Senior Moments
I don't know if you use this phrase but it's becoming a regular part of my dialogue with other people lately. Like when I can’t remember a name. Since I sometimes wear my real estate name badge people usually break out in a comfortable smile with “Hi, Bruce, how’ve you been?” Which is cheating __ THEY don’t have a name badge, so how can I possibly be cheeky with THEM in return???
Anyway, one common symptom of these 'moments' is when you bolt up from your chair with an urgent task that just came to mind, get maybe ten or fifteen paces only to realize you’ve forgotten the whole thing. After rummaging around in the many vacant spaces of my mind for the lost reason I’m back in my chair.
But, and this is the meaningful part, the moment, the very atomic instant, that I sit down again, It's Back! And with all the clarity and urgency of the first vision. After this happened several times I read that there is a name for this condition; The Brain Drain Gravity Theory.
A guy probably related to Murphy claims that the brain is actually transient. That is, it normally resides in our skull but with sudden vertical motion, such as leaping out of a chair, gravity takes hold (since the specific gravity of the brain's gray matter is greater than that in the rest of our body) and the organ falls rapidly toward one's behind.
This explains why, when one sits down again and stimulates the butt, the brain rises with its natural buoyancy to its former place in the skull and reminds us what it was we had gotten up to do in the first place.
This phenomena will continue for several get up / stride away / pause / return to seated position cycles until the victim learns to write down the task BEFORE arising and taking the note with him/her. An unfortunate corollary of this is that people with this condition can be found wandering about the house with either note in hand or, in my inventive case, a Post-It on my shirt. I have done this enough to give guests concern. I tried putting them on my glasses once but that only lasted a few steps.
I have explored other options such as a notepad in my pocket but that requires me to carry a pen or pencil all the time and since I hate to get my shirt dirty now I use a pocket protector and well, you know how that looks. Especially with a name badge.
I don't know if you use this phrase but it's becoming a regular part of my dialogue with other people lately. Like when I can’t remember a name. Since I sometimes wear my real estate name badge people usually break out in a comfortable smile with “Hi, Bruce, how’ve you been?” Which is cheating __ THEY don’t have a name badge, so how can I possibly be cheeky with THEM in return???
Anyway, one common symptom of these 'moments' is when you bolt up from your chair with an urgent task that just came to mind, get maybe ten or fifteen paces only to realize you’ve forgotten the whole thing. After rummaging around in the many vacant spaces of my mind for the lost reason I’m back in my chair.
But, and this is the meaningful part, the moment, the very atomic instant, that I sit down again, It's Back! And with all the clarity and urgency of the first vision. After this happened several times I read that there is a name for this condition; The Brain Drain Gravity Theory.
A guy probably related to Murphy claims that the brain is actually transient. That is, it normally resides in our skull but with sudden vertical motion, such as leaping out of a chair, gravity takes hold (since the specific gravity of the brain's gray matter is greater than that in the rest of our body) and the organ falls rapidly toward one's behind.
This explains why, when one sits down again and stimulates the butt, the brain rises with its natural buoyancy to its former place in the skull and reminds us what it was we had gotten up to do in the first place.
This phenomena will continue for several get up / stride away / pause / return to seated position cycles until the victim learns to write down the task BEFORE arising and taking the note with him/her. An unfortunate corollary of this is that people with this condition can be found wandering about the house with either note in hand or, in my inventive case, a Post-It on my shirt. I have done this enough to give guests concern. I tried putting them on my glasses once but that only lasted a few steps.
I have explored other options such as a notepad in my pocket but that requires me to carry a pen or pencil all the time and since I hate to get my shirt dirty now I use a pocket protector and well, you know how that looks. Especially with a name badge.
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Wow, what a great site!I'm from San Fran, and contemplating making the move to your neck of the woods, and found this very insightful and information-packed resource. Great way to get to know something about someone else's community that is honest and down to earth. Thanks!
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