It *kinda* makes sense. Except that it doesn't.

[shadesong]

Why did I just look for my pants in the pantry?

Seriously. Thought "Hm. To file in the basement, I must wear pants." Got up. Opened the pantry door and looked in, clearly expecting to find pants.

And if you look at it on the screen, it makes a sort of sense. Pants. Pantry.

And yeah, sometimes I think in text.

But clearly, sometimes I also think in Martian.

I'm going to pour myself another cup of coffee. Because I clearly need it. And then I'm going to go put on my pants. Which are in the bedroom. And then I'm going to go downstairs and file.

Yup.

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[moonfire77.livejournal.com]

Okay now I seriously want to start keeping my pants in the pantry. That's freaking awesome.

[techempage.livejournal.com]

I do that all the time. Well not look for my pants in the pantry. But look in the total wrong place for something. My mind goes, "We need to get this, hey, that cabinet/pantry/fridge/closet is close by, lets just open up that door and maybe by some quantum chance the item we need to get will be there."

And the silverwear have been in the same drawer since we moved into this apartment. However, at least twice a week, I open this other drawer on the opposite end of the kitchen to get silverware.

My brain is weird.

[bettybaker.livejournal.com]

I'm a firm believer in quantam chance as it pertains to the finding of household objects.

[techempage.livejournal.com]

See, I'm bad about loosing things too. I forget what I was looking for one night, but I was scouring the house hi and low for it. Well, as I was doing so, I had a bag of chips in my hand. At some point I look down and notice I no longer have the chips anymore either.

The problem was multiplied due to the fact that I had been all over the house looking for the first item, so the chips could have been anywhere.

I think eventually, I did find both items, however.

[drwex]

And if you look at it on the screen, it makes a sort of sense. Pants. Pantry.

This is actually not that uncommon, though it's a pretty serious serious case. Much more common to people like myself (and, apparently, you) who are so-called "lexical" indexers is that when we mis-remember a name we mis-remember it as something that's alphabetically similar. So we don't mistake "Ted" for "Bob" but when trying to remember "Ted" we often produce "Tom" as an error response.

Best guess is that people have multiple ways of retrieving or activating concepts in the brain and, like handedness, one tends to dominate. We _can_ retrieve memories and concepts other ways but it's less frequent and almost always slower when we do.

Unlike handedness this is very much nurture-based. If you're not strongly exposed to lexical systems (e.g. by reading) at an early age, it never occurs to you to do things like "file alphabetically." Even so, I know several people whose book collections are organized by topic and only haphazardly alphabetized.

[yendi]

You know, that probably explains the fact that I constantly get called "Alan" and Andy."

[techempage.livejournal.com]

My ex wife is named Bessie.

I have a close friend named Becky.

Nope, no recipie for disaster there.

[moonfire77.livejournal.com]

Yes, and the fact that I get called every single female A name, with Adrian (isn't that a boy's name?) and Amanda being the most popular. And maybe why my dad get's called Bill or Mike, even though his name is Milt.

[alexmegami]

I've heard Adrian for girls, though it's often Adrienne (with accompanying slight change in intonation/vowel sounds).

[gwynraven.livejournal.com]

My mother married a man named Tim. My aunt married a man named Jim. My great-grandmother, when she was alive consistently called Jim "Tim", and Tim "Tom". Cracked everyone up.

[mere-bystander.livejournal.com]

Well.... it might make more sense than you think it does. After all, I found the remote in the refrigerator one time and the only thing connecting them is the "r". (and no - I didn't do it.) (Seriously)

[burning-brain.livejournal.com]

If you find no pants in the pantry, next time try panting.

[techempage.livejournal.com]

Wasn't that a game in middle school?

"Panting in the pantry."

Or was that "Petting in the pantry."


What do I know, I never got invited to those parties.

[zitronenhai.livejournal.com]

This made me laugh hard because I do similar things more often than I am willing to admit in an open forum. Thank you.

[harkalark.livejournal.com]

Good thing you don't have a shih tzu. Lord knows where he'd end up.

[ckd]

*splorf*

That needed a "put down the drinks" warning.

[supremegoddess1.livejournal.com]

*sporfle*

must go die now...

[malinaldarose.livejournal.com]

Clearly, Martians keep their pants in the pantry. If you're thinking in Martian, then it all becomes quite logical.

[fibro-witch.livejournal.com]

Don't forget to send your Friday email to dada.net

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

I did - with a note saying "Um, please let me know about the monies?" Again. I have not heard a peep out of them. I'd be crying "scam!" if I didn't know people who've gotten checks...

[davidcook.livejournal.com]

I often head towards the fridge with non-fridgeable items (remote control, phone, book). Usually I notice before putting them in, but a couple of times I didn't realise until about ten minutes later.

[m0usegrrl.livejournal.com]

Now I've got the "Pants!" song from MST3K in my head.... XD

[supremegoddess1.livejournal.com]

*gigglesnort*

I think I'll go mow my lawn in the laundry room...