I experienced the Twilight Zone. Well, something that seemed
equally sci-fi that I just couldn’t wrap my head around. Maybe it was because
my mind just didn’t seem to be working. It was a bit frightening actually.
Imagine someone telling you that you did something or that
something happened in your life for four days and you couldn’t recall it? Not
one bit. It’s really quite freaky. Makes your brain hurt, literally, just
trying to remember. Here’s how things went:
Little One and I got into the car to go somewhere (don’t ask
me to remember that part either). As we sat in the driveway, I noticed a lot of
what looked like critter hair between the front seats.
“That’s weird,” I said.
“What?” replied Little One.
“That looks like dog hair,” I said pointing.
“It is.”
“But, Five Eleven just vacuumed and detailed the car. It
was spotless,” I said remembering that I knew she had definitely detailed my
car. “When was a dog here?”
“Last week when you drove them to the beach to walk.”
“Who?”
“Jeep Girl and Delilah.”
“They were here?” I asked.
“Umm…for like four nights.”
“Oh.”
At first it felt like a practical joke. Like Little One was
teasing with me. Then it momentarily got scary.
“Did I take pictures while they were here?”
“Yea, especially of Delilah’s butt when she was eating ice cream
in the car.”
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| I don't know if I'd recommend eating ice cream like this unless you are a little doggie. |
I looked at my phone. Sure enough, there were pictures of a
dog’s bun-hole. Oh, and us getting ice cream. I can now totally hear Jeep
Girl’s laugh in my head. We were laughing about something. Must have been about
Delilah’s (aka the lesbian rat-terrier’s) bun-hole. But, we also laugh about a
lot of things when we are together. I looked in my day planner. Days of their
visit were marked by a long, continuous arrow.
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| How could I possibly have forgotten this face? |
Now, my not remembering this should not in any way make you
think that Jeep Girl and Delilah are so snoozy that I’d forget about their
visit. On the contrary, Jeep Girl is a great, interesting, adventurous,
outdoorsy person with the absolute, best laugh. (So, if you are an available,
cute, sporty girl in the Central Massachusetts
area…she is also available).
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| Yep. Proof of the puppy on the beach. |
It’s now taken me several weeks to piece together more of
their visit. Things are coming back. Sometimes those memories are triggered by
something that just gets me thinking. At least I can remember their visit
perhaps until I stop thinking about it and trying to remember it. Then, it’ll
be like much of my current life with post-concussive syndrome…having memory
losses.
So, if you come to visit me, make sure that I take lots of
pictures on my phone and maybe make me jot things down in my day planner. But,
if you don’t come to visit me, please don’t mess with me and tell me that you
did.
I so know that you’re thinking about doing that…
@Ybbeige
