Senior Moments

17 years ago

The older I get the more of these happen but three is less than 24 hours??

First one, yesterday I went to the grocery store, while there I realized I forgot my cell phone. When I got home I looked for my cell to see if anyone called. Couldn't find it in it's regular places. I started calling it with my husband's cell, four times, couldn't hear it. Checked the car twice, no ringing phone. Oh no, now I will have to buy a new phone, lost all my addresses, etc. Finally remembered the last time I used it I had my housecoat on. It was in the pocket in a well clothes insulated closet.

Washed the sheets yesterday. My husband gets in bed last night and starts laughing. At the bottom of his pillowcase were two dryer balls. Now HOW did I put the pillow in the pillowcase and not see the dryer balls??

After my shower each day I do four things. Put mousse on my hair, put on deodorant, put face cream on, and cream on my legs. Today I was thinking about something else, a dangerous thing to do I guess, and bent over and put mousse on my legs.

I don't know if I had better do much today.

Judy

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marilyn_c
17 years ago
A few days ago I was in Walmart and they had a bunch of very nice little sarassa comets...red and white goldfish...in the feeder tank. I have an empty tank that we filled up in the pasture when the hurricane was coming and noticed it had mosquito larvae in it, so bought 4 of the little goldfish to put in it. I told them, "You're the lucky ones"...meaning they wouldn't end up being fed to oscars and they were going into a big tank that holds several hundred gallons of water.

Well, got home, went to get the bag of goldfish out of the back seat of my truck to go float them in the tank...and no goldfish. I had left them in the shopping cart in the parking lot at walmart. :( To make matters worse, it is one that is 30 miles from where I live. Too far for me to go back and try to find them. I felt so darned bad. They only cost 28 cents apiece, so it wasn't the money, but the poor little things. They would have had a better chance with the oscars. :(
irishdancersgram
17 years ago
We all have those days, Judy....I'd hate to talk about all the senior moments I have.....
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Here it is! Liz emailed me with the link and I'll be happy to share the poem with everyone. I just love it! AAADD KNOW THE SYMPTOMS. PLEASE READ! Thank goodness there's a name for this disorder. Somehow I feel better even though I have it!! Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder. This is how it manifests: I decide to water my garden. As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at my car and decide it needs washing. As I start toward the garage, I notice mail on the porch table that I brought up from the mail box earlier. I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car. I lay my car keys on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table, and notice that the can is full. So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the garbage first. But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the garbage anyway, I may as well pay the bills first. I take my check book off the table, and see that there is only one check left. My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go inside the house to my desk where I find the can of Pepsi I'd been drinking. I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the Pepsi aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over. The Pepsi is getting warm, and I decide to put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold. As I head toward the kitchen with the Pepsi, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye -- they need water. I put the Pepsi on the counter and discover my reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning. I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going to water the flowers. I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with water and suddenly spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table. I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, I'll be looking for the remote, but I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers. I pour some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it spills on the floor. So, I set the remote back on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill. Then, I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do. At the end of the day: the car isn't washed the bills aren't paid there is a warm can of Pepsi sitting on the counter the flowers don't have enough water, there is still only 1 check in my check book, I can't find the remote, I can't find my glasses, and I don't remember what I did with the car keys. Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all day, and I'm really tired. I realize this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll check my e-mail.... Do me a favor. Forward this message to everyone you know, because I don't remember who the heck I've sent it to. Don't laugh -- if this isn't you yet, your day is coming!!
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Good one. Many thanks to the generation that preceded me for all the good stuff they invented, like the remote control!
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I've done all these things and more lately. My husband and I spend time every day looking for something for the other and often it is in plain sight. The weirdest thing is I've been losing the same wad of money over and over. About four or five weeks ago I needed some cash so my husband handed me $100 in twenties. I always put money in my purse completely unfolded but this time for some reason I folded it in fourths. It was about the size of a credit card. The first time I lost it I looked for it for a couple of days before I found it...in my purse. I've lost it three more times and my husband has found it each time...in my purse. I couldn't find it yesterday and I asked him to look for it. I warned him that I had changed purses. He asked where I put the old purse. I told him but thought it was strange that that was where he was starting his search. I had completely emptied that purse before I put it away, of course. But that is where he found it, in the exact same place he found it twice before. I have unfolded the money and I hope that takes care of that situation.
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gadgets
17 years ago
I love the moussed legs.......

Mine happened last Saturday. My sister and I were looking at night lights with bubble lights in them. They were down to only the ones on display, plugged into an electical strip, others all sold out. One wasn't working, so sis and I were trying to figure out where the door was to remove to change the battery. We couldn't find it so asked the sales clerk. Ahem...... they're electric and plainly plugged in!! Oh, well, we gave the gal a good laugh and something she can share on breaks with other clerks.

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lilliepad
17 years ago
Marilyn-I'll bet someone found the goldfish.Either the cart pushers or maybe some little kid.
How about looking for your reading glasses and they are on your face? LOL I've done that more than once.Or walking into a restaurant and having a dryer sheet fall out of the leg of your pants! Or answering the phone with the TV remote or vise versa.I did that just a couple of days ago.Getting old is no fun!LOL
angelaid
17 years ago
More than once, back in the days I had to dress more formal for work, I sprayed hair spray under my arms instead of deodorant
coral_ok
17 years ago
A few years ago before I retired from teaching, I brushed my teeth with Vagisil a few minutes before a parent-teacher conference. Not easy to be articulate and professional when your tongue is numb!
gadgets
17 years ago
All right, if there's a prize to be given out for the best senior moment story, I say we award it to coral_ok. That's hilarious.

Shirley
pattico_gw
17 years ago
How about putting stick glue on your lips thinking you picked up the chap stick?

A lady who works with my daughter reached in her pocket to get her eye drops, grabbed the wrong thing accidently, and dropped a drop of crazy glue in her eye...Good thing they work for an Eye Doctor.

I think I do "senior moments" hourly...!!!!

patti
OklaMoni
17 years ago
Oh, not exactly senior moments, or are they?

I left a bar of chocolate, the kind with milk in it at my daughters. Neither her, or her guy friend eat any dairy or meat.

and the apples, a whole bushel I bought at the Amish store, it is still there, along with my juice.

Guess, I thought she could use it all more than me?

LOL

Moni

PS, I am back home.
char2_gw
17 years ago
Can you have senior moments when you are younger? This happened back in the early 90's when leggings and the long shirts were in style. I had recently lost weight and had a teacher conference at my DD school. I don't usually fix my hair or wear make-up but that day I was all dolled up. Make-up, hair done, wore leggings thought I was just it. Sat down had the conference got done started walking to the car glanced down at my arm and thought huh I didn't know this blouse was had a seam there. Yep! The blouse was wrong side out! Of course I slunk back to the car and vowed I'd never go back.
Lindsey_CA
17 years ago
"Today I was thinking about something else, a dangerous thing to do I guess, and bent over and put mousse on my legs."

I bet the hair on your legs looked great, though...

;-)
lulie___wayne
17 years ago
You're not alone, Judy. Sometimes I wonder about myself, too. Too much on our minds and too busy, I guess.... I hope. lol
Lu
sue_va
17 years ago
Found in with some old papers earlier today:

A Sign of Becoming Old

Just a line to say I'm living, that I'm not among the dead,
Though I'm getting more forgetful, and more mixed up in the head.
For sometimes I can't remember
When I stand at foot of stair, if I must go up for something,
Or, I've just come down from there.
And before the fridge, so often
My poor mind is filled with doubt, have I just put food away,
or have I come to take some out.
And there's times when it is dark out,
With my night cap on my head,
I don't know if I'm retiring,
Or just getting out of bed.
So, if it's my turn to write you,
There's no need in getting sore.
I may think I have written,
And don't want to be a bore.
So remember - I do love you, and I wish
that you were here, but now, it's nearly mail time,
So I must say, "Goodbye, dear."
There I stood beside the mailbox,
With a face so very red,
Instead of mailing you my letter, I had opened, it instead.
I stand beside my desk, my head is bowed in shame.
I'd re-address this letter, but I just forgot your name.

Sue
dianamo_1
17 years ago
I've walked around my house before with a pair of eyeglasses on top of my head and a pair on my face. Didn't realise it until I happened to glance in the bathroom mirror. lol

This has actually happened more than once.
mamatoad
17 years ago
I combed my hair so nicely and then sprayed it with LYSOL!!
That "aroma" stayed with me all day!. Bettye
jomo
17 years ago
What do you mean, "getting old isn't fun?" Everyone around here, including me, gets a lot of laughs at my little lapses. The fact that I don't see too well adds to the laughs.
jannie
17 years ago
When I was much younger, I sprayed a spider with hair spray. It DID kill him-he got all balled up and stuck together. Not sure if this is a senior moment or a helpful hint.
kathyg_in_mi
17 years ago
HELP! I'VE FALLEN AND I CAN'T GET UP!
This is crazy, I'm laughing so hard I can hardly stay in my chair and I've got tears in my eyes, so it's hard to read! Keep 'em coming!
Kathy G in MI who is perfect.
Oh yeah, my DD reminded me that I was at the mall with her one day and she came up on me talking to the mannequin, (so I needed glasses)!
caflowerluver
17 years ago
Love that poem. I will have to send it to my 90YO Mom. She loved the last 'senior moment' story I sent her. I do that all the time, go into a room and forget why I am there. DH tells me to write things down so I don't forget to do them, then I lose the list. I go to the grocery store to buy milk and buy a whole bunch of other things, get home and realize I forgot to buy the milk. I HATE getting old!
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