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Lyn's "Senior Moments"
Let me tell you how this page came into being.... I was sharing with my niece Gay some funny stories about my frequent "senior moments". She had a good laugh and told me I should add a page called "Senior Moments" so I could share these senior moments that eventually come to all of us. Hope you get a chuckle out of them - trust me, they never end with me! Hey, learn to laugh at yourself - it helps!
| The Mystery of the Traveling Bra.... This happened last year when my friend Mary was watching the cats for a period of time when I was away from home. Anyway, I get this frantic call from Mary one day telling me that she had come one morning to feed the cats and check their water and then left to go home. Well when she came back, lo and behold, what did she find on the sidewalk next to garage, but a bra. A bra you say, yes a bra and she was all in tithers. She knew it wasn't there when she left and how did one get there when she returned. Did somebody get in the house and steal one or was there someone around and what would they be doing leaving a bra laying on the sidewalk. Anyway she was relating all this to me over the phone and of course by the time she got done, I was in "stitches" laughing. You see I have a habit of hanging my underwear up on a towel rack in the doorway between my utility room and kitchen, rather than putting them in the dryer. Apparently, I had washed prior to going away and one of my bras was hanging on that rack. So unbeknowns to Mary when she walked by to go out the back door, it stuck to her shoulder and she carried it outdoors with her and it fell off on the sidewalk on the way to her car. It was there waiting for her when she returned later in the day and really had her befuddled. Whenever I mention the "travelin' bra incident" to my sisters or Mary we get to laughing and can't stop....who ever heard of a travelin' bra going that short a distance. Moral of the story, don't leave your undies hanging out in plain site where they can be carried out the door by visitors and end up in suspicious places. |
| Do you ever start out to do something, get there and wonder why you're there? Did you ever look for your glasses and find them on your face - or put honey in the frig which makes it impossible to spread - or leave whole wheat buns in the frig and not the freezer and when you use them for hamburgers, they fall apart with each bite. Did you ever wash something, put it in the dryer along with other items and then you can't find it when you take the load out? How about using a edger for trimming grass near a flower bed and whack off the flowers along with the grass. I still haven't found a pair of sandals I stored away one fall for use the next spring - this is the second year I haven't found them yet. AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO DOES SUCH DUMB STUFF????? Hillarious, ain't it! |
| The Mail Box.... I'm not sure this qualifies as a "senior moment" or not, but it just goes to show you our thinking ability is somewhat off kilter at times. Well, I had this one large rectangular box full of goodies to send to my niece Renee in Colorado. I knew it was too big to go through the postal service without paying an arm and a leg to send it, so I was going to take it to the UPS location just outside of town. When my friend heard me talk about it, she said to me, "you don't have to take it that far, you can just put take it to the mailbox." With no hesitation I said to her, "are you crazy - no way am I going to get that box in a mailbox" (of course thinking of a normal postal box, either on the street or outside the post office.) She started to laugh and said, "no Marilyn, I am talking about that business down the street from you called 'The Mail Box' which handles any kind of mail." I had totally forgotten about that place, even tho I drive by it often. But then I wondered of course if they would want to rewrap the box to meet their specifications, but lo and behold when I took it there, they only needed to add a few more pieces of tape and cover up the previous UPS bar code, otherwise, it would be delivered smack dab back at my address. SO, the box is on its way to Renee and when I called and told her to look for it, I conveyed this humerous tale - she had a good laugh and of course, so did I! |
| Air Pressure.... The other day I went to put air in my right front tire on the van. It was getting low, so I stopped at a Kwik Trip station, pulled the van up to the air compressor and got out. I brought the air hose over to the tire, took off the stem cover and proceeded to fill the tire with air. Patti and Bob had given me a nifty air gauge for Christmas so I had that handy and checked tire pressure - Yowie - it was only 7. I thought that can't be, I'd be riding on the rim in that case. Well, it seemed there was no air going in the tire, only an air sound coming out when I took the hose off the stem. Well dumb me, I do this routine several times more times and then I look at the air compressor. Lo and behold there is a big button that says "push on". Now how I missed seeing that when I pulled out the hose is beyond me, BUT I DID. Well chuckling to myself, I pushed the button on and yes I could hear the compressor was running. I put the hose on the stem again and in a short time the tire was beginning to look "normal". I checked the pressure and it was where it should be, so on went the stem, back into the compressor went the hose and into the van I went - WISER than when I arrive there and chuckling all the way home! |
| Voting.... Well this gal is so eager to vote in the primary (duh) that she went to her voting place last Tuesday (Feb. 5) to cast her vote. Well I pulled up to the elementary school, see cars on both sides of the street, get out and walk into the school. The receptionist says, "can I help you". I said "well I came to vote". She said "no you didn't" - I thought that's a strange response - usually you're encouraged to vote. Well when she said "today isn't voting day, it's on the 19th" - you can imagine, I felt like a real fool. She said "you aren't the first one to show up here today" - that at least made me feel less foolish. Then when I walked out the school door and down the sidewalk, I realized the voter polling sign wasn't out on the sidewalk and there'd been no people going in and out of the school. Needless to say, I walked back to my car, chuckling to myself again, just another "senior moment" for me. Funny thing was, earlier that day my friend Mary called to remind me to go vote - now I wonder if that was a trick...but in talking with her later, she had a good laugh too. Since she votes by mail, she'd not been embarrassed by going to the polling place that day like I had. Oh well, at least I was trying to be a good citizen. Hey have you ever done this one ever?? |
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