I mean I’ve left the house without my glasses and I’m legally blind without them, so I can understand just how absentminded a human can get.
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Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 11 hours agoAs a parent myself it always boggles my mind that people can forget that they have kids in the car with them. I’m always in dad mode when I have any kids with me, so I’ve never even come close to forgetting a kid in the car. Forgetting to grab the kid’s backpack for school sure, but forgetting a whole child in the car?
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victorz@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
That’s the thing. We non-absent-minded people cannot relate to how absent-minded people can be. We do not understand.
cynar@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
It depends how often you drive without the kids.
If you don’t always drop the kids off yourself, it’s easy to get half way to work on autopilot before realising you meant to drop them off.
Sleep deprivation is a weird thing.
EnsignWashout@startrek.website 9 hours ago
I felt the same, until I had my first lousy sleeper. After a month of lost sleep, I couldn’t remember my own name sometimes. I read once that sleep deprivation is effectively brain damage, and after that experience, I believe it.
moakley@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
The biggest thing that most of those people have in common is that they think it couldn’t happen to them.