It doesn't happen to me. It happens to my MIL though. I will open the microwave and there sits her cup. I don't warm up coffee in the microwave, so I am innocent on this one. Others? Well, not so sure.

I would rather lose something, than start to do something and forget what it was. LOL Then I have to go back to where I started, to remember it. Because of course, whatever it was, is VERY important.

Summer, things have a way of disappearing around here. I lost
some pain pills I had for my very bad knees. I looked everywhere. Then I literally tore up and cleaned the whole place, and I mean every drawer, under the mattress...everywhere. (Living in a RV, so not quite as bad as looking in an entire house.) I last had them on Christmas day. I know I didn't take them out of the house. I have never found them. I don't drink coffee or have a microwave, but I am always taking a soft drink outside and sitting it down and then I can't remember where, and have to re-trace my steps, which can be long and painful...especially without any relief for my knees. ;)

It does happen to me......Kind of. DH puts a cup of coffee in to reheat and forgets it, often. When I open the oven door to do something in it, there it is... the perennial cup of coffee. LOL.

Marilyn, did you check the pockets of any jacket you may have had on? Or pants/shirts? Probably did, but just in case.
No, can't say I leave my cups in the microwave. I have the coffee pot on all morning. Then at 3:00 or so I make fresh.
Leslie

I am able to keep track of my coffee quite well, but DH is another matter. He doesn't misplace it, but there is a definate path worn into the carpeting from in front of his chair in the living room then into the kitchen and around the island to the microwave. That man must heat every cup of coffee 5 times before he gets it all drunk. He gets to reading and then forgets about it.

LOL, never happens to me. :)

Really! Honest!

But for some reason we find cups with tea in there. :)

Moni

OH NO Marilyn, I hate to lose something that important. Those pain pills don't grow on trees either. On the good side of your loss though, you got the RV all cleaned up and out. LOL Just this morning I couldn't find 1 of 2 Prevecid (sp) tablets I had run upon the other day. Only one was in my daily pill container. I got scared that it had fallen in the kitchen floor and was snorted up by one of our little pooches. That's scary to think that could happen. I try to be so careful when I'm filling my pill container, and for that very reason. ack! Still don't know where it is. Sure hope you find your pills. Seems these things just show up somewhere totally unexpected after you've torn the place apart. Or, that's our experience. However, McCloud lost a $50 gift certificate to Best Buy. It's never shown up yet. :(

Vicki we won't even talk about having to retrace steps to try and discover why we wound up in a certain room. That is a pretty frequent occurrence around here too.

I've never forgotten my coffee - I need it to start my morning. But every now and then when making dinner I'll forget that I put the vegetables in the microwave only to discover them when cleaning up afterwards.

I have done that too often. I also make cups of tea and forget about them.
Clare

*whew.... wiping brow* It's sure looking like McCloud and I are pretty normal according to these reports. :)

Ha! I've done that too McMann, or find the left over biscuits shut up in the oven and hard as granite. LOL

Good idea about Marilyn checking her pockets Leslie.

LOL... I do that all the time. Thing is, I don't miss the coffee I was going to have!!
Im getting more and more distracted everyday. I must promise myself I will finish the project I'm doing, and not go on to something else that I may see.

Have to laugh about it though, otherwise,I'd cry.

mcmann, I sure am glad that I am not the only one who forgets the veggies in the microwave. Did it night before last. Yep, 2 hours after dinner, I found cold carrots in the micro. I can blame nita_az for that one.

Oh, yeah. I do stuff like that. Last night I put my car keys in the glove compartment of DH's car b/c they're big and I didn't want to lug them around last night. This morning it took me forever to remember where they were. It doesn't bother me, I think everybody I know does stuff like that. The time to worry is when you don't remember what a coffee cup is FOR!

Funny you should ask. Just yesterday I was going to make a cauliflower salad for supper. I start it late afternoon so everything has time to set together. I cooked the bacon in the microwave and put the salad together and put it in the refrigerator. Yes, guess what, 2 hours later when I opened the microwave to heat something else, the bacon was still in there. I just added it on top of the salad.

See, it's those evil microwaves and glove compartments, etc. Takes things and don't give them back. They should be programed so the doors open after an hour!

Ha ha at least I have a good reason...old age...at 69 I'm supposed to be forgetful...I have left veggies I was going to serve but the worst thing I have ever done is to leave a plate of ham in there....I was serving breakfast to hubster and visiting son and neither asked if I wasn't planning on any meat for breakfast...

I always,always find coffee cups in the microwave!
I had found bacon in there once or twice too!
Thats par for the course in this house.
We've been buying spring water in individual bottles for DH since his kidney stones episode....he is CONSTANTLY asking me, "did you see my water bottle"?! LOL I see it but I have trouble remembering if it was on the bathroom counter today or was that yesterday!?! LOL

Guilty as charged!

And daughter brought me a major mug from AZ that holds 1-2/3 regular mugs, so on the rather infrequent occasions when I use it ..

... about 5 trips to the microwave.

Summer,

If you have trouble running out of cups/mugs 'cause there are so many losers around ...

... you've heard of those things called "yard/garage sales"??

Good wishes for remembering what it was you went/came for, everyone.

ole ... (what was that name, again, please?)

Uh uh, I could never forget the bacon in the microwave. I love it too much and would know it was missing. I'd smell it and hunt it down like a bloodhound. LOL

Summer,

If you do the bacon too long -

Woof! Woof!

It'll hit the roof!

o j

Oh, yes, the tea in the microwave. My microwave beeps twice when it cuts off, but by that time I've gone on into another room and can't hear it, and . . .uh, what did I go in there for?

A few days ago my house keys turned up and I didn't even know they were missing. I went to a birthday party and took the gift in one of those cute little bags. When the birthday girl reached in to get the gift, which was with a lot of tissue paper, she also had my keys in her hand.

Go figure.

It happens, might as well get used to it!

Sue

Last night we had a light supper,just ham ,cheese and tomato on a roll.Had to run out to the store to get ham...had my sandwich almost finished when I realized the ham was still sitting on the counter.
Could have saved myself a trip to the store!

Forgetting about the coffee in the microwave happens to me every once in awhile. One thing that happens more frequently is when I move something that has been in the same place forever, thinking the new location would be much more logical and then I can't remember where that new location is!

I'll admit I've done it. I've left things in the oven too, then found them a day or two later.

I looked all over for my Coffee Cup I was drinking from. I couldn't find it anywhere. So, I got down another cup to heat up some coffee. When I opened the door to the microwave there was the missing cup of coffee.

I'm in a fog for the first hour every morning until I've downed enough coffee.

Gayle

Done that often.

Sorry, Summer - you aren't unique - I do it almost daily! LOL

Nope! It would NEVER happen to me, 'cause there is NO WAY I would drink a cup of REHEATED coffee! OMG>..blech! LOLOL

however, I DID leave some hamburger in there one time...

LOL

I have gone charging into the kitchen only to stop, look around and try to figure out why I went there with such conviction, then whoops can't remember why.

So might just say that I've misplaced my mind, but I usually find it later.....dang good thing, too!

I haven't left a coffe cup in the microwave but that old women that lives here leaves her's there.

Not coffee- worse... I once did a load of laundry, yes, I threw it in, added detergent and closed the lid. When I went to switch it, it was gone. I'm not kidding you, I thought someone was playing a joke on me or the machine had "eaten" it. I was baffled. Well, I searched the entire house and finally found my laundry basket- still full. I never put the clothes in! How's that for absent-mindedness. And, at the time, I was just in my thirties! What might I do if I make it to sixties and beyond. I honestly scare myself sometimes!