Hey Pandas, What Is Your Best Autopilot Moment? (Closed)

I always try to make sure my patients get one last chance to ask questions before I end the appointment. Before I say goodbye, I say, "do you have any more questions?". Yup, autopilot had be asking my husband if he had any more questions before I turned off the bedroom lights !

My wife and I owned a restaurant and she was the chef. I had a WFH job so I worked in a small office at the restaurant and would help out when I could. Wife would often bring me lunch in my office and I would playfully (lightly) "smack" her bottom while saying "thank you". One day she was busy so she asked her sister (who worked for her part time) to take up my lunch. Whoops....

Trying to unlock my (manual) front door lock with the key fob from my car. I always lock / unlock my van with the buttons because it prevents me from accidentally locking the keys in the van. But a couple of times when I got home I pointed the fob at my front door and expected it to do something. Brain fart moment. At least I live where nobody sees me do this. lol

I was watching a movie. My cat was meowing loudly. I pointed the remote control at her and pushed the mute button. I could not stop laughing at myself. I thought it was so funny that I told people what I did.

After staying up three nights with no sleep whatsoever, I accidentally fed my turtles dog food, my dog cat food, and my cats turtle food. I didn’t know what happened until a moment later, and by then my dog was already eating the cat food. The turtles didn’t seem to mind either, but I fished out the dog food anyway. The cats didn’t seem too pleased.

I didn't know that I was going to the supermarket on my way home until I got there. It's 7 miles east of my turn off. Went right past. So I went in and bought ice cream.

Walked through the front door, and immediately took my shoes off and blew my nose. Then proceeded to put my tissue on the shoe rack, and my shoes in the bin.

I was so exhausted when I got home from work one evening that I didn't turn my car off. I pulled in the driveway on autopilot, put it in park, got out and zombie shuffled into the house.

Luckily, my husband went outside about 45 minutes later and when he came back in said, "Your car was running, you never turned it off?" Guess not.

My wife and I travel often to a game reserve in South Africa (Kruger national park), for reference its roughly the size of new jersey. I drove to the wrong entrance gate which is roughly 150 miles from where we were supposed to be. complete autopilot!! surprised I'm still married.

A few years ago we were on our way home from Italy. My wife, our Bulldog an I.
We were doing around 120km/h when the car right in front of us began to swerve. It had a trailer with cattle.

Seconds later the car swerved to the left, trailer got unhooked and swerved to the right.

Somehow I got around both the car and the trailer at that speed. Felt like slow-motion...and fast at the same time.

Don't know how we got out of that and how we did it. I just remember I pulled over right after and looked at the accident. The car was on its roof, the trailer on its side. cattle walking around on the highway. Luckily the driver only got some bruises and all the cattle was alive.

Driving an hour from work to my childhood home after work instead of driving an hour and a half to my actual home.

I don't know what I was thinking. I doubt that I even was thinking. I was in school and I smacked a random guy on the head. While I was apologizing, his friends were laughing and patting my back. A week later here we are playing Minecraft together

Had a server job for a while. When it got busy it was like a kicked anthill, all of us coming and going thru the swinging kitchen doors, and carrying laden trays with orders thru the hallways and around corners. Learned real quick to holler "corner!" around every one. Fast forward a few months, I'm yelling "corner!" as I make my way thru the frozen food section 🙄 years later, I still get the urge sometimes, and usually I can catch myself. Usually.

I went to bed and as I was laying there thinking about fake scenarios like always, this big a$$ mfing spider seems to start slowly gliding down from the ceiling. I was out of that bed so fast but apparently not fast enough. it was on my head and out of nowhere I decide to bash it in with a slipper.

I washed my hair so many times afterwards.

I didn't even realise what I was doing until the smushed up body fell on the floor.

but I swear that mf SPAWNED out of nowhere

i was going to the school front office. went down the stairs, then back up the stairs, then had to go back down again. must of looked pretty weird.

So into what I was reading once I lifted my cup of coffee, brought it most of the way to my mouth, and poured it onto my lap while making drinking motions with my lips. It was a good four inches away, but my brain said "it's ok, start drinking." Brains can be malicious liars too.

Best autopilot moment, 1st day of servisse as a firefighter, i was seating in the lounge, watching 2 other firefighters taunt eachother, because One of them wille doing CPR broke the patient sternum ( which btw is a normal thing to happen, broken sternum and ribs ), só the ambulance driver was calling her ( the other firefighter) of murderer as a joke, suddently the sirens go off, all hell brakes loose, people running down the stairs, people running to the ambulance parking, i Runned with the rest of them downstairs ( fire and rescue vehicles parking ), i go to the wall, get the " Ping Pong " racket, and just Run on to the Middle of the street to stop Traffic and let the emergency vehicles out. No One told me what to do, no One tried to do the same as i did, and it was LITERALLY the 1st ever time i was experiêncing that. And dude.... Its a frikking adrenalin rush lol ( btw, all that because of a minor fender bender with a tree, no One was hurt )

I live in an apartment what is 27 floors tall, I live on the 25 floor. One day the elevator broke so I had to walk all the way down just to realize I forgot my ID card.(We have a machine to pay for whatever we buy in the campus)
Went up and opened the fridge for ice cream. I was 22 minutes late for school.

I am a health care provider and usually knock on the door before entering the individual rooms where the patients are waiting for me... just habit, and I find myself knocking on the door into the waiting lobby, where all the patients are waiting, at least once a month 😅

I put a tea bag in the mug and carried it from the kitchen to the living room. I got all settled in on the couch...and realized that I'd not just forgotten to put water in the mug, I'd also forgotten to turn the kettle on 🤦‍♀️