The general point here is that people are much more absent-minded than they think.
The 'fairytale' that is Blueberry Garden's goes as follows: Some absent-minded (sinister? Playful?) soul has left a tap running with the water threatening to send your habitat Atlantis-wards.
Wilson, the attending veterinarian, a genial and absent-minded man, was about to retire any day now.
The absent-minded student consents to the sentence in the presence of me.
A notoriously absent-minded professor was one day observed walking along the street with one foot continually in the gutter, the other on the pavement.
We were laughing about that absent-minded professor.
