Remember a timer!

our sink is close to the stove.
It has a extentable head.
It can be used to fill a pot thats already on the stove.
sometimes this takes more than 3 seconds for large pots.
so you can just hang the head of the faucet in the pot for half a minute, the hose is just long enough.

Then you go and fetch mop and bucket, and dry socks.

every single time.

Man, I've done that so many times. Another one is, "I'll set this important object in this random place while I go do a side-errand. When I'm done I'm sure I will somehow remember where I left it, even though this has never worked before."

I'll just boil water for hot tea instead... where'd all my water go?

Bonus points if it's contained in a pressurized aluminum can.

Expect: "What the heck was that boom?!"

I hope it was seltzer instead of soda.

Kid of a girl I was seeing years ago put a can of Coke in there, forgot about it, and the fucking can exploding blew the door of the freezer off somehow.

I've been using the "kitchen timer" function on my microwave non-stop since I found it

I do the same thing by only putting my drink in the freezer when I'm cooking something else on a timer like in the microwave.

❌ Randomly when I just want a cold one?

✅ When I'm making a hot pocket.

Get a drink with more alcohol in it. It will survive longer

Roughly 1 degree below 0°C per degree (percent) of alcohol is the rule of thumb I was taught

I'll remember because by the time I put it in there I'm close to dying of thirst, but still won't drink something at room temp. So forgetting and then remembering my crippling dehydration is generally a pretty good egg timer for it

Know thyself and set a timer. I don't allow myself to do stuff like that without setting an alarm.

Beep, beep, beep,

Beep, beep, beep,

What's that for, again?

Better turn it off
- I’m gonna turn it off now, and get to it right away. Where does the burn smell come from?
- MultiTimer for Android and iOS: Set as many labelled timers as you like.
  
  Android (not sure about iOS) you can also label your native alarm app alarms.
  
  Can recommend 👍👍
- "Why does it smell burnt? I am sure I set a timer!"
20 minutes later: silences timer because I’m too focused on something else.

2 days later: … crap.
- "Guess I'm re-washing that load of laundry."
Yep! My fridge has a one-tap 30-min timer specifically for drinks in the freezer (you can also then adjust the time with more taps). Needless to say, it is one of the most used functions of my fridge (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
"Hey Google, set a 20 min timer, 'drinks in the freezer'"

20 mins later Google will notify "Brinks the breezer" but hopefully that's enough to remind me.
- Yeah I get real snotty with the assistant too, cussing it out and talking mad shit. I don't care if a future AI catches me out. Fuck Roku's Basilisk, either a superhuman AI respects lesser beings or it's no better than a flawed hypocrite like me.
I have graduated to even screwing up my timers. Now the timer doesn't get silenced until the thing it is timing gets accomplished. Unless I'm distracted and fail to use that rule, then it's back to square one of course.

Edit: whoops, two people already said basically this. Guess I'll leave it
- I usually press the "+1 minute" button and then the "pause" button. That way it stays in the tray of my phone and I'm too OCD to not get rid of it as soon as possible. Then of course you have to adhere to the rule of only removing the timer once you did what you set the timer for...
- I love when my timer goes off and I have no memory of setting it. Which critically important thing am I forgetting now?
Everyone’s gotta learn the hard way.

I've learned the hard way (multiple times) that if beverage goes into freezer a timer of one hour MUST be set on my phone or smart speaker, because I gaslighted myself into believing it's illegal to put drinks in the freezer and if someone finds out I'll be arrested.

FUCK I put a snack in the freezer like... 5 days ago? And completely forgot about it until now

This will happen again I can't fetch it right now

I’ve forgotten about thin mints in the freezer for so long that I had purchased another pack the next Girl Scout cookie season and only found them when I put newly purchased package in the freezer.
Jo when you home buddy? Set a timer.
- This. I put protein shakes in the freezer bc they taste better the colder they are. They aren't good though if you freeze them then let them thaw, so it's a pretty high risk game. I try to remember to set a 30 minute timer on my phone whenever I do it.
- Smartphones have location-based reminders. Just ask Siri or whatever Google calls theirs this month.

Bomb has been planted.

B and C. Nothing should be on Facebook.

Now try something in the oven.

YES, A TIMER IS NECESSARY!

Good thing my oven has an integrated timer. In fact, it won't work without setting the timer. Never thought about how much grief that must have saved me already.
Me: I'm gonna season and dry the wok for a few minutes while I do the dishes.

does dishes

walks out of room.

air quality alert from filter goes off saying bad air quality.

Shit the wok!

You mean my roommate wasn't trying to make beer slushy all over the freezer daily?

No I wasn’t

It's even faster to put it in ice water and the worst that can happen if you forget about it is your drink gets warm again.

Add salt to the ice water so it melts colder and it will cool your drink faster.

That's why I always set a 1 hour timer. Or I will definitely forget.

Sometimes I set a timer and when it chimes I've already forget what it was for lol
- On most smartphones you can give titles to timers.
- instinctively silences timer without addressing what the timer was for
- Why the fuck did I set a timer?!
- Neville?
- My phone lets me label timers. Get an app that can do that.

My ex. Never me. I'd drink soda warm before id risk it bursting.

My ADHD absolutely can't handle that clean up.

If you get lucky it supercools before freezing and the shock of the vessel breaching is enough to freeze the rest of it mid-explosion. The one time I've had a bottle burst (luckily the cap gave way first), that happened and I was left with a bottle with frozen liquid holding the cap a few cm above the bottle and minimal dripping.

get a wife. you leave one drink to long in the freezer a few dozen times and they never let you live it down.

I'm in this picture and I don't like it.

Thank you

So many exploded cans and bottles in my youth but also the magic when you got it and your coke was in slushie form and then you added booze.

Chefs kiss

Obviously it won't work for cold drinks, but for warm drinks, I got my wife a few of these:

https://www.amazon.com/Ember-Temperature-Control-1-5-hr-Battery/dp/B0BHBTQB3X

She still forgets her drinks, but now when she finds them, they've usually maintained the desired temperature.

I just stick it in a zip lock so if I forget about it there's no clean up

The 2 liter bottle of coke I once froze exploded with so much force that I found the freezer door open when I investigated the loud bang at 3am. No way a ziploc would contain that force.
- The 2 liter bottle of coke I once froze exploded with so much force that I found the freezer door open when I investigated the loud bang at 3am.
  
  Top-tier sentence right there. Very well written, it just keeps getting better (or worse, for you)

I didn't forget but I put it all the way in the back to speed up the process and ended up with a slushy

Hey sodas are great for that. If you're careful when you remove it, you can have a slushy in a can

Even better I'll just put for or five cans of this beer up here to cool faster.

I have timers/alarms for everything. At least one hundred.

hey, there's nothing wrong with having an accidental sorbeit

If it’s the first one I never forget.

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