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What was your last "senior" moment?

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NanaEm Fri 04-May-18 11:53:34

I was puzzled yesterday when I couldn't get through to my garage on my mobile. I checked the telephone number on my iPad and tried again, the number was correct apart from the fact that the first zero was missing. Penny dropped, I was using the calculator keypad on my mobile !!!

Laurie54 Sat 05-May-18 15:25:37

I can’t remember! Lol

ninathenana Sat 05-May-18 15:23:50

After posting about scraping my car yesterday today I have put some rhubarb on a low gas to stew. I've just gone in the kitchen to find a solid black lump at the bottom of the pan......
Well it was 2 hrs later shock

Allygran1 Sat 05-May-18 15:21:49

Aren't we all fabulous! All these senior moments, and instead of worrying about it we are all sharing one of the downsides of ageing.

Although on a serious note I wonder if anyone has found this; Statins apart from nose bleeds and blue finger tips, I also have more senior moments. I came off them and have had a less fuzzy head, much better. It might be unconnected but certainly a big improvement for me coming off statins.

0wlfred Sat 05-May-18 14:51:47

OldMeg, thank you so much for making me laugh out loud!

nellgwin Sat 05-May-18 14:36:19

Sluttygran grin once put my shoes into the washing machine instead of the shoe cupboard, trouble was they got washed with the mixed colours ?

Sheilasue Sat 05-May-18 14:21:29

I have senior moments every day ?

annodomini Sat 05-May-18 13:43:01

I'd like to tell you about my last senior moment....but I can't remember it. grin

allsortsofbags Sat 05-May-18 13:31:30

OldMeg, love your post grin

So many posts here that resonate with me smile

lovingit, I can identify with that seeing some one familiar in the mirror experience lol. Happened to me abroad and I thought that woman looks so familiar but I don't know anyone here. Dhurrrr

sluttygran Sat 05-May-18 13:26:39

I lost my purse containing bank cards etc.
I searched everywhere, no luck, rang local shop - they hadn’t seen it, cancelled bank cards, then decided on a comforting cuppa. I opened the fridge to get out the milk, and there was my purse, sitting neatly on top of the butter!
This gives a new meaning to the term ‘Frozen assets’.

Bellanonna Sat 05-May-18 13:23:10

Such a relief reading many of these posts. So glad it’s not just me. The pinching of the written page with two fingers really made me laugh out loud. I’ve done it more than once, along with so many of the other quirks mentioned.

granny12 Sat 05-May-18 13:11:03

I am so pleased to know I am not alone. I am moving house and have just been conned by a former gardener with a sob story. Such a nice young man = I wish I could post a warning somewhere about him - I am left feeling very foolish. Still onwards and upwards.

nellgwin Sat 05-May-18 13:01:52

Yes last night, I read my emails a day late from my friend flying out to me for a holiday, picking up at 22.50pm. Got to the airport ( one and a half hour drive ) and waited and waited no sign of them, waited for all flights to come in, still no one, had I got the wrong time? dear husband put me in a taxi to take me home just in case we had missed them (135€) and to check my email, while he waited at the airport.
Had I got the wrong time, of course not, just wrong day, so we will be at the airport again tonight to welcome our guests to Portugal.? Unfortunately not the first stupid thing I've done but a gold medal time I think and DH ? not a word about my stupidity just a cuddle and a kiss.

newnanny Sat 05-May-18 12:45:12

Every so often about once a week I go to say something and I have a total blank. One day someone asked me which bank I used and I went to tell them but could not recall. This is despite banking with them for 30 years. One day I went to town to post parcel at Post Office and when I parked in car park I just sat there and I could not recall where I had to go. I rang dh and asked him where I was going and as oon as he said parcel I remembered. I find it scary and worrying and now I am writing down all appointments which I never needed to do in past. I sometimes now forget names which I have always been good at remembering. I am not even all that old. I am desperately hoping it is just the menopause. Anyone else had this and then went back to normal again?

kookim Sat 05-May-18 11:59:16

too many to remember

pollyperkins Sat 05-May-18 11:55:51

Yes that'll be it probably. It's very fussy!!

Blinko Sat 05-May-18 11:53:41

capital 'B'?

jocork Sat 05-May-18 11:52:56

I'm increasingly forgetting names and often go upstairs for something, get distracted doing something else then remember what I wanted just as I get back down.
My best though was the time I was making fruit flapjack to take to work for my birthday. Because I was making a large quantity I'd multiplied the ingredients and had to weigh the oats in a few separate batches. The flapjack was great getting many compliments from colleagues one of whom even said it was 'to die for'. When I got home I found my weighing scale pan brim-full of oats! The last lot never made it into the mixing bowl so the result was very very rich, buttery, sticky flapjack! I now reduce the oats slightly but not quite that much!

pollyperkins Sat 05-May-18 11:47:58

Why did that not work?

pollyperkins Sat 05-May-18 11:47:23

Ha ha these have made me laugh out loud! I'm glad it's not only me. I find my library card does not work at the leisure centre and vice versa!
I requently forget names of people I know perfectly well and it can be embarrassing when in a group I say 'Well I agree with... umm' and gesture towards them. They always notice and remind me kindly of their name. [Blush]

grandMattie Sat 05-May-18 11:44:10

Yesterday - when I mentioned to DH that the "laudanum" I could see on the street was looking particularly nice. [Laburnum...] The funniest thing was that he agreed with me and knew exactly what I was talking about!

allule Sat 05-May-18 11:41:43

Oh...alexa! The kids fitted one up for my husband to play music in his room upstairs. The problem is he can't remember the name.
I was really concerned about his mental state when he came down, and started to complain at length about "you know....that woman upstairs!"

Suzyb Sat 05-May-18 11:31:37

We’re in Melbourne Australia visiting our daughter. Went to the cinema and couldn’t understand why the card machine wouldn’t accept my credit card to pay for the tickets....I’d only inserted my driving licence instead.

Charleygirl Sat 05-May-18 11:09:14

I have to stop myself saying please and thank you to Alexa and Echo Dot.

clareken Sat 05-May-18 10:48:00

Tried to unlock the door by turning the key the wrong way- repeatedly. Took it out of the lock, put it back in and did the same again.

Blinko Sat 05-May-18 10:31:25

I bought my first silicone muffin baking tray and thought Id christen it with breakfast muffins. Filled the wells with egg and bacon mix then tried to lift the darned thing into the oven. Egg and bacon all over the floor and very little left in the muffin tray.

Egg on face....shock