What's your go-to excuse

[True Dough]

when your brain logs out mid-sentence?

"Senior's moment" accepted, but all too common. Hoping for some originals!

[Irish_Dem]

1. I call it a brain glitch.

[SheltieLover]

2. Cranial flatulence

[SWBTATTReg]

3. Opps, had a 'brain fart!'...this is a good excuse I use sometimes...

[debm55]

5. I use brain fart too.

[FalloutShelter]

4. How bout this?

“You know what… I just thought of something.”
Go off on a tangent and then circle back.
Sometimes I find the arrant thought will fall into place the moment I take the pressure off of myself to retrieve it.

[ret5hd]

9. ahhh...a variation on the old abe simpson ploy.

[FalloutShelter]

10. LOL

Baffle em with bullshit. LOLOL

[Sogo]

21. Isn't that what we get daily from you-know-who....

nt.

[NJCher]

55. Laughed my

Fool head off at that one.

[justaprogressive]

6. oops

Tahiti is a magical place.

[House of Roberts]

7. My usual cop.

'I'll think of it as soon as I don't need it'.

[True Dough]

15. Usually,

around 2:30 a.m. when you awake from a deep sleep.

[Permanut]

8. Lost the thought..

If it's important it'll come back.

[Niagara]

11. Well, since I have chronic brain fog (fibromyalgia) this makes me feel better reading the responses

I don't really refer to memory lapses as any term or phrases. Things that I say frequently as it's happening to me is the following:



"Recalculating. Recalculating. Recalculating!" (like a GPS system)



"Derp. Derp. Derp." (this can go on for several minutes to be honest)



"WELP! My OLDS TIMERS just kicked in again!" There was an email joke about OLDS TIMERS and SOME TIMERS and I don't remember how it went.


"I'M MELTING!!!" (I sound like the Wicked Witch in Wizard of Oz)


" I forgot what I was saying."


"Where was I?" "What was I talking about?" "Where was I going again?"


"Dammit, I came into this room for a reason. I forgot what that reason was!"


"Tickets! Tickets please!" (I say this in Vampire Lestat's voice, kind of like riding the crazy train)


I'm a Capricorn. I don't follow. I just do my own thing. Thank you.

[NJCher]

56. Outstanding list

I can see you are a seasoned non-rememberer.

[Niagara]

64. Thank you, NJCher

Yes, unfortunately. The sad fact is I'm still an quadragenarian (for now).

[Norrrm]

12. (Pointing at head). Narrow gauge railway. Train went off the track.

[Fla Dem]

13. Oops, brain clutter again. Have to wait for what ever it was I lost to come to the top again.

God this post and replies does me so much good. I have been so stressed this past year with all my brain glitches. It's just not forgetting what I was talking about, or not being able to pull up the name of a person I've known for years, or getting into the car to go someplace and forgetting how to get there. Seriously it's happened a half a dozen times to me when I'm going some place I've gone a 100 times and I have to stop and think how I get there.

My friends and family (those in my age group) tell me don't worry it happens to them too. And yet I can't recall ever seeing it happen to them.

I do see a therapist and she told me the less you use your brain cells the more you lose them. Right now I'm doing memory /brain games to try to at least slow the process down. I try to stay active and involved.
It probably isn't going to get better, just hope it doesn't get worse.

[Harker]

17. "Ahhh... fuck it."

More a strategy than an excuse, I suppose.

[True Dough]

18. I use that

about 90% of my waking hours!

[Harker]

19. It pays to stick with a proven winner!

[Permanut]

31. The subtle approach.

[Niagara]

37. I didn't know that you swore, Harker

This is fantastic news!

[Harker]

40. More so when speaking than in writing, Niagara.

But here I am quoting myself!

[Niagara]

53. I get that, Harker

It's all I ever get done when I'm practicing defensive driving in Buffalo.

[debm55]

44. I say fluff it.

[Harker]

50. If I should ever find myself in polite company again, I'll try that!

[debm55]

60. Thank you , Harker.

[quaint]

20. Stoner moment vs senior moment.

Response is more positive.

[Sogo]

22. "I can't believe I can't think of (his/her name)....It'll come back...." (and it always does).

A neuroscientist friend of mine recommends taking B12 (helps neural activity), Omega 3 fatty acids (protects myelin sheath), D3, and CoQ10.

Being a vegetarian, I have to be vigilant about taking these, and I can tell the difference if I've missed.

[NJCher]

57. Just put

That on my grocery list. Ty.

[Sogo]

61. YW....Make sure the B12 is methycobalamin and NOT cyanocobalamin.

The explanation is that B12 has to attach to another molecule, and manufacturers use cyanocobalamin because it's cheaper, but it's actually a derivative of cyanide! The brand I like is Jarrow.

[berniesandersmittens]

23. Uploading

[Norrrm]

24. I go downstairs to get something.

I go downstairs to get something.
I get something.
I go back upstairs.
.
I go back downstairs to get the something I wanted.
I go back upstairs.

It's my exercise program.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[pat_k]

32. My life has become much simpler since moving into a studio.

I spend a lot less time standing in various rooms wondering "Why did I come in here?"

Then again, I still manage to "lose" my phone at least three times a day. And don't get me started on trying to find my glasses without, well, my glasses.

[True Dough]

36. Ever went looking

for your glasses when they're resting on your head? I've witnessed that one before.

[3catwoman3]

38. Seeing as I am seriously nearsighted, no.

Unless I’m showering or sleeping, my glasses are pretty much always on my face..

[NJCher]

58. My iPhone is

Full of messages about being used to find my iPad.

My iPad is full of messages about being used to find my iPhone.

[JoseBalow]

25. Having a spontaneous flashback

[WestMichRad]

26. Sorry, my train of thought just derailed.

My train is off the tracks more than it’s on them, some days.

[CrispyQ]

28. Oh, I'm stealing that! -nt

[CrispyQ]

27. "Lost my train of thought."

I refuse to ever use the senior moment.

[yorkster]

34. I think it's not used as often as it used to be.

[pat_k]

29. Crap. Lost the train. ADD moment.

Like when I walk in a room and ask of no one in particular "Why did I come in here?"

When my partner has said my name about a half-dozen times without a response I say something like: "Sorry hon. Hyperfocus is a bitch."

[Lars39]

30. CRS

Can’t Remember Shit

[yorkster]

33. I call it self-distraction.

Sometimes to retrieve a lost thought, Ii return to the activity or place I was when I had the thought. It usually comes back.

[ScoutHikerDad]

35. CRS

Can't remember shit (or stuff if you're in polite company).

[applegrove]

39. Buffering!

[Iggo]

41. "Wait a second. I'm dumb."

[Marthe48]

42. the voices in my head interrupted

sorry

[Iggo]

43. That's a good one!

[debm55]

45. I say, Oh fluff it.

[True Dough]

46. And then you should

[JMCKUSICK]

47. "Did you just see my impersonation of a babies butt?"

I lost track so now I'm a little behind.

[LudwigPastorius]

48. "I'm sorry. I didn't get any sleep last night."

Unfortunately, it is almost always the truth.

[Dulcinea]

49. Sorry, I paused. nt

[Pototan]

51. I'm getting old

but my wife always says back to me, "what do you mean 'getting old?'" "We are already old"

[Goonch]

52. ;-{)

[OldBaldy1701E]

54. There is no 'excuse'.

I am falling apart. That is just one more symptom.

[kimbutgar]

59. I have so much stuff in my brain it takes a while to open that file cabinet.

I tell that to the seniors I work with and say you’ve got 85 years of file cabinets in your brain just stay calm and the file will open!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

62. "Need I say more?"😁

[NNadir]

63. "Geeze, I hope I'm not going Tr**p!"