I could. Fact is even smart people can forget something that is vitally important to them, given the right chain of events. Add to that the fact that it is a known situation that people will not remember the last several miles of driving their car. It’s a human brain thing. It’s about going on autopilot with routine tasks, and a slight change in the routine can sometimes cause a person to forget to do somethin that is critical. It’s also about multitasking.
Fortunately, it doesn’t happen often.
Excellent post.
Stress can cause chaos in anyone’s brain activity. And other distractions.
A person thinks, “I’ll just be a minute.”
Then something happens.
We have yahoos out here who will bust a window if the kid is left alone for a few seconds.
Maybe they should be required to wait for five minutes? [or something along those lines]. And if they record it the parent pays a bounty to them or something for busting their window. Just sayin’.
Read the stories. They don’t pan out that way. The excuse is I forgot. The reality is they were either high or drunk or so distracted that they shouldn’t have been driving a multi ton weapon in the first place
When my daughter was a baby, I used to take her to my mother-in-law’s before going to work for the day on a sporadic schedule. A few times while lost in thought about work or something else, I caught myself going the route to the office instead of my MIL’s.
I used to get a cold chill thinking about what if I had gone all the way to the office and just forgotten she was in the car. It never happened, but it made me realize it was probably close to happening on a few occasions.