FORGETFUL

I bought some stamps and put them in a neat place that I thought would be handy and a place I'd never forget.

I forgot.

DONNIE COMMENTS:  This is another of the ticks of aging, though I've suffered it a long time already. I make a special effort to put something in a place I am sure to remember, then quickly forget it, exactly because I put it some place different. There are things around the house that shouldn't be where they are, but if I move them to better places, I am sure to forget. It drives me mad, and then, of course, I can't do anything else until I find the lost treasure. But in your tiny apartment, with so few places to hide, I imagine it is even more maddening."