Have you ever ' lost ' something momentarily?

Question

Hubby had been doing the veg for dinner. He likes to do them, on a board ,in the front room while watching TV. Goes back and forth from kitchen to living room with prepared veg in various saucepans. All of a sudden "I've lost my knife"
Major brain damage! We searched the kitchen, the front room, The bin outside (because he had recycled something)
the bathroom (I even looked down the toilet). We searched the couch where he had been sitting and he even said I know I am going to stab myself at some point.
Well, luckily he didn't but he found them in the back pocket of his jeans! Was this a lapse, a senior moment or should I keep a close eye on him in the future?

Answer 1

This kind of thing happens to me all the time! I used to think it was all the pot I smoked when I was younger, but now all my friends are catching up with me. My favorite one is once I couldn't find my glasses, and I was wearing them!

Do you ever have trouble thinking of a word? Or someone's name? It's like your memory goes right up to the edge of that word, and then there's sort a hole there. The harder you try to think of it, the worse it gets; you could swear you feel the little gears in your brain grinding against each other! You know if you just forget about it, it will come to you all on its own in a few minutes. It's just one of those 'gifts of age'. 8^)

This is why it's so good to be married (or partnered) at this age. She remembers the things I don't, and vice versa.

Answer 2

I've found the "lost" box of salt in the icebox, the lost dishcloth there also; my lost glasses on top of my head; once found the house keys the morning after I lost them, still in the lock on the outside (dangerous thing to do).

If it's a tool and I can't find it in a month or so, there is a sure way to find it........ buy a new one. As soon as you get it home, you'll find it immediately. :o)

If it's old age, I've been old for the past 45 years. hehe

BTW, don't ever move something and think "I'm putting this here so I'll know where it is". It'll be gone forever!

Answer 3

It's just a lapse, I have them too. It happens when I get to doing 2 or 3 things at once and am not really concentrating on any of them real well, like your husband was doing running back and forth and watching TV. I've put things in the cabinet that should have been in the fridge or left something I fixed in the microwave and found it later. I've even started to put clothes in the dryer and realized I hadn't washed them yet. lol

Answer 4

I frequently lose things and it isn't always momentarily. Sometimes they're never found. Most annoying are the things I put in a special place thinking "This is important so I need to put it in a safe place." Later I can remember the thought but not where the safe place was.

And for you younger ones ... I hate to say this but it will probably get worse instead of better.

Forgetting names? A few months ago, I was introducing my sister to a friend and I couldn't for the life of me pull up her married name and they've been married for at least 20 yrs. Wonder what Freud would have to say about that?

Answer 5

This does happen to me sometimes. The most recent was this past summer when I lost my car and house keys for a period of five days. I even called my in-laws to see if they had taken them home with them by accident! I have a bowl on our seansonal table that I through the keys in when I walk in the front door. When they weren't there I presumed that my in-laws had picked them up with some stuff we sent home with them when they were visiting. They live 60 miles from us. Anyway, I offered a reward to my kids and grandkids when they came over for a birthday party if they could locate my keys. No one could find them. Then later that week, I went to get the shed key to open the shed so I could mow, and my keys were hanging on the key rack, in the kitchen. If I would have looked up there anytime I had eaten during those five days I would have seen them. But instead I had moved all the furniture (more than once) in the house, all the appliances, went through my closet, and kept inferring to my wife that her parents had taken them, and just didn't know it. I really had some explaining to do when I found those keys. I think what happen was, that I carried in some groceries and walked to the kitchen dropped off the groceries, and went to the deck to show something to my father-in-law. When I came in I was talking and just hung my keys on the key rack in the kitchen, like always do when I am through with the shed key and come in the back door via the deck. In the mean time I really thought I was losing my mind! It can happen to anyone....I just didn't like it when it happen to me!

Answer 6

Not an age problem. I've been doing it all my life. I sometimes have to call myself to locate my mobile.
I remember once opening the fridge and looking in the door for milk. Nothing! No, not even my 18 yr. old daughter could have drunk all the milk overnight. I took a second look and spotted an empty glass on a shelf. I then opened the glass cupboard and sure enough, there was the milk.

Answer 7

Maybe it was a touch of all 3! When items go temporarily missing in our house we blame it on the "Borrowers"! It's much nicer imagining that there are tiny, tiny people living somewhere in our house who "borrow" items every now and again than admit we've misplaced something due to a "Senior moment" lol.
Hope you've read the book or seen the film "The Borrowers" or you won't have a clue what we're on about lol.

Answer 8

you gave me such a chuckle! My hubby going on 75,does that all the time. He starts sometimes by going to the fridge and saying", I can't find the jelly"so I say its on the top shelf right hand side behind the milk. and sure enough there it is. Also he loses the remote to his TV and he asks me where it is, I don't use his TV,I have my own why would I take his,and sometimes its missing for days and then all of a sudden it will turn up on the floor in the laundry rm,men are MISPLACERS.they would lose there heads if they weren't attached!

Answer 9

I let myself in the house three weeks ago with my keys next day could not find them and had not gone out no children either to hide them, Spooky or what and I'm 44 and getting a bit worried. Not really had some more cut they'll turn up now you see.

Answer 10

I keep momentarily losing the wife(God bless her) but he always sends her back, Now if you do your womanly duty and you prepare the veg as God ordained you would not put your poor man in danger of cutting the wrong stalk, animal or vegetable!