Hey son when were you born?
By gemini_rose
@gemini_rose (16264)
June 11, 2008 4:07pm CST
After promising my children for weeks that I would take them to the library and allow them to become members, I finally took them today and signed them all up.
I had to sit with the lady and run through a few details with her about them, she was like the librarians you see in films, hair pulled back into a severe bun and glasses perched on the end of her nose allowing her to look down at me, rather than at me.
She asked me questions about the kids, names and addresses etc and then she asked for their date of births. I was fine with the first one easy, and then she came to my next son and I went to tell her his date of birth and my mind went blank, completely and utterly blank. I could not recall it at all, I started to panic a bit because she was looking at me down her nose and I could not get it.
I was just about to turn around and ask my boys to help me out when a lightbulb went on in my head and hurray I remembered! I felt a right little fool!
Have you ever been in a situation where your mind has gone completely blank?
Either in conversation or an exam?
Or when someone has asked you a simple question that you really should know the answer too?
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7 responses
@mummymo (23706)
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13 Jun 08
LOL Only about 10 times a day sweetheart! lol I am always having blank moments and if it is with people who know me it is fine as they understand but when it is a stranger I hate it! I have to say as well though that I am constantly getting my kids dates of birth mixed up as one was born on the 5th and one on the 15th of the same month - I tend to give their date of birth as the others - so confusing! lol xxx
@gemini_rose (16264)
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13 Jun 08
Confusing is the word I would use, although no doubt some bright spark will come along and accuse me of being a bad Mum or negligent as it seems to be my turn to get digged at hee hee.!
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@gemini_rose (16264)
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17 Jun 08
I responded to a discussion about kids tantrums and someone left a comment on my response saying that I was a bad parent because of how I dealt with it. Said that I was out of order for calling my child names, when all I had said was she was silly and naughty. It just got to me. Then someone else took a dig somewhere else, nothing major but because it was about my kids it hurt, it was below the belt. I do not have a problem with taking other peoples opinions at all but when it just seems like an excuse to be mean then it does get to me. xx
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@ruby222 (4847)
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13 Jun 08
More times than i care to remember Rose im afraid to say!!..yesterday I was trying to recall the name given to the female hormone...lol..and do you think that it would come to me????..nope..and lordy i know it so well!!!!but eventually in the evening it came to me in a flash!!Its often the same when i pop to town...I turn into the main shopping street and just go totally blank..then I have to walk up and down the street ..pretending I know what im doing...and hope that something will jog my memory..but i was prepared this morning..I took a list!!
@gemini_rose (16264)
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13 Jun 08
I have to have a list when I am going shopping, but now it looks like I will have to have a list when I need to know my childrens dates of birth,
@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
11 Jun 08
Yes I have done this to lol many a time, I have to say though if she would have looked at me like that I would have said something, I will not let anyone look down at me any more it has been done to me so many times and I will not tolerate it no more
Sweetie I am sorry I have not rang you yet but I am in tears all the time at the moment I will phone you as soon as I can try and control this ok
Love and Hugs xxx
@checapricorn (16060)
• United States
11 Jun 08
Maybe her appearance is that destructive gemini..LOL! or you are trying to remember a movie where the librarian is similar to this one? Joke! Anyway, I have experienced that last time when I got my SSn and the lady ask me to spell my dad's name and to my surprise, it took me a while before I did it right..I can't believe myself but i also don't know why I was blank that time..
@enola1692 (3323)
• United States
11 Jun 08
yes thats happen to me once or twice an I am sure you were just having a hard time thinking with the libranian stareing down on you now wnder you went blank
@dragonfly242 (1060)
• Bahamas
13 Jun 08
Hi gemini!
I'm always forgetting things, my brain seems to shut down on the worst of times.
I'd see something lying around and think i'd better move it for safe keeping, and wouldn't you know; i'd forget were i put it lol.
Or i'd be giving my children some instruction and would loose my train of thought mid-sentence. And this is the best one,i'll be writing something and remember how to spell the big words, but the simple words like bring or was.. i'd forget how to spell for a moment, and i'd have to regroup and compose myself before i can remember.
And when asked things i know, my brain would pick just that time to go blank, making me look an utter fool, sometimes i wonder if i'm ditsy.
Or i'd be giving my children some instruction and would loose my train of thought mid-sentence. And this is the best one,i'll be writing something and remember how to spell the big words, but the simple words like bring or was.. i'd forget how to spell for a moment, and i'd have to regroup and compose myself before i can remember.
And when asked things i know, my brain would pick just that time to go blank, making me look an utter fool, sometimes i wonder if i'm ditsy.@gemini_rose (16264)
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13 Jun 08
I just felt like a very silly schoolgirl who did not know the answer to a question, it was very embarrassing!
@ycpgoldberg (807)
• Malaysia
11 Jun 08
Yes,
sometime just 1+1 can make someone confuse and unable to answer.
That cause by our brain,
which sometime "Not Responding"...
