Yeah, that was embarassing

[Skywalker]

I went out to pick up some Kentucky Fried Chicken for dinner last night. I went through the drive-thru, ordered a bucket, paid, got my change and my receipt and drove home.

Then I realized I forgot to wait for my dang chicken!

I tried to make my husband go back and get it for me but he made it do it. That walk back in the store was so embarassing. They did have the order sitting there for me but I could see them ALL snickering!

But sometimes you're just distracted right?

You all have "I was so distracted I did so and so" stories, right???

 

[Carys]

No story to share here I'm afraid but had to pop in to thank you for the giggle

 

[bethbuchall]

I'm sure that I do, but I can't think of one at the moment.

I will share a "distracted stranger" story, though. Our local supermarket has drive-up service available. You pay for your groceries through the normal check-outs and someone will wheel to a loading zone out front so that you can drive around and pick it up. The other day while I was cashing out, an employee came in to say that she had been waiting for at least 20 minutes with an order, and no one had picked it up. An older employee said, "Oh, that happens occasionally. Eventually they'll notice and come back into the store."

So this person most likely did a lot of grocery shopping, paid for everything, and then drove off without the groceries. And it's happened to others before.

 

[AnnetteF]

Don't worry. Twice at Target and once at the grocery store, I've paid and then walked away without taking my stuff - just the empty basket! Both times at Target, I drove all the way home before realizing it. At the grocery store, I got a clue when there were no groceries to load into the car. Oh well, glad to know I'm not the only one.

 

[emma'smom]

I've done the exact same thing at Starbucks. By the time you order, wait, pay, get your card back, empty old cups into the wastebasket---I finished the whole "process" and drove off without the actual drink. Luckily, I realized it when I got around the corner. I walked in to pick it up---and they acted it happened all the time.

P.S. I've also made it all the way home without remembering to pick up my groceries from the pick-up lane. This usually happens when they give you the fragile items to carry (like eggs or a cake), I have my kids with me and they are bouncing off the walls, I stop to talk to a neighbor who also happens to be in the store, etc.

 

[JoanGirardi]

Oh, yeah, I've been there and done that! The last time was at KFC/Taco Bell. Those kids working there get a good chuckle, but in a few years they'll be in my shoes, so I don't worry about that.

 

[ckay87]

I've done the opposite, which is more embarassing in a criminal kind of way. You know how you pay at the first window and then pick up at the second window? Well that first window nonsense doesn't apply to me! I drove right past her. .

Oddly, they gave me my food anyway at the second window. I almost made it off property too, when I looked in my rearview to see window 1 woman waving angrily at me.

 

[Geoff_M]

I did the same thing once... but I had an "excuse". At a drive-thru that I used to frequent, they had a rather routine procedure.
1) You drove up to the pick-up window.
2) You handed Worker A your money.
3) Worker B then handed you your food
4) Worker A then handed you your change.
5) You drove away...

In my mind, when you got your change that meant you were "done". It worked like clockwork until one day, they reversed 3 & 4 on me! I got my change, and I drove away as normal... however, I think I only got as far as the next traffic light before I realized my error!

 

[RangerPooh]

We've all done it at some point. You place a large order and just assume that everything is in 2 bags and leave not realizing that there was more that hadn't come to the window. Our family is notorious for doing this, esp at McD's.

I did something simialr at BK a few months ago. I placed a large order at the window and then before leaving the parking lot checked through my bag. I had ordered everyones food but DHs. So I had to go back into the resturant and place an order. Of course they assumed they'd forgotten something and kidded about my huge order. I was embarrassed. Reason #101 why I dislike doing the dinner run by myself when everyone is over.;

 

[justjudy]

I had a similar experience. At our grocery store they have a computerized system at the deli that allows you to place your order, then they get it ready while you shop for the rest of your groceries. Well, one day I went in, placed my deli order, shopped for the rest of my list, paid and went home -- without, of course, picking up my deli order. Actually, I remembered the order while I was driving home, but was too embarassed to go back to pick it up. I wonder how long all those sandwich meats and cheeses sat there waiting to be claimed?!

 

[Mau Loa Disney]

I've done it!!!
On my BF's wedding day, We were all done with our makeup and hair and while we were waiting for the rest of the girls, we decide to go to taco bell. I think we were both so nervous about her getting married that we paid and drove off...Sad to say that since I was driving I made her go inside to get it...We laugh about it to this day!! We were really young..Cant believe we ate Taco bell before her wedding

 

[Starbrite]

I don't have a story to share.....though I'm sure I've done it too!

At our grocery store they have a computerized system at the deli that allows you to place your order, then they get it ready while you shop for the rest of your groceries.

But I wanted to pop in & say this is genius!! Why can't they do that at my store? Nothing worse than holding #36 when they're Now Serving #18!!!

 

[2binak]

I bought 2 big boxes of diapers at Target and put them underneath the cart so that I could put the rest of my items in the cart. I paid for everything, loaded the items into my car, put the cart in the cart corral and drove home. DH was unloading the car and asked me why I didn't buy any diapers. I told him I bought them and he told me they weren't in the car. I called the store and thankfully, a nice person saw them under the cart and brought them back into the store. DH was nice enough to go pick them up to save me the embarrassement. DD was about 5 months old at the time so I blame it on baby brain!

 

[dismom2]

That's really funny! I admit, I have left things/bags at stores before, and even my credit card at times. I just left one of my bags at Target and was telling my friend that it's been a long time since I've seen store employee's run after a person when they leave something behind. I guess a lot of them just wait for you to come back. I have never left without taking my food home, except left-overs. I used to have them packed up, then accidentally leave them there, and if I remembered before I left the parking lot, sometimes the food was still there, but other times it would already be thrown out.

Thanks for the laugh

 

[Stitchfans]

Wow, you sure were distracted. The most I can recall ever forgetting is a bag when there was a lot them once in a while. Often only at Wal Mart.
I grocery shop at Dominicks and the bagger is real good about putting all the bags in my cart. Thank goodness.

 

[SydneyFalco]

I went out to pick up some Kentucky Fried Chicken for dinner last night. I went through the drive-thru, ordered a bucket, paid, got my change and my receipt and drove home.

Then I realized I forgot to wait for my dang chicken!

1) Now that's fast food!

2) Maybe the chicken crossed the road without you.

3) A latent defense mechanism from your cardio-vascular system?

4) It wasn't the Hamburglar. Not his MO.

 

[tinkermom23]

A couple summers ago my twins were infants and we got very little sleep in our house... that's my excuse and I'm sticking with it!!

We had a church potluck picnic and I, being an obsessive list-maker, planned for over a week that we would bring a potato salad. The day of the picnic was beautiful weather and we all gathered at the lake. I asked DH to go back to the van since I forgot to bring in the salad. I even told him what color bowl it was in. He came back saying he couldn't find it. Frustrated, I went to look myself and then we decided we forgot it at home!

To make things even worse, that is when I realized that I hadn't even made the salad!! I had planned it so throughly in my mind that I thought it was done and it hadn't crossed my mind again!!!

Don't they say it's the thought that counts!!!!

 

[Skywalker]

A couple summers ago my twins were infants and we got very little sleep in our house... that's my excuse and I'm sticking with it!!

We had a church potluck picnic and I, being an obsessive list-maker, planned for over a week that we would bring a potato salad. The day of the picnic was beautiful weather and we all gathered at the lake. I asked DH to go back to the van since I forgot to bring in the salad. I even told him what color bowl it was in. He came back saying he couldn't find it. Frustrated, I went to look myself and then we decided we forgot it at home!

To make things even worse, that is when I realized that I hadn't even made the salad!! I had planned it so throughly in my mind that I thought it was done and it hadn't crossed my mind again!!!

Don't they say it's the thought that counts!!!!

Now THAT is funny!

 

[Handbag Lady]

I've done that!

Mine was at the El Pollo Loco. Problem is, we lived in the Marina del Rey at the time in a huge apartment complex. El Pollo Loco was three miles away and on the other side of the Marina.

I walked to the elevators, went down the garage to the car, drove out the parking garage, drove around the Marina, drove the three miles, waited in the long line, ordered & paid, drove away, back the three miles, drove around the Marina, re-parked the car, walked to the elevators...and realized I forgot the food.

Did it all over again.

By the time I got to the apartment WITH the food, Husband was really worried. I said nothing and turned beet red. He eventually figured it out when I started laughing and saying things like, "why did you marry an idiot?"

 

[S. C.]

Sounds like something I would do. Thanks for the laugh I needed it today.