I'm getting old :(

Saturday night I was getting ready to go out when I checked my wallet... **** where's my debit card? Oh, panic over I thought. I remembered having to take it out to go to the gym... it's in the rear pocket of my running shorts. Check running shorts... empty! :eek:

Taxi arrives so I ask the mrs if she has her card and wonder what I did with the debit card.

Anyway, I grab my nice jacket put my hand inside the pocket only to discover that the debit card was already in the jacket. I must have subconsciously taken it out of my wallet and put it in the jacket, which is weird because I didn't even remember seeing it since going to the gym (and I don't wear that jacket day-to-day).
 
I managed to walk out of tescos express without paying this week. The cashier chased me out to my car. I was very confused as I was using the automated thing and had left the putting it into the bag part until later on in the routine and just walked out.
 
You can take steps to minimise the erosion of short term memory as you get older. Proper diet and exercise have a lot to do with it but stress can have quite a detrimental effect too. Also, you need keep your brain working and the best way to do this is to try to keep learning - anything that uses the brain and the body at the same time is perfect. Learn to paint, learn languages, learn to play an instrument - anything like that.

I come from a family with a history of Alzheimer's so I try to look after my brain health as well as my physical health! Senior moments aren't a given. You can do things to mitigate!
 
Thread has reminded me that the leftover dinner I planned to have for lunch today is still sitting in the fridge at home, despite me saying to myself several times this morning "Don't forget that". **** sake :/

mrk said:
Top rule to minimise forgetfulness, this works every time:

Be less forgetful.

You heard it here first.
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Good tip. I'll have to remember that.
 
Wife and I went out one day - got to car park and off she went - sat there playing with phone then got out and couldn't lock door - I just press door button twice - didn't work - checked pockets and no KEYS - we got there with wife's key in her handbag - I was stuck in car till she came back and you know how long it takes women to shop. - No her phone wasn't switched on - never is as she forgets to charge it.
 
KiNgPiN83 said:
- Enter a particular room in the house and have no idea why i'm there. (Until i go back to where i decided i needed to go to said room and it comes back to me.)
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I'm 48 later this year and this happens to me at least once a week - I console myself by putting it down to lack of concentration, rather than premature senility or somesuch ...
 
Wait until you start putting random things in the fridge instead of the cupboard or vice versa, puts the whole 'why did I walk in here?' problem in to a different league. Also I forget to take meds (I put that down to lack of sleep some nights). Memory like a goldfish too.

My wife and I actually had a full conversation about something on telly where neither of us could remember the names of any one or the show. It reminded me of my being around elderly relatives as a kid. I am going to book our retirement homes now. We are both in our early forties :eek:.
 
What is this tracking device of which you speak? I'm intrigued.

Lopéz said:
Yet I can remember, with crystal clarity, random events from decades ago right down to what people were wearing etc etc
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What was I wearing the first time we met?
 
I can remember past conversations with clarity, addresses and telephone numbers after a couple of glances as well as a daft amount of techspecs for the equipment at work.

But can I remember where the **** I put my car keys? Nope. I now have to have a lanyard on each different set of keys I have so I can find them easier when I inevitably lose them.
 
Nah I misplace stuff and have done since I was a kid. You're just more and more into autopilot mode as you get older and that messes you up.
 
I find putting spectacles, keys, watch and wallet in the exact same spot when I get home removes 95% of "Where the Hell did I leave X?" moments.

Getting my work bag ready the night before where everything I carry has it's own "spot" works nicely as well.
 
Sometimes I leave my house to go to my car, (normally to get something I left in it accidentally) knowing I'm coming back only seconds later, and I've locked the front door pointlessly without realising it.
 
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