Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 04, 2016

Let the house burn down. That should give his memory a jolt.

Here’s an idea, Rat — arrange for someone to punch you in the nose every time you forget something. I’m sure there’ll be plenty of volunteers.

I’m somehow remembering a gig in “The Red Green Show” where Red sticks a post-it note on his nephew Harold’s glasses to help Harold remember some sort of task since Harold’s cubicle was covered with post-its. Harold then says he’ll have to remember there’s a post-it.

Judge: You see this yellow pill?Bailiff: Yes sir.Judge: You know what it’s for?Bailiff: What, Judge?Judge: To remind me to take this BLUE pill!Bailiff: What’s the blue one for, Judge?Judge: I don’t know. They’re afraid to tell me.

I had no idea rat was a senior……or I’d forgotten: must write a note.

So Rat’s problem is C.R.S…………..Can’t Remember Stuff

Rat, use the Greg Heffley method of remembering things:He throws his pillow off his bed to jogs his memory when he wakes up in the morning.

Yep, all too familiar with all those methods. Finally put the heater on a timer.

How does Rat remember where to buy the sticky notes?!?

The tee shirt advertised here would make a great bumper sticker. I’d buy several and give them to all my friends and coworkers.

None of those things would help me either!

If a sticky note on the door doesn’t work, Rat’s a dumb@$$.

my thoughts exactly

“Why do you drink?”“I drink to forget.”“Drink to forget what?”“Forget that I drink.” Noted exchange in The Little Prince

I have the same problem as Rat—I usually turn off my heat pump when the outside temperature is 50 or more. This morning it was like 47 but was supposed to get up to 70, so I turned it on and meant to turn it off before I left for work but I think I forgot again!

With me it’s the coffee pot. Had one go up in flames once, igniting most of the kitchen cabinets. Fortunately we were home and had good smoke detectors and fire extinguishers. Since then we unplug the coffee maker after using it. I know it could be any appliance, but the coffee maker earned a spot in my heart after that performance.

And here I thought my memory was bad!

xxx

Sticky notes have the bad habit of becoming un-sticky and falling off things at just the wrong times!I’m not quite as forgetful as Rat, yet, but I did learn a long time ago the Wednesday Law (as taught by my high school math teacher): Write Everything Down!

Here in Japan, most heaters have on/off timers. So if you turn the heater on, knowing you will leave the house in a couple hours, you set the timer accordingly and don’t worry about it.