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Post by Ann on Dec 12, 2014 0:27:18 GMT
A few weeks ago a 2 page bill arrived. I put it to one side, forgot about it for a while and then remembered it again. Could I find it? I turned the house upside down, was headfirst in the recycle bin in the freezing cold all to no avail. Fast forward a week and I'm writing my Christmas cards and printing off a sheaf of Christmas letters to enclose in them. That's when I discovered the bill had got mixed up in some printer paper and there is now a Christmas letter on the back of each sheet.
(I really must get around to paying it sometime!)
Feel free to post any of your own "How did I do that?" moments.
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Post by SaffiandJasmin on Dec 13, 2014 17:45:41 GMT
LOL! At least you noticed before you sent it off to someone!!! x
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Post by Ann on Dec 13, 2014 17:55:34 GMT
It would have confused them totally as it was actually from one of the German Government departments and, as a result, all in German!
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Post by SaffiandJasmin on Dec 13, 2014 22:32:51 GMT
Ha ha! That would have been even better!!!!
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Post by Vicki on Dec 26, 2014 4:15:38 GMT
My "how did I do that moment was just a couple of months ago." I got a nasty email from the phone/Internet provider telling me if I didn't pay my late bill I would be very sorry. Well, it was words to that effect. The thing is, just a few weeks before I received an automated phone call informing me my due date was being changed but it didn't say when it would be. I assumed they made a mistake and never sent me a new bill because I didn't remember getting one. I decided to make a one-time online payment and then send a sharply worded email complaining that they didn't have to be so rude since I obviously never got their bill.
I was about to call them and give them a good piece of my mind when I saw Roxie shoo a sparkle ball behind my computer desk. Not wanting her to try and squeeze behind it with all the wires back there, I decided to retrieve it for her. Of course, you guessed it by now, there was my bill. It had fallen behind the desk. Either it had been stuck to another bill and it fell without my seeing it or I did see it and dropped it behind there forgetting all about it. Or when all else fails, blame the cat. Roxie did it.
Fortunately for me, I didn't write the sharply worded email .
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Post by Ann on Dec 26, 2014 17:46:24 GMT
Glad you avoided an embarrassing moment!
One thing I'm discovering is that where in the past if I picked up a book, I'd know within the first 20 pages that I'd already read it, even if the title hadn't rung a bell. Now I can reread a book and not one single thing is familiar! I'd like to think it was due to the fact that I've now read hundreds more books than I had years ago rather than it being due to my advanced age!
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Post by Vicki on Dec 30, 2014 21:18:50 GMT
Glad you avoided an embarrassing moment! One thing I'm discovering is that where in the past if I picked up a book, I'd know within the first 20 pages that I'd already read it, even if the title hadn't rung a bell. Now I can reread a book and not one single thing is familiar! I'd like to think it was due to the fact that I've now read hundreds more books than I had years ago rather than it being due to my advanced age! I have done that as well. I just think that it's kind of a bonus because I get to enjoy the story all over again.  |
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Post by Ann on Jan 1, 2015 0:24:33 GMT
I agree with you Vicki, that one's definitely a bonus!
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Post by SaffiandJasmin on Jan 1, 2015 0:57:59 GMT
I'm having that with old TV repeats of 'The Bill' at the moment....I know the story line is good and I know I've watched it years ago, but can't remember what happened!!! (So I'm enjoying it all over again!)
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Post by Vicki on Jan 1, 2015 18:40:37 GMT
The pharmaceutical companies are certainly trying to take advantage of us older geezers in frightening us into thinking we need their drugs for our failing memories. There is a commercial that is being shown that depicts a husband who is gravely worried about his wife because she absent mindedly has put her keys in the refrigerator.
Well, I have been known to absent mindedly place an object in the 'fridge that didn't quite belong there. I do not believe that is a sign of dementia that requires medication. Here in the U.S Big Pharma is Big Business and there is a pill for everything real or imagined. We are constantly getting bombarded with advertisements for all sorts of illnesses. We are told to see our doctors if we are experiencing all kinds of symptoms that are pretty much just come normally with aging which is usually what the doctor will tell us anyway. Regarding memory loss, I am not going to run to the doctor every time I don't put something in its proper place or even in a silly place.
I once read that a true sign of losing one's mind was this: forgetting where you put your car keys isn't a sign you are losing your mind; forgetting what the keys are for, is.
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Post by Ann on Jan 1, 2015 22:41:29 GMT
That happens to me too Lesley. We spent this evening watching "Lost in Austen" which I recorded several years ago and saved onto DVD. Lucinda hadn't seen it and although I'd watched it a couple of times over the years, I found I'd forgotten so much that it was almost like watching it for the first time.
Vicki, I feel very reassured! I wonder if it also follows that going from the living room to the kitchen and then forgetting why you wanted to be in the kitchen isn't a sign that you are losing your mind; forgetting how to get back to the living room is!
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Post by B&B's mom on Jan 2, 2015 20:18:04 GMT
Interesting thread...love reading your posts, same here as well....I lost my mind so many times! All what you've mentioned been there....lol
Isn't it pretty normal?
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Post by Ann on Jan 3, 2015 9:44:38 GMT
I've just been reminded of the time I inadvertently put washing powder in the dishwasher. It was only when foam started coming out of every crack and the dishwasher looked like something out of a slapstick comedy that I realised.
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Post by Vicki on Jan 4, 2015 20:21:19 GMT
My sister has a theory that as we get older we become more forgetful simply because we have more things to remember. I often find myself entering a room and then forgetting the reason I went there.
But it isn't just older people, I was talking with my niece who is in her mid twenties and she told me she writes herself reminders all the time or she would never remember what she has to do. I think she gets that from my sister who has been absent minded ever since I can remember.
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Post by Ann on Jan 4, 2015 20:39:57 GMT
My sister has a theory that as we get older we become more forgetful simply because we have more things to remember. That's exactly what I've often said too as it makes perfect sense to me. Funnily enough, I was expounding the theory, in a slightly different context over lunch in the Gasthaus just the other day! |
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