Memory play

A friend sent me ‘The Remember Song’ by Steven Walters and that set me recollecting about age activated attention deficit disorder, wherein an elderly person rises one morning to clean the car but gets involved in many other errands  successively.

Finally when he goes to bed, thinks hard as to how was it that while he had been busy the whole day, nothing still got done. A wicked joke says it is nice that those with Alzheimer’s disease are lucky to meet someone new every day!

Wife of a former boss once mentioned to me how at a military hospital her husband had repeatedly asked the nurse for ‘Togetherness toothpaste’ from the canteen, confusing her. Till the wife came during visiting hours, no one could make out that he had wanted ‘Close-up!’ Invited to an old friend’s home, I noticed that my host kept using very endearing terms to his wife: ‘Honey,’ ‘darling’ and ‘sweetie-pie’. Very impressed I appreciated their marital harmony that he still calls her by pet names. The wife hollered: ‘The old fool has forgotten my name many years ago.’ 

After dinner at a couple’s house, while the wives retire to the kitchen, two elderly gentlemen start chatting, and one says: ‘Last week, we went to a new restaurant and it was really great; I would recommend it to you.’ The other asks: ‘What is its name?’ The first one can’t get it easily and so asks ‘What is the name of that flower you give to someone you love, the one that’s usually red and has thorns?’  The other replies: ‘You mean a rose?'  He turns towards the kitchen and yells: ‘Rose, what’s the name of that restaurant we went to last week?’ A similar one exists between two friends about a memory school a senior was sent to by his wife: ‘Ever since my wife sent me to that memory school, I haven’t had any problems at all.’ ‘What memory school?’ The first one thinks hard but unable to get it, asks ‘What’s that flower which lies in rows and rows in Netherlands? ‘Tulip?’ ‘Yeah...that's it!’, he says and asks his wife: ‘Tulip! What’s the name of that memory school you sent me to?’

A doctor advises a couple to jot down notes to help remember things. At home, the wife asks the man, ‘Can you get me a bowl of ice cream?’ He replies, ‘Sure.’ She says, ‘If you write it down you can remember better.’ He says, ‘No, I can remember that.’ He returns from the kitchen 20 minutes later and hands her a plate of bacon and eggs. She stares at the plate for a moment and shouts: ‘You forgot my toast!’