Clutter Crazy?

Heading out on a trip with the Girl Scouts yesterday, I was told one of the girls didn't have her permission slip. The mom who had brought her to the meeting place drove back to her house to get a parent and brought the mom to sign a new one. The frazzled mom filled out the new form (this was holding us all up after all) and then opened the girls bag and fished out the original form. The mom who was responsible for the girl said, "I figured it was easier to go back and get you than it would be to look for the form." Knowing something about this mom's history (disorganization) I know that her belief must have been supported by many years and many incidents where that thought would have been true. Where are we in life when we are unable or unwilling to look at what's going on in the moment and question it?