32 Pieces of Basic Knowledge People Totally Forgot for A Moment

‘Your hand sauce is loud’
32 Pieces of Basic Knowledge People Totally Forgot for A Moment

Despite the cry of peeved drivers desperately trying to merge on a crowded highway, yes, it actually is that hard to use your turn signal. Take it from Redditor Spasay, who frequently has a little mid-driving oopsie more times than they’d like to admit.

“I often confuse the windshield wiper toggle with the turn signal,” they say of their frequent driving-induced brain fart. “I’ll be preparing to make a turn and then *bam* windshield wipers start going nuts.” 

A not-so-needed car wash is far from the only time people have totally blanked on basic facts. Other Redditors have admitted to their chaotic brain farts, the wildest of which include their own names, their children and that hand sanitizer isn’t called “hand sauce.”

GNOIZ1C 6y ago I cut my finger and grabbed a paper towel to cover it up. Thought it was terribly inconvenient to just hold it there. But what if there was some adhesive substance to hold this stuff in place? Grabbed some duct tape, wrapped the paper towel in it, and stuck the rest to the lower part of my finger. Ta-da! Man, I'm brilliant. My mom looked at me like What the fuck are you doing? I then realized I had invented the Band-Aid, while never being more than three feet from a pack of the genuine article this
Zurafah 6y ago Went to the doctor's office with my dad to get my medical records and they had to ask me some questions. They asked me my birthday and I just looked at my dad like get this one for me cause for the life of me, I could not remember. I was 16-17 at the time. 1.4K ...
FruitGuy998 6y ago I once forgot what rain was called. I was super tired and in the process of going to bed. I asked my wife, is it supposed to ugh, whats it called....you know when the water falls from the sky. My wife goes, is it supposed to rain tomorrow? Is that what you're asking?? To this day rain is referred to as water falling from the sky instead of rain. 1.9K ...
kukukele 6y ago What you call a person who is from China. - 6.2K ... bubblegumbeth 6y ago Easy, just remember people from Canada are called Canadians, so a person from China is a Chinian. - 6K ...
freebyrdyolk 6y ago I forgot what the word mud was. I was at work and some sterile product got delivered to us covered in mud. This makes the product no longer sterile and I have to send it back and inform my boss. I send her a text and say The product was covered in liquid dirt. It wasn't until hours later when I mentioned the issue to a co-worker and he looked at me dumbfounded and said You mean mud? It was at that moment I realized how stupid I was. Brownie points because my boss knows now too.
laalaa-hotshot . 6y ago I blanked on my own name once. I was shaking hands with someone and my brain just died for a moment, i presented myself as my friends name then i just stood there quitely with my broken thoughts as my friend had to tell me what my actual name was. It was such a confusing situation. 5.2K ... + 111 more replies
ThetaGamma2 6y ago Spent half an hour one time trying to make my brain accept that willn't is obviously a word because how ELSE would one contract will and not? Why does this look weird? Why does this sound weird? It has to be a word. - 7.5K ... mxrmaidtits 6y ago For a couple second I was thinking the same thing I willn't be made to feel like an idiot 3.8K ...
localtrashgoblin 6y ago Once while driving I wondered how blind people see the lane divider lines. - 11K ... DancePants5678 6y ago They only drive on highways with rumble strips 881 ...
tuesdayisbestday 6y ago Sometimes I forget the name for radiators and end up calling them microwaves - 3.9K ...
 6y ago Back in the times of printing out driving directions. I mixed up left and right once and I ended up some 2 hours away from my destination. I was 16 with no cell phone and extremely socially awkward, so it took a lot of courage to ask a gas station attendant how to get back to my city. A couple friends were waiting at my house when i got there, they said they thought I died or was kidnapped or something. 7.5K ...
plankzorz 6y ago The power at my house had gone. I'm on a meter so it's fairly common thing. My phone started to die, so I put it on charge. Then spend about 10 minutes trying to figure out why it wouldn't charge, my attempt also included trying to Google why it wouldn't charge to no avail cos no power so no Internet. It was at that point I realised 8.1K ...
fndnsmsn 6y ago Is it flannel or funnel? It was fennel. 286 + 2 more replies
davewtameloncamp 6y ago I forgot how to swallow. I was eating a steak at a diner, one of those steak and eggs breakfast platters, so you know it's not the best steak. It was tough and impossible to swallow. My esophagus was so pissed, it forgot how to swallow for about a day. I would try to eat but could not remember how, my tongue would press against the roof of my mouth and that's all that would happen. The next day I had a hot tea and that fixed it. - 4K ...  OP 6y ago That's scary
MtTibadabo 6y ago When I was a senior in college, I spent several minutes longer than I should have thinking that onion was spelled the same as union, and wondering how people could tell the difference in writing. 17K ... cafeheart 6y ago If it makes you feel better, I read both of those words as onion and was very distressed until I realized that union is... a different word. - 6K ...
it_is_not_science 6y ago I read (silently to myself) a sentence that went something like No one knows what they had been doing in there and my brain's internal narrator mispronounced the word doing as a perfect rhyme for boing - you know, like a comic book sound effect. DOING! No distractions, no background noise. Just suddenly I forgot how an extremely common word is pronounced. - 1.4K ...
KaleMaster 6y ago I forgot what hand sanitizer was called when a class mate had put some on. I was commenting on how pungent it was when I forgot the word for pungent as well. So my sentence in the end was: your hand sauce is loud. Needless to say they were very confused and concerned. 2.8K ... + 50 more replies
Daiwon 6y ago I have, on two occasions, forgotten the word aquarium. The closest I could manage was fish zoo. - 12K ... shatterly 6y ago I forgot hourglass and described it to my coworkers as that sand timer thing. Nobody else could remember the real word until someone googled it. Then we all felt really dumb. 4K ...
okips . 6y ago . Edited 6y ago Idk if this counts but one day I forgot how to say carrot in my native language Edit: it's kinda late now but to clarify, I only knew a language back then, if wanted to use it on a sentence I would have to improvise - 8.1K ...
Spasay 6y ago I often confuse the windshield wiper toggle with the turn signal. I'll be preparing to make a turn and then *bam* windshield wipers start going nuts. 5.5K ... + 111 more replies
CuddliestFish 6y ago When I was in the eighth grade, at the end of the year we were playing an around the world style social studies based game where we only had like, fifteen seconds to answer whatever question the teacher asked. It gets to me and he asks where penguins are from. I panic, the word on the tip of my tongue but running out of time. I blurt out the first cold place I can think of: Russia? Then a couple seconds of dumbfounded silence (I was typically regarded as one of the smart kids so this was
Nitrooox 6y ago Once I entered the shower, got wet and then I got so distracted that I came out without actually washing. Had to reenter the shower. - 10K ... Rostin 6y ago At least one morning out of every three I forget whether I've washed my hair yet. - 3.4K ...
dabilge 6y ago Edited 6y ago The word scissors midsurgery. Normally we call them mets (for metzenbaum scissors) but we had a new student as the scrub tech and I went to ask for mets, asked a few times, tried to remember the word scissors, failed, referred to them as snippies and did a little finger scissors motion, looking like an idiot in front of the doctor. At least it worked and I got my scissors.. Edit: wow, thanks for the gold and silver!! 29K ...
bomfd 6y ago I was ordering hot wings at a local BBQ joint. I was wondering if they still came with the fibrous, green vegetable but couldn't remember the name. Ended up describing it to the cashier and she looks at me weird and says you mean celery?. Uggghhhhhh, yes that's what I meant. - 32K ...
tah4349 6y ago Not long after my daughter was born, I took her to a meet up with friends. I put her car seat next to another baby in the group. Then, sitting down, I asked the mom across from me how it was having twins? I completely forgot that one of those babies was mine. - 38K ... sirjonsnow 6y ago I asked the mom across from me how it was having twins? That's when you shout, No take-backs! and run away. - 19K ...
iwokeuplike 6y ago I once forgot how to count in the only language I have... And had to stare at the blackboard for a few seconds trying to remember 3.8K ... + 45 more replies
RaeADropOfGoldenSun 6y ago Somebody asked me what day of the week it was, so I lifted up both of my hands to see which made an L. - 23K ... Secret_Photographer 6y ago Reading this I went to think if there were any days that started with L and though January February... wait, FUCK, this thread is getting to me 969 ...
TheShrinkingGiant 6y ago Edited 6y ago I whispered into my wife's mouth once. To be fair, she kept her mouth open, to listen to me. edit: I posted this further down, but like this: O o > V 3 0 Me My Wife 20K ...
MTAlphawolf 6y ago During an HS history exam, I forgot how to spell Jesus. Got a 97 on the test cause lost 3 points how to spell it. It wasn't a religious test or school, just from that time period. The red marked WHO??!?!?! -3 made me quite embarrassed though. - 1.9K ... Yugottadomelykedis 6y ago Geezus 979 ...
Yunifortune 0 6y ago How to spell of Was unclear on where the V goes - 22K ...
 6y ago I knew there were 50 states in the US but I said 52 when asked for a trivia game. Yeah that was pretty embarrassing... - 2.7K ...  6y ago This is a very common mistake that Americans make. There was a study done and some absurd percentage of people instantly answered 52 when asked the same question. - 1.5K ...
Forhaver 6y ago . Edited 6y ago If I'm running up the stairs or down the stairs and suddenly think How am I doing this? walking becomes manual for a second and I fall. It turns the autopilot off, like when the dentist says breathe through your nose Edit: Also the same with fucking, you start thinking wow im actually having sex then your boner betrays you instead of enjoying the moment. Happens to almost every first timer. - 13K ...
AnjinOtter 6y ago I was just starting a new school in 9th grade and had to write an essay about myself that the other kids in the class would read. I forgot how to spell pants and wrote pance. 33K ...  6y ago In second grade I couldn't remember how to spell of on a spelling test. I wrote ov. I am still embarrassed by this memory. - 2.5K ...

Tags:

Scroll down for the next article
Forgot Password?