Senior Moments
I do hope my story of losing the car keys in the Bad Jokes thread is taken as a joke---it did not happen--yet. But it did seem to open up some thoughts about real senior moments, no matter the age.
I had a real senior moment yesterday.
I had been wanting to buy a household funnel.
I had been thinking about it all day.
I decided to go to the hardware store after I got off work.
I got off work.
When I got to the store, and realized I did not have my wallet.
I had left it up in the transportation van I drive.
I went back to the van, retrieved my wallet, and went back to the store.
As I went into the store a clerk greeted me asking how he could help me.
I could not remember why I was in the store.
I told him I was just looking.
He smiled, nodded at me, and said, "It happens all the time."
I had a real senior moment yesterday.
I had been wanting to buy a household funnel.
I had been thinking about it all day.
I decided to go to the hardware store after I got off work.
I got off work.
When I got to the store, and realized I did not have my wallet.
I had left it up in the transportation van I drive.
I went back to the van, retrieved my wallet, and went back to the store.
As I went into the store a clerk greeted me asking how he could help me.
I could not remember why I was in the store.
I told him I was just looking.
He smiled, nodded at me, and said, "It happens all the time."
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I was having a garage sale, and my aunt came over to sit with me. My son asked if he could have his friend over to play and I said yes, as long as he kept his eye on my daughter. About an hour later, my son and his friend came to the front of the house. I started lecturing him on the fact that he wasn't keeping my daughter with him. He looked at me with complete puzzlement.
I had forgotten that my daughter was sitting in my lap.
But it was a lovely service.
I'm so short sighted that if I take my glasses off and forget where I've put them there's little chance of me seeing them. On the other hand I'm so short sighted I only really take them off to shower or sleep.
Ditto.
You are lucky. I need a distance pair and a pair for the computer. I think I'll need some reading ones too soon, if only to correct the astigmatism.
Given my work as a writer, I asked the cataract surgeon to set my vision range at a couple of feet--computer range. That doesn't let me off having to have glasses in three different ranges--distance, close up and (Still!) computer. I suppose it's because my eyes continue to disimprove.
You have time for games?
I have to be nice to people all day - and tactful on SoF, if I don’t wholesale murder people somewhere my blood pressure would be horrendous.
I have varifocals for my everyday life; it was with some trepidation that I tried them as Mr Nen is a "Failed Vari Wearer" (two attempts) but together with an Occupational Pair for close work (reading) and middle (computer) distance which live on my desk my life has been Transformed.
Varifocals is the answer if you can get on with them. I put mine on as soon as I get up and only remove for swimming. Mine are photochromic so also act as sunglasses when needed, Its a game changer not to waste so much time looking for the right glasses!
The amount of swearing has decreased considerably.
At St Sanity, the readings for the day are printed in full in the orders of service handed out to worshippers as they enter the service. There are also a few copies printed in large font for those needing that to read One of the large font copies is on the lectern for those reading, and another copy goes into the Gospel which is carried in procession into the centre of the congregation.
You live too close to the US. Put a large pond between us and you speak a different English.
Hate them with a passion. No use for computer as you're looking through the lower part of the lenses all the time.
I'll be getting some new glasses in a few months when I start getting my work pension, until then, it's bear with the ones prescribed a few years back. I don't know that I need a new script, just unscratched lenses but I'll do a checkup regardless as there are other things to be checked too!
I've had a couple of those moments in the last few days, looking for the milk in the pantry rather than the fridge, whilst doing something else at the same time. Last night's one was boiling the kettle after filling it before bed, when I know I should have been getting milk from the fridge to microwave before bed. I get so mad with myself!! I have to stop multitasking!!
BTW I love asparagus, but will only eat British. The best was some bought from a roadside stall in Norfolk, adjacent to field where it was growing, and consumed just a few hours later.