Grapefruit
My wife
thinks she is so smart. The other
morning, I went downstairs to my lair for guitar playing and TV watching. I asked her,
“I’m going downstairs, anything you
want?”
“Yes, could you take a grapefruit out
of the drawer and put it on the counter.”
I almost
asked her which drawer, because as usual her directions were not very specific
until I realized she could only mean the fridge fruit and vegetable drawer.
“You got it.”
Now I have
been known to forget or be distracted from a simple request just in going from
the bedroom to the stairs. I was
determined to not let that happen. All
the way down the stairs I repeated to myself,
“Grapefruit, grapefruit, grapefruit.”
When I
reached the kitchen, and started to the fridge, I saw a pan soaking that I
would need to fry up some eggs when my home from college son awoke. I decided to clean up that pan.
“Grapefruit, grapefruit, grapefruit.”
That done I
turned to the fridge and saw a bunch of recyclables that needed to go in the
outside bin. I thought I should do that before I forget.
“Grapefruit, grapefruit, grapefruit.”
I then
reached the fridge door and noticed I left the coffee machine on.
“Grapefruit, grapefruit, grapefruit.”
The coffee
machine turned off, the pan cleaned and recyclables taken outside, I pulled out
a grapefruit and left it on the counter as instructed.
I then went
downstairs to my basement hide-a-way and immediately received a text from you-know-who. It was a one-word text,
“GRAPEFRUIT!”
Oh, she
thinks she is so smart. I immediately sent
a text back.
“Done…Duh!”
Score one
for the Cranky old Man. Now if only I
could get over the feeling that I have forgotten something.
“Grapefruit, grapefruit, grapefruit.”
Yay! You finally won one! :D Did you feel like Rain Man, "10 minutes to Wapner." :)
ReplyDeleteBeen there, done that! Perhaps if you say apple, apple, apple, the grapefruit reminder will disappear.
ReplyDeleteThat's funny :)
ReplyDeleteI can relate to this post, not for myself but for Tom. I often ask him to do something and he gets waylaid somewhere or other and forgets. lol
ReplyDeleteThanks for the lovely comment on the Anniversary post but remember that photos often lie, lol
Briony
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I do the exact same thing! And it works!
ReplyDeleteI thought this post was going to be about the evils of grapefruit.
An excellent demonstration of your memory powers!
ReplyDeleteSmart wife, I'm absent minded as all get out. I can't laugh. But congrats on the grapefruit.
ReplyDeleteYou done good.
ReplyDeleteYou made it!! Well done. Too often I don't remember the original task till too late--if at all.
ReplyDeleteHubby and I laugh at ourselves for all the things we forget to do with minutes of heading to do them. It's age I'm sure, but it's quite entertaining. We just roll with it. Okay, we laugh a lot too.
ReplyDeleteHave a fabulous day, Joe. ☺
Admirable, who says men can't multi task!!
ReplyDeleteFun post, Joe!
ReplyDeleteYou're never going to stop thinking "Grapefruit, grapefruit, grapefruit"!!
ReplyDeleteI don't even know what to say about this one. It made me chuckle, but I can't figure out why.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on completing your mission!
ReplyDeleteGood one, Joe, but I'd have gotten the grapefruit out first, then cut it in half, juiced it, added some tequila and carried it off to my lair!
ReplyDeleteI'm VERY impressed.
ReplyDeleteLOL well done!
ReplyDeleteYesterday I poured a pot of fresh coffee into the thermos that keeps it hot, got sidetracked, came back in the kitchen, picked up the thermos, and poured the coffee down the drain. Is there hope for me?
ReplyDeletenot different then me but poor mr C
ReplyDeleteDanggit, now I'm gonna go to bed, saying grapefruit, grapefruit, grapefruit. It's like that song you can't get out of your head.
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