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Cars’ infotainment can be dangerously distracting

In many cars, the infotainment system requires high and dangerous levels of attention, when drivers make phone calls, tune in the audio or check navigation, the American Automobile Assocation reports. …

Tore down 15 utility posts

In Henrietta, New York, a truck driver forgot to lower the truck’s flatbed and tore down 15 ulitily poles that lined the street he was driving through. Welcome to the …

I got a new name

One night when I returned home from the pub with my bicycle, I dropped by the convenient store to get some food. The next morning, I recalled that I had …

Mishap at auction

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The alarm goes off

I have a brilliant way of remembering things that are easily forgotten and I need to do during the day. I simply set the alarm on my cell. If I …

He forgot where he parked his car – for 20 years

A man in Frankfurt, Germany, may hold the record in how long you can forget where you parked your car, according to news reports. Back in 1997, he reported his …

Vacuum Cleaning

I listen to music or a podcast when I vacuum my apartment. It’s multitasking that makes the tedious work easier to bear. One day, I lifted furniture, worked energetically on …

Lost in Communication

Help! I lost my expensive smartphone in a restaurant. I called it, but no answer. I blocked my SIM card and turned the restaurant upside down in an extensive search. …

It Was Not My Handbag

I had lunch with a friend at a restaurant in Rome. When I paid the bill, I realized that I had put my purse inside the handbag of a woman …

I Want To Join

I urgently want to join your Association for Distracted People. I am very distracted. Example 1: I forgot my newborn baby outside a store after shopping. Only when I arrived …