Senior Moment

[k0ua]

I blame most all of my memory problems on my youth. I tested to many 9 volt batteries with my tongue. I think I fried some brain circuits. :laughing:

Uh, Oh... that was my favorite testing method too..

 

[RaydaKub]

Yes, that can play some part in it all. I'd heard, and I'm not sure it was a ruse or not, that as we age we have taken on a LOT more information and retrieval of information becomes a bit more difficult as our brains have to rummage around through a lot more stuff.

My friend puts it this way. Your brain is like a stadium. Each cell has a seat. So you want to remember the name of the new neighbor next door or what the wife asked you to get at the grocery store on the way home. The seat with that particular bit of information is empty because that cell is out getting a hotdog. That's why you can remember it later.

 

[RaydaKub]

Well I just recovered from a Senior Weekend! I lost my truck keys on Friday... today they showed up inside my underwear in the laundry basket.

Sure glad you added those last 4 words. :laughing:

 

[MossRoad]

Well I just recovered from a Senior Weekend! I lost my truck keys on Friday... today they showed up inside my underwear in the laundry basket.
:confused3:

Best part I found them before the better half. I have a tendency to suggest that she has something to do with me misplacing things as she is always sweet in picking up after me. Now I have to make up a good reason why/how they got there.

Pretty much every spring or fall I lose our shed/garage keys and pretty much the next spring or fall fall I find them again in the pocket of one of my ratty hooded sweatshirts.... I only wear those spring and fall.

 

[Midniteoyl]

I've started leaving the keys to my vehicles "stashed" in/on the vehicle. I get so tired/upset having to walk back to the house to get a set of keys.

And @ 74 - I've decided that its long past time start going the other way with my age. A month ago, I fell while limbing a large downed pine tree. My hand is finally feeling better. As I progressively get younger I don't expect to fall so often and it certainly will not take so long to heal.

I will gladly relinquish wisdom, that comes with age, for agility/strength that comes with youth. I won't be giving up much anyway.

Keyless entry with the remote (and house key) always in my pocket.. I have 4 sets. One for each pair of pants

 

[powerscol]

Today went out to fire up the tractor. Key was not where I left it in the corner of the tool box. Looked for it over and hour, then went in the house to find the spare on the key rack. Then I remembered I used it last week. So back out to the tractor and more looking under the seat, on top of the trans through the various holes around the seat. Then something hit me in the head while I was looking under the dash by the floorboard...it was in the ignition switch with the small key chain flash light hanging down? Never thought to look there as I always put it in the tool box.

I was having a Homer Moment DOH!!!!!!!

PS I found the spare on top of a hay bale this afternoon along with the gloves I have been looking for - right in plane sight.

 

[DieselBound]

And the hits just keep coming...

Finished making up some pipe for a riser for an electrical connection in my soon-to-be-built new garage/shop. Went to my old "shop" to fetch my "caution" tape (for burial) and dug through as much as I could to the point where I couldn't stand it anymore (I can't take more than one step in any direction w/o having to pick something up and move it out of my way, and then move it out of my way as I back out of where I end up). Just about ready to give up and go buy some new tape when I spotted it. The one box, a clear plastic tub that you can look in to, that I had initially thought it was in, it was in; just wasn't in that box as I'd had it registered in my mind- thought that it was on top of that box but it was at the bottom. In more orderly times I'd had this box (and others) stacked on a shelf, stacked such that that box would have been more at eye level: it was remembered as being "up," so I didn't look "down."

It's all like going by some outdated GPS maps. You have a view of things that are no longer so, and rather than actually navigating (finding what you are looking for) you are trying to change everything back to what it used to be in order to find what you're looking for.

Of course, all this rambling could yet be just another senior moment.:laughing:

 

[check]

And the hits just keep coming... Finished making up some pipe for a riser for an electrical connection in my soon-to-be-built new garage/shop. Went to my old "shop" to fetch my "caution" tape (for burial) and dug through as much as I could to the point where I couldn't stand it anymore (I can't take more than one step in any direction w/o having to pick something up and move it out of my way, and then move it out of my way as I back out of where I end up). Just about ready to give up and go buy some new tape when I spotted it. The one box, a clear plastic tub that you can look in to, that I had initially thought it was in, it was in; just wasn't in that box as I'd had it registered in my mind- thought that it was on top of that box but it was at the bottom. In more orderly times I'd had this box (and others) stacked on a shelf, stacked such that that box would have been more at eye level: it was remembered as being "up," so I didn't look "down." It's all like going by some outdated GPS maps. You have a view of things that are no longer so, and rather than actually navigating (finding what you are looking for) you are trying to change everything back to what it used to be in order to find what you're looking for. Of course, all this rambling could yet be just another senior moment.:laughing:

What's MUCH worse is when your wife "tidies up" the garage or boathouse, especially if she cleans up the work bench. That can set you back months!

On the other hand, I often discover that I have several copies of a particular tool.

 

[DaveNJ]

Yep, that's about the way it goes. The boob tube is good for one thing and that's getting me to sleep. Sometimes I get up and turn it on at about 2 or so, usually about 15min later I'm gone again. If it's anytime after 4:30, I'll give up, get up and make the coffee.

The Woman and I have rediscovered the boob tube. We watch TV episodes from 50+ years ago that we remember were good when we saw them as kids but can't remember what actually happened.

 

[hawkeye08]

Yep, memory is getting worse, I forgot what I was going to share...

 

[Kubota 2350]

Two weeks ago I opened our back storm door, it caught my shoe, stopping it from opening all the way. I stepped forward and caught the thin edge of the door square in my chest. It knocked me backwards down the 4 steps to the back door!

Later that night at work, I again walked straight into the edge of a restroom door that I only partially opened and it caught me in the exact same place.

At home again that night, I was moving through the house with the lights off so I wouldn't wake up my wife. Guess what? I walked into the edge of the bathroom door and got floored into the hallway.

As I sat there on the floor, contemplating death as surely this was a sign, I took the time to reflect on my life. Then I went and had an oatmeal cream pie with a glass of milk and all was well. :licking:

However, after two weeks now, it still feels like I may have cracked a rib. Its finally getting easier to breath deep breaths and I can start doing dips again.

Learned years ago to NOT do that, I worked nights and my wife like to change the furniture around, I tripped over the couch one night.

 

[oosik]

I've experienced all of you guys falls at one time or another. Most recently - limbing a fallen pine tree - caught my foot on a branch and fell, full weight, on my hand. That was a month ago and the hand is finally, almost back to normal. He who hasn't fallen, hasn't got out of bed yet.

 

[Tractor Seabee]

Oosik, I can identify with you. Tripped over the base of a light standard in the middle of a sidewalk in Sellwood OR. Caught my whole weight on my right palm. luckily my reflexes are pretty good or I would have bashed my forehead. Urgent care thought wrist was broken so splinted it. Week later Orthopedic surgeon said only a bad bruise. He was surprised not to find a mangled wrist as that is the common result with my age group. Two weeks later and I am back to normal (mostly).

Ron

 

[rd_macgregor]

I noticed, as others have, that a memory lapse is almost always corrected by a reminder. This means that the memory is in there somewhere, you just can't access it on demand. To me, this is totally analogous to a computer with a messed-up file allocation table (FAT)...which explains my wife's shorthand reference to FATHEAD.

 

[k0ua]

I noticed, as others have, that a memory lapse is almost always corrected by a reminder. This means that the memory is in there somewhere, you just can't access it on demand. To me, this is totally analogous to a computer with a messed-up file allocation table (FAT)...which explains my wife's shorthand reference to FATHEAD.

That got a smile from this old FAT boy.

 

[Citydude]

The contractor building my pole barn ran into a layer of rock with his skid steer auger and couldn't drill the last 4 holes. That evening, I took my neighbors backhoe to the site and commenced to dig the rest of the holes. It was dark by the time I finished. I crawled down off the hoe to admire my work and then walked around to front of the tractor to relieve myself. I forgot the corner hole I dug right in front of the bucket. Nothing broke, just a nasty bruise a tweaked knee and my pride and maybe a wet pair of pants.....

 

[GoldenCityMuse]

Yeah, I have those too, in fact just recently I..., I.......

Well, lessee, I can't rightly remember what it was, but I'm shure it was good.

 

[52wej]

Guys, there is nothing wrong with your memory. The problem is that as we get older all of us have so much junk stored away in our brains that it is like an over stuffed filed cabinet where it is hard sort through all of the mess! You are not forgetful, you just have too much information to sort through! :laughing: Willie Jones

 

[MossRoad]

Learned years ago to NOT do that, I worked nights and my wife like to change the furniture around, I tripped over the couch one night.

We have a LARGE foot stool... 3'x3' solid wood box (I build 'em tough!). My wife likes to slide it over by the window so the cat can sit there and look outside during the day. Well, I like the foot stool in front of the couch... to put my feet on! So its been over by the window for several months. I moved it back to the couch. That'll teach her..... I went to work a night shift. When I came home, I slammed my toes into it, right where I put it. :laughing:

 

[MossRoad]

I went out to our rural property to cut firewood today. The last couple times we've been by there, we noticed a tree was down across the entrance, which is cut into a rather steep hillside. So today I took the saws and went to clear the road so I could get some firewood for this winter. The tree was up on a really steep bank cut and I was very careful to get it into manageable pieces. However, there was one piece, about 5' long, that was left on the hillside. No problem. I'll just cut 16" sections off it. As I was cutting, I was thinking to myself, there must be a branch stub or something holding this log from rolling. I shouldn't be cutting it from the downhill side. I bet it would hurt to have that log roll into your shin. I'll move after this cut....

Well, I was right. There was a branch stub sticking into the bank holding the log from rolling down the hillside. The stub was in the section I cut off. So instead of the small section rolling down the hill to my right, the 3-4' section to my left rolled into my shin. OUCH! :laughing:

Honestly... what the %^&*&*!!!! was I just thinking? DON'T STAND HERE. :confused3: