Breakfasting on autopilot

[Boggles]

Amina4516's story Here has reminded me of an infamous morning at work a few years ago that i am still reminded of every week.

As we start work early (5:30am) I get a breakfast break after we have got all the deliveries out. Normally this is about 8am for 30 minutes and i am paid throughout it so i can't go home. In the office we have a microwave, toaster, kettle etc etc. I normally try to have something like toast or scrambled eggs and then a light lunch.

This paticular morning i was rather tired. i believe I'd been to a Meat Loaf concert the night before, got in at about 1am and was at work less than five hours later. By breakfast i was struggling to stay awake but was leaving for home mid morning anyway.

I had decided to have toasted crumpets with a big mug of tea and got on with making it.

My boss walked in to find me sat with a very puzzled look on my face. In front of me was a toaster emitting lots of smoke from a well toasted tea bag and next to that was a mug containing milk, sugar, boiling water and a raw crumpet!

[ReadyToRetire]

Oh, I'm so glad I hadn't been drinking my diet coke when I read this.

[Amina516]

LMAO!! OMG!

That was hilarious. How tired were you again?

[JoitheArtist]

Dadgummit...There goes my ice water...

That's AWESOME!

[Aethian]

Never quite been that bad but yea...you were sleepy.

[iradney]

I've never been quite that bad Except for the one morning. I was making coffee and cereal. Instead of putting the coffee in the MUG, I put it in the bowl - with my cereal.
Yuck....

[infinitemonkies]

That reminds me of a good story about being on autopilot.

For most of my late teens/early 20s I worked as a cook, almost always on evenings/closing.

One day, I show up for my shift at 4pm, and Tammy, the opening cook, was there.

She asks me "What are you doing here?

"I'm here to work my shift." I reply.

We stare at each other in confusion for a moment.

"I thought I was wroking your shift" she said.

Awkward pause.

"Why?" I queried.

"Because I called you at 4am and told you I couldn't make it in today. You came in at 5am and did the opening shift." Tammy explained.

"......That really happened?"

Apparantly I'd worked a 6 hour shift, went home, went back to bed, and forgot all about it when I work up at my usual time around 2pm.

[Aethian]

*snerks* Wow...forgotten shift syndrome. Now I HAVE done that before when I still worked at a grocery store.

[WhiteRose]

boss can't say you're lazy...

[crashhelmet]

I remember getting up early one morning when I was in High School, made myself a bowl of cereal, and tasted iced tea when I ate my first spoonful of Raisin Bran. Sure enough, I grabbed the pitcher of tea in the fridge rather than the gallon of milk.

CH

[LillFilly]

Oooh. Good ones.

I poured orange juice on my cereal once. Ate it anyway. Had a relative who always had her bran flakes with black coffee, not milk. Swore it was more nutritionally balanced

[MelodiousBubbles]

Have a few stories of half awake shenanigans.

There has been more than one occasion where I've woken up, had full conversations with someone nearby, and when I actually wake up, have no recollections of it at all.

But at work, when I'm tired, I've discovered that my mind-to-mouth filter doesn't work properly at all. Several times I've snapped to attention in the middle of singing a song about whatever groceries I happen to bagging at that moment in time.

And it also leads to me saying things to customers like:
"It's a fruit... Shaped like a star" when asked what a starfruit was.
"The one that says 'done'" when asked which button on the card terminal is done.

[infinitemonkies]

Heh. Oh man, I can't tell you how many phone conversations I've had where apparantly I'm completely coherent and rational, but later have absolutely no memory of at all. I now sleep with the ringer turned off.