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Do you have problems remembering chunks of riveting conversation as you get older?

Eve_Dublin

So tell me...does your memory get crappier as you get older or are you just not listening to me?

Had a funny situation today with "de fella" today...was having a conversation about LSD...not sure how it came up, but I said to him, "Well I told you about my cousin...that'd turn me off for life!" and he gave me the "what are you talking about?" look and I looked at him with the, "Why the feck am I going out with a man 10 years older than me with obvious signs of seniality again? You can't be for real...I've told you this story 3 times before and each time I was stunned you didn't remember? Maybe you're just not listening to me? Helllooooooo? Anybody there??" look.

The story of my cousin is one of my few interesting stories....long story short, he was arrested off his head one night, put into a police cell, thought his eye was full of spiders, pulled his eyeball out and had to get a glass one and became a Buddhist monk soon after.

I've so few really interesting stories that I was gutted he didn't remember this one.

Then again, I get to tell the same story again and again and I come across super-fascinating every time.

This happens every so often and he'd have no recollection of the conversation...so older AH members, when you hit your late 30s/early 40s, do you find your memory getting shoddier? Do you forget hole chunks of conversation like that?

Please tell me you do or I'll have to trade Grandad in for a flashier, younger model (only half joking).

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BluesBerry

Wait..... Your cousin pulled his eyeball out????? he is now a buddist monk???

Is this true for reals????

Eve_Dublin

Malari wrote: »

Huh, you are lucky Eve, I'm going out with a man in his 40s who can't remember telling me his OWN stories. I've had to listen to the same ones countless times as it each telling was the first. Love, eh?

This happens as well, I'm afraid.

So what do you do...do you pretend you never heard them or tell him? Because I think if you pretend you never heard them, they might be thinking, "I'm sure I told this story before...why doesn't she remember?" like me today or if you tell them you've heard it before, you sound a bit rude. Rock...me....hard place.

sgb

Went upstairs for something, can't remember what

Chuck Stone

Are those my feet?

Micky Dolenz

Is that you Granny? Get off the feckin internet for God's sake.

admiralofthefleet

why did the chicken cross the road?

worth two in the bush

BBDBB

................now, why did I come in here?

4leto

Yes it does, what seems to be happening to me is I am remembering the macro or the gist well.

But the micro and the details poorly. I wouldn't say its a problem just a nuisance.

Malari

Huh, you are lucky Eve, I'm going out with a man in his 40s who can't remember telling me his OWN stories. I've had to listen to the same ones countless times as it each telling was the first. Love, eh?

TheZohanS

Yes, take last night and this morning for example...can't even remember the match...think pulling an all-nighter and drink might have had something to do with it.

Time for bed.

Edit: and I'm not even in the age group you're addressing.