Another senior moment

Country music comedienne Minnie Pearl always wore a hat with a price tag on it when she performed.

Do you know the amount on the price tag?

Now that's one of the questions asked in 5,087 Trivia Questions & Answers.

On reading that, I asked myself, "Now how in the world should I be expected to remember the answer.

I can't even remember if I took my medications this morning.

I stand before an array of medicines and wonder, "Did I take my medicine or not?"

The problem is I take one pill before breakfast, three more right after breakfast, followed by vitamins and calcium. Then I take more medicine at suppertime, followed by two pills before bedtime, sometimes three.

Somewhere in between I take a daily 81 mm. aspirin. And maybe a pain pill, as needed.

Is is any wonder that I wonder?

When you get to be in the golden years, there's a lot to remember. There's a lot of stuff crammed in your memory bank.

A whole lot more than there was when you were sixteen or twenty.

The other day I searched my mind trying to remember the name of the restaurant where I had dinner two and a half weeks ago.

I could not think of it. All I could remember is that it started with a C.

Two days later while dustmopping my floor, the name popped in my head. Colton's

Yes, it was Colton's, the place where they eat peanuts and throw the shells on the floor.

Last week I locked myself out of my house because I left the housekey in another purse which was locked inside my house.

I had elected to change purses but forgot to transfer the key from one purse to another.

I had other door keys but that's another story. They wouldn't work on the door I needed to enter. I told myself that I would have an extra key made the next day. The next day I went to the bank, the grocery store, to Hardees, bought gas for the lawn mower, and home. I forgot all about having the extra key made.

I'm not going to mention looking for misplaced car keys and eye glasses. Those are classics.

Losing your car is another matter. While I wandered up and down the parking lot pushing my cart, I began to feel self conscious.

"Where is that blasted car!"

A woman walked by, smiled at me, and said, "Lost your car?" I said yes and kept walking.

A friend of mine left her jacket at an establishment in another town. She wasn't worried, said she'd pick it up later.

She was carrying so much stuff in her arms, that she didn't miss the jacket until she got to her home.

She called me a couple of days later and wanted to know if she had left a sack of items belonging to her in my car.

I looked and said "no."

She had bought four caps at a flea market but she hadn't gotten home with them. Apparently they hadn't been checked out, because she wasn't charged with them.

And that's how it goes in the golden years.

Another question asked in 5087 Trivia was the name of Dick and Jane's baby sister in elementary school primers of old.

Now I remember the Dick and Jane books .Long ago I had a set, but now they've been misplaced. My daughter may have them. But I had forgotten that the baby sister's name was Sally.

Here's a question for you men.

Ernest Hemingway once wrote that a man must do four things in his life to demonstrate his manhood. Do you know what they are?

I imagine that most men have done one or two of those things, but not all four.

The answer? Plant a tree, fight a bull, write a book, and have a son.

Before I forget, the amount on Minnie Pearl's price tag was $1.98