Being Retired, Anybody Else Get Screwed Up With Their Days? (community, gift)
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I've been retired since June 1 and I'm having a helluva time getting my days straight. And, does it really matter?
One weekend, being I just moved to Tucson, I noticed the mail man coming around on Sunday, and thought: One more plus to Tucson, mail delivery 7 days a week! And? It was Saturday, not Sunday.
This last weekend, I waited all day for the mail man and he never arrived. Around 5pm, I asked my roommate: what day is it? Sunday!!!
Glad that I asked him, as there was a big to-do in the community center Labor day, and if I hadn't asked, I would have gone to this to-do Tuesday at 5:30pm and wonder: Where is everybody?
I have a retired friend in Arkansas, and she, too, gets her days mixed up, so I'm not alone!
My flip-up phone only gives me the time, not the date.
One hard lesson learned: when writing checks for monthly bills, make triple-sure the date is correct, as one time I wrote down the proceeding month instead of the current month on the check, and? This guy is post-dating his check so he must not have the funds! What a costly senior moment that was!!!
Anyone else get screwed up with their retirement days? Missed any appointments as a result of it?
My cell phone provides date and day of week and my laptop shows the date. But I have gotten confused on day of the week several times in the last few months. Usually when I am preocupied working on a home project and not going out much. Fortunately in all these cases I had "gained" a day so had extra time to complete my project. So far I have not missed any appointments but I don't have that many and check the calendar more often if there is an upcoming doctor's appointment, etc. I find not having to pay attention to the day of the week liberating but then I am a bit of a hermit.
Not anymore messed up than when I was 20. Manys the time I would swear it was Wednesday, at work, and it was Thursday. I still occasionally do that.
Agree to get an I phone or watch that tells you the day & date along with the time.
Watches ----- I stopped wearing watches in my thirties. I was able to "guess" the time within 15 minutes and grew weary of something burdening my wrist nearly every day; I can still do that reasonably well. That may come with having grown up on a dairy farm ---- milking cows requires a strict time frame that needs adhered to morning and evening 365 days/year
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I've always worried about the "oriented x 3" thing - that is, are you oriented to time, person and place as a quick check on dementia. Obviously the date and day of week are of very little importance once you stop working and don't have to abide by society's routines. Half the time I don't know the date, as in day of the month and I STILL work!
That you know the date seems to be a test derived by younger, non-retired people that should not carry quite as much weight certainly as "person" and "place".
Remember the line from Downton Abbey - "What is the week end" - obviously to the upper crust back then, the day of the week mattered little because they didn't work in the traditional sense - they relied on their incomes.
I can be off by a few days sometimes. My wife just reminded me it was Friday (pizza and beer night) and I thanked her because I would have said it was Thursday. Having said that, I’ve always had a problem with time and even chronology to some extent. When I was working, it used to drive my wife nuts when she asked what I was doing tomorrow. I would always tell her the truth, no idea. I would just wake up that morning, look in my DayTimer, and do whatever was written there. I liked not having to think about it.
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