wandering mind..

**Uncle_Ken** · 12-10-2005, 08:32 AM

Scared the c#$p out of my self on the way to work today. I was driving along and started adjusting the Aircon vents in the car. Got them just where I wanted them then F#$K looked up and realised I had travelled 100 meters past a usual turn I make. I hate doing that!!

Does anyone else had that kind of experience/feeling ? All I could think of the rest of the way to work was how lucky I was I didn’t rear end some poor sod going to work.

Uncle_Ken

Thornie · 12-10-2005, 09:21 AM

Bit like driving somewhere and not remembering the past 5mins of your trip.

pauljh74 · 12-10-2005, 09:28 AM

Quite often I'll drive through a set of traffic lights then a few seconds later think "They were green - right?". I'm pretty sure they were

**Uncle_Ken** · 12-10-2005, 09:31 AM

Yeah thats the feeling. I don't do it often but when I do it drives me nuts.
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XAGSV8 · 12-10-2005, 10:05 AM

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Originally Posted by pauljh74

Quite often I'll drive through a set of traffic lights then a few seconds later think "They were green - right?". I'm pretty sure they were

I do that too. Gets ya thinking for the next five minutes replaying it over and over in your head. Good example is when the arrow is a certain colour and the main light is the other.

The MaDDeSTMaN · 12-10-2005, 10:10 AM

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Originally Posted by pauljh74

Quite often I'll drive through a set of traffic lights then a few seconds later think "They were green - right?". I'm pretty sure they were

Yeah, done that a few times myself, and it makes your heart stop if you look in the rear view mirror and see that cars travelling in the same direction as you have stopped at the lights. And then you realise the lights have just changed, because you see the traffic starting to cross the intersection from the other directions.

One I can remember clearly leaving me feeling stoopid was when after a long day I was driving home and didn't start to hit the anchors in time to turn into my driveway, and so sailed past my house at about 40km/h, requiring me to drive around the block (because I live on a divided main road, so I couldn't just put it in reverse and go back, or turn around).

12-10-2005, 10:31 AM

Yeah I get this as well, especially when Im just cruising along a slow, speed limited, boring road. I find the more challenging or faster a road is, the less this will happen to you.

XRated · 12-10-2005, 11:05 AM

I've done it going to a couple of places when my mind is a bit scattered. Mainly heading in the wrong direction before I think about where I'm actually going and have to turn around!

Leah · 12-10-2005, 02:17 PM

I do it some times too. Scary when I get home from work which is a 40 minute drive through the windy roads and mountains, and dont really remember much of it.

Gotta hate the driving through traffic lights scenario though! It leaves u thinking for ages!

Hardtopxb · 12-10-2005, 02:49 PM

I have actually driven into my neighbors driveway(2 houses up and nothing like my driveway)and statrted to get out of the car before realising my mistake,i dont think anyone noticed...

Steve D · 12-10-2005, 04:12 PM

My pet one is heading for destination B, when I should be going to destination A (because I do mostly head in the direction of B, or started thinking of B en-route).

Woz · 12-10-2005, 04:29 PM

There's nothing worse than heading somewhere and making a turn you aren't supposed to purely because every other day you've gotten used to turning there and it just becomes a force of habit. I do that all the time. I spend so much time heading to the same few places that when I finally go to drive somewhere else, I head in the direction I'm used to heading in, rather than the one I'm supposed to be heading in.