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26/04/2022 2:47 pm
IS IT AGE? IS IT NORMAL? .
I get off the couch, go to the kitchen, and then when I get there, I stop. Hmmm..."what did come up here for?". After a second or two of thinking I'm losing my mind, I go, "oh yea to grab a pen". We've all done this. But then there are times when I do or don't do things that force me to question my sanity.
License tabs were due for Lorraine's car. I decide it would be a good afternoon to get them, as the weather is nice and I'll be able to get them on. I come home, clean the license plates and stick those baby's on. After a little more putzing around in the garage, it's 3:30 and I decide I'm going to take a little nap. I doze off and at 4:10 I wake up and immediately say out loud, "Oh my God, I put Lorraine's tabs on MY CAR!". Then I say, "Oh for the love of Pete, I didn't, did I?". I go to the garage and sure enough, I DID!
I grab my phone and call the DMV, and when the ladies voice answers, I immediately prepare her saying, "Okay, I'm going to be your dumb customer of the day. I bought license tabs today for my wife's car, but I put them on MY CAR by mistake. What do I need to do?". She struggles to hide a slight chuckle and says, "Well if it makes you feel any better, people do this all the time". I tell her, "Well that doesn't make me feel any better, but thank you". She then tells me that, "I can come back to the DMV and buy another set of tabs for Lorraine's car, and the ones I purchased earlier and put on my car can be pro-rated and they can record it as such. So I race over to the DMV, as they close at 5:00pm. I get the second set of tabs, and put them on her car.
I kept asking myself if this was an honest mistake or am I losing my mind? A month or so later, I had to again question my sanity. I'm always good about making sure that I pay our property taxes, not only on time, but usually 4 to 6 weeks early. Dong so, simply to assure that I don't have to worry about them then. They are due October 15th. We had a crazy busy and at times stressful September and early October. I wake up the morning of October 16th, and honest to God, I sit up in bed and say, "Did I mail the taxes?". I'm not kidding, that was my first thought upon waking up. I run downstairs, grab the property tax statement and find the check made out, but not sent. I'd written it out in September to send, and for whatever reason, didn't mail it. I was in a severe moment of wanting to bend over and swift kick me in the behind panic. I get dressed, drive to the post office and drop the envelope with check enclosed in the box.
For the remainder of that day and the next week I was seriously wondering how I messed this up, when I always mail them early. On the 6th day after mailing the taxes, I received a letter from the county with a $32 late charge owed. I immediately was mad! I'm like, "Come on $32 for being late by a couple of days?". They're vultures, I'm thinking. For a brief moment I thought about calling and trying to plead my case, but quickly realized that I'm aware that if they are not paid by the 15th, there is a penalty, and it was my own, for whatever reason I forgot to send it, my fault. I begrudgingly made out the $32 check and got it to the post office.
It was another beat myself up day. The license tabs debacle and then my absent-mindedness on missing the taxes deadline, I obviously am either getting old or worse losing my mind. As I've retold the story many times, it's allowed for some good laughs at my expense, but alas more important, another story in my life's adventure's.
All said and done, my final conclusion is, I'M NORMAL.
George Schire
Oakdale, Minnesota
26/04/2022 4:45 pm
George I don't know if you're normal but I believe you have lots of company, me included.
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Topic starter
26/04/2022 6:43 pm
George I don't know if you're normal but I believe you have lots of company, me included.
Thank you Bob! It's said misery loves company, so welcome to my world. "_
George Schire
Oakdale, Minnesota
26/04/2022 8:15 pm
George I don't know if you're normal but I believe you have lots of company, me included.
Thank you Bob! It's said misery loves company, so welcome to my world. "_
turn around George,and look over your shoulder.....we`re ALL in line behind you,goofing stuff we shouldn`t
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Topic starter
26/04/2022 8:33 pm
And I'm right in step with you Gents !
GREAT, we've got a parade! I knew all along we're all brothers of different mothers. 
George Schire
Oakdale, Minnesota
26/04/2022 9:22 pm
Yes, George, it happens to me even more often, except I don't remember when I get upstairs. (If this makes no sense to the person reading it, you have a choice: Go back and read the first paragraph in George's good post; or (2) I just forgot what I was going to use as your alternative.)
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Topic starter
26/04/2022 9:42 pm
Yes, George, it happens to me even more often, except I don't remember when I get upstairs. (If this makes no sense to the person reading it, you have a choice: Go back and read the first paragraph in George's good post; or (2) I just forgot what I was going to use as your alternative.)
LOL, I relate totally. I used going to the kitchen as an example, but believe me I've done the same going out to the garage, going in the laundry room, or in a cupboard and the refrigerator. Then ask, "what I come here for?".
George Schire
Oakdale, Minnesota
Steve Jacobs and Steve Jacobs reacted
26/04/2022 10:12 pm
And it's funny and embarrassing to leave the room with only half of what you remembered to get and go back a few minutes later to get the rest !
26/04/2022 11:13 pm
Well...we may be a bunch of forgetful, goofy buggers but at least we're car guys with incredible taste! No wonder women find us irresistible. 
27/04/2022 6:21 am
How about this....working on a do it yourself project in the house or yard and wasting an endless amount of time searching for a tool that I misplaced. "But I just used it!" Guilty as charged.
John Bono
North Jersey
27/04/2022 10:48 am
OK, where did I leave my phone this time???
David Vandermeer
Corinth, Texas
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Topic starter
27/04/2022 11:03 am
OK, where did I leave my phone this time???
LOL, I tell my wife to call my number, so my phone will ring and then I'll know where I left it.
George Schire
Oakdale, Minnesota
Steve Jacobs and Steve Jacobs reacted
27/04/2022 11:32 am
Then there's looking ALL over the house in frustration for your glasses, only to find them hooked into your T-shirt collar. MANY TIMES.
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Topic starter
27/04/2022 1:00 pm
Then there's looking ALL over the house in frustration for your glasses, only to find them hooked into your T-shirt collar. MANY TIMES.
LOL, I need my glasses to look for my glasses, as I'm blind in one eye and can't see out of the other. So when I can't find my glasses, Houston we've got a problem!
George Schire
Oakdale, Minnesota
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