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PSA: My book press turned into a pancake press last Tuesday
I was flattening a batch of signatures for a 200-page novel and got distracted by a call from my sister. Next thing I know, I'm pressing her leftover pancakes between the boards because I grabbed the wrong stack from the kitchen. Had to peel sticky paper off every sheet and redo the whole batch from scratch. Has anyone else had a near-disaster with random kitchen items sneaking into your workspace?
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simon_coleman17d ago
That's wild but honestly it fits a bigger pattern I've noticed lately... how our brains just autopilot through routines and grab whatever's in the usual spot. Had a buddy who once used a spatula to flip pages of a manuscript because his hands were full and he just grabbed the nearest flat thing. The kitchen and workspace are basically the same zone in our heads now, especially when we're tired or distracted. It's like our hands get programmed to grab whatever's nearby without thinking, and pancakes or papers are both just "flat things" to muscle memory.
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black.pat17d ago
My cousin swore up and down she'd never mix work with kitchen stuff until she tried to flip a flash drive with a butter knife last week. Honestly, your buddy with the spatula made me realize how deep that autopilot goes - it's like our hands just remember the motion without the object mattering. Ngl, I used to think people were exaggerating about this, but now I'm starting to see it everywhere.
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