What did you do to your Spyder today?

[Albec]

I think I failed. Like I told them, I knew it was Tuesday because yesterday was Monday as I was going to show up then. I’m retired, what do I care what day it is?

I passed the clock as I have only ever had analogue manual wind watches.

I got one of the words right.

Repeating numbers backwards I don’t think I passed that. I don’t drink but I don’t think I would pass one of the DUI tests.

I managed identifying the triangle but failed the largest object. I thought the clock was the largest object.

I wish you could study for this test, it would make it a lot easier.

Then you get a story, but how was I to know Chicago was in Illinois? I thought it was in Indiana. I didn’t realize there was going to be a geography test, or any test for that matter. I would have payed more attention.

You didn't know that Chicago is in Illinois?


I'm also retired but I manage to keep track of what day it is, my wife makes sure of this.

During my exam, when the nurse asked me to draw a clock, I asked her if I could draw a digital clock, she said to knock myself out as long as the clock face was round.

I elected to draw a normal clock anyways.

 

[Snoking1127]

You didn't know that Chicago is in Illinois?


I'm also retired but I manage to keep track of what day it is, my wife makes sure of this.

Yesterday I had 20 years of days off from work.

 

[major911]

Nothing, Dealt with life!

Deanna

Sounds like you need to take control and let life deal with you instead of the other way around

 

[Albec]

Yesterday I had 20 years of days off from work.

Awesome! I'm at 12.5 years at the moment. I retired 1/1/2014 after 30 years. I'm aiming for being retired longer than I have had to work. Gotta make it another 18 years for that, so far so good.

 

[Snoking1127]

Awesome! I'm at 12.5 years at the moment. I retired 1/1/2014 after 30 years. I'm aiming for being retired longer than I have had to work. Gotta make it another 18 years for that, so far so good.

As I think about my life, I spent a quarter of it growing up, going to school and some college living at home. I spent the next half of my life serving my country for four years and working at 4 jobs all but one of them using the training in electronics I received in the USCG. And most recently another quarter of my life enjoying retirement.

 

[mecsw500]

You didn't know that Chicago is in Illinois?


I'm also retired but I manage to keep track of what day it is, my wife makes sure of this.

During my exam, when the nurse asked me to draw a clock, I asked her if I could draw a digital clock, she said to knock myself out as long as the clock face was round.

I elected to draw a normal clock anyways.

I’m one of them there immigrants that gets confused with states that begin with the letter “I”. At least I knew the state began with an “I”.

I like the digital clock idea.

My wife keeps a wall calendar with events I need to know and makes sure I do what I’m supposed to be doing. I still often don’t know the actual day of the week though. It doesn’t seem to matter anymore.

All joking aside these tests seem useless, but actually over consecutive years such tests have actually proven quite good at detecting on going cognitive decline. Such tests seem useless, trivial and funny and all time they do you’re fine. Then suddenly one year you can’t do them quite so well. It’s when they are no longer trivial and funny that’s when it’s illustrating something problematic.