Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 13, 2014

By this age playing hide and seek should be fun…..hiding in plain sight.

It was hard enough when I could remember what I was looking for.

Followed by, “It made sense at the time”.

When I leave my keys in the front door, it’s by accident when distracted, and I don’t know where they are.

Everyday memory loss comes in four stages: (1) you forget people’s names. (2) you forget people’s faces. (3) you forget to zip up. (4) you forget to zip down.

I can hardly remember, when I could remember that much.

Wow: Middle Aged. I’m told I’m elderly (and just when did THAT happen?) – but I don’t have that memory problem: yet.

Wow. I shoulda started that years ago.

He just does.

on brains. You just told tens of thousands of people, a percentage being thieves that your home is open to theft.

I don’t know about the rest of you but I certainly know a good idea when I see it.

@ dukedoug – It’s called thinking about the hereafter. You walk into a room and ask yourself… what did I come here after? .Apparently research has shown that passing through a door alters one’s memory because of the change in view… focus shifts from one thought to another with the change in scenery and we become easily distracted from the purpose of our original intent. Or something like that… I forget.

No matter how hard you try, they’re always in the last place you look.

I keep thing very close, and have lots of backups

I’ve noticed that’s actually true. Go back to the beginning and you will often see something that will trigger the same thought that led you away—if that makes sense.

I put my car key somewhere I don’t normally put it. It normally goes one of two places. It’s been more than a month now. I still don’t know where it is, and I’ve moved furniture to look for it.

Which one for comment? Or are we having an imaginative sequence?

No, no! That’s exactly how it works! Looking for keys…had to open a door, go downstairs….then there was some kind of a hole…oh, YEAH! The coffee cup! I know this for a fact….I do it every day. Well done, Mr. Miller!

I know what it was … Nope … Nope … Sorry I forgot

At least with car keys, it’s not all day before you realize you don’t have them b/c you can’t go anywhere without them. It’s not so easy with a wallet left in another pair of pants and you’re at the checkout line when you find out you don’t have it.

Wiley has a thing for islands, right? Two desert islands drawn the same week?

And, of course, the Ever Popular:WHY DID i COME IN HERE?(Finally scientifically explained)http://brainpages.org/why-you-forget-what-you-were-doing-when-you-walk-into-a-room/

I usually walk into a room to get 2 things, and walk out with 1. DUH!

I always put my keys in a logical place. It’s the logic that occasionally escapes me.

I always make sure I have at least three ways to get into my car….I have locked 2 sets in it before……But if I don’t want to forget and leave something someplace, I set my keys on it….You can’t get far without your keys…..Just make sure you’re driving….

Glasses on your head while you a researching for them is always fun!

I leave my keys in my pocket. So when I wash my pants, I put my keys in another pair of pants.

Funny…since I quit driving, my coffee doesn’t taste the same…missing some key ingredient ?

I learned in my early twenties – put the keys in the same place every time. .putting them down elsewhere causes an hour long search.

It is the conspiracy of inanimate objects. Those keys were snickering at him the entire time he was looking for them. And yeah, the mug was in on it too!

Keep mine on my chest of drawers but can’t find them because of all the other junk I am trying not to lose. :-Þ

I put my hearing aid in a place wherethe cats wouldn’t be able to play with it, it’s gone!

It’s interesting — I talk to young people and they tell me that they do this too — they just don’t worry about it because they are not “old.”