# Old age: Sometimes a bad memory can be a blessing.

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 21, 2018, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-age-sometimes-a-bad-memory-can-be-a-blessing/824924 "2018-11-21T23:35:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2018, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-age-sometimes-a-bad-memory-can-be-a-blessing/824924/1 "2018-11-21T23:35:28Z")

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Two examples:

1.) Someone spoiler’d a movie I wanted to see. I was pissed at the time, but by the time I got around to seeing said movie, I forgot what the spoiler was.  
2.) Put in for vacation this week several weeks ago. Today my boss had to remind me I’m off the rest of this week. Yay me!! 😃  
Anybody else got stories they’d like to share?

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2018, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-age-sometimes-a-bad-memory-can-be-a-blessing/824924/2 "2018-11-21T23:46:13Z")

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Have you posted here before? 😃

A few years back, I read the first Harry Potter book (my wife has the whole set), then picked it up again a month later, forgetting I had read it; didn’t remember one blessit thing about it. The good news? Didn’t have to read any others.

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**Author:** ![ASGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@ASGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASGuy)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2018, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-age-sometimes-a-bad-memory-can-be-a-blessing/824924/3 "2018-11-23T01:59:29Z")

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Sorry to be a negative here, but after pondering the question for a few minutes I came up with nothing. My memory is good, but on those occasions when it fails I usually feel like a dork.

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2018, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-age-sometimes-a-bad-memory-can-be-a-blessing/824924/4 "2018-11-23T04:29:25Z")

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I’m sorry, **ASGuy** , you were supposed to be the #2 post; I forgot to wait until #3.