You know when you’re having a conversation, everything is going smoothly, and then all of a sudden…you can’t come up with the word you’re trying to say! It’s so frustrating! It’s like your brain just decides to take a break from you without permission. These people know the feeling all too well.
Here are 12 times people forgot simple words and it turned into a very hilarious situation.
Sometimes, you just have a brain fart. It happens.
1) Oh waiter, can you please bring me one of those stabby grabby things?
Well, the description is pretty accurate. Spoons are for digging and scooping, forks are for stabbing and grabbing!
@neilphillips:
“That’s a sign of the tines.”
2) I came from over thataway, Sir.
If you don’t want to be treated like a drug mule, make sure you have your story straight. Looking at your plane ticket can help.
@GiantSpaceTiger:
“Aaand out come the medical gloves. ‘Kindly step this way, madam.'”
3) What’s yellow and comes in its own case?
That’s what happens when your brain starts to go bananas and splits in two. You start forgetting basic words like “squishy yellow monkey food that grows on trees.”
@Kaisu Rei:
“My pregnant friend once forgot the word for coconut and called them milk balls.”
@Paul K. Johnson:
“Adding the word, “hairy” makes it even better.”
4) It’s white and goes clickety-clack-clack when I touch it.
Have you tried turning your brain off and on again? Okay, then maybe you need to plug it back in to find the right word.
@Liesa Lietzke:
“Well…that DOES effectively answer the question, right?”
@Steve:
“Only if it’s white.”
5) It’s like a tree branch that has lines and numbers and isn’t hairy.
I remember using one of those “how far machines” back in high school math class. It always fell short when I tried to measure pi.
@Joey Jorgensen:
“For 20 yrs I’ve never been able to remember verbally the word tape measure. Around here it’s referred to as ‘the ground thermometer.'”
6) Yes, I’d like a chicken salad, with a side of really wet salad.
It makes total sense that book-smart people are actually pretty street dumb. There’s just no room in their brains for fluffy words like “soup,” especially when they need to remember the more important things, like, how to cure memory loss.
7) I heard the FBI raided one of those once.
Isn’t that what they call nudist hippy communes? I bet it’s a popular place to hang out.
@remingtons:
“How many times did you write pubic health instead of public? I know I did.”
8) Dad, can I have a small dog baby for Christmas?
Mom promised I could get a dogling! Can we go to the doglet shelter and pick out a duppy right now?
@richoconor:
“Or in contrast to the two commenters above, you could have called them “dog foals”. (They called foals “horse puppies)”
9) Let’s take a moment of silence to honor the loss of your remembrance thought.
It’s totally normal to lose some of your remembrance thought as you get older. When your brain’s hard drive fills up, it starts deleting all the old stuff to make room for the new.
10) Foaled again!
My favorite “little horse puppy” is Princess Twilight Sparkle. Which one is yours?
@Catherine_Zen
“I love horse puppies! My sister forgot the word for baby turkeys and called them “goblets”. And so they have been named henceforth!”
11) Happy organs
I bet that got their attention! That’s how 18-year-old boys plant seeds, after all.
“It was the most engaged they looked all day…”
12) I’m saying “arctic cabbage” from now on.
Out with the old, in with the new! We don’t need to have bland iceberg lettuce in our vernacular anyways.
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