More Senior Moments [antikvár]

INTRODUCTION Senior moments - those disastrous episodes of limacy when common sense vanishes, your memory deserts you and you can't remember your own name or what day of the week it is - come in all shapes and sizes, and alarmingly can strike at any age. Of course, you might put the phenomenon down to the stress of modern-day life and the fact that we are now having to cope with careers as well as bringing up a family shopping in super-size retail parks, entertaining friends and relatives, arranging foreign holidays and throwing dinner parties, but this isn't the case at all. Senior moments have plagued / man for centuries; we can trace the trend as far back as the sixteenth century and there are certainly examples of them having occurred well before this date too, only I can't seem to find the piece of paper I noted them down on. Just as senior moments are not confined to a specific age group, neither are they any respecters of class or intelligence. The worldrenowned scientist Albert Einstein not only lost his wife, but he alsó succeeded in mislaying a cheque for $1,500, which had been awarded to him by the Rockefeller Foundation. For months, Einstein had used the slip of paper as a bookmark, then misplaced the book itself. Accountants at the Foundation, realizing that he hadn't banked the first cheque, cancelled it and wrote another one out to him. Einstein, meanwhile, having forgottén all