Further Senior Moments !

As I was being discharged from hospital on Tuesday, a Nurse asked me where I lived. My mind went a complete blank. I could give her the post code, I could tell her my last address, I could tell her how to get there, just not the name of the street!!!

I too have left my baby outside a shop and been well on my way home before I realised and ran back for her, and I’ve jumped into strangers’ cars thinking they were my lifts (not once but three times). The other week I found my phone in the fridge. And just today I poured our soup into bowls and put them out on the table with spoons and bread. It might have been helpful if I’d remembered to heat it up first...

yes, I've put glasses on top of glasses too! also straightened glasses on my face when not wearing them! ha ha. hand goes up by habit!

I've been having a long senior moment. We were given a beautiful orchid in February and I said to my husband that it was risky as we haven't managed to keep one, ever. So, I have been lovingly giving it a drop of water every so often and watching it continue to bloom, not a shedding of a single flower or bud in sight. My husband even commented how well it was doing. So the other day I decided to risk moving it from the lounge table to a smaller side table and it was only then that I realised it was a fake orchid!! It's an excellent imitation but I am left wondering how I could have gone 7 months without noticing (and him indoors too!!)

Friend had been asking my advice on how to lose some extra pounds he’d gained. It gave him quite a distinctive shape.
Few days later whilst shopping with my little ‘in, in my then small town, I saw him (Could tell his shape from the back and he was wearing his usual smart grey suit) on the other side of the street peering into the bakery window.
I yelled across the busy street “ well your not gonna lose any weight if you go in there’”...... he turned around and it wasn’t him ?
Cue for me to turn crimson and run as fast as I could whilst pushing my baby in the buggy .... soooo embarrassing. Again as pp said not so much a senior moment, but maybe new mum hormones?
Worse, but not funny at all, was when my mum in her late seventies, was using prescription eye drops as she’d had laser treatment for macular degeneration.
She used them religiously and always kept the small dropper bottle in the same place. Unfortunately, she also had a bottle of (same size & shape) Tippex fluid correction... she lives some distance from me, and when she phoned me to tell me what she had unwittingly done, I was aghast. Thankfully, no long term ill (she’s still alive to tell the tale at 97 plus!) effects. However, she said that it took copious amounts of water to “ ungum” her eyelids... I’m shuddering even now just recalling the memory.

My FIL once took a swig of Friars Balsam cough linctus but got confused and swigged the White Horse Oils embrocation for his bad back instead.

I sprayed my hair with fly killer,and I'd just had my hair done!

No flies on you CarrieAnn!

After having just removed my nail polish I once picked up and drank nail varnish remover instead of a small bottle of beer sitting beside it! Luckily I was outside and soon spat it out!! . Another time I brought the washing downstairs with my make up bag, you guessed it the whole lot went in the machine, everything in my make up bag totally ruined, didn’t do the clothes a lot of good either! I will have to write 100 lines of “I must concentrate more”!

Several years ago a well know brand of gravy granules changed their packaging (jars instead of packets). My dh made me a cup of what he thought was coffee with it. Not nice with milk and sugar.

My husband was at the end of the drive recently when a delivery man asked if he could leave the neighbour's package with us. He asked H for the name of our house, but he could not remember it at all! Delivery man wasn't too bothered, but H certainly was. I've been testing him ever since, name of the prime minister, the date etc!

Have had quite a few chuckles reading these today. Not a great day but looking up a bit now. Am sure I’ve had my own senior moments but none come to mind right now.

minxie

I was googling something on my mobile phone and I couldn’t find my phone, which was in my hand ?? worrying

Yip I've done that and also jumped in shower and forgot to take my hearing aids out which totally destroyed them....

I too got in the shower the other day with my glasses on,i also got into bed the a few days ago with them still on.The thing is i don't need to wear them as much as i do,so just seem to forget to take them off.

I was putting ear drops in and it felt a bit different and so I checked and realised that I had put eye drops in (they were in the same sort of bottle). Just glad it wasn't the other way round as I don't know what ear drops in my eyes would have done to my eyes.

Made my daughter a G&T and forgot to put the gin in! She wasn't impressed!

Love these...
Getting ready for my smear test, borrowed my daughters intimate deodorant. Got to the doc, you know the way you are lying there saying tell me something funny to take my mind of what’s happening down there. When he laughed and replied I love someone with a sense of humour. Didn’t know what he meant till I went to the toilet afterwards and discovered ...yep you’ve guessed it I had used my daughters spray glitter for her hair instead of the deodorant.???

A neighbour knocked at mine to collect a very large package that I had taken in for her, according to the courier card.
It turned out that my upstairs neighbour had it, but had forgotten her flat number when he asked her.

She checked by looking at her door, but one digit had fallen off, making it the same as my number.

Many years ago when the DC were all at school, I left home in a hurry to collect them and we walked home via the park and swings as it was a nice day. It wasn't until I opened the door and smelt a curious burnt smell that I remembered I'd left some eggs on to boil. The saucepan was deformed and the eggs had exploded. There was egg shell embedded in the soft coving around the kitchen ceiling.

My life skills haven't overly improved. Last week I put the cover on the back of our little boat as we were leaving while DH took a couple of things back to the car. This week we went to go for a trip out in her and discovered that, although I'd put the cover on perfectly, I'd left the door wide open inside. (This despite having the key hooked onto my finger)

I tried to remove nail polish using mouthwash! Thank goodness I didn't do it the other way round and try to rinse my mouth using nail polish remover.

On a car journey stopped in a lay-by for lunch and let the dog out. Set off again but several miles down the road realised Topsy was very quite. We had forgotten her. Apprehensively went back but she was sitting watching every car that passed.

It was the first time I had taken my baby out - it was 1964 and usual to leave babies in prams outside shops - without a member of staff! I did my shopping, went home, and then realised that my baby was still outside the shop!I rushed back, hoping that nobody had noticed,not wanting to be thought a bad mother after only 2 weeks!

My son has worn glasses since a baby. I used to get so weary of pulling them off to clean smudges, then hurriedly popping them back on, until the day I firmly planted them squarely on top of the dog's nose, who never left my son's side.
Just yesterday my husband reheated and then poured left over cheese sauce onto his sticky toffee pudding. I'd used the jug more frequently used for custard.

When dd1 was only about 10 days old, I left her in her pram in Boots, having completely forgotten that I had her.
Luckily I was meeting my mother shortly afterwards and her horrified ‘Where’s the baby??’ sent me whizzing back to retrieve her, aghast, but nobody had twigged, phew.

They had a nice rinse then! Fret not.