Sunday, May 24, 2009

SENIOR MOMENTS



Quick ALTZHEIMERS Test
The following was developed as a mental age assessment by the School of Psychiatry at Harvard University . Take your time and see if you can read each line aloud without a mistake. The average person over 40 years of age cannot do it!
1. This is this cat.
2. This is is cat.
3. This is how cat.
4. This is to cat.
5. This is keep cat.
6. This is an cat.
7. This is old cat.
8. This is fart cat.
9. This is busy cat.
10. This is for cat.
11. This is forty cat.
12. This is seconds cat.
Now go back and read the third word in each line from the top down.


So, tonight I had a real Senior Moment. I'm in my local Starbucks. I stop off at the counter with the cream & sugar.I put cream & sugar in my cup and I set the lid on the counter ( as always), so I can come back and adjust my coffee. I proceed to the counter. The girl at the counter says we are just ready to brew a fresh pot. While I'm waiting I go out to my truck to continue listening to an NPR program they are doing on the aging population and senior memory. Five minutes later I go back to the counter and with about six people behind me I hand the girl my cup. She fills it with coffee and hands it back to me. I pay her and everything is going well up to this point. I then take the two quarters I'm clutching for the tip jar and without giving a second thought I drop them in my now full cup of coffee, which proceeds to splash all over the counter. She is now looking at me in utter disbelief, and the 6 people behind that watched this transpire are doing their best not to bust out laughing. She then asks with polite smile if I'd like her to rinse out the cup so I can start over . At this point it sinks in what I had just done and I am now laughing so hard at myself I can barely manage "That would be nice"

3 comments:

Diane Smith said...

Good one, Gary.

All of us old farts can use a tip of something in our coffee once in awhile.

Rand Launer said...

Go back to the top and...
Which word...oh.
Where am I now?


Never mind.

Unknown said...

Isn't that where your supposed to leave a tip?????