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Old 08-16-2018, 02:10 PM
 
Location: Tucson/Nogales
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When you get to be 68, you start talking to things, swearing at them, sometimes at the top of your lungs.

I'm just unpacking from another move/relocation. My roommate finds it all hilarious, entertaining, me trying to find something that I just had in my hands a minute earlier. Disappeared from the face of the earth?

This morning. Where did I put the flashlight? Here, flashlight! I just saw you yesterday, and where are you hiding?

I'm ready to hang pictures, and where is that box of picture hangers? Yoohoo! Search, search, search, search, search, and can't find them!

Oh well! I have to go to Home Depot today anyway, where I'll buy picture hangers and a flashlight! Better that than screaming and hollering and disturbing the neighbors!

How about you, anything more frustrating when you have something in your hands, and minutes later it's no where to be found? I sometimes wonder if things don't have karma as well!
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Old 08-16-2018, 02:34 PM
 
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Happens to me all the time. Can never find anything in the fridge. The other day, rummaging in the fridge for the mayo. I know it`s here somewhere...only to find I already put it on the counter
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Old 08-16-2018, 02:36 PM
 
Location: Wasilla, AK
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I talk to my dog all the time. I even try to rationalize with her. It's like talking to a brick wall.
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Old 08-16-2018, 02:38 PM
 
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When you get to be 68, you start talking to things, swearing at them, sometimes at the top of your lungs......

I can tell you eternity will not be long enough for all the damnations I have hurled at absent eyeglasses.
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Old 08-16-2018, 02:40 PM
 
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I talk to my dog all the time. I even try to rationalize with her. It's like talking to a brick wall.
Like some people.
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Old 08-16-2018, 02:50 PM
 
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I can tell you eternity will not be long enough for all the damnations I have hurled at absent eyeglasses.
Absolutely! What is it with eyeglasses anyway? Do they have little invisible legs or wings? And a warped sense of humor?

There have been times when I was so aggravated about not being able to find my regular (indoor) glasses that I have spent 15 minutes watching television through my sunglasses instead. Which of course are right there in plain sight and easy to find. But if I was going outside and needed my sunglasses, you can bet they would have sneaked off somewhere and left the indoor glasses behind to snicker at me.....
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Old 08-16-2018, 03:05 PM
 
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Old 08-16-2018, 03:49 PM
 
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You had to wait until reaching 68 to start this? Seem to recall I've done this for decades.
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Old 08-16-2018, 04:05 PM
 
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Sounds like it might be past time to give up the drink. If that is not it, you might want to consider professional help.
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Old 08-16-2018, 04:20 PM
 
Location: Backwoods of Maine
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You had to wait until reaching 68 to start this? Seem to recall I've done this for decades.
Yeah, I was going to say.....is this something new??

I've been losing things and talking to myself since I was 40, at least. Now I don't feel so out of it, since they invented cell phones. I see LOTS of people walking around, talking seemingly to no one -- but then I see the phone in their hands. (sigh)
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