This topic was NOT worth reviving after 5 months Thom301!!
But as we're here....
My absent-mindeness gets me quite often. Silliest thing recently was when my wife and I were going to Bournemouth, about 50 miles from our home. We were about half way there and I turned to her and asked:
"When we've finished there, shall we get a taxi back to the station?".
She looked at me as if I was deranged.
"What do you mean?" she asked.
"Well, we'll no doubt be carrying a lot of stuff" I replied.
She then pointed out a slight flaw in my plan.
I was at that moment busily driving my car along the motorway. She then asked how we would fit the car into the taxi and the train...
Silly? Huh...
