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I'm sure we've had a similar thread before but these moments keep happening. Here's my latest.
I got a notification from the library that a couple of books I had requested were now on the hold shelf for me. I went to the library, chatted with an old friend I saw there, looked around the bestseller tables, and hunted in the stacks for some books by an author I like. I checked out my selections, went home, and then realized I hadn't picked up the books that were on hold for me. That's why I was there! What the heck? I hate becoming a cliche.
Gads, there are so many. Going to another room & forgetting why. My worst lately? Buying frozen shrimp, taking out enough to eat & forgetting the frozen ones in the seal a meal. Couldn't even watch as the cats ate my mistake.
I stopped at the mail center to get my mail and was handed a package.
I went straight home and turned on my computer. About 5 minutes later a new email came through telling me that a package had just been delivered for me and I should come to get it.
So I drove back to the mail center to get the delivery. The owner of the mail center looked all over but couldn't find my package. He looked at the email that I received and was perplexed. That is when the teenage employee also looked at the email and pointed to the fact that the email had actually been sent 2 hours earlier and that I had already picked up the package the first time I was there.
I stopped at the mail center to get my mail and was handed a package.
I went straight home and turned on my computer. About 5 minutes later a new email came through telling me that a package had just been delivered for me and I should come to get it.
So I drove back to the mail center to get the delivery. The owner of the mail center looked all over but couldn't find my package. He looked at the email that I received and was perplexed. That is when the teenage employee also looked at the email and pointed to the fact that the email had actually been sent 2 hours earlier and that I had already picked up the package the first time I was there.
Does that qualify as a senior moment?
I'm feeling a lot better about mine after reading yours!
I stopped at the mail center to get my mail and was handed a package.
I went straight home and turned on my computer. About 5 minutes later a new email came through telling me that a package had just been delivered for me and I should come to get it.
So I drove back to the mail center to get the delivery. The owner of the mail center looked all over but couldn't find my package. He looked at the email that I received and was perplexed. That is when the teenage employee also looked at the email and pointed to the fact that the email had actually been sent 2 hours earlier and that I had already picked up the package the first time I was there.
My senior moments involve losing my vocabulary when I want it. Altzheimers runs in my family, so it is probably related to that. I remember reading that people with large vocabularies do better because when they can't think of the word they want, they can at least use another one. Fortunately, I can still do that. But, it's frustrating when I can't recall the word I want.
Senior moments are a right of passage when you get older and in many cases a blessing for excuses. My wife and I have senior moments on a daily basis. Fortunately not at the same time, therefore we can help each other remember. God forbid we both have one at the same time.
I went to the ophthalmologist and was given a new glaucoma regimen, and told to come back for a test in two weeks. His assistant went to the desk and we made the appointment together,and I got a card. When I got home I wrote it on my desk calendar for the 21st.
So, two weeks late on the 21st, I show up and am informed that I am there on the wrong day, my appointment is for the 23rd. Duh...OK, I must have written it on my calendar for the wrong day. The assistant happens to show up, and confirms, "You know you are here on the wrong day, don't you?" Again, I do the obligatory, "Duh." On the 23rd I see her, we do the test, she says too bad about the 21st. I say OK, it's my fault. Now I have appt. to see the ophthalmologist early April.
The other day I took out the results of the new test, and decided to put them with the folder with the previous tests, so everything would be in one folder to take to the doctor.
I was surprised to find tucked in the folder the appointment card for the bungled test appointment.
The date on the card says the appt. is for the 21st!
How do you tell two young women probably less than half your age that they have had the senior moment.
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