Poll: Ever been amazed at something you did... while you weren't paying attention?

[Kermi]

The first and only time I got bullied in high school the guy came to where I was playing D&D with my friends, stuck his foot behind my ankle and pushed me down. I automatically rolled backwards and came up on my feet with fists raised. For the next four years, everyone thought I was some sort of kung fu legend and left me alone. I was just making sure I didn't drop my dice.

 

[LilGherkin]

I parallel parked without looking in any of my mirror's cause I was looking at a hot girl across the street. I never even scratched a car.

 

[Bored Tomatoe]

O.K., this is going to sound unreal, but you know that game with a knife, where you stab between your fingers? Yeah, me and my freinds were playing with pencils (We're sissies), and I was doing BAD, but we got bored, and started talking about, I dunno' nerd stuff, but I was still fooling around with the pencil a bit. I went really slow and sped up, then I started talking to them and wasn't really keeping track anymore. My freind looked at me and just gawked, when I asked why, he just shrugged his chin at my hand. I was doing the stabbing thing, and acctually going pretty fast. But as soon as I looked, I lost focus and stabbed myself right in the vein. I bled for a while, but bragging rights were mine!

Thats impressive... you bet my high-score at that game... I got 1, well... I stabbed my hand straight away with the pencil (I too am part of the "EXTREME!!!") and the tip broke off... it is still inside me to this very day. XD

I still have my pencil tip too! I can see it!

How many more of us are out there... half-man, half-pencil... living a life we didnt choose, on the edges of society!

I'm one of you guys. Mine is stuck in my left middle finger.

As am I... although mine is in my chin... Yeah...

 

[Ossum]

I once had a whole conversation about capacitance and then how transistors work with my bro while kicking ass as the Ice Climbers in Melee. I had to ask my brother questions about it after the match ended because I wasn't sure I'd made any sense at all, and he got them all right. I won the match too, +12, 20 point spread.

Another time, I sunk a basket from half-court without looking while talking to a friend, and I suck at basketball. Never managed it again, either.

Doing 75 mph on the freeway, I crested a hill with a curve, slammed on the brakes, and swerved to avoid the deer that appeared in my headlights with only about 20 feet of distance, all while telling Evil Betty's owl and bungee cord joke from Kung Pow. When my friends unfastened their fingers from my dash and seats five minutes later they asked how the hell I did it.

 

[ZomgSharkz]

Once in English I let someone borrow one of my highlighters for something. They were all the way across the room and after a few minutes I hear, "Here's your marker back, thanks". Then they chuck it across the room (while I'm looking at a book on my desk, can't see anyone else) and I hold my hand up perfectly, catch it without any effort, and immediately highlight a passage from this book without missing a beat. Apparently it looked really cool...too bad I had no idea what I did.

Another time my brother and I were playing a 2v2 match against level 9's in SSBB....also it was a 99 live stock match on Hyrule....and it was late at night. After a while the bots are down to like 55ish lives and my bro and I are up at like 70ish. Eventually both my brother and I started zoning out from the monotony and tired....ness. Some time later (I have no idea how long) we came back to my senses to see the bots down at like 20ish, and both of us having lost like 2 lives a piece. There must have been some intense Brawling going on there.

EDIT: Ossum's half court story reminded me of another one. A couple of my friends and I were at a basketball court in some park just messing around. After getting bored of knock-out and other good stuff, we just stood around the court talking. We were probably about 1/4 court away from the basket, and off to the side. I was absently juggling one of the basketballs (Soccer style juggling, mind you), and I finally let it bounce once and I volleyed it up. I made a perfect basket without any intent of doing so. I tried for the next 40 minutes to do it again and I never got close.

 

[Predlin]

This got me shocked but i managed to; let the electrician in, walk him to the ac unit, and have a conversation, without waking up!

 

[puppydogvaan]

I was playing catch with my brother and sister when I was a kid once, and when they threw the ball to me, I twisted my arm around my back and caught it square in the glove. Rather nice, considering I can't stand things flying toward my face and my brother and sister had been yelling at me all afternoon for cringing.

On another occasion I hit something on my bike and did a perfect somersault over the handlebars, landing on my butt in the grass without a scratch. I was very confused.

Then there were all the times I successfully slept through orchestra at school and continued to play. (I'm a violist, our parts aren't that hard.)

I know I've done cooler stuff than that, I just can't think of it. >.<

 

[dontworryaboutit]

Fell out of bed and smashed my head onto my bedside table. Got back into bed. Didn't wake up.

A friend did that to me, but I did wake up; I looked around, acknowledged that I was bleeding,needed stitches, my friends a douche, and to stomp is the right bumper. Then rolled over and went back to sleep. Everyone panicked cause they thought I was dead, with blood coming out of my head like a fountain. I never did get stitches.

Fuckin' A.

Fell out of bed and smashed my head onto my bedside table. Got back into bed. Didn't wake up.

Thats an amazing skill, I get woken up by a crows fart.

Do you find that happens often?

More often than people care to admit, they just conclue that I am insane when I run out of my house in my shorts throwing Rennies (Google it if you dont know the reference, its a tablet type thing) at crows... and missing(Put the guns down PETA).

No I gotcha...and fuck PETA. They're insane...trying to make Ben & Jerry's use breast milk for their ice cream.

I heard about that... its was very disturbing... didnt eat ice cream for a while to be safe.

Yeah they'd never shoot themselves in the face like that though. That's a guaranteed business killer.

 

[Gather]

Hm... The closest thing I can think of being like that is how I managed to translate a Japanese Passage while I was in a conversation with the person next to me... (Either that or I was just completely spaced out but that isn't as amazing XD)

 

[traceur_]

My alarm clock woke me up one morning and I got out of bed, turned it off and went right back to sleep with out noticing it, now if only I could train my cat to turn it off...

 

[NekoMihu]

Beat three other skilled players at Super Smash Brothers Brawl while I was on the phone... The first time I have ever played as Ice Climbers. I still had three out of my five lives left, too.

Also the drunk-er(?) you are, the better the Ice Climbers get... weird. =D

Oh, Podunk Stomp... What an awesome song.

Speaking of being drunk and playing video games...have you heard of this guy who played oblivion black-out drunk and went on a rampage.

http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=631191

and umm...and my answer to this thread: I had a ridiculously awesome game after only a month and a half of playing halo 3. I was talking to someone on the phone while I was playing. I picked up a sniper rifle got a sniper spree, picked up the enemies sniper rifle, continued my spree and got three no-scope head shots in a row (at this point I realized what i just did)...and then dropped my controller and the phone T.T and got killed.

I wish things like that happened more often. QQ

 

[Sneaky Paladin]

I always seem to notice most times spacing out you do worse at something and sometimes while being distracted you can vastly imporve on what your doing without noticing. Anyone know why?

 

[StarStruckStrumpets]

I was looking at the clouds in the sky, and a friend threw a rock at me. I bent down to get something and the stone flew past my head. My friend just shouted:

"Woah..."

and I was like...

"What?"

Then he told me the story and I was mildly happy with myself.

 

[Rhayn]

Played Steve Vai's "For the Love of God", with an improvised solo, without warming up first. I was going to record the next take, and was just fooling around, checking all the spots where I could improvise something cool.

That take ended up better than anything I had ever played, while the recorded one sucked.

 

[goatzilla8463]

I was looking at the clouds in the sky, and a friend threw a rock at me. I bent down to get something and the stone flew past my head. My friend just shouted:

"Woah..."

and I was like...

"What?"

Then he told me the story and I was mildly happy with myself.

Your friends throw stones at you?

I once dodged a stray javelin. I can't remember why though.

 

[megapenguinx]

Beat 3 people while playing one handed while on the phone on Mario Kart Wii.
And I always zone out during GH/RB and end up pulling off some crazy complicated maneuver

 

[neuromasser]

One time I unlocked bathroom door with a kitchen knife, because I was annoyed by the girls who were screaming in front of it. Inside was one of their friends, who didn't answer for like half an hour, so they panicked... a lot :/

 

[kylen13]

Fell out of bed and smashed my head onto my bedside table. Got back into bed. Didn't wake up.

i kinda did that but i sat up vomited and layed down again