I REMEMBER IT WELL
From "Gigi" (1958)
(Lyrics : Alan Jay Lerner / Frederick Loewe)

Honore (Maurice Chevalier) & Mamita (Hermione Gingold)

H: We met at nine
M: We met at eight
H: I was on time
M: No, you were late
H: Ah, yes, I remember it well
We dined with friends
M: We dined alone
H: A tenor sang
M: A baritone
H: Ah, yes, I remember it well

That dazzling April moon!
M: There was none that night
And the month was June
H: That's right. That's right.
M: It warms my heart to know that you
remember still the way you do
H: Ah, yes, I remember it well

H: How often I've thought of that Friday
M: Monday
H: night when we had our last rendezvous
And somehow I foolishly wondered if you might
By some chance be thinking of it too?
That carriage ride
M: You walked me home
H: You lost a glove
M: I lost a comb
H: Ah, yes, I remember it well
That brilliant sky
M: We had some rain
H: Those Russian songs
M: From sunny Spain
H: You wore a gown of gold
M: I was all in blue
H: Am I getting old?
M: Oh, no, not you

How strong you were
How young and gay
A prince of love
In every way
H: Ah, yes, I remember it well

My sympathies, Honore!  At least you had someone gracious who, while correcting you, wasn't scornful or annoyed.

Not long ago--I forget when exactly--I ran into someone I worked for a few years back.  The face was familiar, but I couldn't remember her name.  I'd been there several months when she left the company when she had her second child.  I'm standing there in J.C. Penney, drawing a blank.  She wryly offered her name at which point I said "Oh yes!  Of course!" as if I hadn't been standing there like a moron a minute before.  Then, in a double irony, I remembered her older child's name, but not the younger.  The younger child's name had been my second choice for my own daughter--something I had made a big deal about at the time!

Ah, yes, I remember it well!  Time was I could make a quick shopping trip by assigning each item to a finger.  Hah!  Now, when I look at my fingers in a store, I think "I need nail polish."  Oh wait, I forgot, I don't polish my nails.  My mother and I will sit and discuss, at great length, items needed from the store.  If I haven't written them down, I will forget 90% of them.  If I'm lucky.  Trouble is, I can't remember where I put the pad of paper I have for that purpose.

I can plan out my errands (my OCD forces me to run them without any backtracking), but when I stand up, I've forgotten half the places I need to visit.  And the only reason I remember half of them, is because I'll have some tangible reminder for them.  My book bag for the library, a package to go to the post office, that elusive shopping list for the grocery store, and so on.  Nowadays you can buy postage stamps at just about every drug store.  At my local CVS, they even have a big 8x10 postage stamp on their counter that they use for scanning the code.  We don't run out that often because I pay so many things online now, so when we're out, it'll take me four or five trips to CVS before I remember the stamps.  At that point I'm at Sam's Club when I finally remember and they only sell them in rolls of 100!  I should just get a roll, but it seems like an awful lot of money for stamps!

My daughter asks me to do things for her sometimes.  I tell her she has to write it down for me.  So she writes it down and puts it on my mirror.  Trouble is, I forgot to brush my hair that day.  Or, I take it off and put it somewhere I think I'll see it again.  Yep, I forget that I put it there (whereever "there" is).

I recently came across this item on Amazon:

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It's been edited a bit for space, but the gist of it is there.  I left the ratings so you can see how popular it is.  Also note the "only 1 left in stock."  This is obviously something a lot of people need and use.

At least I know it's not just me!