When you go to cook up some potatoes but you forgot what potatoes are and you think they are poisonous you don't cook or eat them and after a while they grow so big that the house explodes.
Try not to be potato forgetful today or this house will be no more.
Oh no, There was a dude that was potato forgetful today and made the building explode, Silly potato forgetfulness people.
To take something small, that doesn't quite qualify as a theft. Probably from the Danish "skæv" or the Dutch "scheef", both of which are pronounced similarly, meaning "askew, or not quite right'. To change an item's ownership without permission, but only something small and of little worth.
"I skeefed an apple off the neighbor's tree." "I skeefed some chips outta your bag when you looked away." "Don't skeef my chair when I go to the bathroom."
A tight, tangled knot of loose hair and lint that forms inside clothing during the clothes dryer cycle. It typically hides inside garments, causing an annoying lump or a phantom tickling sensation against the skin until it is found or falls out onto the floor during folding.
I was folding my clothes and a huge hair spider fell out onto my hand