Senior moments

[becalm]

What is my Life - You know you've become a senior moment kinda person when like me you....
Put your t-shirt on backwards and then
Put your inside out jumper over it and then
can't remember the 3rd thing that happened in that senior moment you just KNOW there was a 3rd thing that happened
Please share yours if you dare to admit you're a senior moment kinda person....
I think I'm gonna pass the next 30 years drinking wine and listening to music - who gives a shit, right!! hahahahahaha

 

[Trojina]

Oh I surpassed myself the other day.

I was in the opticians having new glasses fitted. So I tried them for size as instructed then put my old glasses back on. The optician had her hand outstretched to me and was looking at me with a mixture of puzzlement and amusement. 'What?' I asked, wondering what she was trying to communicate, 'What's the problem!?'. She was asking for the new glasses back so she could alter them however they were still on my face underneath my old glasses.

Hmm so I put one pair of glasses on top of another pair of glasses and saw no problem at all. I could easily have left the shop wearing 2 pairs of glasses one on top of the other and gone about my day as usual. I had been taking pain killers but still that is a bonkers thing to do.

I predict this thread may become very long because these kinds of incidents seem to be increasing.

 

[Liselle]

What a good idea for a thread.

Does it count that I know I've done many dumb things but can't remember them on demand? Glasses-related, I've gone around at times looking for my glasses only to find I was wearing them. I've heard that from other people so it's not unusual, but still.

I've parked my car behind the building I live in to unload groceries, brought the groceries upstairs, and completely forgot to go and put the car away. You're only allowed to park there temporarily to unload. Property manager has had to call in the morning to remind me, after it's sat there all night. Or worse I've gone to my garage the next morning only to find no car and then panic until I remember what must have happened.

 

[rosada]

I don't drive but we live close to the heart of town so I manage very well walking to where ever I need to go - except for the time I blithely headed out the door and ended up at the grocery store before I realized I had intended to go to the post office two miles in the opposite direction...

 

[becalm]

Awesome girls - thanks for sharing!! Love that we can laugh at ourselves!!

 

[my_key]

I have been having Senior Moments since my 20's.

Currently my phone seems to be taking a starring role. Put it down in silent mode and then not able to find it for a good few hours. Each time it has been left 'safely' in a different place each one seemingly becoming more random than the last.
Shed at the bottom of the garden. Underneath the fish food bag. In the downstairs loo. In with the dog walking poo-bags...... I could go on.
All priceless!!

 

[becalm]

I have been having Senior Moments since my 20's.

Currently my phone seems to be taking a starring role. Put it down in silent mode and then not able to find it for a good few hours. Each time it has been left 'safely' in a different place each one seemingly becoming more random than the last.
Shed at the bottom of the garden. Underneath the fish food bag. In the downstairs loo. In with the dog walking poo-bags...... I could go on.
All priceless!!

Sooo random!!! Sounds like you want to get rid of the damn thing.....oh for our own peacefulness. Probably you're wanting to join me in my red wine/music sabbatical!!

 

[my_key]

Probably you're wanting to join me in my red wine/music sabbatical!!

Just off to buy a long straw and a set of headphones with a enormous cable.

 

[Trojina]

Every time I see this thread I get this tune

Just have to change the lyrics in accordance with 'Senior Moments'

 

[Liselle]

Written by the same people responsible for Alfie, Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head, The Look of Love, etc. etc. etc. (Relevance to thread...um... when suffering a senior moment you're more likely to stand in the rain getting soaked? And ask people what it's all about?
Also because I was well into middle age when I found out that piece of trivia, hence my fascination.)

 

[Trojina]

But the thing is, and it's a worrying trend, the older I get the more I like songs I utterly despised in my youth. I mean I like 'Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head' now.

 

[Liselle]

Have your tastes in other things changed much? Trying to think if I have anything like that. I'll eat a lima bean or three now...

 

[Trojina]

I was kidding, they haven't changed that much but now I definitely see value in the old tunes whereas I didn't before.

 

[becalm]

I was kidding, they haven't changed that much but now I definitely see value in the old tunes whereas I didn't before.

I've found there's some music I used to like that I dislike now....

 

[Trojina]

Not sure if this counts as a senior moment or just a moment.

A few days ago I went to an art gallery with an artist friend. There were these screens with animations and such but I was interested in the screen that was flashing up all these words in quick succession to do with the plethora of beliefs/spirituality around us today....it was flashing words very quickly, from the bible, new age ideas, Buddhist concepts, everything that gets thrown at us from all sides in this age we live in.

I stood in front of it and my shadow was cast over it very distinctly so I thought this was deliberate on the part of the artist. I thought the work was placing me in the midst of all these concepts flying about my head. I thought it was about existing in the midst of all this. If you think about it 150 years ago people just weren't immersed like this in the spirituality of every culture on the planet on a daily almost casual basis and so the artist had made it so each person looking at the screen was shown their shadow amongst all those concepts.

Excitedly I called over to the friend 'come and look at this' explaining my perception of the work to her. She said 'well that's just the light from the projector behind you'.



Undeterred I said no I thought it was deliberate on the part of the artist and she was kind enough to say 'you may be right'..........

Apparently the work was to do with some cult who had used all these words in their Goggle search function or something so the rest of my theory on the meaning didn't hold either. But actually putting the person in the art seems a good idea, it would be an everchanging art work....and thinking this helped me to bypass my embarrassment and conclude I had simply made a conceptual leap over the artist's head....hehe



But with the nature of modern art installations who is to say when art becomes art anyway. Like that was the sort of gallery whereby if I had simply placed a cardboard box in the middle of the floor people would have gathered round it thoughtfully and discussed it's 'irony with reference to a fragmented society......'.

 

[Liselle]

Well, if you're in an art gallery you naturally figure everything's artistic and of grand (?) import. An artist could use a projector on purpose.

And anyway with stuff like that it might be expected that everyone will see it differently. If what you thought had nothing to do with the artists's intent, so be it, I guess. Recently I read something pithy about putting one's creation out into the world and then it becomes what it becomes, and sometimes that'll be something the originator barely recognizes. Don't know where I saw that, maybe here somewhere. I've heard it before, too, it's not a new idea.

 

[Trojina]

Yes, I guess so, I just felt a prize twat. Not that I cared too much but still I was a bit shocked I'd thought that effect was deliberate by the artist and it was just a light.

But as you say in that world anything can be anything.