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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI go downstairs to get something.
I go downstairs to get something.
I get something.
I go back upstairs.
I go back downstairs to get the something I wanted.
I go back upstairs.
It's my exercise program.
.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
doc03
(39,178 posts)for my truck keys at the top of the basement steps so I could start my truck which I park outside
with my remote without going downstairs. With the first cold day this winter I hung my keys
upstairs. The next morning I go downstairs and my keys are gone. I spent probably a half hour searching
the basement and upstairs for my keys. On about my 4th trip back to the basement I see the keys by the
door upstairs right where I had put them.
Wifes husband
(756 posts)Now I forget to mark the calendar
dem4decades
(14,377 posts)Then I see something else and do that, and maybe a second thing catches my attention and I do that.
Then I decide to go back upstairs, and I'm always surprised by what's on the stairs. If I hadn't put it there in the first place I wouldn't have remembered it until I was back upstairs.
erronis
(24,520 posts)I'll carry a bag with me everywhere and put stuff in it upstairs/downstairs/ground level. I have a room on the 3rd floor and it's a lot of pains to go all the way back up or down when I've forgotten the object of my desires.
barbtries
(31,350 posts)Recently, I went downstairs, retrieved what I needed, and ran back up the stairs with whatever the fuck it was who can remember that, and bragged to my son that I had, indeed, walked into the kitchen and knew instantly what I was there for.
who's getting old?!
twodogsbarking
(19,326 posts)Now I can do the equivalent in an hour just going to the basement and back up.
mountain grammy
(29,207 posts)are wandering around looking for stuff I forgot
I don't want to give up my exercise routine, we live in a two room flat.
loving my new rescue .. she gets me outside 4 or 5 times a day.
twodogsbarking
(19,326 posts)Even when it was on the list.
mopinko
(73,928 posts)the reason this happens is that walking through a door resets your internal map.
if u take a second at the door to remind yourself, youll remember.
if u forget, turn around, walk back toward the door. usually u will remember b4 u get to the door. worse comes to worse, when you walk back through the door, u WILL remember.
AverageOldGuy
(4,160 posts)I do that at least 30 times a day . . . 3 sets of 10 repetitions each!!
Or is it 10 sets of 3 reps . . . I forget which!
NBachers
(19,570 posts)decided to get whatever it was, and Ill remember what it was.
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