The "Oh Dear, I Seem to be Getting Old" thread

[Basil]

Tonight, after getting changed at work, I returned to my desk.  Jacket, good.  Mitts, good.  There's my cap.  Hang on, where's my buff?
Search desk. Look in drawers.  Empty pannier in case I've mixed it up with my shirt and socks. Research all that again. No joy.  Research all possible places a third time.
Manager:  "What the hell have you lost now?"
Me:  "My buff"
Manager:  "Is that the thing you've got round your neck?"
 

[T42]

So I pick up the hammer, go look for a nail. Get the nail, find the hammer's no longer in my hand. Start looking for it. Got it. Where's the effing nail? So I go look for the nail...

Been doing that for the last 30 years, though.

[ian]

I can't even remember when I became absentminded.

[Mr Larrington]

I've put my book somewhere.  A big fat papperbok with the word "OXCRIMES" in large friendly letters in the cover.  I'm sure I had it in the Great Hall before I went out at lunchtime

[Jaded]

Sit in meeting listening to eternal drone whining on
Sharp, cogent rebuttals simply fly into my head.
Catch the chair's eye so I can speak.
Oh bugger, they've gone.

[De Sisti]

Bought a tablet last week for an xmas present. Put it down on chair in dining room to wrap up later. Last night tablet not
on chair. Search the whole house, can't find it. Go to wardrobe to get clean bedding for weekly bedding change. Notice the
tablet in wardrobe.

[T42]

Bought a tablet last week for an xmas present. Put it down on chair in dining room to wrap up later. Last night tablet not
on chair. Search the whole house, can't find it. Go to wardrobe to get clean bedding for weekly bedding change. Notice the
tablet in wardrobe.

I had to go and watch this again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB7F5LI113g

[Basil]

Hands up anyone else who has made a cup of tea, then put the kettle "away" in the fridge.

[tiermat]

Hands up anyone else who has made a cup of tea, then put the kettle "away" in the fridge.

Nope, it's just you, Basil.

My senior moments seem confined, at the moment, to putting my undies on back to front and inside out, only discovering the mistake when visiting the loo.  In my defence, I usually get dressed in the dark (as those who know me will attest to, due to my lack of, ahem, satorial elegence)

[Clare]

The fridge is the first place I check whenever I have lost anything small enough to fit in it, usually it is keys. I have tried to convince Vernon that they need chilling to work correctly.

[Si_Co]

Everyday I have to return to my desk after getting to the bike shed to discover I'm missing one of camera, computer, gloves , helmet, keys and in one case shoes 

[Mr Larrington]

Hands up anyone else who has made a cup of tea, then put the kettle "away" in the fridge.

The kettle is attached to the wall by means of a length of anbaric string, but I have more than once put the milk in the sink and the teaspoon in the fridge.

[L CC]

The fridge is the first place I check whenever I have lost anything small enough to fit in it, usually it is keys. I have tried to convince Vernon that they need chilling to work correctly.

In my place of work CarKeys are kept in the fridge to remind the purchaser of the milk they bought and forgot to take home.

Doesn't work for bicycle owners, and their babybels. 

[Palinurus]

I refilled some of the isopropyl alcohol wash bottles at work with some gloopy glycol ether with a boiling point of about 300C.

It wasn't the greatest solvent for general lab use; bit reluctant to evaporate.

[Paul]

This thread is testing my continence - which is also my contribution 

[T42]

My granny died in the 50s at the age of 86.  She had a story about her mum going up to bed with a chamberpot in one hand and a candle in the other, putting the pot on the bedside table and setting fire to the bed.

[bikenrrd]

Hands up anyone else who has made a cup of tea, then put the kettle "away" in the fridge.

I discovered a box of mouldy Quorn in the cupboard next to the freezer which must have been there about 4 days.
I'm not even old - but I do have a 7 month old daughter who was about 4 months old at the time and not sleeping well.
So, I know what it feels like to be old!

[TheLurker]

This morning, scrabbling in my rucksack looking for keys... that I'd pulled out my rucksack 5 minutes previously and put with my cap so I'd not forget them....

[Wowbagger]

I got in a terrible muddle buying tickets for Mrs. Wow's birthday treat. I think I might wax lyrical in the rant thread.

[Kim]

I tried to think of senior moments to post on this thread, but I couldn't remember any.

[fuzzy]

I've just had a chat with a grown up about me arresting his Dad. Said grown up wasn't even a twinkle when the arrest took place

[Jaded]

Retd policemen are getting older every year...

[Pickled Onion]

Hands up anyone else who has made a cup of tea, then put the kettle "away" in the fridge.

My grate friend Soggs* was very much not-old when he filled the electric kettle then put it on the cooker to boil....

... And did exactly the same thing a week later with the new kettle.

* It may not surprise you to learn that "Soggs" was short for "Soggy"

[fuzzy]

Retd policemen are getting older every year...

You really know how to stick the knife in don't you Jaded?

 

[Wowbagger]

Ah here it is!