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.

[JHan]

1. I've done stuff like that I'm in my early 20's LOL

[malaise]

2. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

My very good friend spent ages looking for her glasses - after close to 30 minutes she realized she was wearing them

[coco22]

21. Did that one too..

[True Dough]

3. I'm in my early 40s

And I use a sleep mask every night. One night I nearly turned the bedroom upside down trying find the darn thing. Then reached up and realized I had already pulled the elastic bands over my head and the mask was resting a few inches above my eyes.

[NCTraveler]

4. I hope the payoff was really really good.

What kind of sammy?

I love a glass of milk and a pb&j. Milk doesn't settle as well as it use to with me.

[OriginalGeek]

24. I wouldn't even consider eating a PB&J

without a cold glass of milk.


Messes with my insides too but still worth it. I know it's time to have that when I've forgotten how much trouble it was last time.

As luck would have it, I am getting very forgetful as I get older so I get to have even more PB&J and milk.


When I'm feeling truly adventurous, I'll make chocolate milk.

[NCTraveler]

25. You went there.

Chocolate milk and a pb&j. It's a practice I normally keep private. That said, it's usually just milk. I say "just" but it's nothing to sneeze at.

Milk has always made me a little sick after drinking it. Nothing major but it does seem to be getting worse. On ocassion I still pour a big glass and drink it down. Love it with a pb&j. It's an ocassional treat.

[OriginalGeek]

30. I hope I never lose the taste for it

it was the first school lunch I remember my mom ever making me. By the time I got to open lunch up in elementary school, it was smashed flat and that somehow made it even better. My grandma (mom's mom) used to make them for me when I would stay with her for the summer. She always spread the peanut butter all over the bread and then just put one glop of jelly in the middle. I once asked her why she did that instead of spreading it all over like mom did and she said "Because now you don't know exactly when you'll get to the jelly so when you get there it's a surprise!" and that explanation made me feel special for many years. Grandma building a surprise into my sandwich.


I sometimes wonder though if she was just too lazy to spread the jelly. She did complain about arthritis a lot - could have been that...

[Phoenix61]

26. PB&J

on toasted cinnamon raisin bread. Of course with a tall glass of milk.

[OriginalGeek]

32. You lost me at raisin

but then, I put crunchy Cheetos on mine so who am I to judge?

but yeah, toast is for fancy PB&Js. A little harder to eat because stuff squirts out but very worth the trouble.

[leftyladyfrommo]

45. Some people become lactose intolerant

as they get older. You can buy lactose free dairy or you can just take a pill before you eat . Easy peasy.

[BeyondGeography]

4. Funny

Has anybody seen my reading glasses, btw? You know, the good ones.

[Talk Is Cheap]

7. When I lose my reading glasses - I usually find that I already have them on!

[BeyondGeography]

14. I spent an entire day looking for them once

came home on a redeye, took a nap, spent the rest of my day taking my glasses off and wondering where I put them. 55 could be the cutoff point for redeyes.

[TeamPooka]

36. Was working with a buddy a few years older than me and he misplaced his eyeglasses

he looks all over the office and I point to his head where they were resting.
He looks at me "I'm sorry you had to see that."

[demmiblue]

6. Everything comes full circle:

[progressoid]

12. hahahahaha!

[TeamPooka]

37. lol

[Solly Mack]

8. I do that with my glasses. Look all over for them and they are on my head.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

9. Don't worry about it. I'm in my 30s and a couple of mornings ago...

....I put my breakfast down on the table and wanted to get the newspaper to read with it.

So I look on the counter where I last remembered the newspaper, and it's not there.

I wondered if I put it in the recycling bin, so I go out there and no paper is there.

So finally I walk back to the table and I see right there, no less than 2 inches from my plate, the newspaper.

Brainfarts happen.

[BigDemVoter]

10. I do that with my glasses!

I look around and around for them, and they are on my face!

[Thirties Child]

11. Love it. Helps me deal with washing several loads of laundry without soap.

Or all the nouns I can't think of. Or telling the cashier at the grocery store I couldn't pay because I didn't have my billfold, and the billfold was in my hand. Sigh.

[progressoid]

13. I couldn't find my wallet yesterday at a store.

Turns out it was with the items I was purchasing on the conveyor belt!

[rzemanfl]

27. I am quite certain there was an article in

Consumer Reports years ago when I still had a memory, that concluded laundry got cleanest when it was washed once without detergent. The residual detergent in the fabrics was enough to remove the dirt and most of itself.

[TeamPooka]

38. interesting

[ProudProgressiveNow]

15. Yup... been there.. lol..nt

[Lint Head]

16. You sure you're not talking about me?

[spanone]

17. i probably wouldn't have found that sandwich....in my left hand!!!! bwahahahahahahaaa

[NightWatcher]

18. I love weed too!

I secure my munchies before I spark up in order to prevent things like you've mentioned.

[spanone]

23. yep!

[TeamPooka]

39. I always try to put my lighter in the same place or I'm looking for it for 5minutes

[raccoon]

19. Ever been looking for your cell phone...and you're on it? lol nt

[malaise]

31. Dialing the cell from the landline is an easy way to find it

Trust me

[raccoon]

43. Don't have a landline any more. nt

[malaise]

46. We discovered that the landline works through storms and hurricanes while the

cell towers are on the ground

[Raine]

42. I never can remember my cell phone number. I finally had to put it in

my address book on my cell phone so I'd have it to give to people. I hated when people asked for it and I had to say "duh, I don't know".

[coco22]

20. The othe week I was talking to a friend of mine and..

She said what are you doing? I said I am looking for my phone then I said what the hell! I was talking to her on the phone

[lpbk2713]

22. It makes watching movies more enjoyable.

I don't always recall if I have seen them or not.

[wcmagumba]

28. Phone, book, remote, keys, etc....

[tanyev]

29. Good thing you had a sandwich ready after all that exercise!

[denbot]

33. LoL

Sadly, I haven't lost food yet, searches for keys and glasses have ended with them on my person the entire time..

[left-of-center2012]

35. "searches for keys"

A few years ago I couldn't find my house keys.
After an hour of searching I found them on a shelf in my 'junk closet'.
That's scary.

[TeamPooka]

41. I found mine in the fridge once

[justhanginon]

34. Fell asleep reading one night. Woke up with terrible chest pains.

OH FOCK!, i'm dying. No stupid, you're sleeping on your glasses.

[LAS14]

40. I've already forwarded this to 3 of my doddering buddies.

[dembotoz]

44. i take solace that i may not last the entire 4 years

[left-of-center2012]

47. You lost something for four years? n/t