Does anyone else
hate being caught in the act of remembering that you've forgotten to do something? (if that makes sense!)

Say you're walking somewhere, and you suddenly remember you haven't locked the front door. You have to do that sort of slow spin on your feet and head back in the opposite direction, and everyone who sees this just knows you've forgotten something, and it makes you feel like even more of a wanker.
I try and make it discreet as possible, but everyone knows what i'm doing, but no-one ever says anything. It's like an unwritten rule. I've seen people do it, and I think 'haha, what a mug'.

I don't know why it's a big deal, but it does embarass me for some reason. I hate getting caught doing it.
(Monkey the Chicken Twitter: death_stairs, Wed 9 Jun 2010, 11:03, 11 replies)

I pretend that
rather than having forgotten something, I've suddenly come up with a brilliant idea. Just point your index finger skyward and say, "A-ha!" loudly enough for people to hear, before spinning on your heel and walking back whence you came.

It's like when you trip on a paving stone. I conceal my embarrassment by breaking into a jog and not stopping until I'm out of sight.
(Happybara The jungle came alive and took him, Wed 9 Jun 2010, 11:16, closed)

These are
two great ideas, I don't know why they haven't occured to me! I'm usualy worried that people won't realise that I've suddenly changed direction because I've forgotten something but will think I'm a mental person patroling the bottom 2/3rds of my road...
(Lord of Marzipan Fact: Clouds are worse than Hitler, Wed 9 Jun 2010, 12:30, closed)

This morning, Oxford Circus tube
I managed to get to the other side of the station before realising I'd left £10 sticking out of the cashpoint, shouting "shit!" and sprinting back over to retrieve it in front of 100s of people
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 9 Jun 2010, 12:33, closed)

Come on! Don't leave us in suspenders.
Was it still there?!
( Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Wed 9 Jun 2010, 12:42, closed)

Simply
throw in a bit of body popping into the change of direction, and your cool will remain un-blown
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Wed 9 Jun 2010, 12:43, closed)

I always do this. But I don't really mind getting caught.
Though I usually do the "patting trouser pockets to see if remembered object is there" mime, just to let passersby know I'm not a mental.
^{(which is ironic & ocd'y)}
( Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Wed 9 Jun 2010, 12:44, closed)

You can always take your phone out and pretend to read an urgent text
with a message ordering you to turn straight around and go back in the direction you came from.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Wed 9 Jun 2010, 14:15, closed)

I do this every time
Which is almost daily.
(sporadically, Wed 9 Jun 2010, 17:13, closed)

I got round the corner yesterday before I realised I'd forgotten my phone
and turned round, and the dog sat down and refused to go back home with me. So perhaps she's used to me forgetting things. That's quite worrying.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 8:08, closed)

I just don't care.
to hell what everyone else thinks
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 9 Jun 2010, 16:40, closed)

^this

(beanojam isn't really Ricardo Flange, Wed 9 Jun 2010, 17:12, closed)