The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for July 01, 2021

You’re not the only one: it often happens to me too. And for many years.

It has to do with the hereafter…..like what am I here after?

I find that I forget what I am looking for when i go into the next room to look. But that may be old age.

Usually, the best thing to do is go back to the room you started from and you’ll remember what it was. Then you need to remember that when you trek back.

If you can’t remember what you were looking for, that means that you didn’t need it in the first place!!

(O _ O)

That’s a BIG pet peeve with me-when i go into an area to do something or to get something and when I arrive I forget what that thing was. ;/

If I only had a nickel for every time that happened to me.

It’s the doorways that do it to us.

The thing of it is, I usually don’t remember why I went in the next room, until I get back to my original room and sit back down. So now, I go into the next room, forget why I am there, and then sit down in that room, and then I remember why I am there. I don’t know why it works, but it works for me.

Veni, vidi, vici – I came, I saw, I conquered…. Or as my wife says, Veni, vidi, Visa – I came, I saw, I shopped!

Tied a string around my finger to remember something, later, I wondered who tied it or why it was there in the first place. One of my life’s great mysteries.

sadly that happens to the family and I too often…

Brutus, the doctor gave me some pills to help with my memory but I forgot where I put them. Any advice?

if i can’t remember something i find that ice cream helps. i usually don’t remember, but it doesn’t matter if i’m eating ice cream…

Basically, I think Brutus and I have one track minds. This means that if while doing a task you happen on some other thing or task, the new task erases the original task. Even while preaching, I might lose track of the original thought by “chasing the wild hare” and heaven help me after that.

Okay, I’ll start all over again…I can do that!

There I am. I think? Mama don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys – or Brutus or Mama Gargle.

I forgot what I was going to comment.

Congratulations. You are now a part of the middle aged/older person club…….

Veni, vidi, oblitus!

Been there done that!

“I came, I saw, I can’t be cured…”

As we grow older, we think more about the hereafter, because when we walk into a room we think, “what was I here after?” :)

I know which room I came out of if I find my coffee cup.

You sigh. You try. And success is nowhere nigh!

Brutus shouldn’t multi-task, you know walk and think at the same time.

It’ll come to you went alarms start going off.

I do that all the time…

Yep, happens to me. Far to often. Forgetting why I went into a room or late at night when I should start heading towards my bedroom, I get about half way there when I find myself going the opposite direction, towards my home office.

Sigh. That’s me all over.

The Doorway effect

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160307-why-does-walking-through-doorways-make-us-forget

Finally remembered what I was going to get, now forgot why I wanted it.