lol! Glad to see I'm not the only one here with a faulty memory
Actually, it isn't even a case of bad memory necessarily, it's more that a lot of the time I'm on autopilot and not actually paying much attention to what I'm doing, which means I'll absently place things like keys into various pockets etc. without being fully aware of what I'm doing
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Frogus, lol! Thing is, I have yet to lose my cell phone, probably because it is too big to just absently stuff somewhere, well bigger than my keys anyway.
@Gwally,
you know, maybe kids just have much better powers of memory and observation than adults do because I've noticed much the same thing with my son..
Regarding your wife and the remote control, I'd be willing to bet it is some sort of female conspiracy
@Jopperm.
well I find the key/phone trick works very well. It also ensures I have my phone with me when I go out. One of my SO's pet peaves was that I never actually carried it on me, so this is a sort of symbiotic solution
One of my worse encounters with being absent-minded occurred quite recently. Next Tuesday I'm flying down to Texas with my son for ten days. Well, last week it occurred to me that it might be a plan to locate my passport....as well as my son's birth certificate... So.. I began to search..
One of the first places I looked was my knapsack which I keep in the bedroom. That meant basically dumping its contents onto the bed... and I *thought* I had been fairly thorough in checking through it all.
Next, I looked through various drawers... no luck there either. I was beginning to panic by this point, especially since I had not come across the birth certificate either (would have been required in the event that I needed to have a new passport rushed)...
Then I went to check all of the files and folders near my desk... still nothing..
In desperation, I went through the crap from the backpack once more.... and I found the birth certificate. I breathed a huge sigh of relief because at least it would have provided an alternative...
I looked some more, still no passport
When my SO got home, he helped me... the very last place he looked was in a small bag I sometimes use... It was in there...
I placed the documents somewhere safe and made a note of where I put them by writing up a short Word document and leaving it on my Desktop