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Done most of these things. I forget food in the oven or on the stove or forget to turn them off when we are eating. Middle of the night hubby gets up and the tea towel I had thrown on the burner was smoking. This close to a fire. I have forgotten the dogs outside at -40 and then gone out for the day. I am always losing my keys, bank card ect. The one time I had taken my keys out of my sweater pocket when I was working because it was making my sweater heavy. Put them on the desk at work. Came back from a meeting just before the end of the day, tidied up my desk, saw my keys, made a point of reminding myself not to forget the keys. Got busy doing something else and then headed for the train for home. Get to the train station and start fumbling in all my pockets and my purse looking for the keys to drive home. Watch the bus I need leave. Still searching frantically for the keys. Look in the window of the car to see if I left them in the ignition, on the seat or if they fell to the floor. Call the transit people to see if someone found the keys. Getting pretty panicky at this point. Start walking toward the trains when I remember that I left the keys on my desk. Waited for the next bus, then had to sit on the step outside the house for 2 hours before hubby got home. Another reason I always keep an extra set of keys for both vehicles and the house now in my purse. If I ever lose my purse my life will probably be over.
Another time I was shopping in a store that doesn’t have a cart. Put the shirt I was going to buy in my left hand. Walked around for a long time and then decided that I might as well give up because I was never going to find anything to buy. Left the store, walked down to the food court to get a drink. Get to the counter and start looking with my right hand in my purse for my money. Can’t find it right away so this calls for a two handed search. Put the shirt from my left hand on the counter and then put my purse on top and start searching in earnest through the purse. Find my money, pay and step back from the counter. The girl says “don’t forget your shirt ma’am” and then I suddenly come out of my fog and realize I had forgotten to pay for the shirt. I grab the shirt and start hurrying back down the mall toward the store. Get back to the store, then hurry to the checkout to pay for the shirt. Then I explain how I had gotten all the way to the food court and didn’t remember that I had it. She just laughed and thanked me for coming back to pay. Not the only time this has happened unfortunately but I always hurry back to pay.
Just makes me wonder how much retail shrinkage are people like me that don’t want the hassle or embarrassment of going back and paying and admitting they had something that they completely forgot.
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