Topic: Does anyone else do this?!

[natterjak]

Maybe I'm getting too old and my memory's going, but I've just looked in the fridge and there's a tub of single cream I bought in the supermarket last week. It's going out of date so I need to use it but can I remember what I bought it for?! No chance....

Doubtless it was to go into a recipe but I have no idea which one! And I've done this before with Panch phoran - bought because I definately needed it for a recipe I was reading and by the time I had it I was clueless what I was to use it for!

Oh well, senility advances 

[Salvador Dhali]

Do it? I'm pretty sure I invented it!

Not only do I not remember why my fridge contains many of the items it contains or their intended purpose, but I long since stopped counting the number of times during the day in which I find myself standing in the kitchen, fridge door open, gazing in at said mysterious contents, and thinking "What THE F**K am I doing here? I'm supposed to be in the garage looking for a screwdriver..." (Or similar.)

Mind you, my genetics don't help. Even at my age my old man had a notoriously bad memory, and I have yet to eclipse his finest moment, when he called the RAC about his car.

RAC man: "What seems to be the problem sir?"

My old man: "It's my car."

RAC man (emitting audible sigh): "Yes sir... But what seems to be the problem with your car?"

My old man: "I can't find it".

Turns out that he'd parked his car somewhere different to his usual spot near the railway station and returned from a hard day's graft in town having completely forgotten where he'd left it.

I can only imagine the RAC man's reaction upon hearing my old man's ranting when he explained that there wasn't much the RAC could do about it without recourse to a Vulcan mind meld...  ;D

(I made the mind meld bit up, but the rest is true...)

Time to check on the fridge, I reckon...

[976bar]

Do it? I'm pretty sure I invented it!

Not only do I not remember why my fridge contains many of the items it contains or their intended purpose, but I long since stopped counting the number of times during the day in which I find myself standing in the kitchen, fridge door open, gazing in at said mysterious contents, and thinking "What THE F**K am I doing here? I'm supposed to be in the garage looking for a screwdriver..." (Or similar.)

Mind you, my genetics don't help. Even at my age my old man had a notoriously bad memory, and I have yet to eclipse his finest moment, when he called the RAC about his car.

RAC man: "What seems to be the problem sir?"

My old man: "It's my car."

RAC man (emitting audible sigh): "Yes sir... But what seems to be the problem with your car?"

My old man: "I can't find it".

Turns out that he'd parked his car somewhere different to his usual spot near the railway station and returned from a hard day's graft in town having completely forgotten where he'd left it.

I can only imagine the RAC man's reaction upon hearing my old man's ranting when he explained that there wasn't much the RAC could do about it without recourse to a Vulcan mind meld...  ;D

(I made the mind meld bit up, but the rest is true...)

Time to check on the fridge, I reckon...

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to do that with the misus?!!!