Do you do things so automatically that you forgot you did them?

[Em in Ohio]

Do you do things so automatically that you forgot you did them?
No, I'm not one of those old fogies, youngsters make fun of.

Do you do things so automatically that you forgot you did them?
No, I'm not one of those old fogies, youngsters make fun of.

HA HA - perfect! (He posted the same thing twice - hysterical!)

 

[Em in Ohio]

Oh my - wrote a comment and then forgot to post!

Do you do things so automatically that you forgot you did them?
No, I'm not one of those old fogies, youngsters make fun of.

Do you do things so automatically that you forgot you did them?
No, I'm not one of those old fogies, youngsters make fun of.

HA HA - perfect! (He added a comment and then repeated it - hysterical!)

 

[Judycat]

Yes. It drives me nuts not being able to remember having done something. I guess this is how it will be from now on.

 

[Pinky]

I talk to myself so that I'll remember things. I guess that proves I'm nuts

 

[raybar]

You're very lucky. My wife did the same once and the end result was, no kitchen, living room, sun room, and dining room. Of course, the rest of the house was smoke and water damaged to say nothing of the holes in the roof the firefighters had to make. ☹
Aftermath of the kitchen.

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Yes, very lucky indeed. Lucky that there was only water on the stove - nothing flammable. Lucky that there was not enough water to "boil over," put out the burner, and fill the house with gas. Lucky that is was a heavy cast iron pan that could take the heat. Lucky that I got home quickly.

 

[Red Cinders]

Ruth, yep, I do too. For me, some of it is just the repetitiveness of everything and some is being distracted by doing many things at once. I've put some safeguards in place such as always using a timer when I have something on the stove and always pulling out the coffee maker plug when I take my last cup. I remember my grandmother having little routines to remember things, and my mother also double checks herself for everything.

 

[Red Cinders]

I talk to myself so that I'll remember things. I guess that proves I'm nuts

Pinky, just get yourself a dog or cat if you don't have one. My husband hears me jibber jabbering all over the house, and I just tell him I'm talking to the dogs (although I'm not really.)

 

[Aneeda72]

All the time and we forget to lock the back door of the house which is why the mileage is so high on our car. Did we? Sigh, got to go back home and check.

 

[Furryanimal]

I usually forget my iPad is on charge, always mean to unplug it before going to bed, but nine times out of ten there it is, fully charged and still plugged in the next morning....

I imagine we’re all rather preoccupied at the moment, that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it !

I never charge anything overnight.Just in case...

 

[C'est Moi]

Yes. I take my blood pressure pill, then check the pill box at least two more times to make sure. (Among other things.)

 

[Meanderer]

Didn't you start this same thread once before? ....can't remember.

 

[Pecos]

Oh yeah: Did I close the garage door, did we lock the back door, is the cat in or out, did I take my pills, did I clean the litter box, did I haul the garbage out to the street, how come that item that was on the shopping list didn't hop into the basket like it was supposed to, did we start the dishwasher, do the sprinklers come on tonight or tomorrow night?
…… I could go on and on, and I doubt that it is entirely caused by getting older.

Thank the Lord for modern I Phones with their calendars which work so much better than that Day Timer I used to drag around.

 

[drifter]

Medication. Yes, so often morning and night, sometime taken automatically, not realizing
where I have or not. I have a good system but I have to pay attention.

 

[In The Sticks]

I will sometimes prepare the birds' food and fail to put it in the enclosure, because my coffee is ready. Somewhere around 10 AM, they lose patience with me and their squawks bring me back into focus - I have set it on the table, in their line of sight... I feel so guilty!

That's pretty funny.

Good thing you didn't teach them to talk.

 

[Ferocious]

I talk to myself so that I'll remember things. I guess that proves I'm nuts

That makes two of us, Pinky, or maybe just you and me, or both of us too.......hang on, I'l start again, I may have got that wrong.......doooooooooh.

 

[Linda]

This happens to me all the time! Its very frustrating.