The 13 Most Common Brain Farts

This is all from an old Brian Regan bit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euGLMWn0_ZY&feature=player_embedded#at=23

That's because the range of acceptable responses is so slim that we fall into a routine of giving the same responses. It no doubt contributes to the "mental rigidity" neuroscientists link to early-onset Alzheimer's disease.

I can read a whole page of a book while distracted and thinking of something entirely different, then realise the reading hasn't sunk in at all, so then have to go back and re-read it... sometimes several times. I definitely don't multi-task well at all.

I say "Have a good flight." to a lot of the customers I drop off at the airport and half of them say "You too."

I once called somewhere and when somebody answered the phone asked: "Can I speak to John Smith please?"
Reply: "That's who you're talking to."
Me: "Oh, that's who you're talking to."