Being oblivious and entering the wrong area anyone?

[Wolfnox]

@Wolf Prince please read my prior response. But thank you for your appreciation. l feel l am here to write for the masses.

@Wolf Prince please read my prior response. But thank you for your appreciation. l feel l am here to write for the masses.

As an author should. I respect your needs for a safe space to write. Maybe one day though i will hear of or read your book. I too am trying to write one.

Apologizes to all for getting off topic.

 

[Fino]

I've done that and other similar things, like wandering behind the counter the stores.

 

[Aspychata]

As an author should. I respect your needs for a safe space to write. Maybe one day though i will hear of or read your book. I too am trying to write one.

Apologizes to all for getting off topic.

Same here,hope to read yours . Back to ya'll

 

[Misery]

I had this one happen at therapy a couple weeks back.

The therapy place is in this big office building somewhat near my house. I dont use the elevators in this building, because they suck. So I open the big heavy door and just go up and down the stairs every time. That door is right near the entrance to the building, so when you come back out after going down the stairs, bam, there's the exit to the parking lot.

So, go up to the third floor for therapy. Just up the stairs, and then down the hall and take a right. Takes about an hour. Time to go home. Exit therapy room, and instead of taking a left to go back to the stairs... I take a right. This leads to the stairs. The OTHER stairs. No, I dont know why, I'm not the maniac that designed the place.

Go all the way down, open door, odd hallway, look to the right, hallway ends in a blank door... what? Oh, uh... what was I supposed to do here again? Well let's just go the other way around this corner... door. Huh. Uhhhhh.... *looks clueless for awhile* Okay I guess I'm supposed to go this way.

*opens door, room with chairs*

I dont think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto.

 

[Pats]

As a home health nurse, one of my jobs was admitting new patients - part of that is finding them and writing directions to others on how to drive to the patient's home. Well, I was at the right place, but it's still a funny story. I pulled into the driveway and it was an old trailer with cats everywhere. I go to the door and no one answers so I go back to my car and call. The lady answers and said she was bedridden and for me to come in. I walked in and called her name and no answer. I walked a little bit down the hall calling her name and no answer. Oh - also inside was full of cats too and, for some reason, all I could think about was "Pet Semetary". I turn around and see a man come in the door and walk into another room. I very, very quickly went back out to my car and called again. The lady said I was in the correct house. It was the scariest time I was ever in the right place.

 

[Wolfnox]

So just to ask. Has anyone been in a familiar place like home. Forget where they were panic and then realize were they are again?

 

[Weeble]

So just to ask. Has anyone been in a familiar place like home. Forget where they were panic and then realize were they are again?

Sort of!

I woke up feeling ill, and disoriented. I walked into my parents' bedroom to ask for help.

I was bewildered when the response was an exclamation in German.

I wasn't in my parents' house; I was in a flat I shared. I'd gone into the room which was in the relation to mine as my parents' to my old bedroom in the house we'd moved out of four years before.

I bought my flatmate a cake to apologise for the sudden wake up. Told her I'd been dreaming or sleepwalking or something, because I wasn't entirely sure myself what had happened.

 

[Aspychata]

I went through a border checkpoint in Mexico, thinking what that hay, how different can they be. Yup, l drove around almost 3 hours because l can't read freeway signs in Spanish, l had no map. But since l didn't drive East, l am still alive and able to write this story. Plus it was about 2:am there. Finally l found the 24 hour bar street, l had read about it already. Then l knew where Holiday Inn was. But it was the most excitement l had in over 19 years. Tijuana, Mexico.

 

[SDRSpark]

I get lost inside unfamiliar buildings all the time.

I'll see the totally obvious big thing, but miss the cones etc. warning me about the thing. Scissor lift in an area cordoned off with cones? I'll see the lift, and totally miss the cones, walking right into the area where I'm not supposed to be (I'm focused on the lift, which is huge, and a hazard, so I'm not looking on the ground for cones warning me about the lift that's big enough to be seen on a satellite I guess.)

At work one time there was a forklift in the aisle...which I saw, because how do you miss a fork lift? Someone had placed wet floor signs around it (they didn't know where to find cones I guess. They tried?) at any rate, I saw the forklift, totally missed the signs intending to warn me about the fork lift, and tripped over one of the signs.

 

[Mary Lyn]

Me too!

 

[Streetwise]

ill probably get laughed at for this... but I joined a gym like a month or two ago and I never use the bathroom, because I am uncomfortable using public spaces..especially around people I don’t know.

I had my headset on because they play loud repetitive house music. I walked in the entrance of the bathroom I heard two people say something (even with my headset on) and didn’t think anything of it, then they said it a bit louder and I walked out , took my headset off and I heard them say “hey buddy, that’s the wrong restroom.” Then I noticed it had the symbol for women, but my brain I guess was distracted or the colors made it difficult for me to be aware of (colors blend for me) at planet fitness .

I am perpetually embarrassed .

Anyone else have a story like this?

mine seems to be tripping over things one small plastic road sign I’m too fearful to ever get into that situation

 

[Vinca]

I misread the sign for the toilets and went in the wrong direction...

I walked in the room and couldn't understand what the long metal trough along the wall was for, and why there was only one sit-down toilet at the end of the room. I'd only ever seen ceramic urinals in films/TV programs and the men's toilets that I had been in as a child, with my dad (when I was too young to go into the ladies by myself) always had numerous stalls... But then the smell hit me and I realized I was in the men's toilets! I felt so embarrassed but was mainly glad that there hadn't been anyone in there as that would have made it 10 times more embarrassing.

 

[novart]

The world felt huge and overwhelming as a child. Obviously that's a defining characteristic for all children but as an adult in his 30s I can see now how different it was for us (particularly when undiagnosed). There was something exciting about that world versus how it's kind of boring now, but it left me overwhelmed and with little to show for it as an adult. I was not only entering wrong areas but running into glass as well (like at the mall where the door was just an opening in a glass wall). Is there a word for that type of feeling?

 

[Streetwise]

The world felt huge and overwhelming as a child. Obviously that's a defining characteristic for all children but as an adult in his 30s I can see now how different it was for us (particularly when undiagnosed). There was something exciting about that world versus how it's kind of boring now, but it left me overwhelmed and with little to show for it as an adult. I was not only entering wrong areas but running into glass as well (like at the mall where the door was just an opening in a glass wall). Is there a word for that type of feeling?

shock?

 

[tlc]

I did it just a week or two ago. Was at the casino and spilled a pop. Needed a napkin or towel fast. Saw the opening to a bathroom with a towel machine so went in and grabbed some. Realized after I was out that I never checked to see which one it actually was. 50/50 chance and sure enough I went in the wrong one. At least nobody encountered me.

I've done things like grabbed the someone else's tray, or started walking into a restaurant dining area when the hostess led someone else to their table not us yet. My gf at the time would grab my hand and stop me, I thanked her for it. She probably got tired of it, I guess I don't blame her.