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The Top 10 Signs Your Memory Is Slipping | You find it more efficient to just stop for milk on the way home every day. You achieve the lasting peace that comes with acceptance that you will never again know why you walked into any room. Unable to find your car, you re-trace your steps by hitch-hiking to Des Moines. You have a string on your toe to remind you that you have a string on your finger to remind you of the note on the refrigerator to remind you to take your pills. You keep ending the same war with Iran. The ad shows your picture as the voice intones, "This is your brain. This is your brain wearing ice skates on a rink coated with oiled banana peels and ball bearings." Halfway through telling a story you become genuinely curious about how it ends. You're shocked to find spiders in your sock drawer -- until you realize you've mistakenly opened the spider drawer. You keep forgetting which elections you won, and which ones were rigged against you. You place a stack of hundreds on the clinic's counter and your specimen cup in front of the teller.

The Top 10 Signs Your Memory Is Slipping | Selected from 75 submissions sent in by 28 contributors. Writer credits: You find it more efficient to just stop for milk on the way home every day. (Martin Bredeck, Hybla Valley, VA) You achieve the lasting peace that comes with acceptance that you will never again know why you walked into any room. (LeMel Williams, Oakland, CA) Unable to find your car, you re-trace your steps by hitch-hiking to Des Moines. (David G. Scott, Kansas City, MO) You have a string on your toe to remind you that you have a string on your finger to remind you of the note on the refrigerator to remind you to take your pills. (Elliott Schiff, Allentown, PA) You keep ending the same war with Iran. (David Kass, Brooklyn, NY) The ad shows your picture as the voice intones, "This is your brain. This is your brain wearing ice skates on a rink coated with oiled banana peels and ball bearings." (Vic Vitek, Tamworth, NH) Halfway through telling a story you become genuinely curious about how it ends. (LeMel Williams, Oakland, CA) You're shocked to find spiders in your sock drawer -- until you realize you've mistakenly opened the spider drawer. (David G. Scott, Kansas City, MO) You keep forgetting which elections you won, and which ones were rigged against you. (Reid Kerr, Sugartit, KY) You place a stack of hundreds on the clinic's counter and your specimen cup in front of the teller. (Chris White, Olympia, WA)

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Signs Your Memory Is Slipping

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