I have written about my absent-mindedness before, in 2018 and in 2023. But I wouldn’t want you to think I am now free of the condition.
Have you ever lost something important, like your keys? Losing your keys at work is maddening because you know they have to be there SOMEWHERE or you never would have made it to work.
That happened to a friend of mine. She noticed about 10 in the morning that her keys were gone, and by 5:00 p.m. that day everyone in the office had looked for those keys - on her desk, in her desk, in file folders, behind her desk, under the two stuffed chairs in her office, under rugs, in the parking lot, in her car, in envelopes she had put in the mail, everywhere in the office she had been and everywhere in the office she had not been. By the time we left work at five (fortunately my friend had a spare key to her car), I was beginning to think that elves or aliens had spirited the keys away. I asked her to text me when she found them.
No texts came to me that night. Instead, she got a phone call the next morning.
Leaving the house the morning after she lost her keys, I reached into the outer pocket of my purse and pulled out my keys to lock the front door. I looked through the keyring a few times, trying to figure out why my house key was missing, when the penny dropped. I was holding my friend’s keys in my hand! Remembering that I had been in her office the day before., I realized I must have put my hands on the keys and, without thinking, slipped them into my purse because that’s where keys go. I would prefer to believe that aliens or elves or Bigfoot or the Tooth Fairy slipped those keys into my purse when I wasn't around, but my friend and I know the truth. The mind like a steel sieve struck again!
Oh, my. I've taken my husband's keys before.
ReplyDeleteYes, that happens sometimes too
DeleteWhoops!
ReplyDeleteYup!
DeleteYou can't be too absentminded if you remember that you've written about this before. And remembered the dates yet. I once grabbed my husband's wallet on the way to work and stuck it in my pocket. Did you 'fess up or let everyone believe the ghosts had done it?
ReplyDeleteI 'fessed up. It was too funny not to share.
DeleteYes, my husband took my keys and left for work, leaving me locked out of our apartment. I started wearing a lanyard with a house key the same day. My usual: I can't find my reading glasses because they're in my hooded sweatshirt pocket or on top of the washer.
ReplyDeleteAt least you've never lost your glasses while you were wearing them! I did.
DeleteHa! I know the feeling. Spent all day looking for my glasses and found them in the pantry...
ReplyDeleteSometimes the refrigerator is a goid spot too...
DeleteOh, no! That's hysterical. I've looked everywhere for my cell phone when I've been on a call. Oops.
ReplyDeleteHaven't done that yet, but Im sure it's only a matter of time.
DeleteI’m glad you found them! I am always loosing mine!
ReplyDeleteThank you!
DeleteThe other day I was speaking to my friend when she suddenly told me she couldn't find her phone. It took both of us a few minutes to realize she had her phone in her hand and was using it to speak to me.
ReplyDeleteAt least she found it...
DeleteI have a pencil holder on a desk right opposite my front door.
ReplyDeleteI keep a long chopstick in the holder and when I come home I loop the keys over it. When I go out I put my keys in my left hand pocket.
Designating a specific one seems to help.
Putting them in the same place all the time also makes them easier to locate.
If I am looking for a particular object I try to visualize when I last remember seeing it and try to trace it from that point.
My problem is I try to put stuff in the same place, but if I ever mess up and put stuff somewhere else, I have a really hard time finding it.
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