Am I going doolally?

Be yourself...why try and conform? You are you...live in wonder of yourself and enjoy

As you imply, it's one rule for les étrangers and another for les français.

Far more sensible than Britain where the reverse applies , allowances made for foreigners an Brits have to abide by every law.

According to a doc, dementia isn't about forgetting stuff, it's about forgetting what stuff is for. EG car keys - we all misplace them from time to time, but as long as you know what they're for, you're fine.
Happy Half Term everyone

I suspect that the world is, very loosely, divided between those who think logically and those who make random associations – but there are many stations in between. I know there have been many occasions when I have come up with a correct factual answer to a question by sifting through an association, say, to a movie, then a song, then to a piece of history, then to a popular myth, then to a personality, then to a particular event. I have often likened my mind to an attic crammed with cardboard boxes full of files. I know that what I want to know is in there somewhere; it's just a case of accessing the right box.

What a good analogy Absent

That clearly explains how your thinking process works Absent. I like to believe I'm a logical thinker and work through logical and progressive thoughts to a conclusion. But I don't explain my various 'in between' stations (as you call them) so I have been accused of making 'quantum leaps'.

Same outcome but using different methods? It's just that you and I both don't verbalise the internal pathways leading from A (through X, Y & Z) to B and sometimes others get confused.

I have a friend with whom every single conversation is punctuated by "now where was I going with that?" I have learned to concentrate very hard so that I can get her back to the original point but sometimes she has strayed so many times I admit defeat and she has to start a new topic.
It can make having a coffee with her rather trying and I often remember afterwards that I didn't know the outcome of a particular situation.

So easy to do on forums , reviews etc. Got to love the 'Policing ' that goes on in forums, Facebook etc lol