I'm famously absent-minded in my own family.
But my Nan is the worst. Once she starts talking, she can get a little... focussed. So much so that she only really concentrates on what she is saying, and ends up feeding the kettle and making a furious cup of cat.

I only really noticed her tendency to focus though when I was about twelve. She started talking about something, paused a little, and I thought at this point she was done, so I went off to do my own thing. I came back, five minutes later, talking about the same subject, not even noticing I'd left.
(The Luggage is haunted..., Thu 21 Jul 2011, 14:46, 4 replies)

clicky
for "furious cup of cat"
(weaselinajetengine, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 15:12, closed)

That sounds to me like a Pratchett quote.
The username in question lends weight to this theory.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 16:32, closed)

I was thinking the same

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 17:11, closed)

^What she said^

( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 22 Jul 2011, 14:11, closed)