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.
Both absent-minded doodling and copying from life have been shown to positively affect your memory and visual perception, so complain loudly the next time your school board slashes the art department's budget.
While driving through an intersection, Eric is T-boned at full speed by a driver who distractedly runs a red light coming from the perpendicular side street.
The problem is, now I've gotten myself into a distracted rut and it's very hard for me to transition myself into the real work that I actually went to Starbucks to do.