The most famous story told about absent-mindedness is the story of Edison, the genius American scientist who did not attend his wedding. The reason is that he was busy in the laboratory with an important experiment, and they searched for him a lot, and it turned out that he had written the wedding date in his notebook, but he had forgotten!
I do not know what he said to his bride on that dark night, but history does not mention that they separated anyway.
There is Newton, the mathematician, who was sitting near the fireplace but did not feel warm. So he asked his servant to remove the heater from the wall and bring it closer to him. The servant said to him politely:
Why doesn't my master move his seat closer to the fire?
Here Newton gasped and declared that his servant was a brilliant genius!!
The wandering of the mind of geniuses is known to everyone, even if it causes astonishment in the first place.
People are often led to consider a genius to be something “idiot” or crazy... but then they accept him with respect.