I found this quite amusing. I started to watch a serial drama on Netflix last night. One of the main characters is a female prosecutor. At the beginning of the first episode, she takes her father, a recently retired judge, to the doctors. Why do main characters in detective dramas, always have to have "personal baggage," which sometimes has nothing to do with the plot? But maybe not in this case. The doctor, places three illustrations of flowers on A5 paper in front of him and names them. She takes them away and asks him all sorts of questions, with which he has no problems answering. She finally asks him to name the three flowers. He can only manage the first, so he storms out of the surgery. She then goes on to talk to his daughter about the early onset of Alzheimer's. I'd either read about this common test, or seen it used in another drama. But do you know what? I could remember the names of the first two flowers, but still can't name the third! and I knew what was coming! But I've not done any "storming." I think I've always had a "selective memory." I also subscribe to the Homer Simpson philosophy. "Your brain has a finite capacity, to remember something new, it has to forget something."
Oh Riley!! I know exactly what you mean. So many crimies do that these days…they are loosing my Bride because of it. I often wondered if this trend illustrated scriptwriters’ shortcomings as scriptwriters. At any rate I find it boring and sometimes fast forward through the personal rubbish. Having said that, I am not yet prepared to give up on the stories. We get some decent ones from Britain and New Zealand…minus the emo-static. Selective memory…my Bride, curiously, accuses me of having that “shortcoming”. When was the last time? I can’t recall.
Short-term memory loss is pretty common in an aging brain. My X roommate had it very badly. She asked me one morning, as we were watching news on TV, if I'd like some scrambled eggs as she was going to have some for breakfast. I said that I would like 2 eggs scrambled and thanked her for thinking of me. She got up from the couch, walked out of the room and stopped immediately in the hallway, standing there for a few seconds, quite still. Then she turned and asked me: "What was it I was going to do?"
Quite often we need a "trigger" to recall certain memories. With the names of some people, I have to go through the alphabet, I can usually remember it when I come to the first letter of the name.
I have never been good at remembering names and if I don't like someone my mind will almost totally remove their name from my memory. I know it's not an aging thing since I've been that way my entire life.
I used to play Cricket. Remember one time the ball hit me right between the eyes. Never had a chance to move.
A lasting sports memory. I used to play squash for a club team. During a club tournament, when I was in my thirties, I slid on a patch of sweat and slid into a side wall and dislocated a shoulder. Two of the female club members, were nurses and immediately recognised the problem and took me to the local A&E. Apparently, it was decided to delay putting my arm back in, as I'd recently had a meal. So they later put me out, whilst the problem was rectified. When I'd come round the following morning, an attractive female doctor came to see me and asked me how I felt, I said I felt fine, but I couldn't understand why I had these two bruises on my chest. "Those would have been my knees when I was putting your arm back in."
Oh wow. My big pet peeve. I HATE it when they make a crime drama into a soap opera. My (totally uninformed) theory is a lot of these are written by committee and focus groups now. Also, they may have to attract a certain type of viewer audience for advertisers, and I am not that audience. I hear your bride, Sjoerd. I also mostly watch UK and Australia / New Zealand series. Also, the actors seem to look more real, without as much distracting, artificial, surgical & hormonal & fashion enhancements seen for US dramas. (OK, I'm a curmudgeon! Hey kids, get off my lawn!) As for memory, mine isn't as sharp as it used to be, either. I figure it's par for the course and I feel grateful to be alive against the odds, and to be able to be independent and enjoy life. Some of my favorite series - Endeavor Foyle's War Shetland Two Rivers anything with Poirot Broadchurch Unforgotten Vienna Blood Van Der Walk Dr. Blake except the series end Currently watching Brokenwood I wanted to like Luther but the episode saw was too violent for me. I binge watched Dept Q. It's set in Scotland, but based on the book series by Danish writer Jussi Adler-Olsen.
One time I had 13 Brownies, ( 6-9 year olds ) the whole Troup, come first thing in the morning for a trail ride. I had to hurry and saddle 13 horses up. The last minute another Outrider girl arrived. I needed her to get her a horse saddled and Lead the ride so that I could take up the rear. I was quite tired after getting all those horses saddled so I took Princess, our little Morgan horse, out bareback. Long story short, the girl leading was having trouble with her horse so we switched places. During the switch, my horse tried to take off with me. She was bucking and lunging through the air. I grabbed mane and she then, feeling that, threw her head down. My butt was on the way down as hers was on the way up. When I came to, all I saw was a patch of sky surrounded by heads in shadow. First thing I heard was a small girl's voice saying: "Do you think she's dead?" " No, I'm not dead and what are you all doing off your horses" They said I was later sitting on a bale of hay talking to myself. Turned out I had a pretty good concussion because I landed, head-first into an old campfire that had been covered in sand. So, if you think I'm a bit weird?...there's my excuse !!
I guess I'm gone... I can't identify any flowers. I just plant what looks nice and hope it grows. People ask me, "whats this flower called?" I'm like "beats me"
I used to play cricket, remember one time the ball hit me straight between the eyes. Never had a chance to move.
I used to live in Broadchurch @Daniel W This is where I used to fish in the mornings before David Tennant turned up to over act
