Share your "senior" moments. ;)

Ronni

Ronni

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Y'know, those times when you've done something completely brainless, and then had to look around quickly to make sure no one was watching! :lol:

The power went off the other day. I had just started boiling water for some tea ... stove is electric. In a moment of inspiration (so I thought) to circumvent no power and still get my tea, I filled up my cup and put it in the microwave.

And then to outdo even that, a few minutes later I flipped the light switch on, to aid me in seeing into the drawer where I kept my a flashlight!
 

I really dislike the term you use for a momentary bit of goofiness that knows no age specificity. I can remember doing nutty stuff from the time I was a little kid. One example: Frantically searching around our beach blanket, looking for my glasses that I thought I might have gone into the water with. Minor detail: I was wearing my glasses, at the time! I was around seven years old.
 
treeguy64 said:
I really dislike the term you use for a momentary bit of goofiness that knows no age specificity. I can remember doing nutty stuff from the time I was a little kid. One example: Frantically searching around our beach blanket, looking for my glasses that I thought I might have gone into the water with. Minor detail: I was wearing my glasses, at the time! I was around seven years old.
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Perhaps it’s a regional expression...my daughter who is not yet 30 talks about her senior moments all the time :) so do a lot of her friends. Call it whatever feels right to you....I mean no offense.
 

Ronni said:
Perhaps it’s a regional expression...my daughter who is not yet 30 talks about her senior moments all the time :) so do a lot of her friends. Call it whatever feels right to you....I mean no offense.
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I just don't like the expression because it gives young people the idea that all seniors are prone to being scatterbrained, and that it's normal for seniors to be so.
 
Ditto to what tree guy said. Gives the erroneous impression that older people are not only "losing it" but that there wasn't much there in there to start with.
 
RadishRose said:
No matter what, they'll always think people up in age are weird....till it happens to them.
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That’s right.

Day dreaming so much that I get lost in the forest while walking the dogs
Adding a ‘security code’ suggested to my last iPhone and not writing it down immediately so permanently disabled and lost everything; pictures, contacts, notes, important messages etc. It was a true DUH moment.
Forgetting to get gas and literally running on fumes to the point where the gas had a difficult time going in the tank due to the air pockets in the empty tank.
Losing other phones, MP3 players and other expensive things from forgetfulness.
This could be an endless list for me since I’m constantly doing daft things
 
Ronni said:
The power went off the other day. I had just started boiling water for some tea ... stove is electric. In a moment of inspiration (so I thought) to circumvent no power and still get my tea, I filled up my cup and put it in the microwave.

And then to outdo even that, a few minutes later I flipped the light switch on, to aid me in seeing into the drawer where I kept my a flashlight!
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Those aren't senior moments, those are just learned behaviors! funny though, and I follow your reasoning perfectly. :)
 
I think the cause of so called senior moments is that being retired, there is no reason to be mentally alert and active like it was when you worked. You now run mostly on cruise control doing the same things repeatedly which require no mental effort. Your brain gets lazy.
 
johndoe said:
I think the cause of so called senior moments is that being retired, there is no reason to be mentally alert and active like it was when you worked. You now run mostly on cruise control doing the same things repeatedly which require no mental effort. Your brain gets lazy.
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Soon after I retired, I started to forget what day it was.... like you said, no need.
 
I think that it helps if you live with one or more people so you always have someone to blame/suspect when these odd little things occur. :):playful::eek:nthego:

The other day I found the ice cream in the refrigerator instead of the freezer.

How did that happen?
 
Glad you asked because this happened recently. I was reading a member's story on SF when I needed to stop and come back to finish reading it later. That's when I started looking for the pause button. Never did find it. :confused:
 
I agree with Treeguy, I've had 'senior moments' long before I was a senior, multi-tasking and forgetting about something you had going on, leaving the house and forgetting something, etc. Seems these things have been happening all my life, especially in my busy working years where I worked a full shift, did some shopping on the way home, cooked supper, cleaned up, took care of the pets, did a little housework, showered and hit the sack.....to do all over again the next day.

My most recent 'senior' moment was a couple of days ago. I've been busy packing and preparing for a camping trip. I had a couple of small plastic cat bowls with covers that I couldn't locate. I emptied and refilled the cabinet I thought they were in several times, with no results. Ended up buying some new ones.

I looked in another lower kitchen cabinet for refried beans, we planned to make bean burritos with onions and cheese, smothered in mild green chili sauce. I free-feed my dog dry food, so his bowl is always on the kitchen floor. When I was sitting on the floor looking through that cabinet for the beans, I took a lot of stuff out and set it on the floor. When I put everything back, I obviously put my dog's food bowl back into that cabinet, just because it sat there in front of it every day. When I noticed later the dog bowl was unspilled in that cabinet, I was surprised. :doh:
 
treeguy64 said:
I really dislike the term you use for a momentary bit of goofiness that knows no age specificity. I can remember doing nutty stuff from the time I was a little kid. One example: Frantically searching around our beach blanket, looking for my glasses that I thought I might have gone into the water with. Minor detail: I was wearing my glasses, at the time! I was around seven years old.
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Ooooooh....aren't we touchy.

What was the original post about?
 
I've been having "senior moments" for a long time! Don't know exactly what causes them but they can be funny in retrospect. Only thing I can think of right now (and that's odd) is that today my car had a plastic car part fall down from the front end and was dragging. I got really nervous worried that the local police would pull me over and ticket me for it. Then later thinking about it I realized this part has been falling down for some time and that I don't think that the police would even be able to see it in the location it's at. I guess it goes under the category of "senior worrying!" :rolleyes:
 
Ronni said:
Perhaps it’s a regional expression...my daughter who is not yet 30 talks about her senior moments all the time :) so do a lot of her friends. Call it whatever feels right to you....I mean no offense.
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It's used here as well by all ages in a humorous--not at all derogatory--manner. I've also heard the more crude "brain fart" used. Suppose you could call it a "brain freeze" or something along those lines.
 
I really hesitate to tell this story because it is truly embarrassing(it took me a few days to even tell my husband),but a couple of weeks ago I went to Walmart, shopped for about an hour,came back out to my car,put my items in the back seat,got in and realized I had left my car running the entire time I was in the store! I had wondered why my car kept "chirping" at me while I was getting my bags out to take in and when I came back to my car. It was trying to tell me:rolleyes:. In fairness to me,my car frequently chirps or honks because I carry the spare fob in my purse,so it`s telling me the "keys" may have been left inside.(My car has no keys-just a fob.)Also,the center of the steering wheel blocks the view of the start button so the green light showing that the car is running cannot be seen (dumb placement,IMO) So,long story short,here my car sat,running and unlocked (I had "locked" it with the fob when I left it,but it won`t lock when it`s running)in a parking lot that is infamous for vehicle breakins and vehicle thefts. There is a homeless encampment behind the parking lot and most of the problems come from there. So I`m lucky that I still have a car....BTW-my car is not electric but it is extremely quiet when running. And my old car was extremely loud-we had special thingies put on in our biker days so it almost sounded like a Harley running. Add to that the fact that there is no key to take out of the ignition and I think this could have happened to anybody,right??:rolleyes:
 
Mrs. Robinson said:
I really hesitate to tell this story because it is truly embarrassing(it took me a few days to even tell my husband),but a couple of weeks ago I went to Walmart, shopped for about an hour,came back out to my car,put my items in the back seat,got in and realized I had left my car running the entire time I was in the store! I had wondered why my car kept "chirping" at me while I was getting my bags out to take in and when I came back to my car. It was trying to tell me:rolleyes:. In fairness to me,my car frequently chirps or honks because I carry the spare fob in my purse,so it`s telling me the "keys" may have been left inside.(My car has no keys-just a fob.)Also,the center of the steering wheel blocks the view of the start button so the green light showing that the car is running cannot be seen (dumb placement,IMO) So,long story short,here my car sat,running and unlocked (I had "locked" it with the fob when I left it,but it won`t lock when it`s running)in a parking lot that is infamous for vehicle breakins and vehicle thefts. There is a homeless encampment behind the parking lot and most of the problems come from there. So I`m lucky that I still have a car....BTW-my car is not electric but it is extremely quiet when running. And my old car was extremely loud-we had special thingies put on in our biker days so it almost sounded like a Harley running. Add to that the fact that there is no key to take out of the ignition and I think this could have happened to anybody,right??:rolleyes:
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I did the same thing - only once. I parked, went shopping for 15 minutes & when I came back to my car, I noticed the tachometer was at idle. It's a 2019 Altima with the pushbutton start & I couldn't hear the engine because I'm half deaf & also it's a very quiet engine - like an electric car.
Since then, I made it a habit to make sure the tachometer is at zero before I get out of the car.
 
I've never left the engine running, but I often forget where I parked the car in a big parking lot. That's probably a senior thing.

The automatic turning on the light switch during a power outage is not a senior moment. Everybody does that; we are trained, by millions of repetitions, to reach for our electric appliances many times daily. It's something we do unthinkingly; probably our brains are wired that way to free us to think about more important things than, "I am going to turn on the light switch now."
 
win231 said:
I did the same thing - only once. I parked, went shopping for 15 minutes & when I came back to my car, I noticed the tachometer was at idle. It's a 2019 Altima with the pushbutton start & I couldn't hear the engine because I'm half deaf & also it's a very quiet engine - like an electric car.
Since then, I made it a habit to make sure the tachometer is at zero before I get out of the car.
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Oh,thank God I`m not the only one!
 

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