Bob Chronicles - Seventeenth in a Series

For those of you who are kinda new around here, Bob is my Dad and he is a mess.  I have written about some of his more hilarious moments in a series I call the Bob Chronicles.  You can catch up on Episodes 1 - 16 of the Bob Chronicles on my old blog "Simply Writing Out Loud" which I will link you to below. You may need to read some of those just to see what kind of trouble Bob finds himself in on the regular.

Bob Chronicles - Sixteenth in a Series
Bob Chronicles - Fifteenth in a Series

Bob Chronicles - Fourteenth in a Series

Bob Chronicles - Thirteenth in a Series

Bob Chronicles - Twelfth in a Series

Bob Chronicles - Eleventh in a Series

Bob Chronicles - Tenth in a Series

Bob Chronicles - Ninth in a Series

Bob Chronicles - Eighth in a Series

Bob Chronicles - Seventh in a Series

Bob Chronicles - Sixth in a Series

Bob Chronicles - Fifth in a Series

Bob Chronicles - Fourth in a Series

Bob Chronicles - Third in a Series

Bob Chronicles - Second in a Series

Bob Chronicles - First in a Series


For the latest seventeenth story in the series, which I will just call the Tuna Fish story, I was lamenting with Bob over how I was finding myself unable to recall words that I know.  I can be right in the middle of a conversation and a word just will not come to me.  It is the most frustrating thing!  Twice last week I was talking on the phone to some young little thing I work with and could not recall a word.  I finally said "I am going to have to play my 52 year old card, and just keep talking without saying the word I know I should know.  If you know it from the context clues I am giving you, please shout it out.  If you don't know it, be prepared for me to shout it out when it comes to me - even if we have moved on to a different topic. Getting old is hard."

As I went on about it, Bob just chuckled.  He said "Every damn day. Every single day.  I understand completely.  In fact, I have a pretty recent story for you.  Just yesterday I was craving a tuna sandwich.  I told your mother I was running up to Subway to get a tuna sub and asked her if she wanted anything. She wanted a turkey sub. I went to Subway and placed our order and came home with the subs in a bag. When I pulled them out at home I noticed they had written tuna on the outside of my sandwich and I thought to myself "Well that is nice so I don't have to open them to know which one is tuna."  I took my sandwich into the other room and started eating and after just a couple bites, your mother comes into the room and says "Why are you eating my turkey sub."  After all of that tuna talk, I had picked up her sandwich and was eating it!  What in the world?  The whole event was around me wanting a tuna sandwich and I was just chowing down on a turkey sub without any recollection of the tuna sandwich. So, I understand daughter.  I understand."

Then we laughed and laughed and laughed and laughed.  It probably means we have early onset Alzheimer's or something, but we also have a wicked good sense of humor.

Bottom line, I apparently come by this absent thinking honestly.

Thanks Dad.