Ruminations on Age
"Do you know where your hat is?" Your glasses? Your wallet? Your KEYS! Or, your slippers? Oh my...
Saturday, February 8th, 2025
This morning, I saw this in my Facebook Feed:
Responses to this sublime acknowledgment of “who done it? + where’d it go?”-ism ran the gamut from “minor brain damage is a small price to pay for all the good times we had,” to “isn’t ADD fun?”
But, funniest to me were the “age” related comments, such as:
Sounds familiar.
Welcome to the aging process.
Welcome aboard
“The Legend of the Missing Hat,” now available in paperback, by I. Forget.
What IS it with all the missing hats? (I’m down two that I know of).
Have you checked the top of your head for it ??
Ditto for me, with slippers.
That’s how I lost my two hats too!
And the ever amazing and perfect reply: “That hat looks really good on me!”
Now, me? I’m not much of a “hat loser” because I don’t wear hats! I am, however, a “task forgetter!”
You know! — When you find yourself heading down the stairs or hallway, moving with an intentional, quick pace, toward an obvious destination…and you have NO clue why? For me, this happens in all directions, from jogging up the stairs toward the kitchen or breezing down the hallway, only to stare into my bedroom and think, “I’m here for a reason. I know I am! But…that’s about all I know.”
My solution? Retrace my steps, to wherever my quest originated from, know that the second I walk through that final doorway, I’ll immediately remember what I needed and why I was in such a hurry!
Works every time. The “going back to whence you came” strategy, but — I have literally shown up in my room TWICE in a row, clueless as to why I’m there! The real trick, it turns out, is to say the word over and over again as I seek the object of my desire yet again!
“Socks, socks, socks, socks, socks, socks….”
“Wallet, wallet, wallet, wallet, wallet, wallet, wallet…”
“Kombucha, kombucha, kombucha, kombucha…”
And so on. Making the cranky, old, muttering characters that fill so many books distressingly relatable! (LOLOLOL)
So — what is your trick? And (for the brave) what’s your newest “Yup, I’m getting older” cross to bear? Do share!