You know you're getting old when ...

You don’t know socks are. :(
 
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When you find yourself taking items off your bucket list - and it's not because there's not enough time for them, but because you no longer have the ability to do them.
 
When you lay something down and a min later you're looking for it and you can't remember where you layed it down at.
And its cousin: When you lay something down and a min later you're looking for it and you can't remember where you layed it down at ... but it doesn't matter because at some point in the process you can't remember what it was you were looking for.
 
When you have to turn around and walk back into the room you just left so you can try to remember why it is you left the room in the first place.

This happened to me the first time about 10 years ago, and it scared me. I worked upstairs in my bonus room, and came downstairs for something. It was in winter, and I found myself standing in the hallway with my coat on. After a little head scratching I decided I have my coat on, so I was going outside for something - must have been going to check the mail. No mail yet, so I came back in, took the coat off and went back upstairs. Dammit! I was going out to the car to look for a zip drive I thought I had left in the console. Down the stairs, coat back on, nope no zip drive in the car. I later found the zip drive in the cabinet I kept my wallet in. But it was terrifying to be standing there all dressed up and no place to go.

It happens so often now I just don't even bother trying to remember.

My specialty though is "Googleheimers." That's when you want to Google something, but by the time you minimize a window or two, and/or open a new tab, you can't remember what you wanted to Google. You wouldn't think you need to make a note for something you want to do a mere 20 seconds later!
 
When you find the keys you’ve been angrily looking for 10 minutes, in your pocket.

How about looking for the cell phone you are currently talking on? I looked for my reading glasses for five minutes once, went to the bathroom to see if I left them in there, and I was looking through them at myself in the mirror.
 
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