I have one medication that has to be taken first thing on an empty stomach. The rule is, no matter how bad I have to pee, I have to take that med with a good glug of water before I run to the bathroom. IT’S THE LAW.
Keys are a big thing for me also. I don’t lock anything or even shut a locking door without making sure I’m holding my keys. On top of that when I come in the house I put my keys in a specific place along with my wallet so I know where they are.
Hey TL,
I think this thread should prove to be very helpful to people. I’d like to make one suggestion re your neighbors. If you are concerned they might not hear you, perhaps you may talk with them now and ask them to agree to some procedure you can use if you ever need their help?
In my buildling, there are many elderly people and they often have courses put on by people from a local center that helps the elderly when they can no longer help themselves. The current course is about “falling and hurting yourself if you should fall”. They teach strategies to avoid falling and also what to do if you should happen to fall. I didn’t attend because I figured there would be a wealth of info on the net and sure enough - I found some excellent strategies there. I included a link below.
I’ve only fainted once in my life. I had been experiencing some “light headedness” for a few days when I would stand up quickly after lying down for a lengthy period of time. I spoke with my doctor about this and he just made it sound like it was nothing to worry about. I don’t know why he did that.
But sure enough, a few days later, I stood up quickly and blacked out momentarily and fell on my butt. It was very painful. I’m telling you about this because I was just so lucky that I was at home and standing on a carpeted floor and although I did hurt myself, it could have been so much worse. I didn’t tell my doctor about this because I think the cause was related to the pain medication he prescribes for me. I feared that if I ever told him about this, he would stop giving me those meds and I did not want that to happen. Instead, I have cut back on the dosage (without his knowledge) and I no longer experience any light headedness. I do not regret not telling the doctor. After all, if he wouldn’t take me seriously, why should I? There is more to this story. But I’m almost out of edit time.
But, in thinking of all the other places this could have happened, it was so scary. I could have been on a staircase in my building. They are concrete stairs and had I fallen on those stairs, I could have hit my head on the concrete and it would have been Goodbye Thelma Lou! I could have been crossing a street with traffic and I could have been dodging the traffic. So many ways that could have resulted in a disaster.
The following link comes from a site on “Healthy Aging” from the Mayo Clinic. It includes tips on preventing falls. I found this very valuable and I have adopted some of these techniques myself.
Best of luck to you, TL. I hope that you will adopt a procedure that will help you prevent falling instead of dealing with the consequences after it happens.
At home, never lock the door handle, always use the deadbolts on the doors. This makes it so that I can’t lock myself out.
When paying the bill at a restaurant or bar, keep my wallet out in my hand or on the table by me until I get my credit card back. That way there’s no chance I forget they have it and leave.
When washing clothes, always check my phone before hitting the start button, so there’s no way the phone gets washed.
I haven’t worn glasses for five years, but what kind of idiot puts glasses on the FLOOR?
My keys, pocket knife, phone and wallet are always in one of three places:
*my hand
*my pocket
*my bathroom counter
The kids used to get irritated when they would ask to borrow my knife or keys because I always made them bring it back and physically hand it to me. I have never had to waste time by searching for any of those items.
I’m always the one who has to call someone else’s phone so they can find it by the sound.
I have tons of these, and many are similar to some above:
My keys and wallet are always either in my pocket or on my dresser. Drinks and food are not allowed to be set on my laptop and desktop tables/desks. Bills are paid upon receipt (automatically, if possible). Glasses and plates are not placed on the edges of tables – same goes for other fragile objects (cell phones, etc.).
First thing I put on every morning is my watch even though I can’t see it without my glasses. Said glasses may be third or even tenth but that watch HAS to be in place before I leave the bed.
At a very minimum, my driver’s side window or sunroof is always cracked when I’m driving. I don’t care if it’s 30 degrees outside – I’m paranoid about not being able to hear approaching emergency vehicles, but I also like listening to music when I’m driving, so I always want to give myself that extra advantage.
One I’ve recently developed is popping my Metro card in my dress shirt’s pocket as I’m leaving the house every morning, and not removing it until I get home at night. I’m paranoid (see a theme, here?) about digging in my wallet when I’m in public spaces, so I’d rather not have to go reaching for it. Keeping it in my shirt pocket means it’s easily accessible, and so far, I haven’t forgotten to take it out at night.
While I am not OCD about it…as a general rule anything flammable is not on, next to or in the microwave/stove top/ oven.
And fuck you Judge Judy (you know what I’m talking about).
Despite all the good reasons why you might want to tell her to go fuck herself, I’m curious about the reason. Is it because she has discussed the words flammable and inflammable on her show?
That sure doesn’t have much to do with small claims court, if that is indeed your reason. But as she ages, I wonder what she’ll do when her mind begins to fade. Will she decide the nation’s children need lessons in good grammar? If so, will she then teach her audience about grammar.
I’m sure a lot of people do this but I always use my turn signals in my car. When I’m in a turn-only lane, when there’s no other cars around, when I’m exiting the freeway, when I’m in a parking lot, etc. I even laugh at myself because there is this road near my house that has a stop sign before a curve (no intersection, just a curve) and I end up using my blinker there too, to indicate that I will be moving left with the curve.
So many people just do not use their turn signals when they should, I like to not be one of those people. Even if I end up using it when I don’t need to.
There is one procedure I have adopted that may be of help to others:
I always enter all my future appointments and all important personal data (read phone numbers) on a paper calendar as well as on my PC.
In that way, should my PC ever break down or get stolen, I have a duplicate record of most all the info I need. Would anyone care to guess what the percentage might be of people who own and use some computing device who rely completely on a single machine? (whether that is a PC or Notebook or Smart Phone or Tablet, etc). If that one machine should ever break down or get stolen, how bad would the consequences be? I’m guessing that percentage is a very large number.
Would fifty percent sound close? I would guess that perhaps half of all the people who own a computing device, don’t have any backup. Maybe no one has ever told them how important that is. I know a few people who have dropped their smart phone and the screen has shattered. They just don’t know what to do when that happens. My heart goes out to them.
It is vital to maintain a backup copy of important information. Especially information on how to contact your Internet Provider. I think that may be the first phone call most people will make after losing their smart phones. Of course, I suppose that I could be wrong about that.
I’m an only child, so I never had siblings who took things, but I do the same as you with scissors, tape, and especially METAL NAIL FILES.
In my house you can stand just about anywhere, stick out your hand, and reach a pair of scissors and a metal nail file.
Even so, the rolls of tape mysteriously disappear, no matter how many I buy, I can never find them. Odd.
Always carry a grocery bag that has glass in it while holding the bottom. (The one time I didn’t, there were pickles and olives and such all over the driveway.)
Always keep the car keys on the counter when I’m home in the same spot. (Otherwise we’d spend an hour before we left the house looking for them.)
Always check the doors and windows before I leave. (Doors locked is easy - but sometimes the window may be cracked if the weather is nice - I have to make sure the stops in the window frame are engaged because I don’t want the dog bumping up the window and going through the screen every time he sees a squirrel on the deck.)
Always check the small appliances before I leave to make sure they’re off. (Husband has left the coffee maker on numeruos times - I’ve left the curling iron on - I’d rather spend 2 minutes checking versus coming home to the fire department.)
Always double check for my keys before I close the door of the car after I’ve gotten out. (Last summer, for some reason, I zoned - I got out, activated the locks on the door, then shut the door. With it running. And my other set of keys in my purse which I left in the car.)
Always pick up the back after the dog has gone out. (Husband used to be the only person to walk Baron, our GSD, due to his size and picked up the yard maybe once or twice a week. Now that Baron has gone and we have Chester, I’m the only person Chester will go out with - he has a strong dislike for men. I just want to get it done - I see no reason t make a production out of it twice a week.)
Well, this woman in my book club (which we’ve both been in for 14 years) read the WRONG BOOK one time… :dubious:
First. Yeah she is a grammar bitch. You have some random person on her show and they don’t use perfect (crabby old bitch) English she will often use that to decide the case. And for that matter a nasty old woman who eventually becomes a nasty old woman who is a victim of herself I don’t have much sympathy for.
Second, since you asked.
There was a case. Guy agrees to “watch” apartment while lady is outa town. Dude decides to heat up a pizza. Turns oven on.
Well, dumb assed lady apparently stored important paper work in the oven for fucks sake.
And once said important papers caught fire damage to apartment ensued.
“Judge” Judy sided with said woman because of something along the lines of “hey, I’m also a Jewish woman and I see nothing wrong with storing flammable shit in the oven and I don’t cook as well”
Whenever we leave a restaurant, I go over a checklist with my husband, “Got your credit card? Glasses? Phone? Gun?” (Little joke there)
Yesterday we went to a restaurant and sat at a wobbly table, so Husband wedged his wallet under the table leg. Later, someone at another table stopped to tell him he’d dropped his wallet, so he explained to them what he’d done, and added that he knew the restaurant wouldn’t let him leave without paying the bill, so he’d be sure and remember to pick it up!
I Even use my turn signal when I’m turning into my garage and I use a turn signal again when I’m turning to get into my little parking space.
Ahhh, yes.
Thank you for reminding me why I stopped watching her show. I’m embarrassed to admit I watched more than one season before I was done with her.
I’d really like to know if it could be proven that she favors women over men or Caucasians over people of color or older people over younger people. How to do this? If you can find the national stats on how often the average judge finds in favor of a man vs a woman or vice versa and then compare that to how often JJ does this. I think she is prejudiced as Hell when it comes to men vs women, Caucasians vs people of other races, older people vs younger people and possibly a whole lot more.
There is nothing wrong with her feeling that way. But there is a whole lot wrong with her ruling that way.
I never watched Judge Judy. I am also a grammar bitch, but I’d never send someone to death row over it. Hard time, maybe. j/k
Which brings up another one of my rules. No, I don’t store flammable stuff in the oven. But when I turn the oven on, I ALWAYS look inside first, even though I live alone no one uses the oven except me, and I never leave anything in there. Also, when I turn the oven on, I turn on the light in the oven to remind me that the oven is on.