I go downstairs to get something.

[Norrrm]

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.

[doc03]

1. I always hung my truck keys next to the basement garage walkin door. Last year I put a hook

for my truck keys at the top of the basement steps so I could start my truck which I park outside
with my remote without going downstairs. With the first cold day this winter I hung my keys
upstairs. The next morning I go downstairs and my keys are gone. I spent probably a half hour searching
the basement and upstairs for my keys. On about my 4th trip back to the basement I see the keys by the
door upstairs right where I had put them.

[Wifes husband]

2. I put up a calendar to mark off when I take my pills

Now I forget to mark the calendar

[dem4decades]

3. When i go downstairs to get something, i immediately get it and put it on the stairs.

Then I see something else and do that, and maybe a second thing catches my attention and I do that.

Then I decide to go back upstairs, and I'm always surprised by what's on the stairs. If I hadn't put it there in the first place I wouldn't have remembered it until I was back upstairs.

[erronis]

5. Patent that technique!

I'll carry a bag with me everywhere and put stuff in it upstairs/downstairs/ground level. I have a room on the 3rd floor and it's a lot of pains to go all the way back up or down when I've forgotten the object of my desires.

[barbtries]

4. this is not a joke:

Recently, I went downstairs, retrieved what I needed, and ran back up the stairs with whatever the fuck it was who can remember that, and bragged to my son that I had, indeed, walked into the kitchen and knew instantly what I was there for.

who's getting old?!

[twodogsbarking]

6. Twice when I was young I walked to the top of The Washington Monument.

Now I can do the equivalent in an hour just going to the basement and back up.

[mountain grammy]

7. Half my daily steps

are wandering around looking for stuff I forgot I don't want to give up my exercise routine, we live in a two room flat.

loving my new rescue .. she gets me outside 4 or 5 times a day.

[twodogsbarking]

8. But do you go to the grocery store, spend $90 and come home without what you went for?

Even when it was on the list.

[mopinko]

9. i know you're joking, but there's a trick for this-

the reason this happens is that walking through a door resets your internal map.
if u take a second at the door to remind yourself, you’ll remember.
if u forget, turn around, walk back toward the door. usually u will remember b4 u get to the door. worse comes to worse, when you walk back through the door, u WILL remember.

[AverageOldGuy]

10. I'm ahead of you

I do that at least 30 times a day . . . 3 sets of 10 repetitions each!!

Or is it 10 sets of 3 reps . . . I forget which!

[NBachers]

11. I do it at work all the time. "What the hell did I come down here for?" Then I have to go back up to where I was when I

decided to get whatever it was, and I’ll remember what it was.