Worrisome aging processes, or just laughable faux pas?

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I played golf yesterday, and my riding partner Mark and I both got tokens for a small bucket of practice balls, and both filled our buckets. We then pulled down 50 yards to the range to park, and I went to my bag to pull out 6-7 clubs to take to the practice range. I looked in the floor of the cart at one bucket and looked for another bucket all around the cart. I finally asked, "Mark, did I leave my bucket of balls back under the machine?" He replied, "What's that in your left hand?" I was holding the bucket in my left hand, clubs in my right hand, looking for my bucket. We both laughed, I uttered an expletive, but a slight shiver went up my spine.

I few years ago I couldn't find my reading glasses, and looked all over for them. I finally went into the bathroom, thinking that I might have left them there after my last trip. When I looked at myself in the mirror, I was looking through my reading glasses at my image in the mirror. Dang!

Some few years before that I was talking with a friend on my cell phone while driving. I told him to hang on. I thought I had lost my phone, and looked the best I could while still driving. When he asked what was wrong, and I told him I couldn't find my phone, he said, "How are you talking to me?" Another, or the first, dang!

Are these signs of having too much on my mind, funny little screw ups, or first signs of dementia?

I have heard it said that forgetting where you put your car keys is short-term memory loss, or just memory issues. When you find your keys but don't know what they are used for, it could be dementia.
 
dmarbell said:
Are these signs of having too much on my mind, funny little screw ups, or first signs of dementia?
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Your being on this site is a sign of dementia.

Losing track of whatever you have in your hand is just a thing people do occasionally.
 
Cowboy said:
I literally was just looking for my cutters while fixing barbed wire fence and it was in my hand.
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If I could keep track of my damn tools, home projects would, no joke, take half the time.

I swear I spend just as much time looking for the whatever I just had as I do doing actual work.
 
Chdamn said:
If I could keep track of my damn tools, home projects would, no joke, take half the time.

I swear I spend just as much time looking for the whatever I just had as I do doing actual work.
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My fave is taking the tool you have with you when you go to look for the tool you need, then losing the one you have during finding the one you need in a repeated cycle of old man fog.
 
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My wife does the forgetting thing when she's really stressed. It's super annoying when she tells the same story twice in 5 minutes.
 
Do it all the time.... I'll get up to go get something to drink... walk back to the bedroom and realize I never got anything to drink. Or I'll get up to go do something and completely forgot what I was going to do.

Adult ADD is a bitch
 
I was talking on the phone this afternoon as I'm looking at our dog in the backyard.

She started barking and I put my phone in my pants pocket while walking outside to see what she was barking at.
I then say outloud to myself "sorry my dog was barking at something."

I realized my phone was in my pocket after about a minute or so.
The person was still there...

We had a laugh about it.

Thought I was losing it today.
😁
 
dmarbell said:
I played golf yesterday, and my riding partner Mark and I both got tokens for a small bucket of practice balls, and both filled our buckets. We then pulled down 50 yards to the range to park, and I went to my bag to pull out 6-7 clubs to take to the practice range. I looked in the floor of the cart at one bucket and looked for another bucket all around the cart. I finally asked, "Mark, did I leave my bucket of balls back under the machine?" He replied, "What's that in your left hand?" I was holding the bucket in my left hand, clubs in my right hand, looking for my bucket. We both laughed, I uttered an expletive, but a slight shiver went up my spine.

I few years ago I couldn't find my reading glasses, and looked all over for them. I finally went into the bathroom, thinking that I might have left them there after my last trip. When I looked at myself in the mirror, I was looking through my reading glasses at my image in the mirror. Dang!

Some few years before that I was talking with a friend on my cell phone while driving. I told him to hang on. I thought I had lost my phone, and looked the best I could while still driving. When he asked what was wrong, and I told him I couldn't find my phone, he said, "How are you talking to me?" Another, or the first, dang!

Are these signs of having too much on my mind, funny little screw ups, or first signs of dementia?

I have heard it said that forgetting where you put your car keys is short-term memory loss, or just memory issues. When you find your keys but don't know what they are used for, it could be dementia.
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I hate it when I’m trying to think and nothing happens lol
 
The first time it happened to me was at least 10 years ago, and maybe longer ago than that. I worked upstairs in my home office, and I needed something that I couldn't find. I went downstairs, put on a jacket, and stood in my hall with no idea what I was doing there. After a little while, I decided since I had my jacket on I was going outside, so maybe I was going to get the mail. I went out, no mail, came back in and took my jacket off and went back upstairs. When I sat down I remembered I needed a zip drive I thought was in my car. Back out to the car, and there is no zip drive there. I finally found it near my wallet.

I remember feeling scared standing there in the hall with jacket on, with absolutely no idea of why.

I have also developed "Google-Heimers," which is when you need to look something up, and by the time you open a new browser you have no idea what it was you needed to "Google."
 
Gets worse when you start mixing up words.
In a discussion yesterday, i meant to say harshest critic but i blurred out harshest trigger 😂
 
My wife was looking for something several years ago and couldn't find it. I found it under the couch. All she had to say was "I already looked under the couch!" "Well, that's where it was."

So...fast forward over the years....

Whenever my wife couldn't find anything small enough to fit under the couch, that's where I always claimed to have found it when I helped her...no matter where I really found it at!

Drives her nuts!

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You guys have me feeling better this morning - thought I was starting to lose it from living up here in the woods the last few years. Just think we all are SOOO much better than our current President!
 
TexasEskimo said:
Bought a bottle of beer at the bar, my first of the night. Minutes later I couldn't find it and asked my friends. They said "it's in your hand". I was 30, so it's not old age.
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I do this constantly with drinks. I'll look around and think where is my drink then my wife, friend, whoever will say you finished it. Can is in the trash. I'll have to go look bc I cannot remember throwing it away. Happens multiple times a week at work with water bottles
 
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One of my favorite pass times is to run to the grocery store to grab some bread, come back with drinks, snacks, dogfood, paper towels, chips, and ice cream.

Then I get home and realize I forgot the bread.
 
B00ger said:
One of my favorite pass times is to run to the grocery store to grab some bread, come back with drinks, snacks, dogfood, paper towels, chips, and ice cream.

Then I get home and realize I forgot the bread.
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I did this exact thing last week. My wife asked me to stop at the store and get a couple cans of black beans while I was out. I got home after spending $50 at the store and my wife asks where the black beans were. In my defense, she didn't text me with a list like I asked her to. I did run back up and got the black beans and a 12 pack of Hazy IPA so everything turned out OK and dinner was great.
 
In our household we refer to this phenomena as "chasing squirrels".

I now make a list of planned activities for the day over morning coffee.
 
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