"Ophelia" > wrote in message
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> "Jeßus" > wrote in message
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>> On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 21:15:37 -0700 (PDT),
>> wrote:
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>>>On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 8:58:22 PM UTC-7, Je�us wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 15:36:39 -1000, dsi1
>>>> > wrote:
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>>>> >My Chinese friend was digging holes in the walls and yard of his
>>>> >grandma's house looking for loot. Never did find much though. That was
>>>> >a
>>>> >hoot.
>>>>
>>>> >My wife would find big bucks that her Korean mother would hide around
>>>> >the house. She hid money and then insist that my wife go looking for
>>>> >it
>>>> >when she couldn't remember where she put it. It was nutty as shit.
>>>>
>>>> LOL <shakes head>
>>>>
>>>> >Asians are the craziest people - especially old Asian women.
>>>>
>>>> Well, perhaps. You ought to try some of the people around here for
>>>> crazy though 
>>>
>>>When my aunt's MIL started freaking out about not being able to find
>>>$20 bills she was sure she had put in her underwear drawer, her kids
>>>knew she could no longer live on her own.
>>>
>>>Not Asian, though.
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>> I'm already bad with things like my car keys. I have to put them in
>> the same spot every time, otherwise I'm searching the house and sheds
>> for them.
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> My Grandmother used to say that you must have a 'place for everything and
> everything in its place' And it is rare that I don't follow that or I
> wouldn't be able to find anything either
I agree with that too but sometimes things happen. I have been known to
need the bathroom immediately after coming in the door and I might leave my
keys in there.
Or I have to get dinner started right away so I remove my glasses or set my
keys down in the kitchen. At least I know if they are missing, they are in
one of those two spots.
About a week ago, I had to go out to the car for some reason that escapes me
now. Then something happened when I came in. That escapes me as well. I
set the keys on the little fridge, intending to get them later. But then I
got busy.
I remembered the keys but when I went back, they were not there! The only
other place that I put them (this is where I normally put them) is on my
computer desk. But they were not there either.
Turns out, someone had knocked them onto the dining room floor. I must have
walked right over them at least 5 times in looking for them!
But my mom? Drives me nuts! Can't tell you how many times she has lost her
purse, keys and glasses. When I was a kid, she always put her purse in the
closet and the keys in the purse. She was blind as a bat so never took her
glasses off until she went to bed. Although once for some strange reason,
she put them in the butter door. She had been clearing the table and
couldn't find them. But the margarine was still on the table. So I said
innocently, "Why don't you look in the butter door?" And there they were.
She accused me of having done it. She was particularly spaced out that day
to begin with.
But now? OMG! She came into my house when I got out of the hospital and
managed to lose her purse in here THREE times in a half an hour's time. It
is particularly bad when she is in someone else's house because there is no
telling where she might put it. But at her own place? She is now living in
a 600 sq. ft. room and she still manages to lose it.
Her entry door is right in the little kitchenette. If it were me, I would
probably just put a basket or something like that right inside the door and
in it would go those things that I was perpetually losing. But no. I won't
even suggest that. It would just make her angry.
So not only does she lose these things, but she will leave the room and then
realize that she doesn't have whatever it is! Oh, she loses her cell phone
too. So much so that I won't even try to call it any more. And now she
wears several different pairs of glasses for different reasons. That only
complicates things. If she does remember the glasses, they will be the
wrong ones.
It is to the point now that we have to watch her like a hawk whenever she
enters a building or even if she gets up out of her seat. For some strange
reason, she will get up and put her purse or whatever, somewhere else. And
when we are leaving, we have to do the checklist at the door. "Do you have
your _____?"