Action Slips: Comfort in Forgetfulness

A woman plans a detour to do some grocery shopping on her way home, but instead her car seems to drive directly home "by itself." A young man returns home after a workout and tosses his sweaty T-shirt into the toilet. (This was not simply an aiming error. The laundry hamper, his intended target, was in another room.) A woman fills an electric coffeepot with water, plugs it in, and turns it on, but forgets to put in the coffee. A man leaves his desk to get his glasses in his bedroom. By the time he gets there, he forgets what he is looking for and decides to watch television in his ro…