The human brain is a wonderful thing.

[Flibster]

I can't remember much... university frazzled my brain.
Some people have a great memory.... I'm closer to being a Mr Gumby.

There is some seriously bizzarre things that I can remember though... for no apparent reason.

Simon/~Flibster

[Stan_Lite]

Originally Posted by Flibster

I can't remember much... university frazzled my brain.
Some people have a great memory.... I'm closer to being a Mr Gumby.

There is some seriously bizzarre things that I can remember though... for no apparent reason.

Simon/~Flibster

I'm a bit like that - years (read, decades) of abuse have rendered my memory patchy at best. Like you, I remember the daftest things but forget simple (often important) things.

I'm utterly hopeless with names but I'm not too bad with numbers - as far as birthdays are concerned, I rely on my Mam to organise that for me, otherwise nobody would get so much as a card.

Edit: Whilst we're on the subject, here's a little something I noticed last night

[Feek]

Originally Posted by Pheebs

Have things changed much since you guys last spoke?! How wickedy woo! You gonna meet for a pint or five?!

Loads! He's a farmer now with a fair bit of land so we're all going over there in a few weeks time to say howdedoodly doo, do some shooting and then have a big bbq with beer and wine and stuff

Originally Posted by Mark

However, show me a map of my old school (last attended 19 years ago), and I could probably tell you what every single building on the site (and there were lots of them) was for at the time I was there (bar a few that were off-limits to pupils).

I could do the same, about three years ago I did a shotgun safety course and the first half a day was classroom stuff in my old school that I'd not been near since I was seventeen! The training was in exactly the same room I used to study English Literature and I went for a wander around the buildings before we started.

[Jonny69]

I agree, trifle would be nice. Strawberry one with custard and cream though.

[Justsomebloke]

Mine works the other way & is somewhat weird.
Phone rings & a womens voice says " Hi "
I say " Who is that "
Voice says " Your Mum "

or i ring people up & ask for someone else & the voice says back " Malc FFS this is such & such not whoever "

Strange as when i am chatting about something things come back to me real vivid & i can remember real small details, other people usually trigger memory's for me then i can run on for hours