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Checked off another box on the "Dammit, I'm old now" list (Original Post) happybird Apr 23 OP
i wore perscription glasses untill the beginning of covid . had cataracts removed and have implants. AllaN01Bear Apr 23 #1
I lost my prescription, so it had to be refilled... LakeVermilion Apr 23 #2
LOL When looking for something, I start with the dishwasher, then go to the fridge Attilatheblond Apr 23 #6
Peanut butter in the fridge. Milk in the cupboard. keithbvadu2 Apr 24 #28
Oh, you're still a youngster if you haven't started spooky3 Apr 23 #3
Oh, I'm there lol happybird Apr 23 #13
:-) spooky3 Apr 23 #16
When I find something I misplaced, I keep on searching for a while. GreenWave Apr 23 #4
I have done that for decades; its not an old now thing. peacebuzzard Apr 23 #5
Oh, dear, how humbling. 3catwoman3 Apr 23 #7
Where had you left your head? rurallib Apr 23 #8
Wait atreides1 Apr 23 #9
I have done the same while holding the glasses, and I did it in middle age too! Chainfire Apr 23 #10
At least they weren't in the fridge. n/t Harker Apr 23 #11
Well, this ought to make you feel better. cloudbase Apr 23 #12
Welcome to the club! 10 Turtle Day Apr 23 #14
My son, the tech guru, just sent me a slick 'senior' GPS thingy Brother Buzz Apr 23 #15
Be like me. I hang mine around my neck Trailrider1951 Apr 23 #17
I've tried that with an albatross and a millstone, and it didn't work out well. n/t Harker Apr 24 #23
Just did similar with a dish towel.... yorkster Apr 23 #18
I hate that XanaDUer2 Apr 23 #19
Did It ProfessorGAC Apr 23 #20
My eye doc laughed at me happybird Apr 23 #21
The possessor of a great treasure goes about as a pauper looking for that which s/he already possesses sanatanadharma Apr 23 #22
I helped my step-daughter move out of her third floor apartment last Sunday. Aristus Apr 24 #24
I was going to reply to you, but... LudwigPastorius Apr 24 #25
How come I can never remember where I put my phone when I am looking for it? Red Raider 85 Apr 24 #26
Several years ago, Bayard Apr 24 #27
Think of something I want. Go downstairs to get something. Go back upstairs. Go back downstairs for correct 'something'. keithbvadu2 Apr 24 #29

AllaN01Bear

(18,443 posts)
1. i wore perscription glasses untill the beginning of covid . had cataracts removed and have implants.
Tue Apr 23, 2024, 03:32 PM
Apr 23

when i was a kid , half of life was looking for the infernal things . lol

LakeVermilion

(1,044 posts)
2. I lost my prescription, so it had to be refilled...
Tue Apr 23, 2024, 03:35 PM
Apr 23

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)
6. LOL When looking for something, I start with the dishwasher, then go to the fridge
Tue Apr 23, 2024, 03:46 PM
Apr 23

One time, I found the milk in the dishwasher. Empty glass was in fridge. Sad thing was I was only 24 at the time.

happybird

(4,634 posts)
13. Oh, I'm there lol
Tue Apr 23, 2024, 04:08 PM
Apr 23

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)
4. When I find something I misplaced, I keep on searching for a while.
Tue Apr 23, 2024, 03:41 PM
Apr 23

That way I discover things I had not yet realized were missing!

peacebuzzard

(5,183 posts)
5. I have done that for decades; its not an old now thing.
Tue Apr 23, 2024, 03:43 PM
Apr 23

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)
7. Oh, dear, how humbling.
Tue Apr 23, 2024, 03:46 PM
Apr 23

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.

Chainfire

(17,644 posts)
10. I have done the same while holding the glasses, and I did it in middle age too!
Tue Apr 23, 2024, 04:01 PM
Apr 23

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.

cloudbase

(5,525 posts)
12. Well, this ought to make you feel better.
Tue Apr 23, 2024, 04:06 PM
Apr 23

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)
14. Welcome to the club!
Tue Apr 23, 2024, 04:16 PM
Apr 23

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. It’s not a perfect solution, however. I guess the chain is too blingy because the cat can’t help attacking it.

Brother Buzz

(36,469 posts)
15. My son, the tech guru, just sent me a slick 'senior' GPS thingy
Tue Apr 23, 2024, 04:18 PM
Apr 23

It tells me exactly where I'm going, and why I'm going there

ProfessorGAC

(65,212 posts)
20. Did It
Tue Apr 23, 2024, 07:19 PM
Apr 23

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)
21. My eye doc laughed at me
Tue Apr 23, 2024, 07:39 PM
Apr 23

because I thought becoming far-sighted would even out my near sightedness…like they’d meet in the middle and I’d be able to see without my contacts.

Nope.

sanatanadharma

(3,736 posts)
22. The possessor of a great treasure goes about as a pauper looking for that which s/he already possesses
Tue Apr 23, 2024, 08:13 PM
Apr 23

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)
24. I helped my step-daughter move out of her third floor apartment last Sunday.
Wed Apr 24, 2024, 11:43 AM
Apr 24

I was so exhausted afterwards, I had to call out from work on Monday.

I just can’t bounce back the way I used to…

LudwigPastorius

(9,181 posts)
25. I was going to reply to you, but...
Wed Apr 24, 2024, 02:38 PM
Apr 24

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)
26. How come I can never remember where I put my phone when I am looking for it?
Wed Apr 24, 2024, 02:42 PM
Apr 24

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)
27. Several years ago,
Wed Apr 24, 2024, 03:09 PM
Apr 24

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.

keithbvadu2

(36,937 posts)
29. Think of something I want. Go downstairs to get something. Go back upstairs. Go back downstairs for correct 'something'.
Wed Apr 24, 2024, 03:36 PM
Apr 24
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