The joy of aging

[left-of-center2012]

For lunch today I decided to have a glass of milk and a sandwich.
I went into the kitchen, poured myself a glass of milk, and made a sandwich.
I walked back into the living room, put the milk on a table to the right of my chair, sat down, looked at the side table ~~~ no sandwich.
Got up, walked into the kitchen, looked around ~~ no sandwich.
Walked back into the living room, looked around ~~ no sandwich.

That’s when I realized I’d been walking around with the sandwich in my left hand.

[elleng]

1. Going to grocery soon to pick things up for visiting daughter.

What's her name???

[lillypaddle]

2. Look on the bright side

the dog could have eaten it.

[PDittie]

3. Been there done that

[mopinko]

4. turn around and walk slowly back the way you came.

sometimes i get all the way back to where is was, but it usually dawns when i get there. or seconds after.
file under- how to save your own life. lol.

[left-of-center2012]

5. turn around and walk slowly back the way you came

And all the time I was walking with the sandwich in my hand.

[mopinko]

6. well, the walking helped you remember.

srsly, there was a study that came out a while back explaining why we forget things when you go through a door. when you go back the other way, i usually dawns.

[left-of-center2012]

7. "the walking helped you remember"

No. It was the looking around and seeing it in my hand.

[mopinko]

8. i suppose in this case it would have been better to sit down.

i'll remember that one next time walking fails me. lol

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. I almost hate to tell you, but I could do that exact same

thing when I was 25.

I honestly don't do things like that any more often than when I was 40 years younger. Although it almost always involves my car keys, not a sandwich, but that's not the important part.

[left-of-center2012]

10. Spent an hour once looking for my house keys (about 2 years ago)

Found them on a shelf in my "junk closet".

Why?
I don't know.