So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[2jakes]

I have the same problem, James.

Chrispy...we're on the Lounge.
Jimmy or Jamie is ok.
James is too formal.

 

[Zombie_61]

Alzheimer's is but one be form of senility, as I'm confident you know. It's not untypical in my experience, alas, for physicians to flippantly attribute an elderly or disabled person's difficulties to something for which there's little to be done anyway. It leaves that person and his or her loved ones feeling devalued, for good reason...

I agree. My opinion of this particular physician is indeed based on his apparent "jump to conclusion" Alzheimer's diagnosis, based solely on the fact that Mom couldn't answer his "trivia quiz" questions. "Who is currently President of the United States?" "What is today's date?" "What day of the week is it?" Really??? That's the best you can do? Mom had mobility issues in the last 2-3 years of her life due to a broken hip and associated nerve damage, so she rarely left the house unless she had a medical or hairdresser appointment. She didn't know the answers because they weren't important to her--she simply didn't care who was President, or what the day or date was, because it made absolutely no difference in her day-to-day life at that point.

...As to your mother's concerns over her forgetting a person's name and similar lapses of memory ...

I suspect almost all humans experience that. If occasion to recall such information comes up infrequently, we tend not to have it at the ready. I've forgotten the names, last names especially, of people with whom I once had daily contact. But I find that information coming back to me, often when I stop concentrating on it. It's in there somewhere.

I've have the same problem at times in recent years, and I've only recently reached the age of 56. I've found it's easier to remember, say, a former co-worker's last name if there was a specific reason to use it more often when you worked with that person. For example, if you worked at the same facility with three people named "Rick" and actually said their last names frequently in order to be specific about which "Rick" you were referring to, they're easier to remember because you repeated them regularly.

Or during a conversation about movies, which happens frequently in our circle of family and friends. I can see an actor's face in my mind, but their name is a complete mystery in that moment until someone either reminds me, or the conversation continues and that actor's name finally comes to me minutes later. I've lost count of the number of times the conversation has moved on, and when that actor's name finally comes to mind minutes later I'll blurt it out like I'm having a Tourette's episode.

 

[2jakes]

...during a conversation about movies, which happens frequently in our circle of family and friends. I can see an actor's face in my mind, but their name is a complete mystery in that moment until someone either reminds me, or the conversation continues and that actor's name finally comes to me minutes later. I've lost count of the number of times the conversation has moved on, and when that actor's name finally comes to mind minutes later I'll blurt it out like I'm having a Tourette's episode.

Much to the annoyance of some folks!


Lately, I’ve been using Siri on my iPhone.
I have her programed to recognize my voice, I gave her a “British accent”
and she responds with a pet name I gave her.

When I say, Thank You...she will answer...
“It was my pleasure to serve you my dearest Jake!”


I think I’m falling in love again!

 

[Zombie_61]

Much to the annoyance of some folks...
"you’re not using your brain!"...

Luckily the majority of my family and friends have aged right along with me, so they understand when I have one of those brain farts.

 

[2jakes]

Luckily the majority of my family and friends have aged right along with me, so they understand when I have one of those brain farts.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I've said it before and I'll say it again -- I am so tired of people who swagger up to the counter and pay for a $5 item with a $100 bill, and smirk like jackasses while they do it. You can wave around all the centuries you want, smart guy, but it won't make your hands any bigger.

 

[Fading Fast]

He made a cameo on Bewitched, and Leo Durocher appeared in The Munsters...things you remember like seeing Mays play for San Francisco,
or your grandmother's derogatory comment one afternoon when Durocher wasn't inside the Cubs dugout but taking a day off...

I've said it before and I'll say it again -- I am so tired of people who swagger up to the counter and pay for a $5 item with a $100 bill, and smirk like jackasses while they do it. You can wave around all the centuries you want, smart guy, but it won't make your hands any bigger.

The very, very few times I've had a large bill and needed (only bill I had) to pay for a low-priced item, I've always asked if it is okay before the item is rung up. That is, IMHO, courtesy / manners. As we've talked about here - it's not about using the "correct" fork, but about being polite to others, putting yourself in someone else's shoes and thinking how you'd like to be treated.

Many businesses aren't structured to handle $100 bills for $5 purchases - so any decent person would (quietly) ask the cashier first. And smirking just shows how small and ill-mannered the person is.

And let's be honest, many people can manage to get a few $100 bills to flash around if that's important to them, which tells us nothing about their real finances but everything about their character - they're jerks.

 

[2jakes]

I've said it before and I'll say it again -- I am so tired of people who swagger up to the counter and pay for a $5 item with a $100 bill, and smirk like jackasses while they do it. You can wave around all the centuries you want, smart guy, but it won't make your hands any bigger.

I don’t believe these folks could give a hoot what you or others think
about their actions. I’ve seen this on a daily basis in tinseltown.
It’s not good to get upset over things that we cannot control.
Best thing is to let it go. Life’s too short and there are better things
than these jerks.

 

[tonyb]

...

And let's be honest, many people can manage to get a few $100 bills to flash around if that's important to them, which tell us nothing about their real finances but everything about their character - they're jerks.

It's akin to those kings and queens for a day who rent a limo, layer on the bling, put a few C-notes in their billfolds and hit the "clubs."

Real big shots rarely ride in limos. That's waaay too conspicuous, and real big shots have no need to show it off. And Joe and Joanne Lunchbucket will never attain anything approaching big shothood if they continue wasting their meager resources on such ostentatious displays.

 

[ChrisB]

I've said it before and I'll say it again -- I am so tired of people who swagger up to the counter and pay for a $5 item with a $100 bill, and smirk like jackasses while they do it. You can wave around all the centuries you want, smart guy, but it won't make your hands any bigger.

On the NJ shore, tourists are referred to disparagingly as "Bennys". Although the origin of the term is uncertain, one theory is due to this behavior . For those not familiar with US currency, Ben Franklin is on our $100 bill.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Nine times out of ten, the guy who does this -- and it's always a guy, I've never had a woman drop a C-note for a box of popcorn -- is on a date. And he's usually wearing a pastel polo shirt with the collar worn up.

 

[Ticklishchap]

Chrispy...we're on the Lounge.
Jimmy or Jamie is ok.
James is too formal.

Sorry, Jimbo.

 

[2jakes]

Nine times out of ten, the guy who does this -- and it's always a guy, I've never had a woman drop a C-note for a box of popcorn -- is on a date. And he's usually wearing a pastel polo shirt with the collar worn up.

This has to stop...
NOW!

 

[Harp]

I've said it before and I'll say it again -- I am so tired of people who swagger up to the counter and pay for a $5 item with a $100 bill...

Yesterday afternoon I needed some java, ran downstairs to Starbucks for a tall Pike's Roast and asked the new barista if I could pay with a C-note.
I normally flash plastic but crashed the card the night before so I was stuck in a bind. She smiled sweetly and examined said bill to see if it was a legit Benbow;
so I admitted I had just counterfeited it a few hours ago. The register's till was chock full of Jacksons but I felt a bit guilty for the bother.

 

[2jakes]

Yesterday afternoon I needed some java, ran downstairs to Starbucks for a tall Pike's Roast and asked the new barista if I could pay with a C-note.
I normally flash plastic but crashed the card the night before so I was stuck in a bind. She smiled sweetly and examined said bill to see if it was a legit Benbow;
so I admitted I had just counterfeited it a few hours ago. The register's till was chock full of Jacksons but I felt a bit guilty for the bother.

As long as you have your collar down you
shouldn't feel guilty.

 

[Ticklishchap]

Sorry, Jimbo.

Chrispy...we're on the Lounge.
Jimmy or Jamie is ok.
James is too formal.

I couldn't resist the 'Jimbo' because one of several friends called James hates (or professes to hate) that abbreviation! I had a schoolfriend called James who was always known as 'Jimps' for some reason.

 

[ChrisB]

Yesterday afternoon I needed some java, ran downstairs to Starbucks for a tall Pike's Roast and asked the new barista if I could pay with a C-note.
I normally flash plastic but crashed the card the night before so I was stuck in a bind. She smiled sweetly and examined said bill to see if it was a legit Benbow;
so I admitted I had just counterfeited it a few hours ago. The register's till was chock full of Jacksons but I felt a bit guilty for the bother.

I feel bad about paying for coffee with a 20, but that is all that my ATM will dispense.

 

[2jakes]

I feel bad about paying for coffee with a 20, but that is all that my ATM will dispense.

I feel bad about paying for coffee with a 20, but that is all that my ATM will dispense.

You can always give a large tip or include breakfast with your order.
This way perhaps you won’ t be “Num, Me Vexo?"

 

[2jakes]

I couldn't resist the 'Jimbo' because one of several friends called James hates (or professes to hate) that abbreviation! I had a schoolfriend called James who was always known as 'Jimps' for some reason.

In the world of pro- tennis, Jimmy Connors was called “Jimbo”.

 

[Ticklishchap]

In the world of pro- tennis, Jimmy Connors was called “Jimbo”.

I think I remember hearing that. It suited him.