carefully the rest of the way home and swore never to drive tired again. I’d just pulled a 14 hour shift, and had a newborn at home so wasn’t getting much sleep to begin with.

  • candyman337M
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    312 years ago

    Took some nyquil because I wasn’t feeling well, I had stayed up until like 4 and I was too tired to realize that the drowsiness wouldn’t wear off before I woke up. Got up feeling almost drunk and drove to work. I feel asleep on the road and woke up with just enough time to slow down before rear ending someone at 50 mph.

    • LUHG
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      12 years ago

      Try phenegran 50mg. It doesn’t make me drowsy in the morning. Or just 25mg.

      • candyman337M
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        12 years ago

        I just use dayquil now but thanks for the rec, I’ll have to check that one out

  • @KJ118@lemmy.world
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    212 years ago

    Attempt to drive home after being awake for ~2 days. Flipped my vehicle several times and luckily came away with no serious physical injuries.

    • LUHG
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      22 years ago

      Just done a 11hr 550mile drive on 3hrs sleep. Nearly 24hrs awake now. Was touch and go but 2days without sleep is worse. It’s not something I’d do again as It’s dangerous.

      Although, the amount of people using phones while doing 80 and causing incidents is worse.

  • @MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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    172 years ago

    My story is less destruction and more funny.

    So, while very tired, I managed to find myself at a local coffee shop. I ordered my coffee, went over to the stand where the milk/sugar and stuff is.

    What I intended to do next was to get a couple of sugar packets and put them into my coffee, and throw away the paper package, as usual.

    What I actually did was, grab two sugar packets, tear them open and dump their contents directly into… the trash. Yep. My brain skipped over the part where this step requires putting the package contents into my coffee.

    I stood there for a minute while my brain tried to process what I had just done.

    Once my brain caught up, I mentally facepalmed, dropped the now empty packets into the garbage, grabbed my coffee and went to sit down and drink it. I punished myself with drinking black coffee because I was too tired and stupid to deserve my coffee any other way.

    • @Boondock@lemmy.world
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      72 years ago

      I’ve done things along this line too many times since having kids lol

      Worst lately was trying to get a juice box for the kid and intending to throw away the straw wrapper but instead throwing away the straw and being left with a kid pissed at having no straw to drink her juice box

  • Okami
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    152 years ago

    It’s a toss up.

    My favorite time was when I tried to pour myself a bowl of cereal. Got the bowl, milk, and cereal out. Poured the cereal into the milk jug. Put away the milk, cereal, and bowl. Walked away for some reason. Came back and couldn’t find the bowl of cereal I just made. Looked all over for it. Finally gave up and got the milk, bowl, and cereal out to try again. Poured the cereal into the bowl this time. Poured the milk. Cereal is coming out of the milk jug. Suddenly flash back to a few minutes ago when I was picking up spilled cereal off the counter and shoving it into the milk jug because it missed when I tried to pour.

    The worst time I was so sleep-deprived that I managed to throw some trash in the toilet and then I peed in the trash can.

  • The Grunkler
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    142 years ago

    Back when i was 18, I was dragging myself out of bed for work after waking up from my daily hour of sleep, and while I was in the shower I looked down and saw someone’s feet in the shower with me. I was a bit startled, but after looking around I realized I was alone. To make it even more creepy, the feet were reading my mind. I would think about wiggling my toes, and the toes would wiggle.

    I wasn’t until I reached down and tried to pick them up that I realized that they were my own feet.

  • 5 years after I left the Army, I still had some stuff put away where it used to be. Woke up after a night of drinking and 3 hours sleep, put on my PT uniform, and wondered why it was so tight.

  • @grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world
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    122 years ago

    Sometimes I like to sprinkle a little cinnamon or nutmeg into the morning coffee grinds before adding water. One day I accidentally added dried garlic flakes instead.

  • @Wodge@lemmy.world
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    102 years ago

    Put my phone in the washing machine with my clothes.

    It didn’t survive, RIP Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge, you were a pretty good phone back in the day.

  • @QuantumCabbage@feddit.de
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    92 years ago

    After pulling an all-nighter and working for around 22 hours, I went to the school I was then teaching at. I thought I was doing my usual thing, i.e. sitting at my workstation that was hooked up to a projector und demonstrating something while explaining what I was doing when one of my students interrupted me to tell me that I wasn’t doing anything that made any sense and on top of that I was slurring my words. I asked the other students whether that was true and they reluctantly agreed. I excused myself and went to the toilet where I had a cry, which is extremely unusual for me. After that, I aborted the lesson and went home where I slept for more than 12 hours. Not a good memory.

  • @AndreyAsimow@lemmy.world
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    72 years ago

    I’ve put a plastic bowl full with liquid chocolate on the stove instead of the coffee maker.

    Also, once I microwaved butter in aluminum foil for like 5-6 seconds and wondered why is there firework inside.

  • midori
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    62 years ago

    I poured cereal onto a paper plate. Luckily, I caught myself before pouring milk. After that, I almost put the milk in the cupboard and the cereal in the fridge.

  • @WhoRoger@lemmy.world
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    62 years ago

    Once I almost flew around half the planet, but stopped half way and hitchhiked back.

    … Don’t ask.