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Robert wrote:I dumbfounded my wife a few weeks back by reciting all the car registration numbers we have jointly owned over the last 40+ years.
Eric wrote:
Come to think of it...I think it was on the old forum!
Well that's well beyond my memory span now.
Typical example: Working at the computer, decide I need refreshment, I go downstairs to make a brew, put kettle on, while it's heating the water I get bored, remember an urgent task, nip upstairs to do it, forget the kettle, eMail comes in, I reply to eMail, forget the urgent task, remember something else I needed to do, check clock, lunchtime; go to make lunch, remember the brew I hadn't made, boil water again and so on. It's no fun getting older on your own, unsupervised, need to keep busy.
Yet I can remember minute detail of some stuff even going back to childhood. Things like car reg numbers, key numbers, even telephone numbers from when I was six. I can list the function of almost every Lucas car wire colour code from memory. Yet I go downstairs and forget what I went for. I think part of the problem is that while I am going downstairs my mind runs riot thinking through 'schemes and projects' and gets diverted. I need to remain focussed.
I am in the very same boat Robert. I can be walking down the hall to accomplish a task and be thinking of something else and bingo, all of a sudden, I forget what I was going to do in the first place.
On the other hand, I can remember home addresses and phone numbers as far back as the 1950's and my father was military as was I so every couple of years we moved. That's a lot of old totally useless info
She turned to me and said " what time is your dental appointment tomorrow?"
"no idea"!
:-(
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Eric