Some years ago I read an article in the paper when Mr. Warren Buffett was a kid. He and a friend would sit on the curb near their Benson suburb home in Omaha and as the cars went by his friend would write down the color and model. After an hour, Warren would try to remember the color and model of the cars. NOW the other day I was sitting in the mall in Phoenix, AZ and I said to the Mrs. let's play the Warren Buffet game. We'll sit here and you write down the color of hair and the age of the people coming into the mall. After the first hour I said that's enough. She said "all right, start from the first one." I said "she had grey hair and was a senior citizen." I repeated the same answer for the next 35 people. And she said "hey, guess what, you are 100% correct." Now, am I as smart as Warren Buffet or what???? OR is it just a given here in the winter time?? (He could list an hours worth of cars correctly down his Benson street, which was a busy street, correctly)

I turned 70 last Sept. and.....Crap! what was yer question?

there is two ways to tell that you are getting old,, is that [one] you can"t remember, and [two] is ah ah ah ah, i can"t remember what it was...lol

My lines are "I used to have a photographic memory until it ran out of film" or now "I used to have a photographic memory until I lost the memory card", all depends how old a guy is. LOL

Correct term is Eidetic Memory. (Unusually strong memory, especially in regards to visual stimuli)

Some years back , there was a little story posted here that went like this :
"I went into the kitchen to get some coffe . When I turned on the lite switch , I notice the cover plate had a loose screw , so I went to the garage for a screw driver. The toolbox drawer was sticky , so I went looking for some spray lube. I couldn't find any so I started to get into the truck to go into town for some,but the front tire was low .I started the compressor to fill the tire , but forgot where I put the air chuck bla bla ....This is just an example of how it might have gone , I don't exactly remember, but I laughed out loud at it , because that's my life in a nutshell... ..Does anyone have it and can you post it again ?? .

I have never found anything worth remembering.

All my days go like that.

It don't matter HOW good your memory WAS - if it ain't so good NOW, you'll never remember how good it was THEN.....

They say, the first thing to go is your.....eh......er....aw shucks, I forgot.....

I got a hunger while wife and I were watching TV. Got up to go get some ice cream. Wife said she'd take some vanella with blue berry syrup, and knowing how short my memory was, said I'd better write it down. I said naw I could remember that. By the time I got to the kitchen I forgot what I came in for. Got me a glass of milk and spied some potatoes in there and decided to fry some up with eggs and toast. Knowing the wife liked them too I thought I'd be nice and fix her some too. Went back to the TV with a plate for each of us. When I gave the wife hers she chewed me out for not writing it down, as I forgot the jam for her toast, just like she said I would. <;^)

Recently, I was diagnosed with A. A. A. D. D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder. This is how it manifests:

I decide to wash my car.
As I start toward the garage, I notice that there is mail on the hall table.
I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.
I lay my car keys down on the table, put the junk mail in the trash can under the table, and notice that the trash can is full.
So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the trash first.
But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the trash anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.
I take my checkbook off the table, and see that there is only one check left.
My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go to my desk where I find the can of Coke that I had been drinking.
I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the Coke aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over.
I see that the Coke is getting warm, and I decide I should put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.
As I head toward the kitchen with the coke a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye--they need to be watered.
I set the Coke down on the counter, and I discover my reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning.
I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going to water the flowers.
I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with water and suddenly I spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table.
I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, I will be looking for the remote, but I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers.
I splash some water on the flowers, but most of it spills on the floor. So, I set the remote back down on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill.
Then I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do.
At the end of the day: the car isn't washed, the bills aren't paid, there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the counter, the flowers aren't watered, there is still only one check in my checkbook, I can't find the remote, I can't find my glasses, and I don't remember what I did with the car keys.
Then when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all day long, and I'm really tired.

I realize this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll check my e-mail.

My memory is as good as it ever was, even at 65. It's just the recall problem I keep having....