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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsChecked off another box on the "Dammit, I'm old now" list
Just wandered around the house for ten minutes, getting progressively more annoyed, looking for my reading glasses.
Yep. They were on my head the whole time.
AllaN01Bear
(18,443 posts)when i was a kid , half of life was looking for the infernal things . lol
LakeVermilion
(1,044 posts)Needless to say, I couldn't find it and assumed it got tossed in the trash.
Two weeks later I found the original prescription in the freezer. (You've got that to look forward to!)
Attilatheblond
(2,220 posts)One time, I found the milk in the dishwasher. Empty glass was in fridge. Sad thing was I was only 24 at the time.
keithbvadu2
(36,937 posts)spooky3
(34,483 posts)Buying cheap readers for every room in the house.
happybird
(4,634 posts)Have a bad habit of stepping on them after they've fallen off the bed, so am down to my last pair.
Which also brought me to one of life's big conundrums:
How in the hell are you supposed to see to tighten that tiny screw on the arm of your reading glasses if all other pairs have been misplaced, broken, or "borrowed?"
GreenWave
(6,766 posts)That way I discover things I had not yet realized were missing!
peacebuzzard
(5,183 posts)you know, life is so distracting its way too full of interruptions. Too many things on the to-do list that you lose; so then start a new one.
3catwoman3
(24,054 posts)My glasses are one thing I never (almost never) misplace, as I'm so nearsighted that they are on my face except when I'm asleep or in the shower.
If I really couldn't find them, I'd have to put on one of my extra pairs in order to look for them.
rurallib
(62,451 posts)atreides1
(16,093 posts)There's a list?
Chainfire
(17,644 posts)What is really riling me lately is that I will be seated at my hobby bench, working away, and lose a tool or a part, without moving my buns from my chair, and I mean, really lose it, only to be found hours or days later. Part of my problem is that I am much like a kleptomanic, I will be absent-mindedly holding something, walk into another room, put it down without really registering and then get all bumfuzzled when I can't find the missing item. Thatis not new to me in old age either. I don't think that I will improve with age, but at least maybe I will become less irritated as I become more forgetful.
Harker
(14,040 posts)cloudbase
(5,525 posts)Brooke Shields is on the cover of AARP Magazine. Remember when she was a kid? Of course you do.
You can thank me later.
10 Turtle Day
(75 posts)I wore my reading glasses on top of my head for years and have also spent more time than I care to admit looking for them while they were perched right there. I finally bought a chain for them and hang them around my neck now. Its not a perfect solution, however. I guess the chain is too blingy because the cat cant help attacking it.
Brother Buzz
(36,469 posts)It tells me exactly where I'm going, and why I'm going there
Trailrider1951
(3,415 posts)so I can find them when I need them.
Harker
(14,040 posts)yorkster
(1,506 posts)until my husband told me it was on my shoulder.
XanaDUer2
(10,754 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,212 posts)I don't wear reading glasses but I'm purely nearsighted. I only need glasses for distance.
I take my glasses off to read. A couple times I put them up on my head and then couldn't find my glasses!
And, I can't see 8 feet without them! "Where the heck did I put my glasses?"
Once, I asked my wife if she saw them. She just pointed to the top of her head. Duh!
happybird
(4,634 posts)because I thought becoming far-sighted would even out my near sightedness
like theyd meet in the middle and Id be able to see without my contacts.
Nope.
sanatanadharma
(3,736 posts)The possessor of a great treasure goes about as a pauper looking for that which s/he already possesses.
This glasses on the head meme as an illustration a certain oddity of the seeker, being already in possession of the sought but not knowing it, needing the guru to point it out.
Of course, then the sought is not glasses (upanatrum* in Sanskrit), but something even closer to the eyes.
* means: near (to) eyes
Aristus
(66,467 posts)I was so exhausted afterwards, I had to call out from work on Monday.
I just cant bounce back the way I used to
LudwigPastorius
(9,181 posts)you're probably hitting the Golden Corral Early Bird Special so you can get home in time for Murder She Wrote.
Red Raider 85
(106 posts)Then when I finally find it, I'm like, "Dammit, NOW I remember putting it there"; why da fuk didn't I remember it before that??
Bayard
(22,168 posts)I was looking for something I had lost in some tall weeds. Then my glasses fell off in the weeds. I had to call someone to help me find them because I couldn't see a thing.